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Kris Davis’ Diatom Ribbons
featuring
Terri Lyne Carrington, Val Jeanty, JD Allen, Tony Malaby, Esperanza Spalding, Marc Ribot, Nels Cline, Trevor Dunn and Ches Smith
Official release October 4th
Chris Lightcap's SuperBigmouth
featuring
Craig Taborn, Tony Malaby, Chris Cheek, Jonathan Goldberger, Curtis Hasselbring, Gerald Cleaver and Dan Rieser
Official release October 4th
Kris Davis & Craig Taborn
photo by John Rogers
The collaboration of three of the most respected figures at work in creative music—Goldberg, guitarist Nels Cline and trumpeter Ron Miles—and one of America’s greatest living poets, Dean Young, Good Day for Cloud Fishing is the result of an unprecedented process for combining musical and literary ambitions.
Davis in duet with Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, Craig Taborn, Angelica Sanchez , Billy Drummond, Marcus Gilmore, Tim Berne, Don Byron
Kris Davis & Craig Taborn in performance
October 10, 2016
University of California, San Diego
REVIEWS
Kris Davis – The New York City Jazz Record – John Sharpe
March 22, 2020Not content with forging new models on the bandstand, pianist Kris Davis seeks to achieve similar ends with her Pyroclastic Records imprint, which she has set up as a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting innovative artists who create art for …
Kris Davis - Diatom Ribbons – The New York times – By Giovanni Russonello
December 5, 2019Kris Davis, 39, has spent years as her generation’s powerhouse pianist in waiting. No longer. On “Diatom Ribbons,” her skills as a composer, band assembler, system builder and improviser — a musical auteur, basically — come fully into focus.
Diatom Ribbons – Downbeat – Dave Cantor
October 18, 2019The best music—within the jazz world and beyond it—can contain a multitude of ideas and sounds, reference endless genres and tell listeners something about the moment that it was recorded, as well as the past. Diatom Ribbons—and actually a lot …
Good Day For Cloud Fishing – San Francisco Classical Voice – Andrew Gilbert
October 13, 2019Hands down, my favorite album of 2019 is the singular jazz/poetry collaboration between Berkeley clarinetist/composer Ben Goldberg and poet Dean Young, Good Day for Cloud Fishing…
SuperBigmouth – Glide Magazine – Doug Collette
October 9, 2019If Chris Lightcap and company prove anything here—besides the fact this work compels many repeated listenings—it is that the intersection of jazz and rock can represent a flash-point of inspiration as potent as the convergence of material and musicianship.
NEWS
NPR Jazz Critics poll names Kris Davis’ Diatom Ribbons #1 Jazz album of 2019!
Kris Davis - Diatom Ribbons (Pyroclastic) At a glance, an odd candidate for consensus: Kris Davis, an improviser-composer with the instinct of an alchemist, made Diatom Ribbons by drawing inspiration from oceanic microbiology, tectonic movement and piano precursors...
Davis wins 2018 Critic’s poll in Downbeat Magazine
Thanks to all the critics for their vote for the Rising Star Artist and Piano Category! See article here