EDDIE ‘LOCKJAW’ DAVIS: FOUR CLASSIC ALBUMS PLUS (VERY SAXY / CALLIN’ THE BLUES / COUNT BASIE PRESENTS / GOODIES FROM EDDIE DAVIS) (2 CD)

AVID Jazz here presents four classic Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis albums plus including original LP liner notes on a finely re-mastered and low priced double CD.“Very Saxy”; Callin’ The Blues”; “Count Basie Presents”; “Goodies From Eddie Davis” & 5 of 12 tracks from “Modern Jazz Expressions”For the 1959 date “Very Saxy” Davis is joined by legendary tenor saxophonists Coleman Hawkins, Arnett Cobb and Buddy Tate along with Shirley Scott on Hammond Organ, George Duvivier on bass and Arthur Edgehill on drums. Four veteran sax players getting together as they did in the old days for what was known as “the battle of the bands” where one band would try to blow the other off stage! This time with the benefit of maturity the session was a much more cordial affair all be it a hard blowing one! “Callin’ The Blues”! Where jazz meets blues in a 1958 session, joining Davis are J.C.Higginbotham on trombone, Tiny Grimes on guitar, Ray Bryant on piano, Wendell Marshall on bass and Osie Johnson on drums.