{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Griff & Lock | type = Studio | artist = The [[Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis]] and [[Johnny Griffin]] Quintet | cover = Griff & Lock.jpg | alt = | released = 1961 | recorded = November 4 & 10, 1960 | venue = | studio = Plaza Sound Studios, New York City | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = | label = [[Riverside Records|Jazzland]]<br /><small>JLP-42</small> | producer = [[Orrin Keepnews]] | chronology = [[Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis]] | prev_title = [[Tough Tenors]] | prev_year = 1960 | next_title = [[The First Set]] | next_year = 1961 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = [[Johnny Griffin]] | type = studio album | prev_title = [[Tough Tenors]] | prev_year = 1960 | title = Griff & Lock | year = 1960 | next_title = [[The First Set]] | next_year = 1961 }} }}
'''''Griff & Lock''''' is an album by saxophonists [[Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis]] and [[Johnny Griffin]] recorded in 1960 and released on the [[Riverside Records|Jazzland]] label.<ref>[https://www.jazzdisco.org/johnny-griffin/catalog/#jazzland-jlp-42 Johnny Griffin discography] accessed July 11, 2012</ref>
== Reception == {{Music ratings | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="AllMusic"/> | rev2 = ''[[DownBeat]]'' | rev2Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="DB61">{{cite magazine |last=Tynan |first=John |date=September 28, 1961 |title=Eddie David – Johnny Griffin: Griff and Lock |magazine=[[DownBeat]] |volume=28 |issue=20 |page=28 }}</ref> }} The contemporaneous ''[[DownBeat]]'' reviewer described the album as "hearty, full-blowing jazz of the type now associated with this partnership of contrasting tenor styles".<ref name="DB61" /> The [[AllMusic]] review by [[Scott Yanow]] stated: "Easily recommended to straightahead jazz fans."<ref name="AllMusic">Yanow, S. [https://www.allmusic.com/album/griff-and-lock-mw0000263204 Allmusic Review] accessed July 11, 2012</ref>
== Track listing == # "The Last Train from Overbrook" ([[James Moody (saxophonist)|James Moody]]) - 6:50 # "Hey Lock!" (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis) - 7:54 # "Midnight at Minton's" ([[Babs Gonzales]]) - 5:23 # "Second Balcony Jump" ([[Billy Eckstine]], [[Jerry Valentine]]) - 4:19 # "[[I'll Remember April (song)|I'll Remember April]]" ([[Gene de Paul]], Patricia Johnston, [[Don Raye]]) - 6:33 # "[[Good Bait]]" ([[Tadd Dameron]]) - 7:39
== Personnel == * Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Johnny Griffin - [[tenor saxophone]] * [[Junior Mance]] - [[piano]] * [[Larry Gales]] - [[Double bass|bass]] * [[Ben Riley]] - [[Drum Kit|drums]]
== References == {{reflist}}
{{Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis}}{{Johnny Griffin}}
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