Oscar Peterson Meets Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis

From Oscar Peterson and Friends, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, tenor; Oscar Peterson, piano; Ray Brown, bass and Bobby Durham on drums.
"Whatever it was and wherever it began, Lockjaw seemed at ease in the mystery of his style." Stanley Crouch was toasting tenor saxophonist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis when he wrote that line, for the epilogue of his book Considering Genius: Writings on Jazz. "Hair glistening and laid just so," Crouch went on, "he always ended up with his Scotch and milk at the bar, surveying the room, gesturing to the bartender in a way that got his ring twinkling. There, with one foot up, Lockjaw Davis had the amused look of a man who was sure that he was in charge and equally sure that everyone else knew it."