CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - The Complete Cookbook Sessions (Solar, 2010)

During the late 1950's and early 1960's tenor saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis was a very busy man, playing in well regarded groups with Johnny Griffin and this group with the organist Shirley Scott. The organ and tenor format was very popular in the clubs of the northeast US during this time period with fertile scenes in New York, Newark, Philadelphia and other places. This set collects the three "Cookbook" albums Davis and Scott made with Jerome Richardson on flute and tenor saxophone, George...

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