{{Use mdy dates|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox album | name = Tough Tenors | type = Studio | artist = The [[Johnny Griffin]] and [[Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis]] Quintet | cover = Tough Tenors.jpg | alt = | released = 1960 | recorded = November 4 & 10, 1960<br /><small>Plaza Sound Studios, New York City</small> | venue = | studio = | genre = [[Jazz]] | length = | label = [[Riverside Records|Jazzland]]<br /><small>JLP-31</small> | producer = [[Orrin Keepnews]] | chronology = [[Johnny Griffin]] | prev_title = [[Johnny Griffin’s Studio Jazz Party]] | year = 1960 | next_title = [[Griff & Lock]] | next_year = 1960 | misc = {{Extra chronology | type = studio | artist = [[Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis]] | prev_title = [[Trane Whistle]] | prev_year = 1960 | title = Tough Tenors | year = 1960 | next_title = [[Griff & Lock]] | next_year = 1960 }} }} '''''Tough Tenors''''' is an album by saxophonists [[Johnny Griffin]] and [[Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis]] recorded in 1960 and released on the [[Riverside Records|Jazzland]] label.<ref>[http://www.jazzdisco.org/johnny-griffin/catalog/#jazzland-jlp-31 Johnny Griffin discography] accessed July 11, 2012</ref>
==Reception== {{Music ratings | rev1 = [[AllMusic]] | rev1Score = {{rating|4|5}}<ref name="Allmusic"/> }}
[[AllMusic]] awarded the album 4 stars stating: "''Tough Tenors'' is one of the many amazing jazz recordings from 1960, and will please saxophone fans, Davis/Griffin fans, and anyone who enjoys classic hard bop."<ref name="Allmusic">Lankford, Jr., R. D. [http://www.allmusic.com/album/tough-tenors-mw0000325255 Allmusic Review] accessed July 11, 2012</ref>
== Track listing == # "Tickle Toe" ([[Lester Young]]) - 5:30 # "Save Your Love for Me" ([[Buddy Johnson]]) - 7:09 # "Twins" (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Johnny Griffin) - 6:35 # "Funky Fluke" ([[Bennie Green]]) - 9:16 # "[[Imagination (1940 song)|Imagination]]" ([[Johnny Burke (lyricist)|Johnny Burke]], [[Jimmy Van Heusen]]) - 4:29 # "Soft Winds" ([[Benny Goodman]], [[Fletcher Henderson]]) - 7:17
== Personnel == * [[Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis]] - tenor saxophone, except track 5, [[Johnny Griffin]] - [[tenor saxophone]] * [[Junior Mance]] - [[piano]] * [[Larry Gales]] - [[Double bass|bass]] * [[Ben Riley]] - [[Drum Kit|drums]]
== References == {{reflist}}
{{Johnny Griffin}}{{Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis}}
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