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And the Great Danes
Label: Stunt Records/Sundance Music
Released: 2003
Track listing: Just Friends/ All the Things You Are/ When We Were One/ Blues Up and Down/
Body and Soul/ Rhythm-a-ning.
Johnny Griffin & Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Quintet: Tough Tenors
by David Rickert
The appeal of a good cutting session is similar to that of a good boxing match: we all enjoy watching two competitors locked in combat, pushing themselves to new boundaries and discovering untapped resources. Johnny Griffin and Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis went so far as to establish a quintet which allowed them repeated opportunities to duke it ...
Deborah Brown: International Incident
by C. Michael Bailey
Kansas City-reared jazz singer Deborah Brown employs an international, multicultural little big band to make progressive American vocal jazz, managing the logistics brilliantly to produce one of the best vocal recitals of the year. This fearless repertoire maven is not afraid of even the stickiest subjects.On International Incident,, Brown takes on two Johnny Griffin ...
Johnny Griffin: And the Great Danes
by Derek Taylor
For the better part of four decades, Northern Europe has been something of a second home to Johnny Griffin. Following the lead of his peers, the saxophonist immigrated to Paris in the early '60s and later moved to the Netherlands in the early '70s. The life of the expatriate jazz musician has been his preferred lot ...
Griffin & Grossman Quintet
Label: Dreyfus Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Take The D Train; Waltswing; Don
Johnny Griffin, Steve Grossman: Johnny Griffin & Steve Grossman Quintet
by AAJ Staff
Even though Johnny Griffin has steadfastly chosen to remain in Europe since 1963, his recorded output remains steady and, as always, invigorating, thanks to Dreyfus Jazz. Fast on the heels of Griffin's Grammy-nominated collaboration with piano great Martial Solal, Griffin once again is paired with an interesting counterpart, this time fellow tenor saxman Steve Grossman. Even ...
Johnny Griffin/Steve Grossman: Griffin & Grossman Quintet
by Mark Corroto
The welcome return of the fire-breathing bebop tenor saxophonist is well, music to my ears. Ex-patriot saxophonists Johnny Griffin and Steve Grossman team up for an old fashioned blowing session. This date recorded for the French label, Dreyfus Records, calls to mind Griffin’s legendary recording date A Blowing Session with John Coltrane and Hank Mobley in ...
