Performance
Lem Davis
Lem Davis is credited on 267 releases across 77 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1952–2022 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
267
Pressings credited
77
Albums
8
Decades active
24
In collections
Biography
Lemuel A. Davis (22 June 1914 – 16 January 1970), was an American jazz musician, an alto saxophonist associated with swing music. Born in Tampa, Florida, United States, his career began in the 1940s with pianist Nat Jaffe. Davis played with the Coleman Hawkins septet in 1943 and with Eddie Heywood's group. Throughout the 1940s, he played in a variety of jazz groups. In 1953, he appeared on Buck Clayton's "The Hucklebuck" recording. He continued to play in New York City throughout the 1950s, and recorded little thereafter.
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Credited work
267 releases · 77 albums · active 1952–2022
- Performance · 340
Studios: WOR Studios · Brunswick Recording Studios · Columbia 30th Street Studio · Columbia Recording Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Commodore Jazz Classics
1965
Strange Fruit
1972
Ain't Nobody's Business If I Do
1975
The Complete Commodore Recordings
1991
16 Classic Tracks
1982
Son Of McVouty
1978
Swingin' Buck Clayton Jams
1974
Prestige Twofer Giants Volume II
1972
Commodore Jazz Classics
1964
All The Cats Join In (A Buck Clayton Jam Session)
1956
Billie Holiday Sings
1955
Frequent collaborators
- Billie Holiday
- Buck Clayton
- Various
- Eddie Heywood
- Slim & Bam
- King Pleasure
- Eddie Heywood And His Orchestra
- Buck Clayton's All-Stars
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