![]() ![]() He was a member of a funk/jazz band called, initially, "The Fabulous Counts". I don't know who the saxman was (and I'd like to).Īnyway, Moses next turned up in Detroit. But equally, he may not, because the instrumentation was tenor sax, organ, guitar and drums and the sax player was the same man who, in 1960, had played the tenor solo on Paul Gayten's "The hunch", recorded in Detroit by Anna records (Berry Gordy's first label). That implies that Moses may have been living or working in Chicago in those days. The single was issued on the Tollie label (dunno the number - my mate has a copy buried under about a million records), which was a subsidiary of Vee-Jay. ![]() In the early '60s - probably '62 or '63 - under the name of Moses Davis, he made a 45 single "Moses' groove"/"For dancers only" (the Sy Oliver tune). So here's what I know about the Mad Professor, none of whose recordings are listed in Lord's Jazz discography. I doubt that there's an organist anywhere in America that someone on this board doesn't know. It looks as if the folks at Blue Note don't know who they should be paying royalties for the two recordings GG made of this tune. Bob Belden's sleeve note to Grant Green's "Live at Club Mozambique" refers to the writer of "Jan Jan" as "the mysterious M Davis (not Miles Davis)". ![]()
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