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Richard Davis

リチャード・デイヴィス (ベーシスト)　/　りちゃーど・でいゔぃす (べーしすと)

American pedagogue

April 15, 1930 – September 6, 2023　・　Chicago, Illinois, United States

Illinois
pedagogue
jazz musician
university teacher

My Take

Richard Davis is my favorite kind of musician: the one whose name you learn only after you have already loved his work. Long before I knew who played that bass on Astral Weeks, it had quietly reorganized how I heard the whole record. That he could anchor Eric Dolphy and Andrew Hill on the jazz frontier and then turn around and define a rock landmark says everything about his range and his ego-free musicianship. I also admire the second act: decades of teaching, passing the craft forward. He played until 2023, and the line he held still hums.

Overview

Richard Davis (April 15, 1930 – September 6, 2023) was an American jazz bassist. Among his best-known contributions to the albums of others are Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch!, Andrew Hill's Point of Departure, and Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, of which critic Greil Marcus wrote (in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll), "Richard Davis provided the greatest bass ever heard on a rock album."

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1. Profile

Name (English): Richard Davis
Name (Japanese): リチャード・デイヴィス (ベーシスト)
Reading: りちゃーど・でいゔぃす (べーしすと)
Born: April 15, 1930 – September 6, 2023
Zodiac / Chinese zodiac: Aries / Horse
Origin: Chicago, Illinois, United States
Blood type: Private
Height: Private
Agency: Private
Occupation: pedagogue / jazz musician / university teacher / recording artist / double-bassist

2. Background

Elementary school: Private
Junior high: Private
High school: Private
University: Private

Awards & achievements

NEA Jazz Masters

3. Relationships

Spouse: Private
Children: Private
Parents: Private
Siblings: Private

4. Personality

Motto

Private

6. Links

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