With Eric Gordon, and Chris Kaman, an improved DeAndre Jordan, a re-energized Baron Davis, and the debut of No. 1 pick Blake Griffin, the Clippers had high hopes for the season.

During the 1980s, he played in numerous concerts, collaborating with prominent jazz players such as Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, George Coleman, Joe Henderson, Dizzy Gillespie, Chick Corea, Hank Jones, Roy Hargrove, Jerry Tilitz and Jesse Davis, among others.

From the mid-60s, Davis and Griffin also performed together as part of The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band, along with other, mainly European, jazz musicians.

Later that year, Indiana territorial Governor William Henry Harrison and territorial judges Davis, Griffin, and Vandenberg held court in the district capital of St. Louis and enacted laws for the region.

D. Morgan Davis is the editor of the Islamic Translation Series Project and Carl W. Griffin is the directing editor of the Eastern Christian Texts project, with Kristian S. Heal as associate editor.

With Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis and Johnny Griffin

He recorded with Scandinavian jazz musicians, and with Bob Brookmeyer, Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Jackie McLean, and Ben Webster.

For decades, the hotel's famed Cocoanut Grove nightclub hosted well-known entertainers, such as Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Judy Garland, Lena Horne, Bing Crosby, Nat King Cole, Liza Minnelli, Martin and Lewis, The Supremes, Merv Griffin, Dorothy Dandridge, Vikki Carr, Evelyn Knight, Vivian Vance, Dick Haymes, Sergio Franchi, Perry Como, Dizzy Gillespie, Benny Goodman, Sammy Davis Jr., Little Richard, Liberace, Natalie Cole, and Richard Pryor.

He has worked or recorded with Don Cherry, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Jackie McLean, George Russell, Kenny Drew and Ben Webster, among many other prominent jazz musicians.

Furthermore, he landed a gig playing with Bill Berry, Bob Brookmeyer, Benny Powell, Art Davis and Jake Hanna as a house band for “ The Merv Griffin Show ” on television.

The records recorded by these two saxophonists are regarded by many as some of both Ammons and Stitt's best work, thus the Ammons / Stitt partnership went down in posterity as one of the best duelling partnerships in jazz, alongside Zoot Sims and Al Cohn, and Johnny Griffin with Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis.

Barney's received attention in early 2011 when one of their busboys, Ricardo Reyes, defeated LeBron James, Kobe Bryant, Carmelo Anthony, Charles Barkley, Lamar Odom, Glen Davis and Blake Griffin in Pop-A-Shot, a mini basketball shooting competition, on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The league ’ s best shooters ( such as Steve Nash, Peja Stojaković, Ray Allen, Chauncey Billups, Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, and Dirk Nowitzki ) can make roughly 90 % of their attempts over a season, while notoriously poor shooters ( e. g. Dwight Howard, Blake Griffin, Ben Wallace, Tim Duncan, Rajon Rondo, Andre Iguodala, Kendrick Perkins, Glen Davis or Marcin Gortat ) may struggle to make 50 % of them.

From 1967 – 69, Scott was a member of The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band which toured Europe extensively and which also featured fellow tenor players Johnny Griffin and Eddie " Lockjaw " Davis, at the same time running his own octet including John Surman and Kenny Wheeler ( 1968 – 1969 ), and a trio with Mike Carr on keyboards and Bobby Gien on drums ( 1971 – 1975 ).

Liberty Broadcasting ( in which entertainer Merv Griffin was an investor ) took over the station in 1993 and the format became " Hot Adult Contemporary " under veteran programmer Steve Davis, adding more contemporary titles as well as vintage Top 40 hits from the 1980s.

* 1871: Frederick William Heinke and one William Griffin Davis AICE formed a new firm ' Heinke & Davis ' at 176 Great Portland Street, London.

* Matt Bishop, Aaron Davis, John Grimshaw, Snowdrops-A Monograph of Cultivated Galanthus, Griffin Press, January 2002 ( ISBN 0-9541916-0-9 )

Don and “ The Lockers ” appeared with some of the greatest entertainers of all time: Frank Sinatra, Bob Hope, Sammy Davis Jr., Dean Martin, Carol Burnett, Doris Day Dinah Shore, Merv Griffin, Bill Cosby, Roger Miller, Johnny Carson, Dick Van Dyke, Aretha Franklin, John Denver, Roberta Flack, Michael Landon, Richard Pryor, Bette Midler, Donny and Marie Osmond, Howard Cosell, and Cheech & Chong.

He participated in the Battle of Galveston and in 1863 now-Lieutenant Dowling along with a company of 44 men, almost all Irish, known as the Davis guards, was assigned to an earthen artillery post on the Sabine River named Fort Griffin.

Davis continued to court Kashif sending him a videotape of Houston's performance on The Merv Griffin Show.

In July 1928, Dunne married Francis Griffin, a New York dentist, whom she had met in 1924 at a supper dance in New York.

He first met Janet Griffin, whose father was the Treasury Attaché of the US embassy in Mexico City while there.

Mr. Le Vin stated that his conclusions were gathered from interviews with “ persons he met in Griffin, Newman ( sic ) Atlanta and the vicinity ”.

Fully recovered, Holliday relocated to Fort Griffin, Texas, where he met " Big Nose Kate " ( Mary Katharine Horony ) and began his long-time involvement with her.

In his later years, Griffin focused on researching his friend Thomas Merton, an American Trappist monk and spiritual writer he first met in 1962.

Because Griffin wanted assistance in integrating with the black community, he decided to tell Sterling that he was in fact the white man he'd met before.

The roots of the company were started in 1886 by Arthur Dehon Little, an MIT chemist, and co-worker Roger B. Griffin ( Russell B. Griffin ), another chemist and a graduate of the University of Vermont who had met when they both worked for Richmond Paper Company.

After the trio became popular around Milwaukee, they decided to add bassist Bob Griffin, whom Neumann and Llanas had met while roadies for his band The Agents in high school.

In 1969 in Missouri, he choked, stabbed and drowned Laura Griffin, whom he had just met.

Griffin met Robb Royer through Maria Yolanda Aguayo ( Griffin's future wife ).

The couple met while Griffin was duck-hunting in Argentina.

Griffin and Luna return to Tree Haven and are met by Marina, who is overjoyed to see that Griffin is alive.

In 1976 the Griffin brothers launched a sister publication called Skate Rider as skateboarding became more popular and a demand for more complete coverage was not being met by others.

Nesbitt met with Griffin before filming began to learn about how his brother's murder affected him.

When Chris Griffin in Family Guy in Stewie Griffin: The Untold Story was required by his mother Lois Griffin to mention the fourth member of Sex and the City, he couldn't come up with the correct answer, he instead took a wild and very inaccurate guess by saying it was Scrappy Doo.

A young hostage, Julie ( Heather Wahlquist ), has a broken arm, and she and her boyfriend Mitch ( Shawn Hatosy ) claim that a car crash caused it, but due to some holes in their story John and another hostage, Lester ( Eddie Griffin ), are able to conclude that the two are lying and that Mitch had actually beat Julie up.

Assuming the worst, the miners of the 7: 30 raced up the trail to the entrance, and there they found Clifford Griffin, shot through the heart, in a grave he'd dug himself.

* Bill Anderson ( singer )-A Country music song writer and singer that was born in Columbia, South Carolina and grew up in Griffin

As local legend goes, one Griffin Tipsword came to this part of Illinois and took up his abode with the Kickapoo Indians.

On December 17, 1776, Colonel Samuel Griffin of the Continental Army crossed the Delaware River with 600 men — mostly untrained men and boys, and with little equipment — and marched to Mount Holly, where he set up a few " 3-pounder " artillery pieces on Iron Works Hill.

In October 2003, Gibb recorded a second version of the song with Alistair Griffin, a-runner up in the UK television program Fame Academy on which Gibb appeared as a judge.

Property developers are planning to destroy Griffin Park, the borough's beloved football ground, intending to dig up the creature buried underneath it-namely, the serpent that tempted Eve in the Garden of Eden ; the source of original sin.

After leaving Bread in 1971, Royer stuck mostly to songwriting ( still teaming up with Griffin on occasion ).

Left without the Orioles, Til picked up another group, The Regals, whose members were Tex Cornelius, Diz Russell, Jerry Holeman, Billy Adams, and pianist Paul Griffin.

Griffin stirred up controversy with her acceptance speech, saying that " a lot of people come up here and thank Jesus for this award.

The game starts when U. S. Marine Corporal Joseph D. " Joe " Griffin wakes up on the USS California to the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941.

Griffin sums this up as " the cynical mindset of general mistrust of others subscribed to by heavy TV viewers ".

The example they give is of minority groups whose fictional television character is stereotypically more frequently victimized on television, creating an exaggerated perception of violence for individuals who watch more television Griffin sums it up nicely, when he states, " Gerbner claimed that other heavy viewers grow more apprehensive through the process of resonance.

Lee then takes the vest and pursues Griffin ( who is carrying a baggage of the ransom with him while getting up to the top of the building to await for a helicopter escape ) while Carter shoots Sang dead in a gunfight as Sang attempts to collect more of the ransom and kill one of the FBI agents.

Griffin designed the lake with many geometric motifs, so that the axes of his design lined up with natural geographical landmarks in the area.

The Molonglo River flows from south to north before turning northwest, through the outskirts of the New South Wales town of Queanbeyan, where it picks up its major tributary the Queanbeyan River, and then continues through the nation's federal capital city of Canberra, where it has been dammed by the Scrivener Dam to form Lake Burley Griffin.

There, the band struck up a friendship with New Orleans band Better Than Ezra and frontman Kevin Griffin.

After the storm has passed, Stan Smith, Cleveland Brown and Peter Griffin face each other in a standoff once their houses wind up in the same place.

He was born in Griffin, Georgia, the son of an Episcopal minister, and grew up in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Cleveland, Ohio and Wheeling, West Virginia.

Longtime resident and writer for The Guardian A. Harry Griffin expressed this feeling: There are other mountain sheep on the Lakeland fells, notably Swaledales and Rough-Fells, but the hardy Herdwick is the sheep most likely to be seen in and around the Duddon valley, the Coniston fells, the Buttermere fells and, through Borrowdale or Wasdale, up to the highest land in England, the Scafells.

Seinfeld spoofed the show in Season 9, Episode 6, “ The Merv Griffin Show ,” in which Cosmo Kramer pretends that he hosts his own talk show using the discarded set from the show, which he sets up in his apartment.