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Wild Bill Davison

Defiance, United States • 1906-01-05 – 1989-11-14

Wild Bill Davison is credited on 606 releases across 165 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1950–2020 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.

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606

Pressings credited

165

Albums

8

Decades active

13

In collections

Biography

William Edward Davison (January 5, 1906 – November 14, 1989), nicknamed "Wild Bill", was an American jazz cornetist. He emerged in the 1920s through his work playing alongside Muggsy Spanier and Frank Teschemacher in a cover band where they played the music of Louis Armstrong, but he did not achieve wider recognition until the 1940s. He is best remembered for his association with bandleader Eddie Condon, with whom he worked and recorded from the mid-1940s until Condon's last concert at the New School for Social Research in New York in April 1972 (Chiaroscuro Records, CRD 110). His nickname of "Wild Bill" reflected a reputation for heavy drinking and womanizing in his younger years.

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606 releases · 165 albums · active 1950–2020

  • Performance · 730
  • Other credits · 10

Studios: WOR Studios · Rosenberg Studio · Reeves Sound Studios · Trixi Tonstudios

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