The Tenor Scene

{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = The Tenor Scene | type = Live | artist = The [[Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis]] and [[Johnny Griffin]] Quintet | cover = The Tenor Scene.jpg | alt = | released = 1961 | recorded = January 6, 1961 [[Minton's Playhouse]], New York City | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = | label = [[Prestige Records|Prestige]] PRLP 7191 | producer = [[Esmond Edwards]] | chronology = [[Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis]] | prev_title = [[The First Set]] | prev_year = 1961 | next_title = [[The Late Show (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis album)|The Late Show]] | next_year = 1961 | misc = {{Extra chronology | artist = [[Johnny Griffin]] | type = Live album | prev_title = [[The First Set]] | prev_year = 1961 | title = The Tenor Scene | year = 1961 | next_title = [[The Late Show (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis album)|The Late Show]] | next_year = 1961 }} }}

'''''The Tenor Scene''''' (also released as '''''The Breakfast Show''''') 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-7191 Johnny Griffin discography] accessed July 11, 2012</ref> ==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1Score = {{rating|3|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> |rev2 = ''[[The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide]]'' | rev2Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name=RSJRG>{{Cite book |editor-last=Swenson |editor-first=J. | author-link = | year = 1985 | title = The Rolling Stone Jazz Record Guide | publisher = Random House/Rolling Stone | location = USA | isbn = 0-394-72643-X | pages = 89 }}</ref> |rev3 = ''[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]]'' |rev3score = {{Rating|4|4}} <ref name="Penguin">{{cite book |last1=Cook |first1=Richard |authorlink1=Richard Cook (journalist) |last2=Morton |first2=Brian |authorlink2=Brian Morton (Scottish writer) |title=[[The Penguin Guide to Jazz|The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings]] |year=2008 |edition=9th |publisher=[[Penguin Books|Penguin]] |isbn=978-0-141-03401-0 |page=338}}</ref> }}

[[AllMusic]] awarded the album 3 stars with the review by [[Scott Yanow]] stating: "The straight-ahead music contains plenty of sparks; this was a classic group."<ref name="Allmusic">Yanow, S. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-tenor-scene-mw0000030094 Allmusic Review] accessed March 06, 2016</ref>

== Track listing == # "Light and Lovely" (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, [[George Duvivier]]) - 11:33 # "[[Straight, No Chaser (composition)|Straight, No Chaser]]" ([[Thelonious Monk]]) - 10:03 # "[[Woody 'n' You]]" ([[Dizzy Gillespie]]) - 7:20 # "Bingo Domingo" (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis) - 4:33 # "[[I'll Remember April (song)|I'll Remember April]]" ([[Gene de Paul]], Patricia Johnston, [[Don Raye]]) - 9:29

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

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