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Readers in and around New York City may be interested in this announcement sent by Michael Weiss. CELEBRATING JOHNNYGRIFFIN: A TRIBUTE IN WORDS AND MUSIC Reminiscences from fellow musicians, family and friends. JohnnyGriffin's compositions performed by Johnny's longtime rhythm section (Michael Weiss, John Webber and Kenny Washington) with Eric Alexander. Additional...
Readers in and around New York City may be interested in this announcement sent by Michael Weiss. CELEBRATING JOHNNYGRIFFIN: A TRIBUTE IN WORDS AND MUSIC Reminiscences from fellow musicians, family and friends. JohnnyGriffin's compositions performed by Johnny's longtime...
I was saddened to read the news (via UBM) that jazz musician JohnnyGriffin passed away three weeks ago. The reason for the emotion was that it has been only a few months since I had seen him celebrate his 80th birthday with a concert at Ronnie Scott’s. As an Anglophile, I had long heard [...]
JohnnyGriffin & Lockjaw Davis, Live in Copenhagen (Storyville). The hard-charging tenor saxophonists worked in tandem for twenty-six years. This 1984 club date at the Montmarte club two years before Davis's death is typical of the unremitting swing and visceral...
JohnnyGriffin and Lockjaw Davis, Live in Copenhagen (Storyville). The hard-charging tenor saxophonists worked in tandem for twenty-six years. This 1984 club date at the Montmarte club two years before Davis's death is typical of the unremitting swing and visceral excitement of their live appearances...
Two Tenor Sunday Serenade Live at the Bassline Mount Vernon, NY Featuring: Ray Blue and Patience Higgins (Tenor Saxophones), Zaccai Curtis (Piano), Luques Curtis (Bass), Alvester Garnett (Drums) Get ready for a great saxophone sound, starting at 3:00 p.m...
... York Times referred to his "...cooly intelligent lyricism." Weiss's longest association was with JohnnyGriffin. He played with the tenor saxophonist from 1987 until Griffin's death last month at the age of eighty. Shortly after Griffin died, Weiss wrote an appreciation and offered it to Rifftides . We are pleased to have it. Reminiscing About JohnnyGriffin...
Music News: Chicago native played with Monk, Hampton -- Paris\Jazz saxophonist JohnnyGriffin, who played with America's greats from Thelonious Monk to Lionel Hampton but chose to live in France, died July 25, hours before a concert at his home in Mauprevoir.
Long before he won the Thelonious Monk Institute Composers Competition in 2000, Michael Weiss established himself as a pianist. Fresh out of Dallas in his early twenties, he was soon working with Jon Hendricks, Junior Cook, Charles McPherson and Lou Donaldson, among others. He went on to play with Art Farmer, Clifford Jordan, Frank Wess, the Vanguard Jazz Orchestra and the Mingus Epitaph Orchestra....
If memory serves, and often it goes awol, I first heard the Little Giant's horn on an NPR special that I recorded years ago, and listened to with ear buds while laying around a campsite in the Ozark mountains. I...
This weekend sadly marked the passing of yet another legend of jazz who chose to live overseas more than four decades ago. Chicago native JohnnyGriffin, a small man and one of the great tenor saxophonists of all time (which...
One of the great overlooked tenor saxophonists of the 1950s was JohnnyGriffin. Billed as “the Little Giant” and the fastest player alive, Griffin could fly through the uptempo numbers like lightning but he never lost track of the melody and always exhibited grace and heavyweight style. He also showed a great amount of tenderness [...]
JohnnyGriffin dies and the Saxophone God’s weep. We lose another Jazz legend. He just smoked. Please support every great Jazz Master that you can. Going to a live show in a small club is simply heaven. NY Times: JohnnyGriffin, a tenor saxophonist from Chicago whose speed, control and harmonic acuity [...]
