Nathan Davis began to play trombone at the age of 17, and would go on to become an accomplished player on flute, bass clarinet, and tenor and soprano saxophones. After serving the U.S. Army in Berlin, he was invited to Paris by Kenny ‘Klook’ Clarke, and toured Europe with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers. After making a series of excellent (but long-deleted) albums for small European labels, Davis returned to the United States in 1969 to teach jazz at the University of Pittsburgh. He continued to record sporadically, making two albums for the small Pittsburgh company Segue. In the '80s, the London-based Hot House label reissued his 1967 John Coltrane homage, RULES OF FREEDOM, to enough reaction to warrant the release of an original album, LONDON BY NIGHT.