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Fifties Jazz Cut: Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

On Friday, I purchased an excellent 1958 jazz album by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis. Here's your starter track.

  1. "Heat 'N Serve" - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Trust me--this jazz is DELICIOUS. It's like a hot bowl of soup that you just want to lap up. It melts. It cooks. And what's best, it's completely unassuming. Just straight-up, no-nonsense jazz. The recordings on the three volume "cookbook" series (posted here) are among Lockjaw's best.  Part of this album's success can be credited to the impossibly perfect collaboration between Eddie and Shirley Scott on the organ. Scott's organ and Eddie's sax twist and turn throughout the length of the album in an tenor-erotic dance. You can hear it best in the second half of a "The Goose Hangs High".

  1. "Lucky So and So" - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
  2. "The Goose Hangs High" - Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 

The following YouTube clip is from a 1977 performance, much later in Lockjaw's career.




-- Jess
Posted on Saturday, March 3, 2007 at 09:49PM by Registered CommenterEggs for Becky | CommentsPost a Comment

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