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. ~ Bandcamp.com.
Reel To Reel, RTR-CD-003, 2019
Recorded 30th May (#1-7)
& 6th June (#8-15), 1962 Live at The Penthouse, Seattle, WA
Broadcast Live on KING-FM,
Seattle, Washington, USA
Musicians:
Johnny Griffin - Tenor
Saxophone
Eddie "Lockjaw"
Davis - Tenor Saxophone
Horace Parlan - Piano
Buddy Catlett - Bass
Art Taylor - Drums
Tracks:
01. Intermission Riff {Ray
Wetzel} / Intro By Jim Wilkie (0:53)
02. Blues Up And Down {Gene
Ammons, Sonny Stitt} (6:48)
03. Ow! {Dizzy Gillespie}
(8:20)
04. Spoken Introduction
(0:09)
05. Bahia {Ary Barroso}
(8:44)
06. Spoken Introduction
(0:05)
07. Blue Lou {Edgar Sampson,
Irving Mills} (4:11)
08. Second Balcony Jump
{Billy Eckstine, Gerald Valentine} (7:13)
09. Spoken Outro (0:08)
10. How Am I To Know? {Jack
King} (10:14)
11. Spoken Introduction
(0:09)
12. Sophisticated Lady {Duke
Ellington} (4:03)
13. Spoken Introduction
(0:09)
14. Tickle Toe {Lester Young}
(6:36)
15. Intermission Riff {Ray
Wetzel} / Outro By Jim Wilkie (0:56)
Total Time: 58:45
Credits:
Producer, Executive Producer,
Photo Research, Notes - Cory Weeds
Producer, Photo Research,
Notes - Zev Feldman
Associate Producer, Notes -
Jim Wilkie, Charlie Puzzo Jr.
Original Recording Engineer -
Fred Stimson
Sound Restoration - Chris
Gestrin
Mastering [LP] - Bernie Grundman
[Hollywood, California]
Photography - Lee Tanner,
Esmond Edwards, Burt Goldblatt
Photography [Cover] - Don
Schlitten
Art Direction and Design -
John Sellards
Album Package Design - Dan
Forte
Liner Notes - Ted Panken, Michael
Weiss
