“ONE OF THE BRIGHTEST AND MOST HARD-WORKING MUSICIANS ON THE SCENE BY FAR.”
– Jason Rebello
ALEX DAVIS BIOGRAPHY
From a young age, Alex Davis recalls spending hours transcribing his early musical influences such as bass player ‘Bootsy’ Collins of Parliament/ Funkadelic, funk band Black Cherry and contemporary blues giants Keb Mo and Bonnie Raitt. At the age of just 11, Alex was selected as the ‘Blue Basement’ house bass player alongside some of the North’s best blues and RnB musicians, where he stayed for two years.
Over the last ten years, Alex has had the privilege to play and be mentored by the likes of Gilad Atzmon, Edward Simon, Omar Puente, Lucky Ranku, Giuliano Modarelli, Bhupinder Singh Chaggar, Jesse Banister, Stephen Keogh, Steve Berry and Leroy Johnson. He joined the Red Ladder Theatre Company, pioneers in forward thinking theatre, where he was introduced to established musicians such as Harry Hammer (of conscious pop band Chumba Wumba), Andy Cooke, Chris Campbell and Sam Hobbs (of LSK/ Lilly Allen/ Massive Attack/ Pulp). In 2010 he joined the Nu Civilisation Orchestra at Southbank Centre (established by Gary Crosby OBE, Artistic Director of Tomorrow’s Warriors and band leader for Jazz Jamaica). It was this experience that led him to concentrate on mastering the upright bass and eventually to joining the Abram Wilson Quartet in early 2011.
Today, Alex divides his time in and around London, where he plays regularly with Jason Marsalis, Rebecca Ferguson, Mica Paris, Kansas Smitty’s, Jason Rebello and Zhenya Strigalev as well as now being Musical Director and Arranger for the RE:IMAGINE series; a series of sold out shows of seven different 16 piece orchestras paying homage to seminal albums of the past 100 years. Alex also leads workshops and classes for leading jazz education company, Tomorrow’s Warriors with this year being the beginning of a country wide program delivering a series of workshops to ages 11-18 yrs on six jazz giants.
