Night Lady

Night Lady
Studio album by Johnny Griffin Quartet
Released	1964
Recorded	February 13, 1964 ; Koln, West Germany
Genre	Jazz
Length	42:10
Label	Philips ; 840 447 PY
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Allmusic	^[1]

Night Lady is an album by saxophonist Johnny Griffin recorded in West Germany in 1963 and originally released on the Philips label but later released on EmArcy Records.^[2]

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.

West Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, and referred to by historians as the Bonn Republic, was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1949 to 1990, when the western portion of Germany was part of the Western bloc during the Cold War. It was created during the Allied occupation of Germany in 1949 after World War II, established from eleven states formed in the three Allied zones of occupation held by the United States, the United Kingdom and France. Its capital was the city of Bonn.

Philips Records is a record label that was founded by the Dutch electronics company Philips. In 1946, Philips acquired the company which pressed records for British Decca's Dutch outlet in Amsterdam.

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 3 stars.^[1]

Track listing

All compositions by Francy Boland except as indicated

"Scrabble" (Johnny Griffin) - 7:18
"Summertime" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 5:53
"Old Stuff" - 8:05
"Night Lady" - 9:23
"Little Man You've Had A Busy Day" (Al Hoffman, Maurice Sigler, Mabel Wayne) - 5:20
"All the Things You Are" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) - 6:11

Personnel

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭₂ to E₅ (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

François Boland was a classically trained Belgian jazz composer and pianist.

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

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