Jazz Articles about Anthony Davis

About Anthony Davis

Album Review

Wadada Leo Smith: America's National Parks

Read "America's National Parks" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan

by Dan McClenaghan
September 27, 2016

Trumpeter Wadada Leo Smith has a feel for the epic in his art, on recordings like: America (Tzadik Records, 2009), a duet set with drummer Jack DeJohnette; “America's Third Century Spiritual Awakening," from his first Golden Quartet (Tzadik Records, 2000) outing; Occupy The World (TUM Records, 2013), with the Finish big band, Tumo; The Great Lakes Suite (TUM Records, 2014), and his massive four disc master work, Ten Freedom Summers (Cuneiform Records, 2012), inspired by America's civil rights movement.

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Live Review

Anthony Davis Ensemble Live at Dizzy's San Diego, February 20, 2011

by Robert Bush
March 5, 2011

Anthony Davis EnsembleDizzy's, San DiegoSan Diego, CAFebruary 20, 2011 Composer and pianist Anthony Davis is a modern day renaissance man. Not only is he a master of multiple jazz disciplines, he also has composed several critically acclaimed operas. His classical works have often dealt with controversial subjects, such as Tania, (about Patty Hearst), and Amistad (the famous 1839 slave-ship rebellion). Davis, who has spent the last several years teaching at UCSD's justifiably lauded music ...

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Profile

Anthony Davis

by Wilbur MacKenzie
July 26, 2008

This month brings to the city two performances by pianist and composer Anthony Davis, who has been living in Southern California for the last decade. Prior to his immigration to the West Coast, Davis was active in New York and his return brings an improvisational voice sorely missed in the city where he made his home for so many years. Anthony Davis was born in 1951 in Paterson, NJ, attended Yale University, graduating in 1975. Davis' father Charles ...