• 180g Vinyl

• The tenor sax legend’s 1957 Blue Note debut

• Recorded at the (original) Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack, New Jersey, on 17th April 1956

• Featuring a top-drawer backing band of Wynton Kelly (piano), Curley Russell (bass) and Max Roach (drums)

• Griffin’s composition ‘Mil Dew’ is one of the most intense album-openers in Blue Note history

• Elsewhere there are two other fine Griffin originals (‘Chicago Calling’, ‘Nice And Easy’) and classic takes on ‘These Foolish Things’, ‘Lover Man’ and ‘It’s All Right With Me’

• The album perfectly showcases Griffin’s fiery, hard-driving, technically masterful style

• Griffin’s follow-up Blue Note album A Blowing Session featured John Coltrane on tenor