PROFILE:
Began playing trumpet in the fifth grade. Took a B.A. in Music Education at Moorehouse College, Masters degree in Jazz Studies at Georgia State, and a Degree in Music & Business at Atlanta Art Institute. Have been playing and performing on stage for 25 years. Highly trained in Jazz Proformance and Contemporary Music.
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
1980 - Performed and recorded with the Great Joe Newman and Orchestra
1985 - Performed and recorded with the Jazz Crusader's under the leadership of Joe Sample and Wilton Felder. Was with that group from 1985-92. Recorded on the album, on MCA label. Title (Life in a modem world). Tour- United States. Europe- In the J.V.C. festival of Japan.
1992 - Played the solo part and featured in the Spike Lee Movie, Malcolm X, where I played opposite to Terrance Blanchard. Lionel Hampton played Solo Book. Toured United States and Europe from 1992-94. Was featured at the Lincoln center in New York with the Lionel Hampton Big Band.
Other artists and vocalists I performed with include Eddie Harris, Freddie Cole, Milt Jackson, Nancy Wilson, Bradford Marsalis, Larry Willis, Kenny Garrett, Don Bradon, and Betty Carter.
EDDIE "Will" DAVIS
PREVIOUS WORK RELATIONSHIPS
Count Basie Orchestra_______Carnegie Hall Jazz Orchestra________Charlie Mingus Big Band________
Vanguard Big Band________Next Legacy Orchestra________Roy Hargrove Big Band________
Harry "Sweets' Edison________Grover Mitchell________Earl May________
Donald Harrison________Billy Childs________Rosemary Clooney________
Cecil Bridgewater________Peter Bernstein________James Spaulding________
Steve Davis________Muhal Richard Abrams________Julius Hemphill Big Band________
Duke Ellington Orchestra________Gary Sumulian________Antonio Hart________
Jerome Richardson________Eric Wyatt________Lonnie Plaxico________
Cecil Brooks, III________Ralph Peterson________Vanessa Rubin________
Orrin Evans________Winard Harper________Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson________
Cecil Payne________Alain Jean Mane________Ernie Ranglin________
Ed Cherry________Marcus Belgrave________Benny Golson________
BMI Jazz Comp. Wkshp. Orch.________Harry Connick, Jr.________Jimmy Greene________
Tony Bennett________James Moody________Frank Sinatra________
Dizzy Gillespie________George Benson________Nancy Wilson________
New York Voices________Lena Home________Rufus Reid________
Robert Trowers________Steve Wilson________Frank Lacy________
Barry Harris________Christian McBride________Craig Bailey________
Doug Lawrence________Oliver Lake________Howard Johnson________
Dan Faulk________Teodross Avery________James Hurt________
Bobby Watson________Carlos Garnett________Carl Alien________
Eddie "EJ" Alien________Nasheet Waits________Chris Murrell________
Bernard Wright________Phillip Harper________Virgil Jones________
Marcus Belgrave________Michel Sardaby________Bill Mobley________
Anthony Wonsey________Slide Hampton________Wes Anderson________
Bobby Short________Paul Jeffries________Vincent Herring________
Quincy Jones________Frank Foster________Joe Williams________
Jon Hendricks________Ray Charles________Manhattan Transfer________
George Duke________Clark Terry________Rodney Kendrick________
Kenny Washington________Dianne Schuur________Jon Faddis________
Eric Alexander________Lewis Nash________Don Braden________
Robin Eubanks________Duane Eubanks________Dizzy Reese________
Sam Newsome________Joe Bowie________Bill Saxton________
Anthony Wonsey________Mark Turner________John Betsch________
Gene Jackson________Tommy Campbell________Weldon Irvine________
Randy Brecker________Terrell Stafford________Leon Thomas________
Slide Hampton________Ron Blake________Larry Willis________
Essiet Essiet________David Baker________Rodney Whitaker________
Jim McNeely________Leroy Jones________*Manny Albam________