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Don Davis

SEE: www.myspace.com/davisanddeleault

About Me

Saxophonist,flute,multi-reed player previously living in NYC now in New Hampshire just north of Boston since 1993. Berklee College of Music 1972-1974 then on to The Creative Music Studio in Woodstock in 1975-80. Moved to NYC 1980 and stayed until 1993. Played and or recorded with : NY Gong,Material,Swollen Monkeys,Marc Black Band,Dr Nerve,Peter Apfelbaum and the Hieroglyphics ensemble,Karl Berger,Betty McDonald Band,The Microscopic Septet, L L Cool J,Danzig,The Waitresses,Marc Wagnon,Walter Thompson,NY Composers Orchestra,Toots and the Maytals,Carla Bley,Michael Mantler,Larry Chernicoff, The Point, Black Market Productions (jingles,soundtracks)Marilyn Crispell,Rusted Root,BLOB, Others. In New Hampshire with The Kan Tu Blues Band,Grinning Lizards Larry Simon's Groove Bacteria,David Amram,Roscoe Gordon,New Hampshire Jazz Orchestra,Rooster,Ed Broms, Joe Deleault,Tractor Trailer,Brian O'Neal,Julie Lavender,Ben Rudnick and Friends,Local Citizens,FD Reeve,......Don Davis trio etc..... Teaching at The Manchester Community Music School.
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My Interests

The Shakuhachi,World Music,Jazz,Blues.American Roots music,Progressive Rock,creative music,improvisation,Classical....modern....ORIGINALAntique Restoration and Conservation,,Kyaking,Politics, etc and of course long walks on the beach.........maybe some fishing...

I'd like to meet:

TBD and world class musicians that want to hire me now! Meeting the Karmapa would be nice too.........

Music:

"GOOD MUSIC".....>> Check OUT: www.iSOUND.com/davis_and_deleault www.microscopicseptet.com www.myspace.com/BLOBUSA www.myspace.com/davisanddeleault www.davisanddeleault.com

Movies:

Check out: YouTube: Swollen Monkeys and Microscopic Septet

Television:

,Sunday Morning, House, Mclaughlin Group,PBS,Antique Roadshow,Seinfeld

Books:

recent: Tipping Point,Blink,Bonfires of the Vanities,Da Vinci Code ,Freakonomics,The world is flat,Seawolf,City of Fallen Angels,Mountains beyond Mountains,Bebop and Nothingness,Call of the Wild, Jazz Anecdotes 2nd time around NEW BOOK:The Blue Cat Walks The Earth" by F D Reeve,music by Davis and Deleault. The Kite Runner,A thousand Splendid Suns,Temperament,Buddha is as Buddha does,Breakfast with Buddah,This is Your brain on music,No Time To Loose.Chasin'the Trane,The Way of White Clouds

Heroes:

MUSICAL HEROES:Ornette Coleman, Earl Bostic, Jackie Mclean, Red Prysock,Lee Konitz,Anthony Braxton,Sonny Rollins,Coleman Hawkins,Miles,Trane,Albert Ayler,Monk,Bird,Eric Dolphy,Lee Morgan,Don Cherry,Billie Holliday,Wayne Shorter,Booker Little,Zappa,Watazumi Doso ,Ravi Shankar,Dylan,The Band,Early Pink Floyd.....Levon Helms,many others