Kenny Davis Quintet at Nighttown

Cleveland Jazz Legend and Trumpet Master leads All-Star North Coast Quintet live at Nighttown!

Featuring: Kenny Davis-trumpet, David Thomas-piano, Johnny Cochran-sax, Kip Reed-bass, & Robert Hubbard-drums.

Davis got a running start on music at an early age, as a result of the encouragement of his parents who were avid jazz enthusiasts. When the Davises would go out at night to dance to the sounds of the Ellington or Basie orchestras, they'd leave young Kenny and his siblings at home with an extensive record collection that included all the popular jazz of the 1930s-40s. Davis believes his own jazz education began at home with these recordings from the nascent swing era of jazz....

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Cleveland Jazz Legend and Trumpet Master leads All-Star North Coast Quintet live at Nighttown!

Featuring: Kenny Davis-trumpet, David Thomas-piano, Johnny Cochran-sax, Kip Reed-bass, & Robert Hubbard-drums.

Davis got a running start on music at an early age, as a result of the encouragement of his parents who were avid jazz enthusiasts. When the Davises would go out at night to dance to the sounds of the Ellington or Basie orchestras, they'd leave young Kenny and his siblings at home with an extensive record collection that included all the popular jazz of the 1930s-40s. Davis believes his own jazz education began at home with these recordings from the nascent swing era of jazz.

"My parents kept good music around the house all the time," he says. "And growing up in Cleveland and Lorain with the sounds of the inner city all around us, ou

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