So, What Are You Listening To NOW?

[nemo7]

The Jazztet/Moment to Moment/Farmer's Market

[Peter Friedman]

[JSngry]

RIP

[HutchFan]

This again:

[Joe]

Getz had clearly been listening to Sonny and Wayne, but he's still Getz. With Stanley Cowell, Miroslav Vitous, and Jack DeJohnette.

[Gheorghe]

13 hours ago, HutchFan said:

Sweets and Lockjaw?  Oh yeah.

 

The first time I saw Eddie Lockjaw Davis live was together with "Sweets". In that spezial period (mid 70´s) I had known who is "Jaws" from the Savoy Sides with Fats Navarro, and from the Birdland live set with Miles Davis as a leader, while the name of "Sweets" was unknown to me. From the concert I had the impression that though rooted in swing jazz, Eddie Davis sounds a bit more "modern". 
I also purchased a "Pablo Record" of Jaws and Sweets , it had Dolo Coker on piano, but I have not seen it anymore, which is astonishing since all that Pablo material always was easy to purchase. But something I didn´t like on that Pablo record, I think on some tunes they did it with Fender Rhodes, which I liked but NOT for that older music. 

13 hours ago, Dub Modal said:

JJ's Concepts In Blue 👍

Is this from the late 70´s. I have a Pablo JJ-Nat Adderly with the same rythm section "Billy Childs, Tony Dumas and JJ´s son Kevin" . Is this the same concert with augmented stars ? If so, I might purchase it. 

[jazzcorner]

19 hours ago, Peter Friedman said:

😁😁  Great voice  at Willis' Conovers VOA Introduction

[BillF]

[Dub Modal]

5 hours ago, Gheorghe said:

The first time I saw Eddie Lockjaw Davis live was together with "Sweets". In that spezial period (mid 70´s) I had known who is "Jaws" from the Savoy Sides with Fats Navarro, and from the Birdland live set with Miles Davis as a leader, while the name of "Sweets" was unknown to me. From the concert I had the impression that though rooted in swing jazz, Eddie Davis sounds a bit more "modern". 
I also purchased a "Pablo Record" of Jaws and Sweets , it had Dolo Coker on piano, but I have not seen it anymore, which is astonishing since all that Pablo material always was easy to purchase. But something I didn´t like on that Pablo record, I think on some tunes they did it with Fender Rhodes, which I liked but NOT for that older music. 

Is this from the late 70´s. I have a Pablo JJ-Nat Adderly with the same rythm section "Billy Childs, Tony Dumas and JJ´s son Kevin" . Is this the same concert with augmented stars ? If so, I might purchase it. 

The JJ Johnson was recorded in 1980 and on the Pablo Today label. The band is made up of Ray Brown & Tony Dumas on bass, Kevin on drums, Billy Childs & Pete Jolly on keyboards, Ernie Watts on tenor, Clark Terry on flugle/trumpet, and Vic Feldman on vibes/keyboards. 

Looks like a similar line up but with some variation. It's a good album though. 

[Gheorghe]

2 minutes ago, Dub Modal said:

The JJ Johnson was recorded in 1980 and on the Pablo Today label. The band is made up of Ray Brown & Tony Dumas on bass, Kevin on drums, Billy Childs & Pete Jolly on keyboards, Ernie Watts on tenor, Clark Terry on flugle/trumpet, and Vic Feldman on vibes/keyboards. 

Looks like a similar line up but with some variation. It's a good album though. 

wow, that must be interesting. Is it live recorded ? 

[Dub Modal]

Just now, Gheorghe said:

wow, that must be interesting. Is it live recorded ? 

Studio record. 

[Referentzhunter]

[Justin V]

When grabbing this image, I saw there is a copy on Discogs for $50, which is a good price.  

[Balladeer]

Helmut Brandt Combo - Berlin Calling (Sonorama)

[jazzbo]

Calvin Keys “Standard Keys”

A really nice live session.

[Referentzhunter]

[John Tapscott]

[jazzbo]

Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis with Shirley Scott Smokin’

 

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cd from this box set:

Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis - tenor saxophone
Shirley Scott - organ
Jerome Richardson - baritone saxophone, flute, tenor saxophone
George Duvivier - bass
Arthur Edgehill - drums

[Peter Friedman]

[Jim Duckworth]

45 minutes ago, jazzbo said:

Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis with Shirley Scott Smokin’

 

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cd from this box set:

Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis - tenor saxophone
Shirley Scott - organ
Jerome Richardson - baritone saxophone, flute, tenor saxophone
George Duvivier - bass
Arthur Edgehill - drums

 

I too am listening to this nice set further encouraged to do so by (much appreciated) Organissimo contributors and by a quote I came across in a Henry Threadgill interview:

Eddie Lockjaw Davis, I have to say, is probably the most original saxophone player I ever heard in my life. I’ve listened to all the different saxophone players, but I’ve never heard anyone play the saxophone like that. It’s the most convoluted style of playing that I ever heard in my life. You can hear a lot of players emulate Charlie Parker, Coltrane, all kinds of players. I’ve never heard anyone that can emulate this man, or anyone who can approach the saxophone in this way. It’s a strange style of playing, and the harmonic language is very different. His way of formulating sound on the instrument is extremely different; I don’t know what that was about. If you listen to Eddie Lockjaw Davis (most people haven’t listened to him, I don’t think), you will see that the notes don’t come out of the saxophone the way they do when other people play the saxophone. It’s very convoluted. It’s the most original thing I ever heard in my life. The most original.

[jazzbo]

I'm a big Lockjaw fan, he was a true original and exploring his work is a fascinating endeavor. 

 

Right now

Cassandra Wilson “Blue Skies” Winter&Winter cd

It’s been too long since I spun a Wilson disc. Correcting that right now by pulling this from the shelves and loading the transport.

Original JMT Records cover:

 

Edited February 16, 2023 by jazzbo

[Justin V]

13 minutes ago, Jim Duckworth said:

I too am listening to this nice set further encouraged to do so by (much appreciated) Organissimo contributors and by a quote I came across in a Henry Threadgill interview:

Eddie Lockjaw Davis, I have to say, is probably the most original saxophone player I ever heard in my life. I’ve listened to all the different saxophone players, but I’ve never heard anyone play the saxophone like that. It’s the most convoluted style of playing that I ever heard in my life. You can hear a lot of players emulate Charlie Parker, Coltrane, all kinds of players. I’ve never heard anyone that can emulate this man, or anyone who can approach the saxophone in this way. It’s a strange style of playing, and the harmonic language is very different. His way of formulating sound on the instrument is extremely different; I don’t know what that was about. If you listen to Eddie Lockjaw Davis (most people haven’t listened to him, I don’t think), you will see that the notes don’t come out of the saxophone the way they do when other people play the saxophone. It’s very convoluted. It’s the most original thing I ever heard in my life. The most original.

I was shooting the breeze with Scott Robinson, an individual player himself, last year and he raved about how no one sounds like Lockjaw.

[JSngry]

13 minutes ago, Jim Duckworth said:

I too am listening to this nice set further encouraged to do so by (much appreciated) Organissimo contributors and by a quote I came across in a Henry Threadgill interview:

Eddie Lockjaw Davis, I have to say, is probably the most original saxophone player I ever heard in my life. I’ve listened to all the different saxophone players, but I’ve never heard anyone play the saxophone like that. It’s the most convoluted style of playing that I ever heard in my life. You can hear a lot of players emulate Charlie Parker, Coltrane, all kinds of players. I’ve never heard anyone that can emulate this man, or anyone who can approach the saxophone in this way. It’s a strange style of playing, and the harmonic language is very different. His way of formulating sound on the instrument is extremely different; I don’t know what that was about. If you listen to Eddie Lockjaw Davis (most people haven’t listened to him, I don’t think), you will see that the notes don’t come out of the saxophone the way they do when other people play the saxophone. It’s very convoluted. It’s the most original thing I ever heard in my life. The most original.

Johnny Griffin claims (and Shelley Carroll confirms) that Jaws corked up some of his keys so they didn't open, which in turn facilitated his self-created fingering system.

I've tried to get a handle on exactly how this worked from videos, but so far haven't seen anything. And yet the story persists.

The only player I've heard who has some kind of a handle on some of it is James Carter.

All I know is that Threadgill's statement rings absolutely true and insightful.

[Justin V]

 

[HutchFan]

 

and

The (Jazz) Crusaders are Wilson's backing band on this album.