Johnny Griffin - Congregation
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Artist: Johnny GriffinEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Published)
CD Release Date: 2006-08-15
Music Label: Blue Note Records
Soundtracks:
- The Congregation
- Latin Quarter
- I'm Glad There Is You
- Main Spring
- It's You Or No One
- I Remember You
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The super famous Congregation with the ultra cool Andy Warhol cover has finally been reissued in the Rudy Van Gelder Blue Note series. In this album the Griff played with some very good pals, Sonny Clark (piano), Paul Chambers (uprightbass that he played even with the arch in his solos), Kenny Dennis (drums). The opener is an original by Johnny, a sort of Doxy, if you know the tune by Sonny Rollins. It is a very nice tune, a funky-blues infected tune, it has a sort of backbeat drum, "hand clapped" arrangement. The second tune Latin Quarter is a contrafact by John Jenkins (a melody based on Tangerine chord progression), is in swing time (it's not a latin), medium tempo. I'm glad there is you is a standard taken not too fast. Main spring is a fine blues, medium tempo too. It's you or noone by Styne-Cahn is the second pure standard and the fastest tune of the album. Johnny is in top form here and Sonny Clark is a good choice for him, because he is very good in comping and he is a boppish kind of sololoist. The last tune I remember you is a bonus track that was not present in the original LP of the fifties is medium tempo. I'm sure you know what kind of player Johnny was at the time. An hard bopper very into Bird's discoveries very technical, with great chops, but very near the blues feeling. This Congregation was the last of three albums Johnny recorded for Blue Note (Introducing and Blowing session were the other two). I have almost all the things Griffin recorded in the fifties and sixties. This one is surely a very consistent and interesting release.
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