Introducing Johnny Griffin

Introducing Johnny Griffin
Introducing Johnny Griffin
	Hackensack, NJ
Genre	Jazz
Length	37:03 (LP); 47:43 (CD)
Label	Blue Note; BLP 1533
Producer	Alfred Lion
Johnny Griffin chronology

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings	^[4]

Introducing Johnny Griffin is the debut album by the jazz tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin. It was released on Blue Note in February 1957.^[1]^[5] The recording was made at the Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack on April 17, 1956.^[6] and

Track listing

Original release

Side 1
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Mil Dew"	Griffin	3:56
2.	"Chicago Calling"	Griffin	5:38
3.	" Holt Marvell Jack Strachey	5:12
4.	"The Boy Next Door"	Hugh Martin Ralph Blane	4:57

Side 2
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Nice and Easy"	Griffin	4:22
2.	" Lover Man"	Davis Ram Ramirez Sherman	7:56

CD reissue

No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Mil Dew"	Griffin	3:56
2.	"Chicago Calling"	Griffin	5:38
3.	" Ray Noble	4:17
Total length:			47:43

Personnel

Johnny Griffin – tenor saxophone
Wynton Kelly – piano
Curly Russell
– bass
Max Roach – drums

References

^ ^a ^b Editorial Staff, Cash Box (February 16, 1957). "February Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc. Retrieved 2 May 2020.
ISBN 9781440229169
– via Google Books.

^ "Chicago Calling - Johnny Griffin | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.

ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0
.

^ Tamarkin, Jeff. "Johnny Griffin, Saxophone Giant, is Dead at 80". JazzTimes.

^ "Blue Note Records Discography: 1955-1956". www.jazzdisco.org.

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Studio albums

Introducing Johnny Griffin (1957)

A Blowin' Session
(1957)

The Congregation (1958)

Johnny Griffin Sextet (1958)

Johnny Griffin (1958)

Way Out! (1958)

The Little Giant (1959)

The Big Soul-Band (1960)

Battle Stations (1960)

Johnny Griffin's Studio Jazz Party (1960)

Tough Tenors (1960)

Griff & Lock (1960)

Lookin' at Monk! (1961)

Change of Pace (1961)

Blues Up & Down (1961)

White Gardenia (1961)

The Kerry Dancers (1961)

Tough Tenor Favorites (1962)

Grab This! (1962)

Soul Groove (1963)

Do Nothing 'til You Hear from Me (1963)

Night Lady (1964)

Tough Tenors Again 'n' Again (1970)

Birds and Ballads (1978)

Bush Dance (1979)

Return of the Griffin (1979)

To the Ladies (1982)

Call It Whachawana (1983)

Live albums

The First Set (1961)

The Tenor Scene (1961)

The Late Show (1961)

The Midnight Show (1961)

Blues for Harvey (1973)

NYC Underground (1981)

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Max Roach
Albums

The Max Roach Quartet featuring Hank Mobley (1953)

Max Roach + 4 (1956)

Jazz in 3/4 Time (1956–57)

The Max Roach 4 Plays Charlie Parker (1957–58)

Award-Winning Drummer (1958)

Booker Little 4 and Max Roach (1958)

MAX (1958)

Max Roach + 4 on the Chicago Scene (1958)

Max Roach + 4 at Newport (1958)

Max Roach with the Boston Percussion Ensemble (1958)

Deeds, Not Words (1958)

Moon Faced and Starry Eyed (with Abbey Lincoln, 1959)

Quiet as It's Kept (1959)

Rich Versus Roach (and Buddy Rich, 1959)

The Many Sides of Max (1959)

Long as You're Living (1960)

Parisian Sketches (1960)

We Insist! (1960)

Percussion Bitter Sweet (1961)

It's Time (1962)

Money Jungle (and Duke Ellington, Charles Mingus, 1962)

Speak, Brother, Speak! (1962)

The Max Roach Trio Featuring the Legendary Hasaan (and Hasaan Ibn Ali, 1964)

Drums Unlimited (1965)

Members, Don't Git Weary (1968)

Lift Every Voice and Sing (1971)

Re: Percussion (M'Boom, Strata-East, 1973)

Birth and Rebirth (and Anthony Braxton, 1978)

Historic Concerts (and Cecil Taylor, 1979)

M'Boom (1979)

One in Two – Two in One (and Anthony Braxton, 1979)

Pictures in a Frame (1979)

The Long March (and Archie Shepp, 1979)

In the Light (1982)

Live at Vielharmonie (1983)

Collage (M'Boom, 1984)

It's Christmas Again (1984)

Scott Free (1984)

Survivors (1984)

Easy Winners (1985)

Bright Moments (1986)

Max + Dizzy: Paris 1989 (and Dizzy Gillespie, 1989)

To the Max! (1990–91)

With Clifford Brown

Best Coast Jazz (1954)

Brown and Roach Incorporated (1954)

Clifford Brown All Stars (1954)

Clifford Brown & Max Roach (1954–55)

Daahoud (1954)

Jam Session (and Clark Terry, Maynard Ferguson, 1954)

Clifford Brown with Strings (1955)

Study in Brown (1955)

Clifford Brown and Max Roach at Basin Street (1956)

Compilations

Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years (1954–60)

Authority control databases

MusicBrainz release group

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[CB57-1] Editorial Staff, Cash Box (February 16, 1957). "February Album Releases" (PDF). The Cash Box. New York: The Cash Box Publishing Co. Inc. Retrieved 2 May 2020.

[auto-2] ISBN 9781440229169
– via Google Books.

[3] "Chicago Calling - Johnny Griffin | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic" – via www.allmusic.com.

[Penguin-4] ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0
.

[5] Tamarkin, Jeff. "Johnny Griffin, Saxophone Giant, is Dead at 80". JazzTimes.

[6] "Blue Note Records Discography: 1955-1956". www.jazzdisco.org.

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