Greg Black JJ mouthpiece

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Greg Black JJ mouthpiece

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Has anyone spent time playing the JJ model Greg makes?
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Does JJ stand for JJ Johnson?
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Yes it's a replica of the Giardinelli JJ Johnson artist model.

Greg Black is also making replicas of the Urbie, Jiggs, Maynard, Kai, and a few other Giardinelli artist models.

They look really cool! I've yet to try one though. I liked the original Giardinelli JW 11 I tried.
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TromboneMonkey wrote: Thu Oct 27, 2022 2:32 pm Yes it's a replica of the Giardinelli JJ Johnson artist model.

Greg Black is also making replicas of the Urbie, Jiggs, Maynard, Kai, and a few other Giardinelli artist models.

They look really cool! I've yet to try one though. I liked the original Giardinelli JW 11 I tried.
I thought JJ played a King M21 or M31 (can't remember which), or was his deal with Giardinelli later in his career?
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JJ didn't have a "deal" with Giardinelli, any more than Urbie, Jiggs, Maynard, or Kai have "deals" with Greg Black or any other company that names mouthpieces after players. It's marketing, that's all.
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JJ played a King M21 starting in the 1950s until his death in 2001.
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When I studied with Jiggs and Kai , they both played their Giardinelli Models and sounded great on them.
I owned the Jiggs model , it was just too shallow for me
Worked for him though
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Buddy Morrow also used a giardinelli custom prior to moving Jettone, but most NY based players must have gone to him at sometime back in the day.
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