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Kris Davis – Downbeat – Dave Cantor
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Kris Davis – Citizen Jazz – Matthieu Jouan
June 21, 2020Canadian pianist Kris Davis connects projects and awards, teaches and searches for “sound finds”
Kris Davis – Jazz Journalists Association – JJA
May 18, 2020This 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 Kris Davis (Composer and Pianist of the Year), saxophonist Lakecia Benjamin (Up …
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 – NPR – Nate Chinen
January 14, 2020Kris 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 ranging from …
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.
Diatom Ribbons – Pitchfork – Seth Colter Walls
October 8, 2019Aided by Nels Cline, Marc Ribot, and Esperanza Spalding, the New York pianist and her band mix lyrical song form, turntablism, and avant-garde strategies in unusually fluid fashion.