Steve Davis (bassist)

Steve Davis (1929-1987) (also known by his Muslim name Luquman Abdul Syeed) was a jazz bassist, very active in the sixties.

In 1960, he was briefly part of the John Coltrane quartet, before being replaced temporarily by Reggie Workman and permanently by Jimmy Garrison[1][2] Davis recorded My Favorite Things with the quartet. He also recorded as a sideman with Chuck and Gap Mangione on Hey Baby!, and with quartet fellow (and brother in law) McCoy Tyner on the album Nights of Ballads & Blues.

Discography

With John Coltrane

With Kenny Dorham

  • The Flamboyan, Queens, NY, 1963 (Uptown, 2009)

With Eddie Jefferson

With Freddie McCoy

With James Moody

With The Jazz Brothers Featuring Gap Mangione and Chuck Mangione

With McCoy Tyner

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References

  • Leonard Feather & Ira Gitler, The Biographical Encyclopedia of Jazz. Oxford/New York 1999; ISBN 978-0-19-532000-8

Notes

  1. John Coltrane - Live at the Jazz Gallery 1960 CD Archived 2011-05-20 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Lewis Porter (2000). John Coltrane: his life and music. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 978-0-472-08643-6.


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