About
'Wild' Bill Davison (January 5, 1906, Defiance, Ohio – November 14, 1989, Santa Barbara, California) was a fiery jazz cornet player who emerged in the 1920s, but did not achieve recognition until the 1940s. He is best remembered for his association with the bandleader Eddie Condon, with whom he worked and recorded from the mid-1940s through to the 1960s. Born in Defiance, Ohio in 1906, Wild Bill had a powerful, if somewhat limited, style on the cornet. The poet Philip Larkin, a fan, described his playing thus:
Top Tracks
Muskrat Ramble
Dixieland / New Orleans JazzCrazy Rhythm
Jam Session / Eddie's BluesJazz Me Blues
The Commodore Master TakesStruttin' with Some Barbecue
Wild Bill Davison with Freddy Randall and His BandI Want to Be Happy
Solo FlightWho's Sorry Now
All That Meat And No PotatoesRoyal Garden Blues
Parenti - Davison All Stars, Vol. 2Lazy Love
Jam Session / Eddie's BluesStars Fell on Alabama
Talk of the Town
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Discography
But Beautiful
Album2023Welcome Tomorrow - Goodbye Yesterday
Album2023Live! 1955 Miami Beach
Album2020Together Again
Album2020Sweet and Lovely
Album2012Quadromania: Bill Davison
Album2005Fidgety Feet
Album2001Muskrat Ramble
Album2000"Pretty Wild" and "With Strings Attached"
Album2000Wild Bill Davison With Fessor's Big City Band
Album1999
