Johnny GriffinFeaturing: Max Roach, Wynton Kelly
Introducing Johnny Griffin (LP)
LabelBlue NoteGenreJazz & Improvisation
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They called him the Little Giant and the fastest tenor in the world, and both were fair. Johnny Griffin arrived at Blue Note in 1956 with a technique that let him play anything at any tempo, and the temperament to make that entertaining rather than merely impressive. Introducing Johnny Griffin puts him with Wynton Kelly, Curly Russell and Max Roach, which is to say a rhythm section that could go as fast as he wanted, and the results are joyful in a way hard bop debut albums rarely are. The ballads show the other side: a big, slightly hoarse tone and a real feeling for the melody underneath all that velocity.
Blue Note pressing. Griffin at the outset, before Monk, before Eddie Lockjaw Davis, before the long European exile.
Release notes
Recorded on April 17, 1956 at Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey. Made in Japan Includes Japanese liner notes.
| A1 | Mil Dew | 3:53 | |
| A2 | Chicago Calling | 5:36 | |
| A3 | These Foolish Things | 5:09 | |
| A4 | The Boy Next Door | 4:53 | |
| B1 | Nice And Easy | 4:19 | |
| B2 | It's Alright With Me | 5:00 | |
| B3 | Lover Man | 7:53 |
- Curly Russell
- Bass
- Reid Miles
- Design [Cover]
- Max Roach
- Drums
- Joe Segal
- Liner Notes
- Francis Wolff
- Photography By [Photo]
- Wynton Kelly
- Piano
- Alfred Lion
- Producer [Uncredited]
- Rudy Van Gelder
- Recorded By
- Johnny Griffin
- Tenor Saxophone
