Kenny Davis

Kenny Davis is a New York jazz bassist whose work on both acoustic and electric bass has carried him alongside many of the musics leading voices. Born in 1961 in Chicago, he came up in that citys jazz scene before moving to New York in 1986, where he performed with Freddie Hubbard, Cassandra Wilson, Abbey Lincoln, Dianne Reeves, and Art Farmer while studying with Ron Carter. He arranged music for Cassandra Wilsons acclaimed album Blue Light Til Dawn and held the bass chair in The Tonight Show band from 1999 to 2002. He later earned a masters degree from Rutgers University in 2006 and teaches jazz bass and jazz history at its Mason Gross School of the Arts.