Richard Davis, the prolific bassist who adorned jazz classics by Pharoah Sanders, Eric Dolphy, and Andrew Hill and laid the musical foundation for Van Morrison’s Astral Weeks, has died at the age of 93. Davis’ daughter Persia confirmed her father’s death Thursday on both a memorial page and to Madison …
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