This exuberant session took place more than 40 years ago, yet my recollections of the same band playing a steamy Shaw Theatre on a wet London night – “Just get outa your coats and let us ease away your everyday worries and cares,” said Griffin – are like it was yesterday. At that time two-tenor groups were hardly a novelty – Britain had one of the best in the Jazz Couriers, to name just one prime example, but the partnership of Lockjaw Davis and Johnny Griffin was something special. Whatever the feelgood factor is, these two had it and then some, as bridge-players and detective novelists would say. To start with, their styles were perfectly complementary yet completely different. Griffin was fast and mercurial, a hard-bopper who had worked with both Monk and Blakey and would gobble up chord changes with relish. Davis was more of a preacher, a less complex and more considered soloist who told a story. Imagine Lucky Thompson with a heavier, broader tone. Just to hear them negotiate lines like ‘Robbin's Nest’ and ‘In Walked Bud’ was a pleasure. Here we find them in prime form and really stretching out over a swinging rhythm section containing the soulful piano of Junior Mance. Furthermore you get both of the two complete sets they played that night. Enjoy.