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14 Apr 10 - 10:05 PM (#2886883) Subject: Review: Jesse Edwin Davis (Taj Mahal guitarist) From: ichMael Searched, didn't find anything on Jesse Edwin Davis. Taj Mahal's first album is still the greatest blues album I've ever heard (personal favorite, at least). If you have no electric blues recordings, this might be the one to get. Jesse Edwin Davis was the guitarist on the album. Wikipedia has an entry about Davis. I was looking for some info on him tonight and read this, didn't realize he'd played guitar with such a range of artists (Conway Twitty to John Lennon). Youtube has a couple of clips. Everybody Got To Change Sometime, from 1968. Film footage from a club date. High energy. Davis playing a Telecaster, Mahal in fine form. Great clip. Then there's Leaving Trunk. Singer/harp player Mahal with the trio behind him. This band had vibrancy. The Davis guitar work is superb. |
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15 Apr 10 - 04:38 PM (#2887442) Subject: RE: Review: Jesse Edwin Davis (guitarist) From: PoppaGator I certainly agree with you about that first Taj Mahal album, and remember being immediately impressed with the guitar player, whose name (Jesse Edwin Davis) was new to me. |
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20 Apr 10 - 09:34 PM (#2891036) Subject: RE: Review: Jesse Edwin Davis (guitarist) From: GUEST,garyedelman I'm 90% sure Jesse Edwin Davis was the lead guitar player for the house band for the Concert for Bangladesh. Much the same as GD Smith was for Dylan's 30th Anniversary Concert/Album. There was a box set released, and some sort of film or video of it done. I was traveling in England at the time and staying with some folks and they kept asking me who this guy was. So I told him about the connection to Taj Mahal, the fact that he was Native American. Sad to lose him so young. |
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21 Apr 10 - 09:43 AM (#2891322) Subject: RE: Review: Jesse Edwin Davis (guitarist) From: GUEST,bankley I was talking about him the other day. Saying that he was one of the 1st Native American performers to come along back when... I alwyas liked his style... |
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21 Apr 10 - 10:38 AM (#2891349) Subject: RE: Review: Jesse Edwin Davis (guitarist) From: Wesley S I always thought he went by the name Jesse ED Davis as opposed to Edwin. |
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21 Apr 10 - 06:54 PM (#2891676) Subject: RE: Review: Jesse Edwin Davis (guitarist) From: michaelr JED's guitar playing features prominently on one of my all-time favorite albums, Gene Clark's No Other. |