Wild Bill Davison

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Wild Bill Davison, Eddie Condon's, NYC, circa June 1946. Photograph by William P. Gottlieb .

"Wild" Bill Davison (* 5. January 1906 in Defiance , Ohio ; † 14. November 1989 in Santa Barbara , California ) was an American jazz - cornet of Dixieland -Stils which especially for his recordings with Eddie Condon known is.

Life

In the 1920s Bill Davison played in Chicago with the Ohio Lucky Seven , Seattle Harmony Kings and in theater orchestras before he founded his own band in 1931 with the clarinetist Frank Teschemacher (1906-1932). Teschemacher died in a car accident in 1932 while Davison was behind the wheel; The cause was a strange, unlit taxi. He then went to Milwaukee , where he played with his own band. In 1940 he moved to New York as a background musician on the Catherine Dunham Show . From 1943 to 1945 Davison was a soldier and then went to Eddie Condon , where he played regularly in his club until 1957. He has made numerous recordings with George Brunies , Eddie Condon, Sidney Bechet , Bud Freeman , George Wettling .

In 1957 he made a guest appearance in Berlin and recorded the first Berlin Dixieland LP with the "Spree City Stompers" entitled "Jazz from the Egg Shell" (cast: Wild Bill Davison (c), Werner Geisler (tp), Hawe Schneider (tb ), Poldi Klein (cl), Eckhard Schmidt (p), Harald Müller (b), Thomas Keck (dr))

In the Dixieland Revival , Bill Davison undertook various European tours in the 1960s. With Claude Hopkins he formed the Jazz Giants in 1968 and then took over a nightclub in San Francisco . In the 1970s he was regularly heard at festivals such as Detroit and Nice and played in The World's Greatest Jazz Band . From 1974 Bill Davison lived in Copenhagen , where he was a member of Papa Bue's Viking Jazzband from 1975 to 1977 , but returned to the USA in 1979 and remained musically active until his death in 1989.

He didn't get his nickname Wild Bill just because of the way he played - he wasn't a food lover and was married five times. Davison also wrote an autobiography.

literature

  • Hal Willard The wildest one , Avondale Press, Monkton 1996
  • Doug Armstrong Wild Bill Davison. A Celebration , Leith Music, Ottawa 1991

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The Soundcloud can be heard: Website for the egg shell
personal data
SURNAME Davison, Wild Bill
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Davison, Bill
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz cornetist
DATE OF BIRTH January 5, 1906
PLACE OF BIRTH Defiance , Ohio
DATE OF DEATH November 14, 1989
Place of death Santa Barbara , California