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Johnny Griffin

Johnny Griffin 2007
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About the artist

John Arnold Griffin III (April 24, 1928 – July 25, 2008) was an American bop and hard bop tenor saxophonist. Like many other successful musicians from Chicago, he studied music at DuSable High School under Walter Dyett. Griffin, was reputed to be the 'World's Fastest Saxophonist' in the jazz idiom, though as he aged, and as the jazz audience declined, this accolade all but disappeared. In the 1940s and 1950s he worked in Lionel Hampton's and Joe Morris's bands, in the Jazz Messengers, and in the Thelonious Monk Quartet.

Top songs

  1. Lover Man - Remastered 2006/Rudy Van Gelder Edition
  2. Smoke Stack
  3. Nice And Easy - Remastered 2006/Rudy Van Gelder Edition
  4. These Foolish Things
  5. Nice And Easy - Rudy Van Gelder Edition/Remastered 2006
  6. The Way You Look Tonight
  7. All the Things You Are
  8. Ball Bearing
  9. The Boy Next Door
  10. Cherokee
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  1. Mil Dew
  2. Smoke Stack - 1999 Digital Remaster
  3. 63Rd Street Theme
  4. The Congregation
  5. The Jampfs Are Coming (Live)
  6. These Foolish Things - Remastered 2006/Rudy Van Gelder Edition
  7. Lover Man - Rudy Van Gelder Edition/Digital Remaster/2006
  8. Cherokee (2006 Digital Remaster)
  9. Autumn Leaves
  10. Nice And Easy
  11. I'm Glad There Is You
  12. It's All Right With Me
  13. It's You or No One
  14. I Remember You
  15. Lover Man
  16. The Way You Look Tonight - Remastered 2009
  17. Main Spring
  18. It's All Right With Me - Remastered 2006/Rudy Van Gelder Edition
  19. Latin Quarter
  20. Nice And Easy - 2006 Digital Remaster
  21. Chicago Calling
  22. Hush-a-Bye
  23. Mil Dew - Remastered 2006/Rudy Van Gelder Edition
  24. Olive Refractions
  25. All Through The Night
  26. It's All Right With Me (2006 Digital Remaster)
  27. The Boy Next Door - Rudy Van Gelder Edition/Digital Remaster/2006
  28. Wade in the Water
  29. The Londonderry Air
  30. Nice And Easy (2006 Digital Remaster)
  31. Mil Dew (2006 Digital Remaster)
  32. Main Spring - 2006 Digital Remaster
  33. Yesterdays
  34. Chicago Calling - Remastered 2006/Rudy Van Gelder Edition
  35. The Boy Next Door - Remastered 2006/Rudy Van Gelder Edition
  36. I Cried for You
  37. The Way You Look Tonight - Remastered 2006/Rudy Van Gelder Edition
  38. Chicago Calling (2006 Digital Remaster)
  39. Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair
  40. Twist City
  41. These Foolish Things - Rudy Van Gelder Edition/Digital Remaster/2006
  42. Satin Wrap
  43. Riff-Raff
  44. Lover Man (2006 Digital Remaster)
  45. The Message
  46. Smoke Stack (Alternate Take)
  47. Mil Dew - 1987 - Remaster
  48. Hot Sausage
  49. The Way You Look Tonight - Remastered
  50. I Remember You - 2006 Digital Remaster
  51. These Foolish Things (2006 Digital Remaster)
  52. It's Alright With Me
  53. Lonely One
  54. Little John
  55. Playmates
  56. Mil Dew - Rudy Van Gelder Edition/Remastered
  57. Smoke Stack - Alternate Take
  58. All The Things You Are - Remastered 2009
  59. Chicago Calling - Rudy Van Gelder Edition/Digital Remaster/2006
  60. Lollypop
  61. Isfahan
  62. Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Seen
  63. The Kerry Dancers
  64. Sophisticated Lady
  65. The Congregation - 2006 Digital Remaster
  66. Bee-Ees
  67. Venus and the Moon
  68. The Boy Next Door (2006 Digital Remaster)
  69. Ball Bearing - Remastered 2009
  70. Cherokee - Remastered 2006/Rudy Van Gelder Edition
  71. Imagination
  72. It's All Right With Me - Rudy Van Gelder Edition/Digital Remaster/2006
  73. Tickle Toe
  74. I'm Glad There Is You - 2006 Digital Remaster
  75. Ball Bearings
  76. Twins
  77. All the Things You Are - Remastered
  78. 25 1/2 Daze
  79. Ballad for Monsieur
  80. Latin Quarter - 2006 Digital Remaster
  81. Save Your Love For Me
  82. The Way You Look Tonight (2006 Digital Remaster)
  83. Mil Dew (1987 - Remaster)
  84. Out Of This World
  85. Hush A Bye
  86. Smoke Stack - Remastered 2009
  87. Grab This!
  88. Green Grow the Rushes
  89. Panic Room Blues
  90. It's You Or No One - 2006 Digital Remaster

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