JOHNNY GRIFFIN QUARTET The Kerry Dancers RIVERSIDE 420

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  JOHNNY GRIFFIN QUARTET The Kerry Dancers RIVERSIDE 420


A VG PLUS ORIGINAL LP ON RIVERSIDE RLP 420

FROM 1962 IN MONO(NOT DEEP GROOVE) AND IN SPECTROSONIC FORMAT WITH REEL TO REEL TAPE DECK AND MICROPHONE IN SILVER ON BLUE LABEL AND WITH DJ RUBBER STAMPED ON LABEL BOTHS DIES IN DARK BLUE/BLACK

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PRODUCED BY ORRIN KEEPNEWS AND RECORDED BY RAY FOWLERS AT PLAZA SOUND STUDIOS

WITH JOHNNY ON TENOR SAX, BARRY HARRIS ON PIANO, RON CARTER ON BASS AND BEN RILEY ON DRUMS

8 TRACKS INCLUDE THE KERRY DANCERS, BLACK IS THE COLOR OF MY TRUE LOVE'S HAIR, GREEN GROW THE RUSHES, THE LONDONDERRY AIR, 25 1/2 DAVE, OH NOW I SEE, HUSH-A-BYE, BALLAD FOR MONSIEUR

COVER STOCK WITH RUB AND RING WEAR AND OVERALL AGE DISCOLORATION. CORNERS AND EDGES WITH ROUGH SPOTS AND SMALL OUTER LAYER LOSSES ON EDGE.

JUST A HINT OF RUB MARKS ON SIDE ONE SPINDLE HOLE. SIDE TWO HOLE WITH SOME LIGHT RUB MARKS. THE HIGH LUSTER VINYL BLANK WITH SOME LIGHT SURFACE RUB MARK SCUFFS AND LIGHT AND FAINT SURFACE PLAY LINES ON SIDE ONE ABOVE THE LABEL. SIDE TWO WITH FEWER OF THE SAME IN THE SAME AREA. SOME LIGHT PAPER SLEEVE STORAGE CONTACT IMPRESSIONS FROM THE PAPER SLEEVE. I'VE TEST PLAYED THIS LP ON THE VPI TURNTABLE AND PROFESSIONAL SOUND SYSTEM AND IT WAS A WONDERFUL PLAY WITHOUT NOTICE OF THE ABOVE ITEMS. CLEAR, FULL AND PRESENT THROUGHOUT WITH EXQUISITE IMAGING, THE HALLMARK OF REEVES SPECTROSONIC RECORDING. DEADWAX BETWEEN THE TRACKS AMAZINGLY CLEAN.

RARELY SEES THE LIGHT OF DAY AND WHEN IT DOES MAKE AN APPEARANCE NOW FETCHES ALMOST 400

FROM THE ALLMUSIC.COM WEBSITE:
Review
by Alex Henderson
Many straight-ahead bop musicians would never consider recording traditional folk songs from the British Isles, but that's exactly what Johnny Griffin does on The Kerry Dancers and Other Swinging Folk -- and this Orrin Keepnews-produced album just happens to be one of his best releases of the 1960s. Joined by pianist Barry Harris, bassist Ron Carter, and drummer Ben Riley, the big-toned Chicago tenor man turns his attention to four traditional folk melodies: "The Londonderry Air" (also known as "Danny Boy"), "Green Grow the Rushes" (a Scottish favorite), "The Kerry Dancers" (an Irish piece), and "Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair" -- all of which work perfectly well in an acoustic jazz setting. Not everything on this album (which was recorded in late 1961 and early 1962) is a folk song from the British Isles; the other half of the album ranges from Griffin's moody "Oh, Now I See" to the John Coltrane-influenced "25 1/2 Daze." On Riverside's original LP version of this album, Griffin's bop interpretations of folk songs were confined to side one -- while the other material was placed on side two. But when Fantasy reissued this album on CD in 2001 on its Original Jazz Classics imprint, there was no interruption between the folk and non-folk material -- you no longer had to get up and turn the record over. And that's just as well, because Griffin brings a jazz mentality to everything on the album; he is as hard-swinging and improvisatory on "The Londonderry Air" as he is on "25 1/2 Daze" and "Oh, Now I See." The Kerry Dancers and Other Swinging Folk is among the many Griffin releases that the Chicagoan can be proud of.

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