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In between playing with Monk, Donald Byrd, Bud Powell and Art Blakey, this Windy City sax man began his solo career in the mid-’50s. This collection of his key Riverside LPs (1958–62) contains "Johnny Griffin Sextet," "Way Out," "The Little Giant," "The Big Soul Band," "Studio Jazz Party," "Change of Pace," "White Gardenia" and "The Kerry Dancers and Other Swinging Folk." Be it jazz standards or traditional folk songs, Johnny swings up a storm on "Cherokee," "Deep River," "Woody ’n’ You," "Trav’lin’ Light," "In the Still of the Night," "God Bless the Child," "The Londonderry Air" and more! Enlightenment.