Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis

Biography

2 March 1922, New York City, New York, USA, d. 3 November 1986, Culver City, California, USA. Davis began to make his mark on the jazz scene in his home town when he worked at Clark Monroe’s Uptown House in the late 30s. Despite this establishment’s close ties with the emergence of bebop a few years later, Davis’ tenor saxophone playing was rooted in swing and the blues, and early in his career he displayed a marked affinity with the tough school of Texas tenors. In the early 40s... Read more

Genres

Blues Jazz

Tags

jazz

saxophone

hard bop

tenor sax

Artist Compilations

Arnett Cobb

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