Eddie ‘Lockjaw Davis’

Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis – Goin’ To The Meeting (High Definition Remaster 2023) (1962/2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 37:12 minutes | 439 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © J. Joes J. Edizioni Musicali

Goin’ to the Meeting is an album by saxophonist Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis recorded in 1962 for the Prestige label.

The Allmusic review states, “Goin’ to the Meetin showcases Horace Parlan in a way even his Blue Note records didn’t. While Davis appears to be the leader because of his beat generation bluesed-out swing in the solos and brief melodic statements, it’s Parlan, on the title track, “Pass the Hat,” and “Night and Day,” who carries the tunes and turns them into a very sophisticated and subtle kind of jazz that allows for both the simplicity of a raw-toned, grooved-out blues statement and simultaneously created the space for a harmonic improvisation that employed counterpoint and intervallic architecture for the rhythm section. Parlan’s own soloing is nothing less than soulful, but it is considerably more than soul he’s playing. Moreover, Parlan is laying down the sophistication evidenced in the post-bop and modal playing of both Bill Evans and Horace Silver”.

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Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis – Cookin’ With Jaws And The Queen: The Legendary Prestige Cookbook Albums (2023)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 02:41:27 minutes | 6,43 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Craft Recordings

Released to celebrate tenor jazz saxophonist Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis’ Centennial, “Cookin’ with Jaws and the Queen” showcases the influential soul-jazz partnership of Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis and Organist Shirley Scott. Bringing together the Prestige albums “Cookbook, Vol. 1-3,” “& “Smokin’”.

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Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis with Paul Gonsalves – Love Calls (1968/2018)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/192 kHz | Time – 36:07 minutes | 1,32 GB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © RCA – Legacy

Several times in our lifetimes, we feel that woozy head rush from that unforgettable kiss. Another time, we felt that ‘feeling’ up on the upper back, stopping us our breathing short. And sometime, in that span of time, we fell and out of love – both bagged with much passion of hither and there. It can happen. And often does. Without personal and individual politics, love and passion is delectable and straight forward. But we don’t live in that kind of life. The world we live in isn’t just ‘straight forward’. Sometimes it does happen, where all those ‘politics’ fall away and seems not to be a factor. Let’s welcome that time, that moment – if we recognize it – for what it is. Didirri announced that he’s about to drop his debut EP ‘Measurements’ on July 6. And to celebrate, the new single ‘I Can’t Get Last Night Out Of My Head’, a celebration in itself of what impact such kind of passions can envelope our every being.

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Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis with Shirley Scott, Jerome Richardson – The Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis Cookbook, Vol. 1 (1958/2014)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/44,1 kHz | Time – 47:54 minutes | 562 MB | Genre: Jazz
Studio Masters, Official Digital Download | Front Cover | © Prestige

Since the Swing Era, when Harlem was a real hotbed of jazz, there has been present a certain kind of music, a type of popular jazz compounded from the large swing bands, the “jump” bands, and the fly, little combos which formed the best of what later became known as rhythm and blues. The best of rhythm and blues, however, has always been within the mainstream of jazz and is a happy, swinging, bluesy kind of music which contains both humor and warmth. Eddie Davis’ group was among those who revolutioned the idea of unconventional jazz instrumental combos.

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