Dennis Davis is an American drummer and session musician

Session musician

Session musicians are instrumental and vocal performers, musicians, who are available to work with others at live performances or recording sessions. Usually such musicians are not permanent members of a musical ensemble and often do not achieve fame in their own right as soloists or bandleaders...

 best known for his work with David Bowie

David Bowie

David Bowie is an English musician, actor, record producer and arranger. A major figure for over four decades in the world of popular music, Bowie is widely regarded as an innovator, particularly for his work in the 1970s...

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He was born and raised in Manhattan

Manhattan

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, New York City

New York City

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 and studied with the late drummers Max Roach

Max Roach

Maxwell Lemuel "Max" Roach was an American jazz percussionist, drummer, and composer.A pioneer of bebop, Roach went on to work in many other styles of music, and is generally considered alongside the most important drummers in history...

 and Elvin Jones

Elvin Jones

Elvin Ray Jones was a jazz drummer of the post-bop era. He showed interest in drums at a young age, watching the circus bands march by his family's home in Pontiac, Michigan....

. He met guitarist Carlos Alomar

Carlos Alomar

Carlos Alomar is an American guitarist, composer and arranger best known for his work with David Bowie, having played on more Bowie albums than any other musician...

 when they were both playing with Roy Ayers

Roy Ayers

Roy Ayers is an American funk, soul, and jazz composer and vibraphone player. Ayers began his career as a post-bop jazz artist, releasing several albums with Atlantic Records, before his tenure at Polydor Records beginning in the 1970s, during which he helped pioneer jazz-funk .- Biography :Ayers...

. Davis was hired by David Bowie in 1974; with Alomar and bassist George Murray, Davis formed the rhythm section

Rhythm section

A rhythm section is a collection of musicians who make up a section of instruments which provides the accompaniment section of the music, giving the music its rhythmic texture and pulse, also serving as a rhythmic reference for the rest of the band...

 on a number of Bowie's albums released in the 1970s.

Selective discography

Roy Ayers

• Coffy
  Coffy
  - Track listing :# "Coffy Is The Color" - 3:03Vocals – Dee Dee Bridgewater, Roy Ayers, Wayne Garfield# "Priscilla's Theme" - 3:58# "King George" - 3:00Vocals – Roy Ayers# "Aragon" - 2:55# "Coffy Sauna" - 2:16# "King's Last Ride" - 1:10# "Coffy Baby" - 2:26...
  
   (1973)
• Virgo Red (1973)
• Tear to a Smile (1975)
• Red, Black and Green (1973)
• You Send Me (1978)
• I'm the One for your Love Tonight (1987)
• Double Trouble (1992)
• Good Vibrations (1993)
• Naste′ (1995)
• Mahogany Vibe (2004)

David Bowie

• Young Americans
  Young Americans (album)
  Young Americans, released in 1975, shows off David Bowie’s 1970’s shift to his “obsession” with soul music . For this album, Bowie let go of the influences he had drawn from in the past, replacing them with sounds from “local dance halls”, which, at the time, were blaring with “…lush strings,...
  
   (1975)
• Station to Station
  Station to Station
  Station to Station is the tenth studio album by English musician David Bowie, released by RCA Records in 1976. Commonly regarded as one of his most significant works, Station to Station is also notable as the vehicle for Bowie's last great 'character', The Thin White Duke...
  
   (1976)
• Low (1977)
• "Heroes" (1977)
• Stage (1978)
• Lodger
  Lodger (album)
  Lodger is an album by British singer-songwriter David Bowie, released in 1979. The last of the 'Berlin Trilogy' recorded in collaboration with Brian Eno , it was more accessible than its immediate predecessors Low and "Heroes", having no instrumentals and being somewhat lighter and more pop-oriented...
  
   (1979)
• Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
  Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)
  Scary Monsters is an album by David Bowie, released in September 1980 by RCA Records. It was Bowie's final studio album for the label and his first following the so-called Berlin Trilogy of Low, "Heroes" and Lodger . Though considered significant in artistic terms, the trilogy had proved less...
  
   (1980)

Ronnie Foster

• Cheshire Cat
  Cheshire Cat (Ronnie Foster album)
  Cheshire Cat is the fourth studio album by American organist Ronnie Foster recorded in 1975 and released on the Blue Note label.-Reception:...
  
   (1975)

Iggy Pop

• The Idiot (1977)

Stevie Wonder

• Journey Through the Secret Life of Plants
  Journey through the Secret Life of Plants
  Stevie Wonder's Journey Through "The Secret Life of Plants" is an album by Stevie Wonder, originally released on the Tamla Motown label on October 30, 1979...
  
   (1979)
• Hotter Than July
  Hotter than July
  Hotter than July is the nineteenth album by Stevie Wonder, originally released on Motown's Tamla label on September 29, 1980. Despite the wide critical acclaim for Wonder's previous works such as Songs in the Key of Life and Innervisions, Hotter than July was his first album eligible for platinum...
  
   (1980)
• Original Musiquarium (1982)

External links

• Dennis Davis Website