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Jackie Davis

Jackie Davis has been played on NTS shows including Clairo, with Perfidia first played on 25 December 2022.

Jackie Davis was the first musician to popularize jazz on the Hammond organ, years before Jimmy Smith's name became synonymous with organ jazz. Davis was Capitol's leading performer on the organ at a time when relatively few mainstream labels were willing to put a black musician on the cover of an album.

Davis once said that music came to him genetically. His mother played the washtub, a cheap substitute for the bass, and he first learned to play by spending hours poking at his grandmother's…

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Perfidia
Jackie Davis
Capitol Records1959
Perfidia
Jackie DavisCapitol Records1959
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Sleepy Time Gal
Jackie Davis
Warner Bros. Records1963
Sleepy Time Gal
Jackie DavisWarner Bros. Records1963
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