I love the three albums that tenor saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis recorded for RCA in the late-1960s. They maximized his badness perfectly, surrounding him with enormously talented sidemen, and the song choices were perfectly suited to his take-charge sound. The first was Lock the Fox (1966), the second was The Fox & the Hounds (1967) and the third w…
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