Complex sentence: 'Wild' Bill Davison (January 5,1906, Defiance, Ohio--November 14,1989, Santa Barbara, California) was jazz cornet player who emerged in the 1920s but did not achieve recognition until the 1940s.
Split into simpler sentences: 'Wild' Bill Davison (January 5,1906, Defiance, Ohio--November 14,1989, Santa Barbara, California) was an American jazz cornet player. He emerged in the 1920s but did not achieve recognition until the 1940s.