Lynne Davis has spent the past fifteen years living in Los Angeles and working alongside the best musicians the city has to offer. She has earned a reputation as a musician's musician; contributing her aggressive, groove-oriented bass playing to countless studio performances and live engagements, and also lending her dynamic and widespread piano playing and production skills to numerous recordings for film, television and popular records.

Living in Los Angeles has had a profound influence on Lynne's approach to playing popular music. Having learned her craft through working primarily with songwriters, she forged a strong sense of service to the tune early on in her career. But the experiences she garnered while living in LA led her to simplify and distinguish her musical ideas even further, making her one of the first-call players for songwriters and composers.

It was while living and working in Los Angeles that Lynne discovered her passion for the rhythm and blues music that she had always heard at the local swim club while growing up. Intrigued by the elements of time and feel, Lynne realized she had truly found her niche in her ability to interpret the works of the great bassists of that genre, such as James Jameson and Donald "Duck" Dunn. Lynne's abilities in this arena led Bass Player Magazine to refer to her as "LA's Groove Goddess" in it's July 1999 feature article about her.

To give her newfound passion an outlet, Lynne created her own R&B super group, The Scarletts, which has performed all over California to rave reviews. The Los Angeles Times headline of one such review reads, "Hearing is Believing", and the author of which is quoted as saying, "A direct measure of the groups credibility...is the caliber of the pros they draw to listen and sit in." Indeed, many of the industry's top professionals have been eager to share the bandstand with the Scarletts, including members of such groups as Tower of Power, Chaka Kahn, Bill Withers, Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding, Taj Mahal, Bruce Springsteen and Stevie Wonder, to name but a few.

The depth of Lynne's musicality lies in her early musical upbringing. As a young pianist, Lynne studied the works of classical composers, fostering an appreciation of form and a serious command of piano technique. Her studies led her to Vienna, Austria where she attended school and worked with the corps de ballet at the Vienna Opera. But Lynne determined the classical world was not for her, and upon her return to the States she began her search for a way to find her place in the popular music industry. This led to a stint as a recording engineer and producer, and eventually to the bass guitar, which was destined to become her stock in trade.

In addition to her career as a performing artist, Lynne has developed her own unique approach to teaching music, and has been fine-tuning her ideas with hundreds of students of both bass guitar and piano. Her knowledge and unique approach garnered her a position at the Los Angeles Music Academy, where she has been sharing her ideas about music, listening, improvisation, and creativity for 10 years.

Lynne's first and foremost love is live performance, where she feels all the elements of her artistry come together in the most vivid and exciting way. Her love of music, of playing the bass, of dance and theatrical elements all unite to make hers a dynamic and engaging stage presence. When watching Lynne perform, one can have no doubt that hers is a rare talent, equaled only by her obvious love of the medium. Or, as John Fisher of the Philadelphia Inquirer put it, "...Davis is a monster. The fact that she's female and good-looking is just icing on this musical cake."