Wallace Davenport

Wallace Foster Davenport (30 June 1925 – 18 March 2004) was an American jazz trumpeter. 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.

Wallace Davenport died in New Orleans, Louisiana, at 78 years of age. His nephew was Roger Donald Dickerson.

Discography With Count Basie Pop Goes the Basie (Reprise, 1965) Basie Meets Bond (United Artists, 1966) Live at the Sands (Before Frank) (Reprise, 1966 ) Sinatra at the Sands (Reprise, 1966) with Frank Sinatra Basie's Beatle Bag (Verve, 1966) Basie's Beat (Verve, 1967)

With Phil Upchurch Feeling Blue (Milestone, 1967)