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KUD 002EP
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George Davis drops part two of his Ona EP: heavenly house featuring a remix by the legendary Roy Davis Jr.. A jazzy bassline, snazzy piano keys and a rhythmical vocal send hips swinging and shoulders shaking in "Gomera", a track which Chicagoan legend Roy Davis Jr. then remixes with a "Chitown Vibe". Squelchy synths and organic percussion enter his version with a stylish swagger, maintaining the keys while moving the vocals to the back of the mix. Next up, "Bumpa" is built for the dancefloor, an infectious groove forming the base for whimsical flute-like melodies, before "Soul Journey" closes out the record with a gorgeous slow-burning vision of sunset shores and distant views. Following on from his first Ona EP which dropped on kickin' up dust in March of 2023.
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KUD 001EP
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Based Berlin Label and Party Series kickin' up dust teams up with German producer George Davis and bring out their first EP, including a Kai Alcé "NDATL Interpretation".
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CVSD 014CD
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2014 release. Saxophonist George Davis is an enigmatic figure in postwar jazz. He's best known for leading the band in which Jackie & Roy met -- young singer Jackie Cain encountered pianist Roy Krall in the mid-1940s, playing together under Davis in a club on the south side of Chicago called Jump Town. They cut two 78-rpm records for Aristocrat as the George Davis Quartet; these sides followed Davis into obscurity. In 1948/49, Jackie & Roy went on to work with Charlie Ventura. At the same time, Davis cut a very unusual set of acetates with an unidentified band (bass, drums, piano, trumpet, guitar, with Davis on alto and tenor sax), playing some standards and a selection of compositions identified as original but which turn out to have been pilfered from the Fats Navarro songbook. The unique 78-rpm records, which were rediscovered in a record shop in Chicago a few years ago, had not been previously issued. Awkwardly announced by Davis, who pretends that there is an audience though it is clear that they're being waxed in solitude, these privately recorded bop and R&B tracks are pure Chicago jazz, hot, swinging, and bristling with attitude. Another lovely missive from the dustbin of music history.
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