This episode covers the legacy of legendary bassist Richard Davis as a sideman for Roland Kirk, Jaki Byard, Andrew Hill, Gabor Szabo, Van Morrison, Janis Ian, Eric Dolphy, George Benson, Sonny Stitt, Phoebe Snow, Paul Simon and Sarah Vaughn.
Renowned bassist Richard Davis passed away in September of 2023. This show will review only a tiny fraction of Richard Davis’ considerable legacy.
Rather than doing this chronologically, I am going to jump around and pick off related tracks, and we are starting with a track called Rip Rig and Panic by Roshand Roland Kirk- a track that a British Band who has appeared on ABOT was named after. Second in the set is a cover from the Jaki Byard record called Memories of You, written by Eubie Blake. Continuing in that strain of less than legendary jazz pianists, we have Andrew Hill, who amazed us enough to put him on the show a while back, we will be playing you a tune called Spectrum, before we return to hit you with another hour and a half of incredible music featuring the basswork of Richard Davis, here on ABOT.