Prolific bassist, adept at many genres, played on albums by jazz greats like Pharoah Sanders and Eric Dolphy to rock legends Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon
; Davis taught at the University of Wisconsin for over 40 years, but spent the last two years in hospice care. “We appreciate all the love and support the community has shown him over the years,” Persia Davis added.
The Chicago-born Davis came from a musical family and studied double bass in high school under renowned music teacher Walter Dyett, who taught Davis to weave his skillset between classical works and the emerging, improvisational movement that was jazz in the late 1940s. Davis attended Chicago’s VanderCook College before embarking to New York City in his early twenties in 1954.
Davis then found steady work with piano great Ahmad Jamal and in the rhythm section for jazz singer Sarah Vaughan and would spend the remainder of the 1950s under her tutelage. in 2014. “She was so musically skilled. And playing with her brought me to play with her accompanist Jimmy Jones, whose knowledge of chords was phenomenal. Sarah was so musical she could improvise beautifully along with the changes he would play.
It wasn’t just vocalists who sought out Davis’ services: Beginning in 1959 — when he and his Vaughan rhythm mate Haynes played alongside Kenny Burrell for— Davis would become one of the most in-demand bassists, especially among the musicians exploring the emerging free jazz movement. The first half of the decade alone found Davis providing the bottom end on landmark Blue Note albums by Andrew Hill (
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