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Pianist-composer Kris Davis has blossomed as one of the singular talents on the New York jazz scene, a deeply thoughtful, resolutely individual artist who offers “uncommon creative adventure,” according to JazzTimes. The Vancouver-born, Brooklyn-residing Davis was dubbed one of the music’s top up-and-comers in a 2012 New York Times article titled “New Pilots at the Keyboard,” with the newspaper saying: “Over the past couple years in New York, one method for deciding where to hear jazz on a given night has been to track down the pianist Kris Davis.” Reviewing one of the series of striking albums Davis has released over the past half-decade, the Chicago Sun-Times lauded the “sense of kaleidoscopic possibilities” in her playing and compositions. Long favored by her peers and jazz fans in the know, Davis has earned high praise from no less than star pianist and MacArthur “Genius” Grant honoree Jason Moran, who included her in his Best of 2012 piece in Art Forum, writing: “A freethinking, gifted pianist on the scene, Davis lives in each note that she plays

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Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard

Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Alice in The Congo; Nine Hats; The Dancer; VW; Dolores, Take 1; Bird Suite, Part 1: Kingfisher; Endless Columns; Bird Suite, Part 2: Bird Call Blues; Bird Suite, Part 3: Parasitic Hunter; Brainfeel; Dolores, Take 2.

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Article: Book Review

Talking The Groove: Jazz Words From The Morning Star

Read "Talking The Groove: Jazz Words From The Morning Star" reviewed by Chris May


Talking The Groove: Jazz Words From The Morning Star Chris Searle 394 Pages ISBN: 978-1-9163206-7-3 Jazz In Britain 2024 Although Marxist-Leninist theory itself has proved to be, at best, a blind alley--and, at worst, in practice the enemy of the freedoms it claims to champion--writers from the Left ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Chien Chien Lu, Ronald Shannon Jackson and Tim Buckley

Read "Chien Chien Lu, Ronald Shannon Jackson and Tim Buckley" reviewed by Jerome Wilson


This show includes folksingers doing jazz, a Sesame Street song, and several up-and-coming younger players. Musicians heard include Chien Chien Lu, Roy Nathanson, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Amanda Gardier, and Tim Buckley.Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Record ...

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Article: Album Review

Ches Smith: Laugh Ash

Read "Laugh Ash" reviewed by Vic Albani


Dopo lo straordinario lavoro dedicato al Vudù haitiano del 2021 (Path of Seven Colors) anch'esso uscito per la straordinaria Pyroclastic Records di Kris Davis, il batterista, percussionista e compositore Ches Smith, acclamato dal New York Times come “uno dei batteristi più dinamici della scena sperimentale del pianeta," colpisce ancora con un nuovo sorprendente lavoro immensamente variegato, ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

New Releases, Celebrating Jazz Capricorns, Farewell To Jay Clayton & More

Read "New Releases, Celebrating Jazz Capricorns, Farewell To Jay Clayton & More" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast includes new releases from Vanisha Gould & Chris McCarthy, Kristen Edkins, Peter Erskine plus a preview single from Lisa Markley, with birthday shoutouts to Melba Liston, Pamela Samiha Wise, Margaret Slovak, Ruth Brown, Michelle Walker, Jessica Molaskey, Douyé, Dee Daniels, Lisa Markley, Kris Davis and Ingrid Jensen, among others. At the close of the ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Kris Davis: Defining Jazz's Vanguard

Read "Kris Davis: Defining Jazz's Vanguard" reviewed by Lawrence Peryer


Today, the Spotlight shines On Grammy-winning pianist and composer Kris Davis. Kris joined us in the wake of the September 2023 release of her album Live at the Village Vanguard (Pyroclastic Records). Live at the Village Vanguard is the second release from her band Diatom Ribbons, an adventurous quintet featuring drummer Terri ...

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Article: Year in Review

Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023

Read "Ludovico Granvassu's Garden of Jazzy Delights 2023" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


If it is true that, like The Police once put it, “when the world is going down you make the best of what's still around," then throughout 2023 jazz fans were better off than most other social groups. In a year in which everyday news brought ever more inconceivable disappointments, jazz musicians, labels, festivals and venues ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

A Few More of My Favorite 2023 Jazz Things - Part 2

Read "A Few More of My Favorite 2023 Jazz Things - Part 2" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


It's that time of the year when we look back at the past twelve months and realize that jazz continues to be possibly the only thing that doesn't let us down, while the world is getting crazier by the hour. So here we are again, sharing a few mores tunes we've loved the most in the ...

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As Things Do

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Bury the Lede; Rewind; In Turn; Rockaway Beach; Cracked Bells; Entropy; I Don’t Think So; Gone Home.


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