José Davila

José Davila is a Puerto Rican jazz musician ( trombone , tuba ).

Live and act

Davila grew up on the American east coast and studied music at the University of Connecticut and the Mannes College of Music . He then worked in the New York music scene in the fields of traditional and modern jazz, salsa and classical music. He is a member of Henry Threadgill's formation Zooid ; he also worked with Liberty Ellman and Steve Lehman . He also appeared on the Grammy nominated salsa recordings by the Spanish Harlem Orchestra ( Un Gran Dia en el Barrio ) and the Soneros del Barrio ( Remembranzas and Siguendo la Tradicion ). In 1985 he performed with the band Orange Then Blue at the Berlin Jazz Festival .

During his career, Davila also played in the bands of Ray Charles , Andrew Hill , Tito Puente , Celia Cruz , Marc Anthony , Eddie Palmieri , Ray Anderson , Butch Morris , Ted Nash , as well as the Lincoln Center Afro Latin Jazz Orchestra , the American Symphony and the New York City Opera Orchestra.

In the field of jazz he was involved in 12 recording sessions between 1995 and 2010, apart from the aforementioned with Norah Jones ( Not too Late , 2006), Erika Stucky and Anthony Braxton ( Composition No. 19 For 100 Tubas) .

Discographic notes

• Erika Stucky: Bubbles-Bones (Traumton, 2001)
• Henry Threadgill's Zooid: Up Popped the Two Lips ( Pi Recordings , 2001)
• Andrew Hill: A Beautiful Day ( Palmetto Records , 2002)
• Liberty Ellman: Ophiuchus Butterfly (Pi, 2006)
• Henry Threadgill's Zooid: This Brings Us To: Volume 1 (Pi, 2009)
• Steve Lehman Octet: Travail, Transformation and Flow (Pi, 2009)
• Henry Threadgill's Zooid: Tomorrow Sunny / The Revelry, Spp (Pi, 2012)
• Liberty Ellman: Last Desert (Pi, 2020)

Web links

• Jose Davila at Allmusic (English)
• José Davila at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed October 18, 2013)
2. ↑ Portrait at Pi Recordings
3. ↑ Tom Lord Jazz Discography