Sax No End is an album by the Kenny Clarke/Francy Boland Big Band with guest soloist Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis featuring performances recorded in Germany in 1967 and released on the SABA label.Payne, D., The Clarke-Boland Big Band discography accessed October 14, 2015SABA/MPS Records listing, accessed October 14, 2015Bigband Paradise album entry, accessed September 20, 2016 The album was also released in the US on Prestige Records as Fire, Heat, Soul & Guts!.Prestige Records Catalog: 7600 series, accessed October 14, 2015
Reception
The AllMusic review called it "a powerfully swinging session, a mixture of the wallop of Count Basie and the modernism of Gil Evans and Bob Brookmeyer".
Track listing All compositions by Francy Boland, except where indicated. "New Box" - 6:08 "Sax No End" - 5:05 "Griff's Groove" - 5:05 "Lockjaw Blues" - 3:02 "The Turk" - 2:20 "Milkshake" (Kenny Clarke) - 5:02 "Peter's Waltz" (Sahib Shihab) - 5:01 "Griff'n Jaw" - 3:33
Personnel Kenny Clarke - drums Francy Boland - piano, arranger Benny Bailey, Jimmy Deuchar, Idrees Sulieman - trumpet Shake Keane - trumpet, flugelhorn Nat Peck, Åke Persson, Eric van Lier - trombone Derek Humble - alto saxophone Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Carl Drevo, Johnny Griffin, Ronnie Scott - tenor saxophone Sahib Shihab - baritone saxophone Jimmy Woode - bass Fats Sadi - bongos
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