John RT Davies

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John Ross Twiston "RT" Davies (born March 20, 1927 in Wivelsfield , Sussex ; † May 24, 2004 ) was a British jazz musician ( alto saxophone , trumpet , trombone , organ , banjo , guitar ), sound engineer and music producer .

Life

John RT Davies initially played guitar during his military service with the Royal Signals in Austria. On his return to England he played banjo in Mick Mulligan's band . He switched to the trombone when he was a founding member of the Crane River Jazz Band , which played in the tradition of Bunk Johnson and George Lewis , with his brother Julian , the tuba player and later double bass player .

He became known as a member of the formation Temperance Seven , who had chart successes with You're Driving Me Crazy (1961), Pasadena and Hard-Hearted Hannah . He worked in the traditional jazz scene a. a. with Cy Laurie , Acker Bilk , Steve Lane , Sandy Brown , Ken Colyer , Bob Wallis and Henrik Johansen . With Dick Sudhalter he founded the Anglo-American Alliance , which u. a. performed with Bobby Hackett . With Sudhalter he took part in a concert in memory of Bix Beiderbecke in the Royal Festival Hall , where he played the part of saxophonist Frankie Trumbauer .

At the end of the 1940s, Davies founded the record label Ristick , on which largely unknown musicians of early jazz appeared, but also previously unpublished or test recordings by musicians such as Jelly Roll Morton , Sidney Bechet , Wingy Manone and Joe Venuti . The label existed from 1949 to 1972. Davies developed into a specialist in the remastering of shellac records and sound restoration of historical recordings from the period 1917 to 1940; Among other things, he is responsible for the sound of the Hot Five collection Hot Fives & Sevens . His record collection is in the Borthwick Archives at York University .

His widow and colleague Sue Davies died in April 2020.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Obituary in The Daily Telegraph
  2. ↑ Notes at Discogs
  3. ↑ Bluesworld ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bluesworld.com
  4. ^ Obituary in The Independent
  5. ↑ Davies archive at york.ac.uk
  6. ^ Sebastian Scotney: RIP Sue Davies OBE (1933-2020). London Jazz News, April 27, 2020, accessed April 28, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Davies, John RT
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davies, John Ross Twiston (full name); Davies, RT (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British jazz musician (alto saxophone, trumpet, trombone, organ, banjo, guitar), sound engineer and music producer
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Wivelsfield , Sussex
DATE OF DEATH May 24, 2004