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- Capabilities: Proficient at
4,5,6, and 7 String Basses, Fretted and Fretless, Acoustic Bass,
Synth Bass, Keyboards, Lead and Backing Vocals.
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- Main Instrument: Ken Smith
Custom MD7 String Contra Bass Guitar
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- Personal: Creative,
open-minded, enjoys meeting people, highly expressive on stage,
punctual, willing and able to travel.
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- Preferred Styles of Music:
(as labeled by the music industry)
- - Gospel
- - Blues
- - Jazz (Swing/Be-Bop)
- - Contemporary Jazz
- - R & B (Rhythm & Blues)
- - Pop
- - Soul / Funk
- - Hip Hop
- Touring and Single
Performances with:
- 2003:Matt Goss UK Tour
- 2003: Jeff Kashiwa & Coastal
Access / Lee Ritenour / Eric Marienthal Phil Perry / The Braxton
Brothers / Paul Taylor / Chuck Loeb / Huge Groove / Jeff Lorber
/ Gerald Albright / AB /
- 2002: Doves Of Fire w/Steve
Lukather, Simon Phillips, Jeff Babko. Rufus featuring Chaka Khan
/ Lee Ritenour / Jeff Kashiwa & Coastal Access
- Name: Melvin Lee Davis
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- 2001: Chaka Khan / Lee Ritenour
/ Jeff Kashiwa & Coastal Access
- 1999: Performed with "The
Simon Phillips Group"
- 1996: George Duke
- 1995: The Lee Ritenour/Larry
Carlton Project
- 1990-1997: Lee Ritenour
- 1994-1995: World tour with Bryan
Ferry
- 1994: David Benoit and Russ
Freeman Project
- 1989-1997: Chaka Khan
- 1985-1993: The Pointer Sisters
- 1980-1987: O'Bryan
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- Production:
- Eric Marienthal's up coming CD
" All For You" (co-produced and engineered at Bassment
Studio)
- Nature's Serenade (recorded and
produced at Bassment Studio)
- Tomorrow's Yesterdays (recorded
and produced at Bassment Studio)
- Variations In Time (recorded
and produced at Bassment Studio)
- Television Performances:
- Rosie O'Donnell Show
- Oprah Winfrey Show
- The Tonight Show with Johnny
Carson
- Late Night with David Letterman
- The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
- NBC's "Up all night with the
Pointer Sisters"
- "Eye On L.A." w/ Pointer
Sisters
- Arsenio Hall Show;
- Soul Train
- NBC's Fraiser,
- Cheers
- The Danny Baker Show (London)
- Show,Show,Show (Korea)
- Hard Rock Live VH-1
- Howey Mandell Show
- HBO Special "Sinbad Funk
Fest"
- HBO's "The Chris Rock
Show"
- Motown Live!
- BET's "Jazz Central"
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- Motion Picture Performance:
"Coming To America" Starring Eddie Murphy & Arsenio
Hall
A lil'bit more about Melvin:
Los Angeles native Melvin Lee
Davis was discovered at the tender age of 16 by Buddy Miles, when a
horn player from Buddy Miles' band heard Melvin playing in a local
club. Buddy Miles flew Davis to New York to audition for his band
and immediately hired him. After playing the New York club circuit,
Melvin found himself working with Don Cornelius of Soul Train. He
has toured and recorded with Chaka Khan, the Pointer Sisters, Lee
Ritenour, Bryan Ferry, David Benoit, Larry Carlton, Patti Austin,
Gladys Knight, and many other top acts. Davis wrote the theme for
the TV show "The Party Machine" and "Soul Train's A
Coming" and has appeared on "Johnny Carson",
"David Letterman", "Jay Leno", and "Arsenio
Hall." Melvin has travelled the world and continues to be in
high demand across many genres of music because of his incredible
talent and positive demeanor on and off stage
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