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Richard Davis, a UW music professor and world-renowned jazz bassist, will be honored with a National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Masters Fellowship at New York City's Lincoln Center on Monday, Jan. 13, at 6:30 p.m. The NEA will livestream the awards ceremony and a related concert that evening. Prospective viewers can stream the event live, and sign up for an email reminder for the webcast.
The Jazz Masters Fellowship is one of the most prestigious awards bestowed on American jazz musicians. The program annually recognizes a small selection of "living legends" whose contributions to jazz have advanced the art form. Along with Richard Davis, the list of 2014 honorees includes Keith Jarrett, Jamey Aebersold and Anthony Braxton. Storied trumpeter Wynton Marsalis will cohost the event with journalist Soledad O'Brien.
Davis is a jazz and combo bassist who has performed with such legends as Sarah Vaughan, Igor Stravinsky and Leonard Bernstein. Born in Chicago, Davis studied at the VanderCook College of Music, then moved to New York City in 1954, where he spent 23 years in the city's jazz scene. He was named best bassist in the DownBeat International Critics Poll from 1967 to 1974. He has also played on albums by Bruce Springsteen, Paul Simon and Van Morrison. Rock critic Lester Bangs called his work on the Van Morrison album Astral Weeks "in the realm of the miraculous."
Davis says he was drawn to the sound of the bass early in life.
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