Jazz Articles about Gene Ammons and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

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Jug and Jaws: The Titanic Tenor Voices of Gene Ammons and Eddie Davis

by Samuel Chell
April 6, 2007

Gene Ammons, Boss Tenor (Prestige, 1960/2006)Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis, Cook Book, Vol. 1 (Prestige, 1958/2006)

Before the Trojan prince Aeneas ended his torrid love affair with the African queen Dido, sailing from Carthage to Italy, he certainly must have created with his companion a select gene pool that would eventually produce not only the lyric operatic tenors of the Romance countries on the northern shores of the Mediterranean but the soulful, playful Tunisian troubadours on the African southern shores. ...