This went on for years. One day after church, Paul slid onto the piano bench and began doodling around on the keyboard. After a few more times, he found he had a knack for it. When the church's pianist eventually died, Paul took her place. A judgemental guidance counselor, observing either Griffin's humble station or mindful of Music and Art's high academic requirements, assured him he would never be admitted.
Griffin slumped out of her office and began weeping quietly in the hall. At just that moment, a teacher who had befriended Griffin happened by. Through tears, Griffin explained. The teacher was appalled at the guidance counselor's insensitivity. He promised Paul that he would not only reprimand the counselor but that Paul would audition for Music and Art just like anyone else.
Griffin passed the audition. Four years later in , he graduated from the High School of Music and Art. King Curtis offered Paul his first opportunity record in the late 50s. Paul was so green he needed a translator. But he was no neophyte at the keyboard. He went on the road with Curtis and eventually cut ten albums with him.
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Beginning in with "Tonight's the Night," under the direction of producer, Luther Dixon, Griffin and company played on virtually all of the Shirelles' records and most of Scepter's releases. The spell Griffin cast over Ragovoy was so strong that to this day, Ragovoy says he finds himself sitting at the keyboard still under the influence: Bacharach, no slouch as a pianist, gave Paul nearly all of his own piano parts to play?
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That's why he gave me those parts to play. Try to compliment him on that little organ part for Chuck Jackson's "Any Day Now" and he humbly smiles away the accolade. The modesty isn't false. Despite forty years in the business, despite the milestones and all those Bacharach piano parts! Mention Frank Owens, another piano player on Dylan' s Highway 61 Revisited , and his voice drops to a hush. Here was a sideman, he whispers, who was so classy and so good he unwittingly stole the gig from the headliner right onstage at the Apollo.
Griffin was so knocked-out by Aretha Franklin's piano playing, that he refused to play on the session for "Think. But Paul Griffin's most extraordinary -- and often uncredited -- work with Bob Dylan occurred on January 25, There has always been some confusion about the players on this first New York session for Dylan's Blonde on Blonde.
Because the album was finished a few months later in Nashville, the album lists only the Nashville musicians. But just a single listening erases any doubt about who played piano.
Al Kooper, who played organ at the session, remembers Paul well. It's probably Paul Griffin's finest moment. The song is an emotional confession of misconnects and apologies from the singer to some woman who has tragically slipped out of his life. Griffin gives the song its tragic depth -- and height. He picks his way sensitively through the verses; but at other times, he prowls beneath the words with Judgement and an ominous gospel lick that he stokes until he has climbed to the verse's peak. At the chorus, Griffin unleashes a symphony; hammering his way up and down the keyboard, half Gershwin, half gospel, all heart.
The follow-up, a killer left hand figure that links the chorus to the verse, releases none of the song's tension.
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Then, on the last chorus, not content to repeat the same brilliant part, Griffin's playing is so breathtaking, so completely embodies the lyric, that he enters into some other dimension. For several seconds, on one of Dylan's best songs, Griffin makes Dylan seem almost earthbound. He's momentarily bewildered, almost apologetic for not recalling something others hold so dear.
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The part was probably something he'd heard in Paradise Baptist church at least a hundred times before. But do not mistake an isolated, fuzzy memory for a moment that he is unaware of. He is well aware of this music's significance -- in Paul Griffin's life. I'd had a lot of jobs -- I was a cutter in the garment district, I delivered groceries for a supermarket -- but nothing with any kind of future.
So, what you hear is the sound of being thankful Over the last year, he's been in and out of the hospital. Then, a few weeks ago, doctors told him he needed a liver transplant. After a lifetime in music, "something horrible" yet threatens to overtake Paul Griffin. Doctors do not comment on one's suitability as an organ recipient. Your name goes into a computer and the doctors try to get you ready if and when a replacement organ becomes available. Meanwhile, Paul and his family wait.
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