Jaws

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Eddie "lockjaw" Davis & Shirley Scott | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 10, 1994)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Ojc
• ASIN: B000000YC9
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Audio Cassette  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #214,498 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart

2. I'll Never Be the Same

3. You Stepped Out of a Dream

4. Old Devil Moon

5. Too Close for Comfort

6. Body and Soul

7. But Not for Me

8. Tangerine

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A worthy successor to coleman hawkins, October 7, 2002

By 

T. H VonZabern "tomvonz" (Boston, MA, USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jaws (Audio CD)

Huge sound, powerful playing in the tradition of the Hawk. Davis's sound is never reticent, nor does he resort to gimmicky technical displays. His embellishments are always discreet, appropriate and complimentary to the melodic line. He is ably accompanied by Shirley Scott on the organ, George Duvivier on bass and Arthur Edgehill on percussion.

The arrangements, while dated in a sense, have a pleasing transparency to them, allowing Lockjaw's playing to stand out in the most apparently effortless way. The electric organ of the '50's can certainly sound tacky to our ears today, and it is to Shirley Scott's credit that she contains it so that it does not become annoying.

Listen to Lockjaw's stupendous interpretation of "Body and Soul". Nobody ever achieved a more enormous and at the same time supremely warm sound, not even Coleman Hawkins. "I'll never be the same" is another good one. You won't be disappointed.