by Johnny Griffin · Blue Note · CD · EAN 0724349900929
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«A Blowin' Session» is the hard bop jazz album by Johnny Griffin, released by Blue Note in 1999 on CD.
In a hard bop session, the album brings together Johnny Griffin with the tenor saxophones of John Coltrane and Hank Mobley, the trumpet of Lee Morgan and the rhythm section of Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers and Art Blakey. It combines standards such as «The Way You Look Tonight» and «All the Things You Are» with Griffin compositions like «Ball Bearing» and «Smoke Stack».
Recorded on 8 April 1957 at Van Gelder Studio. RVG edition remastered by Rudy Van Gelder; includes an alternative take of «Smoke Stack» not released on the original Blue Note 1559 LP.
For fans of hard bop and Blue Note tenor saxophone ensembles of the 1950s.
