Release Date: 14 June 2019
Format: LP Vinyl
Label: Blue Note
£24.99
John Griffin Introducing Limited Blue Note 180gram Vinyl LP
Overview:
The tenor sax legend’s 1957 Blue Note debut
Recorded at the (original) Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, on 17 th April 1956
Featuring a top drawer backing band of Wynton Kelly (piano), Curley Russell (bass) and Max Roach (drums)
Griffin’s composition ‘Mil Dew’ is one of the most intense album openers in Blue Note history
Elsewhere there are two other fine Griffin originals (‘Chicago Calling’, ‘Nice And Easy’) and classic takes on ‘These Foolish
Things’, ‘Lover Man’ and ‘It’s All Right With Me’
The album perfectly showcases Griffin’s fiery, hard driving, technically masterful style
Griffin’s follow up Blue Note album A Blowing Session featured John Coltrane on tenor
Featured Tracks:
Side A
1. Mil Dew
2. Chicago Calling
3. These Foolish Things
4. The Boy Next Door
Side B
1. Nice And Easy
2. It's Allright With Me
3. Lover Man