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Eddie Lockjaw Davis
12+ albums
lekkere jazz
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He 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, 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. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.
top songs
albums
The Heavy Hitter
The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Cookbook, Vol. 2
Cookbook, Vol. 1
Prestige Profiles: Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Very Saxy
Swingin' Till The Girls Come Home
Very Saxy (Rudy Van Gelder Remasters)
On the Same Side - Gimme More Version
Trane Whistle
Very Saxy (RVG Remaster)
Yesterdays: The Best of Eddie Lockjaw Davis
Prestige Profiles