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Johnny Griffin was born in Chicago, Illinois on April 24, 1928. He studied music at his high school. He started out playing the clarinet, than moved on to the oboe, than to the alto sax. He started playing with T-Bone Walker when he was 15.
After he graduated from high school, Griffin joined Lionel Hampton’s [...]

Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis was born on March 2, 1922 in New York, New York. I couldn’t find any information about his family and childhood or even his early musical experiences. He started when he was a bit older though because several sites say that 8 months after purchasing his first saxophone, he started playing professionally [...]