Of the myriad pseudonyms used by Joe Davis during his long career, this is the one that comes closest to his real name. "Bert Davis" doesn't count: that was actually a pseudonym for his wife Bertha Davis, allowing her to collect publishing money for him. Davis was involved with music as a composer, publisher, producer, A&R man, and record label owner.

The period when he used the name Jasper Davis was the late '20s, one of his most experimental stages in terms of devising different instrumental combinations to cut sides. Actually making these sessions work was a challenge for many of the virtuoso studio performers of that era, including the banjoist and guitarist Elmer Snowden and trumpeter Bubber Miley. Sessions in 1929 that resulted in releases under the name of the Jasper Davis Orchestra were typical Davis productions, described by Snowden thusly in the Davis biography entitled -Never Sell a Copyright: "Joe Davis used to throw in so many musicians that I couldn't keep track...There were times that we made records every day."

The same group represented as the Jasper Davis outfit also released discs in 1929 as the Musical Stevedores and the Jungle Town Stompers. The version of the group with the Davis name on the label recorded for Harmony. In his real identity as Joe Davis he also administrated the publishing for the tunes recorded, Georgia Gigolo and It Feels So Good. Lizzie Miles was the vocalist and was lucky to stay out of jail based on censorship problems developing from the latter description of sexual euphoria. Perhaps the naughty content was the reason Joe Davis disguised himself as Jasper Davis, but then again the use of an alias was fairly consistent with this man anytime he performed more than one job on a recording production. ~ Eugene Chadbourne, Rovi