JazzNOW: Kris Davis’ Diatom Ribbons — Live At GBH
Kris Davis’ Diatom Ribbons with Terri Lyne Carrington and Val Jeanty – A live performance at WBGH in Boston
Combustion 2
Music Video for Combustion 2 (Cory Smythe). Video by Frank Heath
Protect Your Home (Interpret It Well)
“Interpret It Well” appears courtesy of the artist and Pyroclastic Records and is the title track from the record by Ches Smith on Pyroclastic Records. Directed/Edited by Frank Heath, Produced by David Breskin
REVIEWS
Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard – FreeForm, FreeJazz – Fabricio Vieira
September 2, 2023CRÍTICAs Novo álbum da pianista Kris Davis mostra seu quinteto Diatom Ribbons em apresentação memorável no mítico clube nova-iorquino… Kris Davis já há algum tempo se firmou como uma artista fundamental da música jazzística mais criativa feita nesses tempos. Improvisadora, compositora e líder de …
Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard – The Stash Dauber –
September 1, 2023I’m always swinging after the pitch. It’s inevitable when following the work of creative musicians like pianist-composer Kris Davis — who are always evolving and changing in their art — primarily through the medium of recordings. The zenith of my listening year …
Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard – PostGenre – Brian Kiwanuka
September 1, 2023On February 17, 2018, pianist Kris Davis played in the second of two concerts at Harvard University to honor the late jazz pianist Geri Allen. It was a fantastic night of music worthy of Allen’s tremendous talent. Davis took the stage …
Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard – The Wall Street Journal – Martin Johnson
September 1, 2023Pianist Guillermo Klein brings on another keyboardist and draws on the sounds of his native Argentina on his new release; Kris Davis employs a guitarist and a DJ on her album recorded at the historic New York club. Read More …
Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard – The Boston Globe – Jon Garelick
September 1, 2023For a while now, Kris Davis has been a go-to player for bandleaders in jazz’s progressive wing: a pianist who can play inside or “out,” who can lead the charge in a passage of hard-driving swing or help set the …
Ingrid Laubrock - The Last Quiet Place – Jazzwise – John Fordham
May 24, 2023★★★★ Inspired by the Pulitzer-prizewinning writings of environmental journalist Elizabeth Kolbert, much-lauded German saxophonist/composer Ingrid Laubrock composed most of the music for The Last Quiet Place in solitude and outdoors – but if she was feeling that the imagination might be the …
Kris Davis – Bandcamp – Britt Robson
May 17, 2023In 2019, pianist Kris Davis released the debut album from her group Diatom Ribbons, an ambitious, original project that was extraordinary for both its reach and its grasp. It was a propitious year for Davis, who is now in her early 40s. She …
Sylvie Courvoisier / Cory Smythe - The Rite Of Spring: Spectre D’un Songe – Jazz Views – Jack Kenny
May 11, 2023A unique album! An album defined by both its ambition and its execution. It is unnerving to realise that Stravinsky’s ‘The Rite of Spring’ has been with us for 110 years: the power to thrill, surprise and challenge still there. …
Mark Dresser - Tines of Change – The Free Jazz Collective – Eyal Hareuveni
May 11, 2023Mark Dresser is not only a true master of the double bass but also a lifelong researcher, innovator and conceptualist of the bull fiddle’s almost infinite sonic possibilities, and a rare musician who treats his instrument as an orchestra rather …
Mark Dresser - Tines Of Change – Jazz Journal – Peter Gamble
May 7, 2023The Californian bassist expands the range of the bass with tines and pickups and produces sounds by turns floating, gutteral and everyday The concept of a solo bass album can be a daunting prospect at the best of times for …
NEWS
Kris Davis – Of Resistance & Flight
In late May 2022, Kris Davis realized a dream. She and her ensemble Diatom Ribbons performed six nights at New York’s Village Vanguard — the world’s most famous jazz venue. The pianist, composer and bandleader originally had booked the date for April 2 …
Kris Davis wins a 2023 Grammy
Linda May Han Oh, Kris Davis, Terri Lyne Carrington, Nicholas Payton, and Matthew Stevens. Kris Davis wins a 2023 Grammy for Terri Lyne Carrington’s album ‘New Standards, Vol. 1.’
Pianist and Composer Kris Davis awarded a 2021 Doris Duke Artist Award alongside Wayne Shorter and Danilo Perez
Kris Davis, a 2021 Doris Duke Artist in the jazz category, is a critically acclaimed pianist and composer who was described by The New York Times as a beacon for “deciding where to hear jazz on a given night.” Since 2003, Davis has released …
Kris Davis wins the 2020 JJA award for Composer & Pianist of the Year
This year’s Awards for instrumentalists advance a multi-year trend by the JJA’s voting members to recognize accomplished women among the multiple nominated finalists. Drummer and educator Terri Lyne Carrington (Musician of the Year), pianist-composer K …
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 pia …