Jazz WALLACE DAVENPORT signed 1976 contract for the WAIKIKI SHELL

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RARE signed contract for Wallace Foster Davenport (30 June 1925 - 18 March 2004)(120 recording sessions 1948-1989). Davenport has been one of the few traditional jazz musicians of the 1930s who later branched out into swing and bop styles, as well as backing gospel and R&B vocalists during an extensive career in eight different decades. Davenport was born in New Orleans, Louisiana. He started on trumpet at age 13 with The Young Tuxedo Brass Band. He played with Papa Celestin in 1941 before leaving New Orleans to serve in the U. S. Navy. Davenport returned there after the World War II, making an easy transition to swing and bop with various bands. He recorded with Roy Brown in 1947. During the 1950s he toured the USA and Europe playing with Lionel Hampton, and recorded in Paris in the mid-'50 with Mezz Mezzrow. Davenport played and recorded with the Count Basie jazz orchestra (1964-1966), and toured with singers Ray Charles and Lloyd Price. In 1969 he went back to doing traditional jazz in New Orleans playing this style on his own label My Jazz (1971-1976); and also reunited with Hampton and recorded with Earl Hines in 1976.
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