Xavier Davis
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Xavier Davis is a jazz pianist who leads the "Xavier Davis Trio." He currently teaches at the Juilliard School
Juilliard School
The Juilliard School, located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, United States, is a performing arts conservatory which was established in 1905...

 in New York City.

He had an early start in music studying piano at age 4, trombone at 8, and touring Europe before High School. He has also attended Interlochen Arts Academy, toured with the Betty Carter
Betty Carter
Betty Carter was an American jazz singer renowned for her improvisational technique and idiosyncratic vocal style...

 Trio, Regina Carter
Regina Carter
Regina Carter is an American jazz violinist. She is the cousin of famous jazz saxophonist James Carter.-Early life:...

, Stefon Harris
Stefon Harris
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, Tom Harrell
Tom Harrell
Tom Harrell is a renowned American post-bop jazz trumpeter, flugelhornist, composer and arranger.-Biography:Tom Harrell was born in Urbana, Illinois but moved to the San Francisco Bay Area at the age of five. He started playing trumpet at eight and within five years, started playing gigs with...

, and the Boys Choir of Harlem
Boys Choir of Harlem
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 among many others.

His most recent CD was Innocence Of Youth.

Davis also plays with The New Jazz Composers Octet
The New Jazz Composers Octet
The New Jazz Composers Octet is an all-acoustic jazz ensemble founded by trumpeter/arranger David Weiss in 1996. NPR's Josh Jackson described them as "part New York hustle and part writer's workshop, all of it redolent with the aroma of newness." The title track of The Turning Gate won the group...

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