Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Harry "Sweets" Edison (left) with Davis at the Village Jazz Lounge in Walt Disney World
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
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.[1]

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,[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-1960s, 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".

Discography

As leader

As sideman

with Mildred Anderson

with Count Basie

With Arnett Cobb

with Red Garland

with Dizzy Gillespie

With Tiny Grimes

with Coleman Hawkins

with Al Smith

with Sonny Stitt

References

  1. ↑ Allmusic
  2. ↑ Huey Long biography at Venus Hair, which establishes that this member of The Ink Spots was also the guitarist of Davis' Beboppers.

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