Jaw's Blues

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Jaw's Blues
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Live album by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis
Released 1981
Recorded February 11, 1981
Venue The Domicile, Munich, West Germany
Genre Jazz
Length52:07
Label Enja
3097 ST
Producer Horst Weber & Matthias Winckelmann
Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis chronology
The Heavy Hitter
(1979) The Heavy Hitter1979		Jaw's Blues
(1981)		 Live at the Widder
(1981) Live at the Widder1981

Jaw's Blues is a live album by American jazz saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis recorded in Munich in 1981 and released on the German Enja label. [1] [2] [3]

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis American saxophonist

Edward F. Davis, known professionally as Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, was an American jazz tenor saxophonist.

Enja Records record label

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Critical reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
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Allmusic stated "The tough-toned and always-passionate tenor saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis is in typically combative form on this quartet date ... Fans of the tenor will want this swinging set". [4]

Track listing

  1. "I'll Remember April" (Gene de Paul, Patricia Johnston, Don Raye) – 6:24
  2. "Young Man With a Horn" (George Stoll, Ralph Freed) – 4:18
  3. "What Is This Thing Called Love?" (Cole Porter) – 7:01
  4. "Broadway" (Billy Bird, Teddy McRae, Henri Woode) – 7:28
  5. "But Beautiful" (Jimmy Van Heusen, Johnny Burke) – 4:41
  6. "Jaw's Blues" (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis) – 7:31
  7. "On Green Dolphin Street" (Bronisław Kaper, Ned Washington) – 7:30 Bonus track on CD reissue
  8. "Days of Wine and Roses" (Henry Mancini, Johnny Mercer) – 7:14 Bonus track on CD reissue

Personnel

Tenor saxophone type of saxophone

The tenor saxophone is a medium-sized member of the saxophone family, a group of instruments invented by Adolphe Sax in the 1840s. The tenor and the alto are the two most commonly used saxophones. The tenor is pitched in the key of B♭ (while the Alto is pitched in the key of E♭), and written as a transposing instrument in the treble clef, sounding an octave and a major second lower than the written pitch. Modern tenor saxophones which have a high F♯ key have a range from A♭2 to E5 (concert) and are therefore pitched one octave below the soprano saxophone. People who play the tenor saxophone are known as "tenor saxophonists", "tenor sax players", or "saxophonists".

Horace Parlan was an American hard bop and post-bop pianist and composer. He was known for his contributions to the Charles Mingus recordings Mingus Ah Um and Blues & Roots.

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

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References

  1. ↑ Enja Records Listing accessed April 10, 2017
  2. ↑ Jazzlists: Enja Records main series discography, accessed April 10, 2017
  3. ↑ Di Filippo, R., Enciclopedia del Jazz: Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis accessed April 10, 2017
  4. 1 2 Yanow, Scott. Jaw's Blues – Review at AllMusic . Retrieved April 10, 2017.
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