Richard Davis
American jazz bassist
Died when: 93 years 144 days (1120 months)Star Sign: Aries

Richard Davis (born April 15, 1930) was an American jazz bassist.Among his best-known contributions to the albums of others are Eric Dolphy's Out to Lunch!, Andrew Hill's Point of Departure, and Van Morrison's Astral Weeks, of which critic Greil Marcus wrote (in The Rolling Stone Illustrated History of Rock and Roll), "Richard Davis provided the greatest bass ever heard on a rock album."
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