And just after I mentioned him in my Ronnie Mathews post.
All I can say is: Wes Montgomery’s Full House and Thelonious Monk’s Misterioso. Some of the scariest, most perfectly realized tenor sax playing ever.
Thankfully I caught him at the Vanguard in the early ’00s, with Michael Weiss on piano. I seem to remember “Just One of Those Things” at a tempo that couldn’t be believed. And Griffin was well into his 70s at that point. R.I.P.
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