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
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.
Kris Davis & Craig Taborn
photo by John Rogers
Davis in duet with Bill Frisell, Julian Lage, Craig Taborn, Angelica Sanchez , Billy Drummond, Marcus Gilmore, Tim Berne, Don Byron
photo by Dylan Chandler
Kris Davis & Craig Taborn in performance
October 10, 2016
University of California, San Diego
REVIEWS
Good Day For Cloud Fishing – WBGO – Nate Chinen
August 25, 2019We’ve seen no shortage of smart attempts to bring jazz and poetry into dialogue, but Good Day For Cloud Fishing, the fine new album by clarinetist Ben Goldberg, ups the ante.
Good Day For Cloud Fishing – The New York Times – Giovanni Russonello
August 23, 2019To make “Good Day for Cloud Fishing,” his latest album, the clarinetist Ben Goldberg gathered up the guitarist Nels Cline and the trumpeter Ron Miles — two players with curious minds and patient hands, like his own — and showed …
Good Day For Cloud Fishing – The Wall Street Journal – Martin Johnson
August 19, 2019Many jazz musicians have integrated poetry into their music, but very few have taken their interest to the levels of clarinetist and composer Ben Goldberg on his new recording, “Good Day for Cloud Fishing” (Pyroclastic), out Friday. Mr. Goldberg creates …
SuperBigmouth – Downbeat –
August 15, 2019Chris Lightcap’s compositional and performative dexterity stretches back to the ’90s, when he began working with some of New York’s best-known avant-gardists. A few folks who were gigging and recording with the bassist back then again congregate for SuperBigmough, a …
Good Day For Cloud Fishing – Downbeat – Jon Ross
August 1, 2019The concept behind Ben Goldberg’s erudite Good Day For Cloud Fishing, an album of original tunes inspired by Dean Young’s poems, is best summed up by guitarist Nels Cline. The album, he writes in the liners, comprises “music inspired by …
NEWS
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