Tough Tenor Favorites

Studio album by The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Johnny Griffin Quintet

Released

1962

Recorded

February 5, 1962
New York City

Genre

Jazz

Label

Jazzland
JLP-76

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis chronology

Blues Up & Down
(1961)

Tough Tenor Favorites
(1962)

Jawbreakers
(1962)

Johnny Griffin chronology

The Kerry Dancers
(1961-62)

Tough Tenor Favorites
(1962)

Grab This!
(1962)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]

Tough Tenor Favorites is an album by saxophonists Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis and Johnny Griffin recorded in 1962 and released on the Jazzland label.^[2]

Reception

The Allmusic site awarded the album 4 stars stating "Johnny Griffin and Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, the two "tough tenors" in question, always made for an exciting team... The main winner in these fiery tenor "battles" is the listener".^[1]

Track listing

"Bahia" (Ary Barroso)
"Blue Lou" (Irving Mills, Edgar Sampson)
"How Am I to Know?" (Jack King)
"Ow!" (Dizzy Gillespie)
"I Wished on the Moon" (Dorothy Parker, Ralph Rainger)
"Tin Tin Deo" (Gil Fuller, Dizzy Gillespie, Chano Pozo)
"From This Moment On" (Cole Porter)

Personnel

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Johnny Griffin - tenor saxophone
Horace Parlan - piano
Buddy Catlett - bass
Ben Riley - drums

References

1 2 Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed October 25, 2012
↑ Johnny Griffin discography accessed October 25, 2012

Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

Studio albums	The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Cookbook (1958) Jaws (1958) The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Cookbook, Vol. 2 (1958) The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Cookbook Volume 3 (1958) Smokin' (1958) Very Saxy (1959) Jaws in Orbit (1959) Bacalao (1959) Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis with Shirley Scott (1960) Misty (1960) Afro-Jaws (1960) Battle Stations (1960) Trane Whistle (1960) Tough Tenors (1960) Griff & Lock (1960) The Midnight Show (1961) Lookin' at Monk! (1961) Blues Up & Down (1961) Tough Tenor Favorites (1962) Jawbreakers (1962) Goin' to the Meeting (1962) I Only Have Eyes for You (1962) Trackin' (1962) Lock, the Fox (1966) The Fox & the Hounds (1967) Love Calls (1968) Tough Tenors Again 'n' Again (1970)

Live albums	The Battle of Birdland (1954) The First Set (1961) The Tenor Scene (1961) The Late Show (1961) The Tenor Giants Featuring Oscar Peterson (1975) Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis 4 – Montreux '77 (1977) Jazz at the Philharmonic – Yoyogi National Stadium, Tokyo 1983: Return to Happiness (1983)

Johnny Griffin

Studio albums	Introducing Johnny Griffin (1956) A Blowin' Session (1957) The Congregation (1957) Johnny Griffin (1958) Johnny Griffin Sextet (1958) Way Out! (1958) The Little Giant (1959) The Big Soul-Band (1960) Battle Stations (1960) Johnny Griffin's Studio Jazz Party (1960) Tough Tenors (1960) Griff & Lock (1960) Lookin' at Monk! (1961) Change of Pace (1961) Blues Up & Down (1961) White Gardenia (1961) The Kerry Dancers (1961) Tough Tenor Favorites (1962) Grab This! (1962) Soul Groove (1963) Do Nothing 'til You Hear from Me (1963) Night Lady (1964) Tough Tenors Again 'n' Again (1970) Birds and Ballads (1978)

Live albums	The First Set (1961) The Tenor Scene (1961) The Late Show (1961) The Midnight Show (1961) Blues for Harvey (1973)

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