Bassist Ruth Davies, a Bay Area native, has performed with jazz and blues greats Charles Brown, Clark Terry, John Lee Hooker, Bonnie Raitt, Jay McShann, Van Morrison, Maria Muldaur Junior Mance, Linda Tillery, Barbara Dane, Etta Jones, Elvis Costello, Eric Bibb, Ruthie Foster, Keb’ Mo’, Terry Gibbs, Jimmy Witherspoon and Little Jimmy Scott.

Her discography (including several platinum and Grammy-winning recordings) covers jazz and blues styles as well as other genres and movie soundtracks. She has recorded with Charles Brown, Bonnie Raitt, John Lee Hooker, Van Morrison, Sammy Hagar, Clark Terry, Toots Thielemans, Ernie Watts, Elvin Bishop, Maria Muldaur, Clairdee, Tammy Hall, Jackie Ryan, Pamela Rose and Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, among others.

Ruth has toured the world for more than 30 years, 10 years with the late Charles Brown, performing at major jazz and blues festivals, clubs and concerts as well as radio and television broadcasts worldwide. She continues to spend considerable time touring abroad, traveling and performing with Maria Muldaur, Elvin Bishop, Barbara Dane, Denise Jannah and Azerbaijani born pianist/composer Amina Figarova. For the last 10 years she has returned to the roots and traveled with the Elvin Bishop Band.

Ruth has a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music and has spent more than 20 years with the San Francisco Symphony’s Adventures In Music program bringing educational music shows into all the elementary schools in San Francisco. She has also spent 20 years on the faculty of Stanford Jazz Workshop working with High School age students and has had a very successful annual “Ruth Davies Blues Night” at the Stanford Jazz Festival for the last 19 years running. Ruth is currently working as a teaching artist for the SFJAZZ education department working with middle school students. She is also involved with Pamela Rose’s projects bringing historical women blues and jazz composers and artists to audiences around the country.