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Johnny Griffin - J.G. (1956) {2004 Verve Music Group} [RE-UP]

Date: 11 May 2021 06:13:49

Johnny Griffin Quartet- J.G. (1956) {2004 Verve Music Group}
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Genre: jazz

J.G. is a 1956 album by The Johnny Griffin Quartet. Originally released by Argo, it doesn't have a proper title but was given the J.G. title due to the lettering on the front cover. This was released by the Verve Music Group in 2004.

As a CD reissue, it's a crime that this very first outing by Johnny Griffin as a leader is only available from Japan in an irritating paper sleeve that comes apart down the center. OK, enough bitching. Here's the skinny: Griffin's first date featured the saxophonist in the company of Junior Mance on piano, bassist Wilbur Ware, and session drummer Buddy Smith. The program features eight tunes that were fairly standard fare for jazzmen in 1956, such as "These Foolish Things," Jerome Kern's "Yesterdays," and the Youmans-Greene nugget "The Boy Next Door." These are played with the requisite verve and mastery of harmony, rhythm, and melodic changes, but they don't really stand out. What does stand out in this program are Griffin's originals, such as "Satin Wrap," which has since been covered by any tenor player worth his mouthpiece. It's a funky blues number that does not fall headlong into the hard bop swinging that would be so pervasive in the tenorist's style. Instead there are more formalist notions that suggest Paul Gonsalves and Coleman Hawkins. In addition, the album-closer, "Lollypop," comes out swinging hard with an R&B hook that digs in. Mance propels Griffin with fat, greasy chords that suggest a Chicago bar-walking honk frenzy, but Griffin's own playing is too sophisticated and glides like Lester Young around the changes. Also notable here is Ware's beautiful bop run "Riff Raff." The bassist knew not only how to write for but arrange for horns. Mance and Griffin are in it knee-deep, note for note, with Mance adding beefy left-hand clusters to the melody as Ware and Smith play it straight time until the solo, when the middle breaks up and everybody goes in a different direction. It's got the hard bop blues at its root. This recording is brief, as it originally came out on a 10" LP, but is nonetheless a necessary addition to any shelf that pays Johnny Griffin homage.

1. I Cried For You
2. Satin Wrap
3. Yesterdays
4. Riff-Raff
5. Bee-Ees
6. The Boy Next Door
7. These Foolish Things
8. Lollypop

Johnny Griffin-tenor saxophone
Junior Mance-piano
Wilbur Ware-bass guitar
Buddy Smith-drums

Produced by Dave Usher
Recorded 1956 in Chicago

CD mastered by Hideaki Nishimura at Universal Music Mastering Studio-Tokyo

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