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Richard Davis (2)
Richard Davis (2) is credited on 4,657 releases across 704 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1955–2026 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
4,657
Pressings credited
704
Albums
8
Decades active
801
In collections
Biography
Richard Davis (April 15, 1930 – September 6, 2023) was an American jazz bassist. Among his best-known contributions to the albums of others are Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch!, Andrew Hill's Point of Departure, and Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, of which critic Greil Marcus wrote (in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll), "Richard Davis provided the greatest bass ever heard on a rock album."
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Credited work
4,657 releases · 704 albums · active 1955–2026
- Performance · 5,688
- Other credits · 52
- Production · 5
Studios: Van Gelder Studio, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey · 914 Sound Studios · A&R Studios · Five Spot Café
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Born To Run
1975
Astral Weeks
1968
Greetings From Asbury Park, N.J.
1973
There Goes Rhymin' Simon
1973
Out To Lunch!
1964
Greatest Hits, Etc.
1977
Karma
1969
Jaco Pastorius
1976
Hotcakes
1974
California Dreaming
1967
Streetlights
1974
Extension Of A Man
1973
Point Of Departure
1965
Between The Lines
1975
Negotiations And Love Songs (1971-1986)
1988
Previously Unreleased Recordings
1974
Black Fire
1964
Album III
1972
The Hunter
1982
Life & Times
1976
Coffy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)
1973
Road Song
1968
Let My Children Hear Music
1972
Jimmy & Wes (The Dynamic Duo)
1967
Frequent collaborators
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