Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
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| Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis | |
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 Harry "Sweets" Edison (left) with Davis at the Village Jazz Lounge in Walt Disney World |
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| Background information | |
| Born | March 2, 1922 New York City, New York United States |
| Died | November 3, 1986 (aged 64) Culver City, California United States |
| Genres | Jazz, swing, bop |
| Occupations | Musician |
| Instruments | Tenor saxophone |
| Associated acts | Johnny Griffin Shirley Scott Sonny Stitt Count Basie |
Edward Davis (March 2, 1922 – November 3, 1986), who performed and recorded as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Davis played with Cootie Williams, Lucky Millinder, Andy Kirk, Louis Armstrong, and Count Basie, as well as leading his own bands and making many recordings as a leader. He played in the swing, bop, hard bop, Latin jazz, and soul jazz genres. Some of his recordings of the 1940s also could be classified as rhythm and blues.
His 1946 band, Eddie Davis and His Beboppers, featured Fats Navarro, Al Haig, Huey Long,[2] Gene Ramey and Denzil Best.
In the 1950s he was playing with Sonny Stitt, while from 1960 to 1962 he and fellow tenor saxophonist Johnny Griffin led a quintet. 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.
Davis may be heard playing on the 1973 CBS album Ella Fitzgerald at the Newport Jazz Festival Live at Carnegie Hall on the song "Young Man with a Horn".
[edit] Discography
[edit] As leader
- 1958: Cookbook, Prestige, with Shirley Scott (org), George Duvivier (b), Arthur Edgehill (dr), Jerome Richardson (fl)
- 1960: Trane Whistle
- 1960: Tough Tenors with Johnny Griffin, Junior Mance (p), Ben Riley (dr), Larry Gales (b), MPS Records
- 1961: Afro-Jaws (Riverside Records)
- 1961: Jawbreakers (Riverside, with Harry Edison)
- 1961: Blues Up And Down with Johnny Griffin
- 1961: Live at Mintons (live), Prestige, with Griffin, Mance, Riley
- 1962: Streetlights with Don Patterson (org)
- 1967: Sax No End with Johnny Griffin, Francy Boland (arrangements)
- 1970: Tough Tenors Again 'n' Again, with Johnny Griffin
- 1975: The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson, (with Zoot Sims)
- 1977: Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 4 – Montreux '77, (live)
- 1977: Swingin' Till the Girls Come Home, Inner City Records, with Thomas Clausen (p), Bo Stiff (b) and Alex Riel (dr)
- 1981: Sonny, Sweets and Jaws - Live at Bubbas, (live), (with Sonny Stitt and Harry "Sweets" Edison)
- 1983: Jazz at the Philharmonic – Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo 1983: Return to Happiness
[edit] As sideman
- 1961: Night Hawk, Prestige, with Coleman Hawkins
With Count Basie
[edit] References
- ^ Allmusic
- ^ Huey Long biography at Venus Hair, which establishes that this member of the Ink Spots was also the guitarist of Davis' Beboppers.
[edit] External links
- Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis discography at Discogs
- Overview of Davis' contributions to jazz
- Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis performing with the Count Basie Orchestra.
- 1922 births
- 1986 deaths
- Bebop saxophonists
- Swing saxophonists
- Soul-jazz saxophonists
- Latin jazz saxophonists
- Hard bop saxophonists
- African American musicians
- American jazz tenor saxophonists
- American saxophonists
- Jazz tenor saxophonists
- Count Basie Orchestra members
- Prestige Records artists
- SteepleChase Records artists
- Enja Records artists
- Riverside Records artists
