Johnny Griffin Discography - session index

1945 (The age of 17)

• Lionel Hampton Orch.  LA, Dec. 1, 1945

1946

• Bing Crosby w/ Lionel Hampton Orch.  NYC, Jan. 21, 1946
• Lionel Hampton Orch.  NYC, Jan. 29, 1946
• Lionel Hampton Orch.  NYC, Jan. 31, 1946
• Lionel Hampton Orch.  LA, Sep. 9, 1946
• Lionel Hampton Orch.  LA, Sep. 17, 1946
• Lionel Hampton Orch.  LA, Sep. 23, 1946

1947

• Joe Morris Orch.  WOR Studios, NYC, Sep. 15, 1947
• Joe Morris Orch.  NYC, late 1947
• Tony Mayo Boys From New Orleans  NYC, Dec. 11, 1947
• Joe Morris Orch.  NYC, Dec. 12, 1947
• Joe Morris Orch.  NYC, Dec. 23, 1947
• Tony Mayo Boys From New Orleans  same location, date
• Joe Morris Orch.  NYC, Dec. 29, 1947
• Phyllis Branch w/ Joe Morris Orch.  same location, date

1948 (The age of 20)

• Joe Morris Orch.  NYC, Sep. 19, 1948
• Joe Morris Orch.  NYC, Dec. 22, 1948

1949

• Wynonie Harris  Linden, NJ, Apr. 13, 1949
• Joe Morris Orch.  Apex Studios, NYC, May 11, 1949
• Joe Morris Orch.  NYC, Oct. 28, 1949
• Joe Morris Orch.  NYC, Nov. 18, 1949

1950

• Sticks McGhee  NYC, c. Feb., 1950

1951

• Arnett Cobb 7  NYC, Aug. 7, 1951

1953 (The age of 25)

• Babs Gonzales  Chicago, IL or NYC or Paris, France, Apr. 29, 1953
• Johnny Griffin Orch.  Chicago, IL or NYC, circle Apr., 1953 or 1954

1956

• Johnny Griffin 4  Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, Apr. 17, 1956
• Johnny Griffin 4  Chicago, IL, 1956

1957

• Art Blakey & JM  Webster Hall, NYC, Mar. 13, 1957
• Art Blakey & JM + 4  RCA Studio 3, NYC, Apr. 2, 1957
• A.K. Salim 8  NYC, Apr. 5, 1957
• Johnny Griffin 7  Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, Apr. 6, 1957
• Art Blakey & JM  NYC, Apr. 8, 1957
• Clark Terry 5  NYC, Apr. 27, 1957
• Art Blakey & JM w/ Sabu  NYC, May 13, 1957
• Art Blakey & JM w/ Thelonious Monk  NYC, May 14, 1957
• Art Blakey & JM w/ Thelonious Monk  NYC, May 15, 1957
• Art Blakey & JM  TVB, Stars Of Jazz, Hollywood, CA, July 29, 1957
• A.K. Salim 8  Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, Sep. 17, 1957
• Art Blakey & JM  NYC, Oct. 9, 1957
• Art Blakey & JM  NYC, Oct. 11, 1957
• Wilbur Ware - Johnny Griffin 5  NYC, Oct. 16, 1957
• Johnny Griffin 4  Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, NJ, Oct. 23, 1957

1958 (The age of 30)

• Guitar Slim w/ Lloyd Lambert Orch.  NYC, Jan. 22, 1958
• Johnny Griffin 6  NYC, Feb. 25, 1958
• Thelonious Monk 6  Reeves Sound Studios, NYC, Feb. 25, 1958
• Johnny Griffin 4  NYC, Feb. 26 & 27, 1958
• Blue Mitchell 6  NYC, July 2 & 3, 1958
• Thelonious Monk 4  Five Spot Cafe, NYC, July 9, 1958
• Babs Gonzales Orch.  NYC, July 16, 1958
• Thelonious Monk 4  Five Spot Cafe, NYC, Aug. 7, 1958
• Philly Joe Jones 6  NYC, Sep. 17, 1958
• Chet Baker 4  NYC, Sep., 1958
• Nat Adderley 5  same location, date
• Ahmed Abdul-Malik 7  NYC, Oct., 1958
• Randy Weston 6  RCA Studios, NYC, Oct., 1958
• Machito Band  NYC, 1958

1959

• Ahmed Abdul-Malik Orch.  NYC, Mar. 16, 1959
• Ahmed Abdul-Malik Orch.  NYC, Mar. 31, 1959
• Ira Sullivan 5  Chicago, IL, July 26, 1959
• Johnny Griffin 6  NYC, Aug. 4 & 5, 1959

1960

• Johnny Griffin - Bud Powell 2  Paris, France, Feb. 14, 1960
• Mel Rhyne 6  NYC, Mar. 31, 1960
• Johnny Griffin Orch.  NYC, May 24, 1960
• Johnny Griffin Orch.  NYC, May 31, 1960
• Johnny Griffin Orch.  NYC, June 3, 1960
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Johnny Griffin 5  Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Sep. 2, 1960
• Johnny Griffin's Studio Jazz Party  live in NYC, Sep. 27, 1960
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Johnny Griffin 5  NYC, Nov. 4 & 10, 1960
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Johnny Griffin 5  early 1960s

1961

• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Johnny Griffin 5  Minton's Playhouse, NYC, 1st set, Jan. 6, 1961
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Johnny Griffin 5  Minton's Playhouse, NYC, breakfast set, Jan. 6, 1961
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Johnny Griffin 5  Minton's Playhouse, NYC, late set, Jan. 6, 1961
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Johnny Griffin 5  Minton's Playhouse, NYC, midnight set, Jan. 6, 1961
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Johnny Griffin 5  NYC, Feb. 7, 1961
• Johnny Griffin 5  same location, date
• Johnny Griffin 5  NYC, Feb. 16, 1961
• Bennie Green 5  NYC, Mar. 9, 1961
• Bennie Green 5  NYC, Mar. 22, 1961
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Johnny Griffin 5  NYC, June 5, 1961
• Johnny Griffin w/ Strings & Brass  NYC, July 13, 1961
• Johnny Griffin w/ Strings & Brass  NYC, July 14, 1961
• Johnny Griffin w/ Strings & Brass  NYC, July 17, 1961
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Johnny Griffin 5  NYC, Aug. 17, 1961
• Eddie Jefferson  Plaza Sound Studios, NYC, Dec. 18, 1961
• Johnny Griffin 4  NYC, Dec. 21, 1961

1962

• Johnny Griffin 4  NYC, Jan. 5, 1962
• Eddie Jefferson  Plaza Sound Studios, NYC, Jan. 12, 1962
• Johnny Griffin 4  NYC, Jan. 29, 1962
• Johnny Lytle 5  same location, date
• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Johnny Griffin 5  NYC, Feb. 5, 1962
• Eddie Jefferson  Plaza Sound Studios, NYC, Feb. 8, 1962
• Tadd Dameron Orch.  NYC, Feb. 27, 1962
• Tadd Dameron Orch.  NYC, Mar. 9, 1962
• Tadd Dameron Orch.  NYC, Apr. 16, 1962
• Wes Montgomery 5  Tsubo, Berkeley, CA, June 25, 1962
• Johnny Griffin 5  LA, June 28, 1962
• Babs Gonzales Orch.  NYC, 1962

1963 (The age of 35)

• Johnny Griffin - Matthew Gee 6  NYC, May 14, 1963
• Johnny Griffin - Matthew Gee 6  NYC, May 16, 1963
• Johnny Griffin 4  Jazz Jamboree 1963, Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 26, 1963
• Johnny Griffin 4  Jazz Jamboree 1963, Warsaw, Poland, Oct. 27, 1963
• Johnny Griffin - Buddy Montgomery 4  NYC, 1963

1964

• Johnny Griffin 4  Koln, West Germany, Feb. 13, 1964
• NDR Jazz Workshop  NDR Studio 10, Hamburg, West Germany, Apr. 26, 1964
• International Jazz Workshop  Ruhr Fest. Of Art And Music, Recklinghausen, West Germany, June 26, 1964
• Johnny Griffin - Bud Powell 4  Hotel-Restaurant La Belle Escale, Edenville, France, Aug. 8-14, 1964

1965

• Wes Montgomery 5  Theatre Des Champs-Elysees, Paris, France, Mar. 27, 1965
• Wes Montgomery 8  NDR Studio 10, Hamburg, West Germany, Apr. 30, 1965
• Wes Montgomery 8  TVB, Hamburg, West Germany, Apr., 1965
• Pierre Michelot Orch.  Paris, France, July 9-15, 1965

1967

• Johnny Griffin 4  Copenhagen, Denmark, Mar. 30 & 31, 1967
• Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band  Koln, West Germany, June 18, 1967
• Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band  Koln, West Germany, July 31, 1967
• Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band  Prague, Czechoslovakia, Aug. or Oct. 20, 1967
• Thelonious Monk 8  Continental, Oct. 11, 1967
• Thelonious Monk 9  Rotterdam, Holland, Oct. 28, 1967
• Thelonious Monk 9  Rotterdam, Holland or Berlin, West Germany, Oct. 28 or Nov. 4, 1967
• Thelonious Monk 9  Salle Pleyel, Paris, France, Nov. 3, 1967
• Thelonious Monk 8  Berlin, West Germany, Nov. 4, 1967
• Thelonious Monk 8  Continental, Nov., 1967
• Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band  Koln, West Germany, Nov.-Dec., 1967
• Johnny Griffin 4  Paris, France, 1967

1968 (The age of 40)

• Johnny Griffin - Dexter Gordon 5  West Germany, Jan. 25, 1968
• Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band  Koln, West Germany, May 13 & 14, 1968
• Johnny Griffin - Art Taylor 4  9th International Jazz Fest., Tivoli Concert Hall, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, June 8, 1968
• Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band  Koln, West Germany, June 28 & 29, 1968
• Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band  Rome, Italy, July 17, 1968
• Johnny Griffin 8  Koln, West Germany, Aug. 27, 1968
• Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band  Koln, West Germany, Aug. 28 & 29, 1968
• Gitte Haenning w/ Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band  Koln, West Germany, Sep. 4 & 5, 1968
• Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band  Koln, West Germany, Dec. 2 & 3, 1968

1969

• Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band  London, England, Feb. 11, 1969
• Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band  Koln, West Germany, May 27, 1969
• Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band  Koln, West Germany, May 28, 1969
• Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band  Koln, West Germany, Sep. 5, 1969
• Kenny Clarke - Francy Boland Big Band  Warsaw, Poland, aut. 1969

1970

• Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Johnny Griffin 5  Munchen, West Germany, Apr. 24, 1970

1972

• Vaclav Zahradnik Big Band  Prague, Czechoslovakia, Oct. 18-20, 1972

1973 (The age of 45)

• Dizzy Gillespie 6  Paris, France, Apr. 13, 1973
• RTV Zagreb Big Band  Yugoslavia, May 26, 1973
• Johnny Griffin 4  Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 4, 1973
• Johnny Griffin 4  Jazzhus Montmartre, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 5, 1973
• Klaus Doldinger 9  Doldinger Jubilee Concert, Dusseldorf, West Germany, Oct. 16, 1973

1974

• Johnny Griffin 4  Music Inn, Rome, Italy, Apr. 7, 1974

1975

• The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7  Montreux Jazz Fest., Casino De Montreux, Switzerland, July 16, 1975
• Count Basie Jam  Montreux Jazz Fest., Casino De Montreux, Switzerland, July 19, 1975
• Roy Eldridge 7  Antibes, France, July 20, 1975
• Klaus Doldinger 9  Onkel Po's Carnegie Hall, Hamburg, West Germany, Aug. 28 & 29, 1975
• Johnny Griffin 4  Wilhelmshaven, Dec., 1975
• Boy Edgar Big Band  Hilversum, Holland, 1975

1976

• Peter Herbolzheimer Big Band  Jazz Gala Concert, Hannover & Wiesbaden, West Germany, Jan. 18 & 23, 1976
• Johnny Griffin 4  Tokyo, Japan, Apr. 23, 1976

1977

• Peter Herbolzheimer Big Band  Jazz Gala Concert, Dusseldorf, West Germany, Jan. 28, 1977
• Johnny Griffin 4  Wilhelmshaven, Oct., 1977

1978 (The age of 50)

• Rolf Ericson - Johnny Griffin 5  Berlin, West Germany, May 27 & 28, 1978
• Johnny Griffin - Art Taylor 4  Ljubljana Jazz Fest., Ljubljana, Yugoslavia, June 16, 1978
• Nat Adderley 5  Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, Sep. 18 & 19, 1978
• Dexter Gordon 5  Carnegie Hall, NYC, Sep. 23, 1978
• Johnny Griffin 4  Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, Oct. 17, 1978
• Johnny Griffin 6  Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, Oct. 18 & 19, 1978
• Johnny Griffin 4  Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, Dec. 1, 1978

1979

• Johnny Griffin 4  NYC, July 6 & 7, 1979
• Johnny Griffin 4  Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, Nov. 27 & 28, 1979
• Rita Reys  NYC, 1979

1980

• Ray Brown 4  Ludwigsburg, West Germany, Apr., 1980

1981

• Johnny Griffin 4  Ludwigsburg, West Germany, 1981

1983 (The age of 55)

• Philly Joe Jones Dameronia  Rudy Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, NJ, July 11, 1983
• Johnny Griffin 4  Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, CA, July 25 & 26, 1983
• Daniel Humair 4  RocheJagu, Aug. 19, 1983
• Jimmy Smith 4  Atlanta Free Jazz Fest., Atlanta, GA, Sep. 3, 1983

1984

• Johnny Griffin 4  Jazzbuhne, Berlin, West Germany, June 17, 1984
• Johnny Griffin Orch.  1984

1985

• The All Star Jazz Messengers at One Night w/ Blue Note  Town Hall, NYC, Feb. 22, 1985
• Paris Reunion Band  Stockholm, Sweden, July 3, 1985

1986

• Deborah Brown  Continental, Sep., 1986

1987

• Johnny Griffin 4  Barcelona, Oct. 28 & 29, 1987
• Clementine  Barcelona, Oct. 29 & 30, 1987
• Clementine  Paris, France, Dec. 13 & 14, 1987

1988 (The age of 60)

• Johnny Griffin 4  RTV Studios, Davie, FL, May 4, 1988
• Johnny Griffin 4  RTV Studios, Davie, FL, May 5, 1988

1989

• Don Sickler - Jackie McLean 7  Theatre De Boulogne-Billancourt, Boulogne, France, June 7, 1989
• Big Band De Lausanne  Geneve, Dec. 4-6, 1989
• Viktor Lazlo  Paris, France, 1989

1990

• Johnny Griffin 6  BMG Studios, New York, NY, Oct. 26, 1990
• Johnny Griffin 4  BMG Studios, New York, NY, Oct. 28 & 30, 1990

1992

• Johnny Griffin 4 + 3  BMG Studios, New York, NY, Apr. 29 & 30, 1992

1993 (The age of 65)

• Roy Hargrove 5 w/ Johnny Griffin  Teatro Mancinelli, Orvieto, Italy, Dec. 28, 1993

1994

• Johnny Griffin 4  RPM Studios, NYC, Dec. 4, 1994
• Johnny Griffin 5  RPM Studios, NYC, Dec. 4 & 5, 1994

1996

• Johnny Griffin 5  July 17, 1996

2000 (The age of 72)

• Johnny Griffin - Steve Grossman 5  Studio Ferber, Paris, France, May 28, 29 & 30, 2000