# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/richard-davis
# Generated: 2026-08-13T12:37:08.802Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/richard-davis"
name: "Richard Davis"
slug: "richard-davis"
description: "Richard Davis 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, \"Richard Davis provided the greatest bass ever heard on a rock album.\""
tagline: "American double-bassist (1930-2023)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Richard_Davis.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Educators"
  slug: "educators"
profileType:
  name: "Educator"
  slug: "educator"
birthDate: "1930-04-15"
deathDate: "2023-09-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.36
  momentum:             17.07980652962515
  historical:           16.53859466666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     70
  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: 50
platforms:
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "http://richarddavis.org"
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1384661/"
    handle:    "nm1384661"
sources:
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    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ريتشارد ديفيس (أستاذ جامعي)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D9%8A%D8%AA%D8%B4%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D9%81%D9%8A%D8%B3_(%D8%B9%D8%A7%D8%B2%D9%81_%D8%AC%D8%A7%D8%B2_%D9%85%D9%86_%D8%A7%D9%85%D8%B1%D9%8A%D9%83%D8%A7)"
    title: "ريتشارد ديفيس (عازف جاز من امريكا)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://azb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%DA%86%D8%A7%D8%B1%D8%AF_%D8%AF%DB%8C%D9%81%DB%8C%D8%B3_(%D9%85%D9%88%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B3%DB%8C%D9%86)"
    title: "ریچارد دیفیس (موزیسین)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Davis_(baixista)"
    title: "Richard Davis (baixista)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Davis_(hudebn%C3%ADk)"
    title: "Richard Davis (hudebník)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Davis_(bassist)"
    title: "Richard Davis (bassist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Davis_(Jazzmusiker)"
    title: "Richard Davis (Jazzmusiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Davis_(bassist)"
    title: "Richard Davis (bassist)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Davis"
    title: "Richard Davis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Davis_(contrebassiste)"
    title: "Richard Davis (contrebassiste)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%A8%D7%99%D7%A6'%D7%A8%D7%93_%D7%93%D7%99%D7%99%D7%95%D7%95%D7%99%D7%A1"
    title: "ריצ'רד דייוויס"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Davis"
    title: "Richard Davis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Davis"
    title: "Richard Davis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AA%E3%83%81%E3%83%A3%E3%83%BC%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%83%87%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B9_(%E3%83%99%E3%83%BC%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B9%E3%83%88)"
    title: "リチャード・デイヴィス (ベーシスト)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nds.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Davis_(Jazzmusiker)"
    title: "Richard Davis (Jazzmusiker)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Davis"
    title: "Richard Davis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bassisten_Richard_Davis"
    title: "Bassisten Richard Davis"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D1%8D%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%81%2C_%D0%A0%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B4_(%D0%B1%D0%B0%D1%81-%D0%B3%D0%B8%D1%82%D0%B0%D1%80%D0%B8%D1%81%D1%82)"
    title: "Дэвис, Ричард (бас-гитарист)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/b59843a1-bb97-45f0-84b9-ff9017878cdd"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q716851"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/2081812"
    title: "Richard Davis"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump