Kenny Davis is an American jazz bassist.

Davis released two albums as leader for Soul Note.

He was also member of the Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records

Blue Note Records is a jazz record label, established in 1939 by Alfred Lion and Max Margulis. Francis Wolff became involved shortly afterwards. It derives its name from the characteristic "blue notes" of jazz and the blues. At the end of the 1950s, and in the early 1960s, Blue Note headquarters...

 group Out of the Blue

Out of the Blue (band)

Out of the Blue was an American jazz ensemble founded by Blue Note Records in the 1980s as a showcase for the label's younger musicians. They formed in 1984, releasing four albums and touring extensively over the next five years. Their most commercially successful album was 1986's Live at Mt....

 and has appeared on albums by Gary Bartz

Gary Bartz

Gary Bartz is an American alto and soprano saxophonist and clarinetist.Bartz graduated from the Baltimore City College high school and The Juilliard School...

, Art Farmer

Art Farmer

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, Don Byron

Don Byron

Don Byron is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet, but has also used bass clarinet and saxophones....

, Eric Person

Eric Person

Eric Person is an American alto and soprano saxophone player and leader of Meta-Four and Metamorphosis. Since coming to New York City in 1982, Person has performed with a who's who list of legends on the jazz and rock scene...

, Michele Rosewoman

Michele Rosewoman

Michele Rosewoman is an American jazz pianist born in Oakland, CA. She is most notable for her work and recordings with her Quintessence ensemble as well as for several trio and quartet recordings, and for her New Yor-Uba ensemble featuring Orlando 'Puntilla' Rios , an Afro-Cuban jazz big band...

, Onaje Allan Gumbs

Onaje Allan Gumbs

Onaje Allan Gumbs is a New York-based pianist, composer, and bandleader.-Early life:Born in Harlem, Onaje grew up in St. Albans, Queens, and started playing piano at age 7. Henry Mancini was one of his earliest and greatest influences from watching the TV shows "Peter Gunn" and "Mr Lucky" at age 8...

 and others.

Kenny is currently professor of Jazz Bass and Jazz History at the Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ.

As sideman

• Earl MacDonald
  Earl MacDonald
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  , "Re:Visions - works for jazz orchestra", Death Defying Records, 2010
• Carla Cook
  Carla Cook
  -Biography:A Detroit, Michigan native, music seized hold of Cook at an early age. As a student at Cass Technical High School she played string bass in the school orchestra, studied piano and voice on weekends, and sang in her church’s choir...
  
  , Simply Natural, Maxjazz 2002
• Regina Carter
  Regina Carter
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  , Something for Grace, Atlantic, 1997
• Cassandra Wilson
  Cassandra Wilson
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  , Blue Light 'til Dawn
  Blue Light 'til Dawn
  Blue Light 'til Dawn is a studio album by American jazz singer Cassandra Wilson. Her first album on the Blue Note label, it was released in 1993. It contains Wilson's interpretations of songs by various blues and rock artists, as well as three original compositions.-Reception:Rolling Stone reviewer...
  
  , Blue Note, 1993
• Steve Coleman
  Steve Coleman
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   & Five Elements, The TAO of Mad Phat Fringed Zones, Novus, 1993
• Out of the Blue, O.T.B Live at Mt. Fuji Jazz Festival, O.T.B/Blue Note, 1986