Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Prestige Collection 1958-1961 (4 CDS)

The Prestige Collection 1958-1961 (4CD BOX SET) - Among the main protagonists credited with linking the big band era with the soul jazz scene that emerged during the late 1950s, Eddie Lockjaw Davis remains a notable influence on jazz saxophonists to this day. While perhaps not always displaying the finesse of his contemporaries, Davis produced a tone that was wholly unique and capable of emitting an aggressive, bluesy sound alongside lines of great tenderness and sensitivity. The flexibility of his playing lent itself to rhythm and blues, swing, hard bop and Latin jazz over the years, and while his early career featured Davis supporting some of the finest artists of the period, his greatest records came when he took up the role of bandleader, notably during his tenancy with the Prestige label. This collection features the eight albums by Eddie Lockjaw Davis as leader released on the Prestige label between 1958 and 1961. Presented here with delightful, remastered audio and in their completion, the set includes over five hours of extraordinary music in total, and serves as the perfect introduction to this maestro s work, or as a welcome reminder of a musician whose enormous contributions to the jazz genre are, on occasion, criminally overlooked.

- Disc 1 -
1 Disc: 1 Have Horn, Will Blow
2 The Chef
3 But Beautiful
4 In the Kitchen
5 Three Deuces
6 I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart
7 I'll Never Be the Same
8 You Stepped Out of a Dream
9 Old Devil Moon
10 Too Close for Comfort
11 Body and Soul
12 But Not for Me
13 Tangerine

- Disc 2 -
1 Disc: 2 the Rev
2 Stardust
3 Skillet
4 I Surrender Dear
5 The Broilers
6 Very Saxy
7 Lester Leaps in
8 Fourmost
9 Foot Pattin'
10 Light and Lovely

- Disc 3 -
1 Disc: 3 Intermission Riff
2 Can't Get Out of This Mood
3 Foxy
4 Our Delight
5 Bahia
6 Bingo Domingo
7 I'm Just a Lucky So and So
8 Heat 'N' Serve
9 My Old Flame
10 The Goose Hangs High
11 Simmerin'
12 Strike Up the Band

- Disc 4 -
1 Disc: 4 Last Train from Overbrook
2 Sometimes I'm Happy
3 That Old Black Magic
4 Fast Spiral
5 Dobbin' with Redd Foxx
6 Come Rain or Come Shine
7 Dansero
8 When Your Lover Has Gone
9 Trane Whistle
10 Whole Nelson
11 You Are Too Beautiful
12 The Stolen Moments
13 Walk Away
14 Jaws