Remembering Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis on his birthday. Born in New York. Davis played with Cootie Williams, Lucky Millinder, #AndyKirk, Louis Armstrong, and William "Count" Basie, as well as leading his own bands and making many recordings as a leader. He played in the swing, bop, hard bop, Latin jazz, and soul jazz genres. Some of his recordings from the 1940s also could be classified as rhythm and blues. In the 1950s, he was playing with Sonny Stitt, while from 1960 to 1962, he and fellow tenor sa