Eddie Lockjaw Davis
| Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis | |
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| Background information | |
| Birth name | Edward F. Davis |
| Born |
March 2, 1922 New York City, U.S. |
| Died | November 3, 1986 (aged 64) Culver City, California |
| Genres | Jazz, swing |
| Occupation(s) | Musician |
| Instruments | Saxophone |
| Labels | Prestige, Riverside, RCA Victor |
| Associated acts | |
Edward F. Davis (March 2, 1922 – November 3, 1986), known professionally 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 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,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 died of cancer in Culver City, California, at the age of 64.
With Mildred Anderson
With Count Basie
With Billy Butler
With the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band
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