Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard
Released: September 2023
- Kris Davis – piano, prepared piano, arturia microfreak synthesizer
- Terri Lyne Carrington – drums
- Val Jeanty – turntables and electronics
- Julian Lage – electric guitar
- Trevor Dunn – electric bass
Tracks:
- 1. Alice in The Congo
- 2. Nine Hats
- 3. The Dancer
- 4. VW
- 5. Dolores, Take 1
- 6. Bird Suite, Part 1: Kingfisher
- 7. Endless Columns
- 8. Bird Suite, Part 2: Bird Call Blues
- 9. Bird Suite, Part 3: Parasitic Hunter
- 10. Brainfeel
- 11. Dolores, Take 2
Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard
Released: September 1, 2023
- Kris Davis – piano, prepared piano, arturia microfreak synthesizer
- Terri Lyne Carrington – drums
- Val Jeanty – turntables and electronics
- Julian Lage – electric guitar
- Trevor Dunn – electric bass
Tracks:
- 1. Alice in The Congo
- 2. Nine Hats
- 3. The Dancer
- 4. VW
- 5. Dolores, Take 1
- 6. Bird Suite, Part 1: Kingfisher
- 7. Endless Columns
- 8. Bird Suite, Part 2: Bird Call Blues
- 9. Bird Suite, Part 3: Parasitic Hunter
- 10. Brainfeel
- 11. Dolores, Take 2
Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard – FreeForm, FreeJazz – Fabricio Vieira
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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 …
Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard – Downbeat – John Murph
September 1, 2023In 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 …
Recorded at the Village Vanguard on May 27 and 28th, 2022
Recorded & mixed by Ron Saint Germain
Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk
All compositions by Kris Davis except “Alice in the Congo” by Ronald Shannon Jackson, “The Dancer” by Geri Allen, and “Dolores” by Wayne Shorter. All arrangements by Kris Davis.
“Nine Hats” references “Hat and Beard” by Eric Dolphy and “Study No.9 for Player Piano” by Conlon Nancarrow.
“VW” features a 1991 interview with Sun Ra by Jay Green on KPFA’s “Straight No Chaser.”
“Bird Call Blues” includes the voices of Olivier Messiaen and Paul Bley and is influenced by Messiaen’s “Petites Esquisses D’Oiseaux.”
“Parasitic Hunter” includes the voice of Karlheinz Stockhausen speaking about ‘Intuitive Music’ in a 1972 lecture.
Publishing:
Ronald Shannon Jackson: Cymbata Music, BMI
Geri Allen: Antoinette Music, SESAC
Wayne Shorter: Miyako Music, BMI
Kris Davis: Rye Eclipse Music, SOCAN
Artwork: details of 820 I Pa.Pr. (2022) by Gabriel de la Mora
Panacea prola butterfly wings on museum cardboard
30 x 30 x 2 cm
Courtesy of the artist, Sicardi Ayers Bacino and Proyectos Monclova
Musician photographs by Caroline Mardok
Album design and layout by Spottswood Erving and July Creek for Janky Defense
Thanks to Gabriel de la Mora for the use of his astonishing butterfly work. Thank you to Terri, Julian, Val and Trevor, Jed Eisenman, Deborah Gordon, Steinway & Sons, David Breskin, Chelsea Hadley, Ron Saint Germain, Isabel Breskin, Sylvie Courvoisier, Ned Rothenberg, Caroline Mardok, Milena Casado, María Inés Sicardi, Andrea Lopez Ojeda, Nate Radley and Benjamin Radley.
Pyroclastic has purchased carbon offsets to neutralize the carbon emissions associated with the production and distribution of this album.
© ℗ 2023 by Kris Davis and Pyroclastic Records