Jackie Davis

Jackie Davis (* 13 December 1920 in Jacksonville (Florida) , † 2. November 1999 ) was an American soul-jazz - organist .

Jackie Davis is one of the early jazz organists such as Wild Bill Davis , Milt Buckner and Bill Doggett . As a child he performed as a pianist around his hometown and then belonged to a band and a 19-piece orchestra. After completing his studies, he experimented with a pipe organ and finally switched to the new Hammond organ . Influenced by the organ playing Wild Bill Davis' and Bill Doggetts he played in the band of Louis Jordan and accompanied Dinah Washington in 1953/54 on recordings for Mercury ( "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" ). From the mid-1950s Davis began to lead his own recording sessions and over the next 16 years recorded albums for various labels such as Kapp or Capitol with titles such as Tiger on the Hammond , Big Beat Hammond or Hi-Fi Hammond , mostly in the popular soul Jazz idiom with cover versions of pop standards. An exception was the brass album Meets the Trombones with Frank Rosolino , Irving Ashby and other musicians. In 1978 he accompanied the singer Ella Fitzgerald with Louis Bellson on her Pablo album Lady Time ; In 1980 he made a comeback with an album for EMI; he also appeared in the comedy Caddyshack . Jackie Davis worked mostly in his hometown of Jacksonville, where he died in November 1999 after a stroke.

Discographic notes

• Jumpin 'Jackie (Capitol, 1957)
• Chasing Shadows (Capitol)
• Jackie Davis Meets the Trombones (Capitol, 1959)
• Easy Does It ( Warner Brothers , 1969)
• Jackie Davis (EMI, 1980)

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• Bielefeld catalog 1988 & 2002
• Richard Cook , Brian Morton : The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings . 8th edition. Penguin, London 2006, ISBN 0-14-102327-9 .
• Leonard Feather , Ira Gitler : The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford University Press, New York 1999, ISBN 0-19-532000-X .

Web links

• Allmusic