Johnny Griffin
Johnny Griffin
Genres: jazz, saxophone, Hard Bop, bebop, Tenor Sax
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About Johnny Griffin
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. From 1960 to 1962 Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Griffin led their own group. Having felt he had achieved much in the USA, his pinnacle on record arguably the 1957 Blowin' session on the Blue Note label with fellow tenor John Coltrane, he moved to Europe. He lived in France in 1963, moving to the Netherlands in 1978, and he still continued to record and tour until his death in 2008.
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Johnny Griffin — Top 30 songs of 60
| Artist | Song title | Like / Dislike | |
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| Johnny Griffin | How deep is the ocean ft. Paul Kuhn (In & Out Records | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Mentor (In & Out Records | ||
| Johnny Griffin | The JAMFs are coming (In & Out Records | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Main Spring | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Where`s Your Overcoat, Boy | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Twist City | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Chicago Calling | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Fifty Six | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Foot Patting | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Lover Man | ||
| Johnny Griffin | To Love | ||
| Johnny Griffin | I'm Glad There Is You | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Smoke Gets In Your Eyes | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Coming on the Hudson | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Jubilation | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Just Friends | ||
| Johnny Griffin | The Londonderry Air | ||
| Johnny Griffin | All Through The Night | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Nice And Easy | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Toe Tappin | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Our Blues | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Without A Song | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Low Gravy | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Venus and the Moon | ||
| Johnny Griffin | When we were one (In & Out Records | ||
| Johnny Griffin | It's Alright With Me | ||
| Johnny Griffin | When we were one (2011) | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Oh, Now I See | ||
| Johnny Griffin | The Message | ||
| Johnny Griffin | Always Forever |