"Actor: Eddie Davis"

• The Eddie Lockjaw Davies Quartet - Vol. 1 And 2 | DVD | (26/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  EDDIE 'LOCKJAW' DAVIS has one of those immediately recognizable sounds in jazz. It is virile swinging sometimes a little aggressive and rough sometimes very romantic but always extremely emotional.It is quite clear when you hear him that Coleman Hawkins Ben Webster and Herschell Evans were his favourite tenor players. Just like those three tenors 'Lockjaw' played quite a bit with big bands. Self-taught he began playing his first gigs - just eight months after buying his first horn - at Clark's Monroe's Uptown House in Harlem. In the early to mid 1940's he played in the big bands of Cootie Williams Luck Millinder Andy Kirk and Louis Armstrong. In 1945-52 he had his own combo which played mainly at Minton's in New York.Then the first of many associations with Count Basie began. After his first tenure with the Basie he lead his own group which featured Shirly Horn on organ.'Lockjaw' recorded a great deal as a leader with the Basie and with artists as varied as Gene Krupa Ella Fitzgerald Arnett Cobb Bennie Green Zoot Sims and Fats Navarro. He was also a fixture at many European festivals throughout the 1970's and 1980's. But oddly enough he made very few films or video appearances which makes this very good club date especially interesting. In the relaxed setting of Jazzhus Slukefter Davis plays full bodied solos that are both intense and swinging but at times very tender and romantic. Seeing Davis play on this club date reveals that he was a consistent inspired and extraordinary performer.Recorded in 1985 at Jazzhus Slukefter Copenhagen Demark1. Take The A Train / 2. Just Friends / 3. Out Of Nowhere / 4. The Shadow Of You Smile / 5. If I Had You / 6 Light And Lovely / 7. S'Wonderful / 8. Shiny Stockings / 9. Meditation / 10. I Can't Get Started / 11. Don't Get Around Much Anymore

• The Nutty Professor/Look Who's Talking/Bicentennial Man | DVD | (12/11/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nutty Professor (1996): Eddie Murphy stars as Dr Sherman Klump a kind calorically challenged genetics professor who longs to shed his 400-pound frame in order to win the heart of beautiful Jada Pinkett. So with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum Sherman becomes Buddy Love a fast-talking pumped-up plumped-down Don Juan. Can Sherman stop his buff alter ego before it's too late or will Buddy have the last laugh? Look Who's Talking (1989): Starring Kirstie Alley John Travolta and the wise-cracking voice of Bruce Willis Look Who's Talking is the box-office smash which takes an hilarious off-beat look at motherhood and romance from baby Mikey's point of view. Led on and let down by boyfriend Albert (George Segal) 32 year old Mollie (Kirstie Alley) is looking for a proper father for her son. Little Mikey favours cab driver-turned-baby-sitter James (John Travolta). It's a case of baby knows best but by the time he learns to talk it could be too late! Bicentinnial Man (1999): From director Chris Columbus comes this original funny and heart-warming film. When Richard Martin (Sam Neill) introduced a robot named Andrew (Robin Williams) to the family nobody expects anything more than an ordinary household appliance. But this is no ordinary robot! Andrew is a unique machine with real emotions a sense of humour and a burning curiosity to discover what it means to be human. Over the course of his service with the Martins spanning two hundred years and several generations Andrew discovers much about the intricacies of life and love and finds there are many things he can teach as well as learn. Will Andrew ever achieve his goal to become human and possess the freedom to pursue a life of his own? And will he be prepared to pay the cost? Karate Kid (1984): Daniel (Ralph Macchio) arrives in Los Angeles from the East Coast and faces the difficult task of making new friends. However he becomes the object of bullying by the Cobras a menacing gang of karate students when he strikes up a relationship with Ali (Elisabeth Shue) the Cobra leader's ex-girlfriend. Eager to fight back and impress his new girlfriend but afraid to confront the dangerous gang Daniel asks his handyman Miyagi (Noriyuki Pat Morita) whom he learns is a master of the martial arts to teach him karate. Miyagi teaches Daniel that karate is a mastery over the self - mind and body - and that fighting is always the last answer to a problem. Under Miyagi's guidance Daniel develops not only physical skills but also the faith and self-confidence to compete despite tremendous odds as he encounters the fight of his life in the exciting finale to this entertaining film.