Johnny Griffin / Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Ow! Live at The Penthouse

Johnny Griffin / Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis - Ow! Live at The Penthouse

Johnny Griffin & Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis—tenor saxophones
Horace Parlan—piano • Buddy Catlett—bass • Art Taylor—drums

*Official release of previously unissued live recordings of the Johnny Griffin-Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis Quintet recorded May 30, 1962 & June 6, 1962 at the Penthouse, Seattle, Washington

*Remastered audio from the original AMPEX 350 10” tapes at 7½ IPS

Ow! Live at The Penthouse is a collection of previously-unissued recordings by the supercharged saxophone duo of Johnny Griffin / Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis captured over 2 nights at the famous Penthouse jazz club in Seattle, WA in 1962. Though the tenor sax battle became a fixture of the hard bop era after Dexter Gordon and Wardell Gray established the format with “The Chase” in 1947, no duo was as powerful or as prolific as Davis, a veteran of the Count Basie Orchestra and a popular trio with organist Shirley Scott, and Griffin, noted for his high-voltage work with Thelonious Monk. The pair who became known known as “the Tough Tenors” cut nine LPs – including four live albums caught at Minton’s in New York – for Prestige and Jazzland in 1960-62. This limited edition deluxe CD set features the potent rhythm section of Horace Parlan on piano, Buddy Catlett on bass and Art Taylor on drums.