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Johnny Griffin & Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Johnny Griffin & Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis: Pisces

by Derek Taylor
November 14, 2004

The early '60s was a golden age for tenor tandems. Towering team-ups like Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, Zoot Sims and Al Cohn, and Eddie “Lockjaw" Davis and Johnny Griffin were illustrative of the Zeitgeist. Such a simple formula, joining the talents of two titans on that most popular of jazz horns, but it's one that ...

Tough Tenors

By Johnny Griffin & Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Label: Jazzland Recordings
Released: 2003
Track listing: Tickle Toe/ Save Your Love For Me/ Twins/ Funky Fluke/ Imagination/ Soft Winds.

Johnny Griffin & Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis: Tough Tenors

by Derek Taylor
October 13, 2003

What more can be said about the grandiloquent tradition of two tenor conclaves in jazz? The lineage is wide, multifarious and deep, wrangling in such names as Young and Evans, Ammons and Stitt, Sims and Cohen, Clay and Newman, Anderson and Jordan, Freeman and Freeman, along with others too numerous to list. Like many of the ...