Pike Davis

Among the great historic statistics from the Baltimore music picture, trumpeter Pike Davis was executing around that town together with the fantastic ragtime pianist Eubie Blake dating back to 1915. In the next 10 years, Davis was one of the primary wave of dark music artists and entertainers to create the recently developing varieties of syncopated music to English audiences as an associate from the Plantation Revue. The trumpeter appeared to be preferred as an associate of this kind of theatrical revue rather than purely instrumental jazz combo or big music group, at least judging from the form his career required. Prior to 1st joining these Plantation Revue in the first ’20s, Davis proceeded to go from dealing with Blake to little ensembles led by another pianist, Joe Rochester, and an overlooked early jazz violinist, Leroy Smith. He was within the second option player’s company on / off through the 10 years but was also quite energetic with numerous vaudeville troupes like the Plantation Revue once more in 1926, the entire year of this production’s smash go back to the English Isles. Through the past due ’20s he continuing dealing with this display in america and in 1929 toured European countries within the Noble Sissle music group. In 1930 the trumpeter was centered out of NEW YORK, at first using bandleader Joe Jordan before settling right into a three-year operate in the Rhapsody in Dark display. That engagement flowed right into a stint using the Blackbirds revue beneath the management of Lew Leslie, including a Western tour in 1934. Davis stayed a dynamic trumpeter for a few three decades following this, more often than not in the framework of display work, dance rings, or orchestras. Quite simply, he blended in to the history. Eventually he came back to Baltimore where he was an associate of River Chambers’ orchestra, operating many local resorts and special occasions.