Bud Shank. "I Told You So". Recorded live at Birdland, NYC. Candid 79533. Kenny Barron, Lonnie Plaxixo, Victor Lewis. 56:24. I Told You So, My Funny Valentine, The Continental, Emily, Dance of the Little Ones, My Old Flame, Limehouse Blues. $12.00 plus postage. (Obviously this is not a Blue Note import. See below for the Blue Note) Johnny Griffin. This is the great Blue Note "A Blowing Session."T&S Corp. out of Tokyo under license from United Artists. EJC 804. Lee Morgan, John Coltrane, Wynton Kelly, Paul Chambers, Art Blakey. The Way You Look Tonight, Ball Bearing, All The Things You Are, Smoke Stack. AMG REVIEW: A Blowin' Session is one of the greatest hard bop jam sessions ever recorded; it is filled with infectious passion and camaraderie. It's also the only time tenor saxophonists Johnny Griffin and John Coltrane would play together on record. Initially Coltrane wasn't scheduled to be on this date, but Griffin saw him on his way to Rudy Van Gelder's studio and asked him to join the remaining musicians, third tenor Hank Mobley, trumpeter Lee Morgan, pianist Wynton Kelly, bassist Paul Chambers, and drummer Art Blakey. These musicians were all associates within the same East Coast hard bop scene of the time; they came from the Jazz Messengers and Miles Davis' quintet, and many had played with Dizzy Gillespie's big band. Showcased on this April 8, 1958, session are two standards, "The Way You Look Tonight" and "All the Things You Are," along with two original Griffin compositions, "Ball Bearing" and "Smoke Stack." Of special note is "The Way You Look Tonight," featuring the three tenors trading off with complexity and speed that is still astonishing, especially in the case of Griffin (dubbed the world's fastest saxophonist) and Coltrane's ability to navigate complex chord changes over a fast tempo. — Al Campbell $30.00 plus postage.