Steve Davis (bassist)

{{Infobox musical artist

| name = Steve Davis

| image = Steve Davis on bass & Tom Whaley on drums.jpg

| caption = Steve Davis on the right

| alias = Luquaman Abdul Syeed

| birth_date = March 14, 1929

| death_date = {{death date and age|August 21, 1987|March 14, 1929}}

| genre = Jazz, modal jazz, hard bop, post-bop

| occupation = Musician

| instrument = Double bass

| past_member_of = John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner

}}

Steve Davis (March 14, 1929 – August 21, 1987) (also known by his Muslim name Luquaman Abdul Syeed) was an American jazz bassist best known for his time in the John Coltrane Quartet.

From 1960-61, Davis was briefly part of the John Coltrane Quartet before being temporarily replaced by Reggie Workman and permanently replaced by Jimmy Garrison. [http://www.jazzloft.com/p-53997-live-at-the-jazz-gallery-1960.aspx John Coltrane - Live at the Jazz Gallery 1960 CD] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110520011703/http://www.jazzloft.com/p-53997-live-at-the-jazz-gallery-1960.aspx |date=2011-05-20 }}{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qlilxHfYcW4C&q=Steve+Davis+%28bassist%29&pg=PA198| title=John Coltrane: his life and music| author=Lewis Porter| publisher=University of Michigan Press| year= 2000| isbn= 978-0-472-08643-6 }} Davis recorded My Favorite Things (1961) with the quartet.

He also recorded as a sideman with Chuck and Gap Mangione on Hey Baby! (1961), and with quartet fellow (and brother-in-law) McCoy Tyner
on the 1963 album Nights of Ballads & Blues.