Wild_Bill_Davison
Bill Davison
American jazz cornetist
William Edward Davison (January 5, 1906 – November 14, 1989),[1] nicknamed "Wild Bill", was an American jazz cornetist. He emerged in the 1920s through his work playing alongside Muggsy Spanier and Frank Teschemacher in a cover band where they played the music of Louis Armstrong, but he did not achieve wider recognition until the 1940s.[2] He is best remembered for his association with bandleader Eddie Condon, with whom he worked and recorded from the mid-1940s until Condon’s last concert at the New School for Social Research in New York in April 1972 (Chiaroscuro Records, CRD 110).[1]
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His nickname of "Wild Bill" reflected a reputation for heavy drinking and womanizing in his younger years.[1]