The First Set

{{One source|date=April 2015}} {{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = The First Set | type = Live | artist = The [[Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis]] and [[Johnny Griffin]] Quintet | cover = The First Set.jpg | alt = | released = 1964 | recorded = January 6, 1961 [[Minton's Playhouse]], New York City | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = | label = [[Prestige Records|Prestige]] PRLP 7309 | producer = [[Esmond Edwards]] | chronology = [[Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis]] | prev_title = [[Griff & Lock]] | prev_year = 1960 | next_title = [[The Tenor Scene]] | next_year = 1961 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = [[Johnny Griffin]] | type = Live album | prev_title = [[Griff & Lock]] | prev_year = 1960 | title = The First Set | year = 1964 | next_title = [[The Tenor Scene]] | next_year = 1961 }} }}

'''''The First Set''''' is a [[live album]] by saxophonists [[Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis]] and [[Johnny Griffin]] recorded at [[Minton's Playhouse]] in 1961 and released on the [[Prestige Records|Prestige]] label.<ref>[http://www.jazzdisco.org/johnny-griffin/catalog/#prestige-prlp-7309 Johnny Griffin discography] accessed July 12, 2012</ref> The album was the second release from the recordings at Minton's after ''[[The Tenor Scene]]''. == Track listing == # "[[Billie's Bounce]]" ([[Charlie Parker]]) - 8:43 # "[[Epistrophy (composition)|Epistrophy]]" ([[Thelonious Monk]], [[Kenny Clarke]]) - 7:17 # "[[Well, You Needn't]]" (Monk) - 8:58 # "[[I'll Remember April (song)|I'll Remember April]]" ([[Gene de Paul]], Patricia Johnston, [[Don Raye]]) - 8:05

== Personnel == * [[Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis]], [[Johnny Griffin]] - [[tenor saxophone]] * [[Junior Mance]] - [[piano]] * [[Larry Gales]] - [[Double bass|bass]] * [[Ben Riley]] - [[Drum Kit|drums]]

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{{DEFAULTSORT:First Set, The}} [[Category:1964 live albums]] [[Category:Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis live albums]] [[Category:Johnny Griffin live albums]] [[Category:Albums produced by Esmond Edwards]] [[Category:Prestige Records live albums]]