Very Saxy

Very Saxy
Studio album by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis with Buddy Tate, Coleman Hawkins and Arnett Cobb
Released 1959
Recorded April 29, 1959
Van Gelder Studio, Hackensack
Genre Jazz
Length 38:27
Label Prestige
PR 7167
Producer Esmond Edwards
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis chronology

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(1959)		 Very Saxy
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(1959)
Professional ratings
Review scores
Source Rating
Penguin Guide to Jazz [1]
Allmusic [2]

Very Saxy is an album by saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis with Buddy Tate, Coleman Hawkins and Arnett Cobb recorded in 1959 for the Prestige label.[3]

Reception

The Penguin Guide to Jazz selected the album as part of its suggested Core Collection.[1] The Allmusic review awarded the album 4 stars and stated "a historic and hard-swinging jam session... the four tenors battle it out and the results are quite exciting".[2]

Track listing

All compositions by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and George Duvivier except as indicated

  1. "Very Saxy" - 8:18
  2. "Lester Leaps In" (Lester Young) - 6:15
  3. "Fourmost" (Shirley Scott) - 5:22
  4. "Foot Pattin'" (Duvivier) - 8:53
  5. "Light and Lovely" - 9:55

Personnel

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Cook, Richard; Brian Morton (2008) [1992]. "Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis". The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. The Penguin Guide to Jazz (9th ed. ed.). New York: Penguin. p. 338. ISBN 978-0-141-03401-0.
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed July 6, 2012
  3. ↑ Payne, D. Shirley Scott discography accessed July 6, 2012