LPCDreissues: Looking forward to the past

In ordinary hands, the organ-cum-tenor-sax combo is capable of playing some “make-you-feel-good” music that is eminently forgettable once it has ended. In other words, it’s great to groove on in a club or at a party but. . . . However, when the tenor saxist is Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis and the organist Shirley Scott (with George Duvivier relieving her of bass-line duties), playing rich evergreen ballads that range from “Body and Soul” to “Too Close for Comfort,” repeated listenings are in order. These are standards treated with soulful elan, and “Jaws” is one of the distinctive stylists of the tenor pipe.Too Close for Comfort, Body and Soul, But Not for Me, Tangerine, I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart, I'll Never Be the Same, You Stepped Out of a Dream, Old Devil Moonwith George Duvivier, Arthur Edgehill