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Videos: Martha Davis and Spouse

Videos: Martha Davis and Spouse

Source: JazzWax by Marc Myers

Even if you're up on past female jazz stars, odds are you've never heard boogie-woogie pianist Martha Davis. Davis came up in the 1930s playing in Chicago clubs and in 1939 married her bassist, Calvin Ponder. In the late 1940s, as the number of Los Angeles record labels proliferated following the settlement of the first musicians' ban in 1944, Davis and Ponder moved to California and began recording for Jewel Records in late 1947, with Ralph Williams on guitar and ...

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