JACKIE DAVIS

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Jackie Davis was the first musician to popularize jazz on the Hammond organ, years before Jimmy Smith's name became synonymous with organ jazz. Davis was Capitol's leading performer on the organ at a time when relatively few mainstream labels were willing to put a black musician on the cover of an album. Davis once said that music came to him genetically. His mother played the washtub, a cheap substitute for the bass, and he first learned to play by spending hours poking at his grandmother's piano. By the age of eight, he was playing with a local dance band. The rest of the band had ten years or more on him, and he later remarked that he had "eighteen godfathers who kept their pedal extremities in sensitive areas of my anatomy." He later described the experience as his best education in music and in life. By the age of eleven, read more...
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JACKIE DAVIS Organistics album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Organistics
Exotica 1956
JACKIE DAVIS Hi-Fi Hammond album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Hi-Fi Hammond
Exotica 1956
JACKIE DAVIS Chasing Shadows album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Chasing Shadows
Exotica 1957
JACKIE DAVIS Jumpin' Jackie album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jumpin' Jackie
Exotica 1958
JACKIE DAVIS Hammond Gone Cha-Cha album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Hammond Gone Cha-Cha
Exotica 1959
JACKIE DAVIS Jackie Davis Meets The Trombones album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jackie Davis Meets The Trombones
Exotica 1959
JACKIE DAVIS Tiger On The Hammond album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Tiger On The Hammond
Exotica 1960
JACKIE DAVIS Easy Does It album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Easy Does It
Exotica 1963
JACKIE DAVIS Jackie Davis album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jackie Davis
Exotica 1980

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JACKIE DAVIS Jackie Davis Story of Jazz album cover 0.00 | 0 ratings
Jackie Davis Story of Jazz
Exotica 2001

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