Hey frogman great "Lockjaw" selections. I have all 3 volumes of the "Cook Book" sessions plus "Smokin' (which is really volume 4) in my CD collection. All were recorded in 1958 with Shirley Scott on Organ, Jerome Richardson on flute, baritone, and tenor. I think there may have been different drummers and bassists on the session dates but "Lockjaw", Scott and Richardson are definitely on all 4 recording dates.
I like the "edginess" of Eddie's tenor playing and you can tell, like he says to Oscar Peterson, that Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins were his biggest influences (same slightly edgy sound if that's the way to describe it)
It was interesting how Eddie said the solo's in Ellington's Big Band were unique to whoever sat in the soloist chair that night while in the Count Basie Big Band all the solo's were pre - arranged/charted.
I like the "edginess" of Eddie's tenor playing and you can tell, like he says to Oscar Peterson, that Ben Webster and Coleman Hawkins were his biggest influences (same slightly edgy sound if that's the way to describe it)
It was interesting how Eddie said the solo's in Ellington's Big Band were unique to whoever sat in the soloist chair that night while in the Count Basie Big Band all the solo's were pre - arranged/charted.