The Chef
Context
Composition by Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis from The Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis Cookbook, recorded on June 20, 1958 at Rudy Van Gelder's in Hackensack and released by Prestige. It is one of the albums in the tenor-Hammond organ format that Davis developed from 1955 to 1960 with Shirley Scott, here with Jerome Richardson on flute.
In the genealogy of jazz
This track belongs to Soul jazz, boogaloo. Among the origins and influences of Soul jazz, boogaloo: Hard bop, Jump blues, R&B, Gospel.