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bass Wilbur Ware
design W. Hopkins
drums Buddy Smith
liner notes Joe Segal
photography by Ted Williams
piano Junior Mance
producer [album production] Dave Usher
tenor saxophone Johnny Griffin
Record Company Argo Record Corp.
Recorded in 1956, Chicago.

'Herein are recorded for posterity the first jazz recordings every made by Johnny Griffin . . .' - from the liner notes
Original US issue comes with a split-pack cover, opening in the middle:
'The Kangaroo-Split-Pak offers you the buyer and listener a new method of selecting your new Audio Odyssey’s by Argo, by giving you in this package a free sampler of other Argo LP’s'
Three Split Paks were produced , this one , Yusef Lateef and J.C.Heard
The recordings were originally done for the Parrot label in Chicago 1955 and were advertised on the back of them only Parrot LP with Ahmad Jamal as other releases but were never issued. The label was sold off with some recordings going to Chess/Argo