Richard Davis (bassist)
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Richard Davis (1930 – 2023) was an American bassist.
Among his best-known contributions to the albums of others are Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch!, Andrew Hill's Point of Departure, and Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, of which critic Greil Marcus wrote (in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll), "Richard Davis provided the greatest bass ever heard on a rock album."
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Discography
- Heavy Sounds (Impulse!, 1967) with Elvin Jones
- Muses for Richard Davis (MPS, 1969)
- The Philosophy of the Spiritual (Cobblestone, 1971)
- Epistrophy & Now's the Time (Muse, 1972)
- Dealin' (Muse, 1973)
- As One (Muse, 1976)
- Fancy Free (Galaxy, 1977)
- Divine Gemini (SteepleChase, 1978) with Walt Dickerson
- Harvest (Muse, 1977 [1979])
- Way Out West (Muse, 1977 [1980])
- Tenderness (SteepleChase, 1977 [1985]) with Walt Dickerson
- Persia My Dear (DIW, 1987)
- Body and Soul (Enja, 1989 [1991]) with Archie Shepp
- The Bassist: Homage to Diversity (Palmetto, 2001)
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