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Radio & Podcasts

Kris Davis Trio, Trumpeter Giveton Gelin, Steve Swallow's latest + Poet Anne Waldman, Thurston Moore and James Ilgenfritz set Willam S. Burroughs' Cut Ups to Music

by Hobart Taylor
September 23, 2026

New music from the Kris Davis Trio, pianist Marta Warelis, poet Saul Williams, and rising trumpet star Gaveton Gelin. Host Speaks 00:00 Agneya Chitke “ Naima" from Agneya (Self-Produced) 00:13 Kris Davis Trio “Congestion Pricing" from Lost In Geneva (4166 Records) 05:41 Host Speaks 13:54 Saul Williams “Baobab Constellations (feat. Carlos Niño)" from Leap Life (Big Dada) 15:26 Marta Warelis “Alternate Endings" from Still Life with Lemons (Relative Pitch) 21:44 Host Speaks 32:32 Justus Eichhorn “Etude in ...

Album Review

The Kris Davis Trio: Lost In Geneva

Read "Lost In Geneva" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
September 19, 2026

Lost in Geneva begins in that spatial, metro-rush way a lot of pianist/composer/provocateur Kris Davis' excursions into the city do. But it soon skews into its own glacial swath, like many of Davis' excursions into the city. Ergo, “The Subtext," a fierce workout by any means or description and its successor, “Congestion Pricing," a study in immediate subversiveness. But Lost in Geneva (the first release on the pianist's new imprint, 4166 Records) is not all about immediacy or ...

Radio & Podcasts

Kris Davis: Grammy Winner And Musical Explorer

by Doug Hall
July 11, 2026

Our guest is Kris Davis, Grammy Award-winning jazz pianist, composer and bandleader, who released the acclaimed recording Run the Gauntlet in 2024, with her superb trio featuring bassist Robert Hurst and drummer Johnathan Blake. Davis has released 26 recordings as a leader or co-leader and collaborated with artists such as Terri Lyne Carrington, Dave Holland, John Zorn, Craig Taborn, Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey and Esperanza Spalding. She was named a 2021 Doris Duke Artist, alongside Wayne Shorter and Danilo Perez, ...

Album Review

Kris Davis: The Solastalgia Suite

Read "The Solastalgia Suite" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
April 28, 2026

For her first excursion into string quartet writing, Canadian pianist Kris Davis shapes a restless interplay of atmospheric texture and rhythmic urgency on The Solastalgia Suite. The title takes its cue from philosopher Glenn Albrecht's term for mourning environmental loss, a concept that resonates throughout the work's uneasy lyricism. Commissioned by the Jazztopad Festival in Wrocław for the Lutosławski Quartet--following previous contributions from Craig Taborn, James Brandon Lewis, and Vijay Iyer--the suite was captured during the festival's 2024 edition in ...

Album Review

Kris Davis: The Solastalgia Suite

Read "The Solastalgia Suite" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic

by Mike Jurkovic
February 4, 2026

Pianist/composer/raconteur Kris Davis dazzles again with The Solastalgia Suite, her headfirst dive into third stream composition. Echoing Ravel's harmonic conversations and guided by the environmental philosopher Glenn Albrecht, who describes his concept of solastalgia as a form of homesickness while we are still at home, Davis and Poland's revered Lutosławski Quartet, named for twentieth-century Polish composer Witold Lutosławski, sear into the slicing opener, “Interlude," with a furor only those generations threatened with death by storm front understand. But ...

Album Review

Kris Davis and the Lutoslawski Quartet: The Solastalgia Suite

Read "The Solastalgia Suite" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
January 26, 2026

La pianista e compositrice canadese--ma ormai newyorchese d'adozione--Kris Davis, fra le personalità più interessanti affermatesi nel jazz di questa prima fetta di terzo millennio, va qui oltre quanto da lei fatto finora, almeno concettualmente, visto che si abbina a uno degi quartetti d'archi a sua volta più illustri di questi stessi anni per attraversare una propria suite in otto movimenti dalle movenze (perdonate il gioco di parole) squisitamente “contemporanee" (un tempo si sarebbe parlato, non a torto, di third stream) ...

Album Review

Kris Davis and the Lutoslawski Quartet: The Solastalgia Suite

Read "The Solastalgia Suite" reviewed by Glenn Astarita

by Glenn Astarita
January 24, 2026

Kris Davis, the Vancouver-born, Brooklyn-based pianist and composer, stands as one of contemporary jazz’ most visionary figures. A master improviser and bandleader, she has earned multiple DownBeat Critics Poll Pianist of the Year honors, received a Doris Duke Artist Award and co-led the 2023 Grammy-winning album New Standards Vol. 1 (Candid, 2023) for Best Jazz Instrumental Album. These accolades merely confirm what her body of work has long suggested: Davis operates well ahead of the curve.Known for her ...