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Setting the Pace

Label: Fantasy Jazz
Released: 2000
Track listing: Soft and Furry/ In the Still of the Night/ The Last of the Fat Pants/ Same To You/ Connie

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Johnny Griffin: Setting the Pace

by Derek Taylor
January 1, 2000

Most follwers of Griffin’s robust tenor sound don’t regard the man who was widely regarded at various times as the ‘Little Giant,” “The Cat” and “the fastest tenor on the scene” as a boundary stretching modernist. He did serve a memorable stint in Monk’s quartet, delivering an angular urgency that complimented the pianist’s idiosyncratic style, but ...

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