Bill Davison

" Wild" Bill Davison ( born January 5, 1906 in Defiance, Ohio, † November 14, 1989 in Santa Barbara, California ) was an American jazz cornetist of the Dixieland style, known primarily for his recordings with Eddie Condon is.

Life

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

In 1957, he made ​​guest appearances in Berlin and took the " Spree City Stompers ", the first Berlin Dixieland LP entitled " Jazz from the egg shell " on ( Instrumentation: Wild Bill Davison ( c ), Werner Geisler (tp ), Hawe Schneider ( tb ), Poldi Small ( cl ), Eckhard Schmidt (p ), Harald Müller ( b ), Thomas Keck (dr ) )

In Dixieland Revival Bill Davison undertook in the 1960s, several European tours. With Claude Hopkins in 1968 he formed the Jazz Giants and then took over a nightclub in San Francisco. Also in the 1970s, he was heard regularly at festivals like Detroit and Nice and played in the The World's Greatest Jazz Band. In 1974, Bill Davison lived in Copenhagen, but returned in 1979 returned to the U.S. and remained musically active until his death in 1989.

It's nicknamed Wild Bill, he had not only because of his playing style - he was not Kostverächter and been married five times. Davison also wrote an autobiography.