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Danny Davis

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Danny Davis was a band leader, vocalist and producer and founder/leader of the Nashville Brass. Born into a large Irish-Catholic family. His father died when Davis was five years old. His mother supported the family by giving music lessons (piano and voice) in the family home. Davis began playing trumpet at a very early age under the guidance of a man named Joseph Donovan. By age 14 he was trumpet soloist with the Massachusetts All-State Symphony Orchestra and was granted admittance to the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music. He decided to leave the conservatory after only six weeks when he was offered a job as a trumpeter with the band of legendary drummer, Gene Krupa (ca
Sun Ra: Nuits De La Fondation Maeght (Sun Ra)

by John Sharpe
Discoveries of lost tapes are often trumpeted as legendary or revelatory, but in the case of the greatly expanded Nuits De La Fondation Maeght, the hype feels entirely warranted. The release offers a comprehensive view of a pivotal moment in Sun Ra's career. In 1970, Sun Ra was invited to play at the ...
Lights on a Satellite: Live At The left Bank

By Sun Ra
Label: Resonance Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Band Intro/Thunder of Dreams; Tapestry From an Asteroid; Somewhere Over the Rainbow;
A Pleasant Place in Space; Space Travelin' Blues; Yeah Man; Big John's Special; Lights on a
Satellite; Lady Bird/Half Nelson; Cocktails for Two; Watusi; They Plan to Leave; Images in a
Mirror; We Travel the Spaceways; Left Bank Blues; 'Round Midnight.
At the Showcase (Live In Chicago, 1976-1977)

By Sun Ra
Label: Jazz Detective
Released: 2024
Track listing:
CD 1:
New Beginning; View From Another Dimension; Synthesis Approach; Ankhnaton; Rose Room; Moonship Journey; Velvet.
CD2:
Calling Planet Earth & The Shadow World; Theme of the Stargazers; Space is the Place; Ebah Speaks in Cosmic Tongue; Greetings from the 21st Century.
Sun Ra: At The Showcase (Live In Chicago, 1976-1977)

by Mike Jurkovic
It is an unchallenged law of nature that wherever or whoever anyone happens to be when they encounter Sun Ra, they are certain to be somewhere and someone else after the meeting. That holds especially true of Sun Ra at the Showcase: Live in Chicago. Captured during two barn-burning performances at the Windy City's ...
Space Is The Place (Music From The Original Soundtrack)

By Sun Ra
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2023
Track listing: It's After The End Of The World; Under Different Stars; Discipline 33; Watusa; Calling
Planet Earth; I Am The Alter-Destiny; Satellites Are Spinning; Cosmic Forces; Outer
Spaceways Incorporated; We Travel The Spaceways; The Overseer; Blackman / Love In
Outer Space; Mysterious Crystal; I Am The Brother Of The Wind; We'll Wait For You;
Space Is The Place; The Mathematics Of The Altered Destiny; Listen Intently To The
Things I Do Not Say; Creation Is Fabrication; My World Is The Space Way; The Idea Of
The Greater Age.
Heliocentric Worlds 1 & 2 Revisited

By Sun Ra
Label: Ezz-thetics
Released: 2021
Track listing: Heliocentric; Other Nothingness; Other Worlds; The Cosmos; Heavenly Things; Nebulae;
Dancing In The Sun; The Sun Myth; House Of Beauty; Cosmic Chaos.
Montreux Through The Decades: Jazz Recordings, Part One

by Ian Patterson
To celebrate Montreux Jazz Festival's 50th edition in 2016, and as a posthumous tribute to the festival's founder, the late Claude Nobs, All About Jazz is launching a new column entitled Montreux Through the Decades, which will periodically present reviews of officially released live recordings from MJF, from its first edition in 1967 to the present. ...
Danny Davis Country Artist Dies

Country music artist Danny Davis dies at 83 Grammy winner pioneered use of horns in genre Grammy award winner Danny Davis, who pioneered the use of horns in country music, has died aged 83, his publicist Betty Hofer said Friday. Davis died of a heart attack at Nashville's St. Thomas Hospital, she said. The ...
Danny Davis Founder of the Nashville Brass Dies

Founder of the Nashville Brass Danny Davis, 83, a bandleader and record producer who founded the Nashville Brass, died Thursday at a Nashville hospital after suffering a heart attack. A resident of Nashville, Davis began his music career as a trumpeter, playing in the brass sections of bands led by Les Brown, Gene Krupa ...