(Edward Davis)
DISCOGRAPHY 1955-2012 (43CD)
BIOGRAPHY
Edward Davis (March 2, 1922 – November 3, 1986), who performed and
recorded as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, was an American jazz tenor
saxophonist.
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
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.
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".