Johnny Griffin - The Riverside Collection (2017)

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Title: The Riverside Collection
Year Of Release: 2017
Label: Enlightenment
Genre: Jazz
Quality: FLAC (tracks) / MP3
Total Time: 5:18:18
Total Size: 1.71 GB / 751 MB
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Tracklist:

01. Stix' Trix
02. What's New?
03. Woody 'N You
04. Johnny G.G.
05. Catharsis
06. Where's Your Overcoat, Boy?
07. Hot Sausage
08. Sunny Monday
09. Cherokee
10. Teri's Tune
11. Little John
12. Olive Refractions
13. The Message
14. Lonely One
15. 63rd Street Theme
16. Playmates
17. Venus and the Moon
18. Wade in the Water
19. Panic Room Blues
20. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
21. Meditation
22. Holla
23. So Tired
24. Deep River
25. Jubilation
26. Party Time
27. Good Bait
28. There Will Never Be Another You
29. Toe-Tappin'
30. You've Changed
31. Low Gravy
32. Soft and Furry
33. In the Still of the Night
34. The Last of the Fat Pants
35. Same to You
36. Connie's Bounce
37. Situation
38. Nocturne
39. Why Not
40. As We All Know
41. Gloomy Sunday
42. That Old Devil Called Love
43. White Gardenia
44. God Bless the Child
45. Detour Ahead
46. Good Morning Heartache
47. Don't Explain
48. Trav'lin' Light
49. No More
50. Left Alone
51. The Kerry Dancers
52. Black Is the Colour of My True Love's Hair
53. Green Grow the Rushes
54. The Londonderry Air
55. 25 1/2 Daze
56. Oh, Now I See
57. Hush-a-Bye
58. Ballad for Monsieur

In a career spanning over six decades, Johnny Griffin has carved out a reputation as one of hard bop s pioneering musicians. Dubbed the Little Giant due to his modest stature and hard-edged sound, his fast, controlled and harmonic style has featured on some of the finest records created within the genre. Although known for playing in support of many big names in jazz - Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey etc. - as well as for his partnership with fellow sax man Eddie Lockjaw Davis, it was as bandleader that Griffin produced his best work, with his output for Riverside Records in the late 1950s and early 1960s being considered his career highlight by most critics and fans. John Arnold Griffin III was born in Chicago, Illinois on 24th April 1924. He studied music at DuSable High School, progressing from clarinet to oboe then to alto saxophone, all under the tutelage of famed violinist and musical educator Walter Dyett. Johnny started his professional career at an early age, playing in the band of blues legend T-Bone Walker at 15, before joining Lionel Hampton s big band just three days after his High School graduation. It would be Hampton that encouraged the young Griffin to switch to tenor saxophone, which became his instrument of choice for the rest of his career, although he could be heard playing other saxes - including baritone - on occasion. Griffin made his first recordings in 1945 aged just 17, while still with Hampton. This four disc collection brings together the finest material Johnny Griffin released during his years on the Riverside label. Featuring eight fully-remastered albums, containing in total more than five hours of music, this set can serve as both a fitting introduction to this truly exceptional player, and a welcome reminder for jazz fans of what an inspiring and influential musician the man dubbed the fastest tenor in the west really was at this time.