Davis, Eddie, 1922-1986

LC control no.	n 81035954
Descriptive conventions	rda
Personal name heading	Davis, Eddie, 1922-1986 *Browse this term in* LC Authorities or the LC Catalog
Variant(s)	Davis, Lockjaw, 1922-1986 Davis, Eddie Lockjaw, 1922-1986 Davis, Edward, 1922-1986 Lockjaw, 1922-1986
Associated country	United States
Birth date	1922-03-02
Death date	1986-11-03
Place of birth	New York (N.Y.)
Place of death	Culver City (Calif.)
Field of activity	jazz
Affiliation	Shaw Artists Corporation
Profession or occupation	Jazz musicians Saxophonists Entertainers Concert agents
Found in	Lock, the Fox. [Phonodisc] 1966. His Save your love for me [SR] p1988: labels (Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis) container (d. at age 65) New Grove dict. of jazz (Davis, Eddie "Lockjaw" (Davis, Eddie (Edward); Lockjaw); b. Mar. 2, 1922, New York, d. Nov. 3, 1986, Culver City, CA; tenor saxophonist) African American National Biography, accessed December 12 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database: (Davis, Eddie Lockjaw; born 02 March 1922 in New York, New York, United States; jazz musician, saxophonist; decided drummers and saxophonists had the greatest fame and finest women, the drums being cumbersome, he bought a saxophone; self-taught, he was playing at Monroe's Uptown House eight months later; at his first session as a leader in May 1946, the Savoy record producer Bod Shad named one of the performances Lockjaw, hence his nickname and the subsequent affectionate abbreviations Lock and Jaws; from this period (4 February 1958 to 1 February 1959) came his greatest series of albums, collectively called The Eddie Lockjaw Davis Cookbook; he saw too many musicians growing old and still having to endure long hours and difficult travel to survive; seeking an alternative, he withdrew from performance in June 1963 to act as a booking agent with Shaw Artists Corporation; died 03 November 1986 in Culver City, California, United States)