Appearing on more than 600 albums, Mr. Davis was a first-call player for some of the most important figures in jazz history and played in the classical realm with Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein.
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He recorded with the likes of Bruce Springsteen and Paul Simon, but it was Davis’ bass playing on Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks that was described as “the greatest bass ever heard on a rock album”