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Zoot Sims & Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis: The Tenor Giants

by Derek Taylor
July 1, 2001

In the traits of tone and phrasing tenor icons Zoot and Jaws were hardly doppelgangers. Jaws of the clipped rasp and pinched carving wail and Zoot with the more effusive, easygoing sound- the two together made for instant and compelling contrast in terms of both philosophy and execution. The common ground the pair shared was in ...