Grab This!

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Grab This!
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Studio album by Johnny Griffin
Released 1962
Recorded June 28, 1962
Pacific Jazz Studios, Los Angeles
Genre Jazz
Length38:41
Label Riverside
RLP 437
Producer Orrin Keepnews
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Grab This! is an album by jazz saxophonist Johnny Griffin which was recorded in 1962 and released on the Riverside label. [1]

Johnny Griffin American musician

John Arnold Griffin III was an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Nicknamed "the Little Giant" for his short stature and forceful playing, Griffin's career began in the early 1940s and continued until the month of his death. A pioneering figure in hard bop, Griffin recorded prolifically as a bandleader in addition to stints with pianist Thelonious Monk, drummer Art Blakey, in partnership with fellow tenor Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and as a member of the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band after he moved to Europe in the 1960s. In 1995, Griffin was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Music from Berklee College of Music.

Riverside Records was an American jazz record company and label. Founded by Orrin Keepnews and Bill Grauer under his firm Bill Grauer Productions in 1953, the label played an important role in the jazz record industry for a decade. Riverside headquarters were located in New York City, at 553 West 51st Street.

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The Allmusic site awarded the album 4 stars stating "Grab This! finds tenor Johnny Griffin in a soul-jazz mood... It's amazing that five guys were able to get together and cut this album for Riverside in one day during the summer of 1962... Grab This! is a fine album, and serves as a reminder of Griffin's lovely tenor sound". [3]

Track listing

All compositions by Johnny Griffin except as indicated

  1. "Grab This!" - 6:06
  2. "63rd Street Theme" - 5:34
  3. "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" (Duke Ellington, Bob Russell) - 8:37
  4. "Offering Time" (Paul Bryant) - 6:16
  5. "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) - 6:39
  6. "Cherry Float" - 5:29

Personnel

Joe Pass American musician

Joe Pass was an American jazz guitarist of Sicilian descent. He is considered one of the greatest jazz guitarists of the 20th century. He created possibilities for jazz guitar through his style of chord-melody, his knowledge of chord inversions and progressions, and his use of walking basslines and counterpoint during improvisation. Pass worked often with pianist Oscar Peterson and vocalist Ella Fitzgerald.

Guitar fretted string instrument

The guitar is a fretted musical instrument that usually has six strings. It is typically played with both hands by strumming or plucking the strings with either a guitar pick or the finger(s)/fingernails of one hand, while simultaneously fretting with the fingers of the other hand. The sound of the vibrating strings is projected either acoustically, by means of the hollow chamber of the guitar, or through an electrical amplifier and a speaker.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

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References

  1. ↑ Johnny Griffin discography accessed October 26, 2012
  2. ↑ Down Beat: April 25, 1963 Vol. 30, No. 10
  3. 1 2 Lankford, Jr, R. D. Allmusic Review accessed October 26, 2012
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