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 | |
| Also known as | "Jaws"; "The Fox"[1] |
| Born | March 2, 1922 New York City, New York, United States |
| Died | Script error: The function "death_date_and_age" does not exist. Culver City, California, United States |
| Genres | Jazz, swing, bop |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Tenor saxophone |
| Labels | Prestige, Riverside, RCA Victor |
| 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.[2]
Biography
Davis played with Cootie Williams, Lucky Millinder, Andy Kirk, Eddie Bonnemere, 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 from 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,[3] 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-1960s, Davis and Griffin also performed together as part of The Kenny Clarke-Francy Boland Big Band, along with other, mainly European, jazz musicians.
Discography
As leader
- 1953: Eddie Davis Trio (Roost)
- 1954: The Battle of Birdland (Roost) – with Sonny Stitt
- 1955: Modern Jazz Expressions (King)
- 1957: Jazz with a Horn (King)
- 1957: Jazz with a Beat (King)
- 1957: Count Basie Presents Eddie Davis Trio + Joe Newman (Roulette) - with Count Basie and Joe Newman
- 1958: Eddie Davis Trio Featuring Shirley Scott, Organ (Roulette)
- 1958: The Eddie Davis Trio Featuring Shirley Scott (Roost)
- 1957-58: Uptown (King)
- 1957-58: Big Beat Jazz (King)
- 1958: The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Cookbook (Prestige) – with Shirley Scott and Jerome Richardson
- 1958: Jaws (Prestige) – with Shirley Scott
- 1958: The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Cookbook, Vol. 2 (Prestige) – with Shirley Scott and Jerome Richardson
- 1958: The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Cookbook Volume 3 (Prestige) – with Shirley Scott
- 1958: Smokin' (Prestige) – with Shirley Scott
- 1959: Very Saxy (Prestige) – with Buddy Tate, Coleman Hawkins and Arnett Cobb
- 1959: Jaws in Orbit (Prestige) – with Shirley Scott
- 1959: Bacalao (Prestige) – with Shirley Scott
- 1960: Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis with Shirley Scott (Moodsville)
- 1960: Misty (Moodsville) – with Shirley Scott
- 1960: Afro-Jaws (Riverside)
- 1960: Battle Stations (Prestige) – with Johnny Griffin
- 1960: Trane Whistle (Prestige) – arranged by Oliver Nelson and Ernie Wilkins
- 1960: Tough Tenors (Jazzland) – with Johnny Griffin
- 1960: Griff & Lock (Jazzland) – with Johnny Griffin
- 1961: The First Set (Prestige) – with Johnny Griffin
- 1961: The Tenor Scene (Prestige) – with Johnny Griffin
- 1961: The Late Show (Prestige) – with Johnny Griffin
- 1961: The Midnight Show (Prestige) – with Johnny Griffin
- 1961: Lookin' at Monk! (Jazzland) – with Johnny Griffin
- 1961: Blues Up & Down (Jazzland) – with Johnny Griffin
- 1962: Tough Tenor Favorites (Jazzland) – with Johnny Griffin
- 1962: Jawbreakers (Riverside) – with Harry Edison
- 1962: Goin' to the Meeting (Prestige)
- 1962: I Only Have Eyes for You (Prestige)
- 1962: Trackin' (Prestige)
- 1966: Lock, the Fox (RCA Victor)
- 1967: The Fox & the Hounds (RCA Victor)
- 1968: Love Calls (RCA Victor) – with Paul Gonsalves
- 1970: Tough Tenors Again 'n' Again (MPS) – 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)
- 1979: The Heavy Hitter (Muse Records)
- 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
- 1986: Jaw's Blues, (Enja Records) – Recorded live at the DOMICILE, Munich (February 11, 1981) – with Horace Parlan (p), Reggie Johnson (b), Alvin Queen (dr)
As sideman
with Mildred Anderson
- No More in Life (Bluesville, 1960)
- Person to Person (Bluesville, 1960)
with Count Basie
- The Count! (Clef, 1952 [1955])
- Basie Jazz (Clef, 1952 [1954])
- Dance Session Album #2 (Clef, 1954)
- The Atomic Mr. Basie (Roulette, 1957) aka Basie and E=MC2
- Everyday I Have the Blues (Roulette, 1959) - with Joe Williams
- The Count Basie Story (Roulette, 1960)
- Pop Goes the Basie (Reprise, 1965)
- Basie Meets Bond (United Artists, 1966)
- Live at the Sands (Before Frank) (Reprise, 1966 [1998])
- Sinatra at the Sands (Reprise, 1966) with Frank Sinatra
- Basie's Beatle Bag (Verve, 1966)
- Basie Swingin' Voices Singin' (ABC-Paramount, 1966) with the Alan Copeland Singers
- Basie's Beat (Verve, 1967)
- Broadway Basie's...Way (Command, 1966)
- Hollywood...Basie's Way (Command, 1967)
- Basie's in the Bag (Brunswick, 1967)
- The Happiest Millionaire (Coliseum, 1967)
- Manufacturers of Soul (Brunswick, 1968) with Jackie Wilson
- The Board of Directors Annual Report (Dot, 1968) with The Mills Brothers
- Basie Straight Ahead (Dot, 1968)
- How About This (Paramount, 1968) with Kay Starr
- Standing Ovation (Dot, 1969)
- Basic Basie (MPS, 1969)
- Basie on the Beatles (Happy Tiger, 1969)
- High Voltage (MPS, 1970)
- Basie Jam (Pablo, 1973)
- Mostly Blues...and Some Others (Pablo, 1983)
With the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band
- Sax No End (SABA, 1967)
With Arnett Cobb
- Blow Arnett, Blow (Prestige, 1959)
with Red Garland
- The Red Garland Trio + Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis (Moodsville, 1959)
with Dizzy Gillespie
- The Dizzy Gillespie Big 7 (Pablo, 1975)
With Tiny Grimes
- Callin' the Blues (Prestige, 1958) – with J. C. Higginbotham
with Coleman Hawkins
- Night Hawk (Swingville, 1960)
with Al Smith
- Hear My Blues (Prestige, 1959; re-mastered 1987 at Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, Ca.)
with Sonny Stitt
- The Matadors Meet the Bull (Roulette, 1965)
References
- ↑ Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. (subscription required)
- ↑ Allmusic
- ↑ Huey Long biography at Venus Hair, which establishes that this member of The Ink Spots was also the guitarist of Davis' Beboppers.
External links
- Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis discography at Discogs
- Overview of Davis' contributions to jazz
- Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis on YouTube performing with the Count Basie Orchestra.
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- 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
- Muse Records artists
- Apollo Records artists
- 20th-century American musicians
