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  • Johnny Griffin - Little Giant 1959

    Esta semana pasada se nos fue el gran saxofonista Johnny Griffin. Tenor argresivo, nervioso y de est

  • Johnny Griffin Orchestra - 1960 - The Big Soul-Band

    Artista/Grupo: JOHNNY GRIFFIN ORCHESTRA Album: THE BIG SOUL-BAND - 1960 Bitrate: CBR 320 Kbits/44.

  • Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers: Class of ‘57

    Drummer Art Blakey led the Jazz Messengers, one of jazz history's most noted and longest-running col

  • Ira Sullivan (with Johnny Griffin) - Blue Stroll

    I picked up this recording in Chicago a few years back at the famous Jazz Record Mart. The Jazz Reco

    • Biography Johnny Griffin

    Johnny Griffin
    John Arnold Griffin III (April 24, 1928) is 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, starting out on clarinet before moving on to oboe, alto sax and finally, shortly after joining Lionel Hampton's Orchestra, tenor sax. While still at high school, at 15 Griffin was playing alongside T-Bone Walker in a band led by Walker's brother. He worked in Lionel Hampton's Orchestra (first appearing on a Los Angeles recording in 1945, at the age of 17), leaving to join fellow Hampton band member Joe Morris's Orchestra from 1947 to 1949. He played with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers for a few months in 1957, and in the Thelonious Monk Sextet and Quartet (1958). He rejoined Monk in the Octet and Nonet in 1967. He also recorded with the Nat Adderley Quintet in 1958 and again in 1978. As a leader of his own band, his 1956 Blue Note recording Intro

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    The Little Giant
    The Little Giant


    Soul Groove
    Soul Groove


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