Jazz Articles about Kris Davis

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Album Review

Kris Davis and the Lutoslawski Quartet: The Solastalgia Suite

Read "The Solastalgia Suite" reviewed by Don Phipps

by Don Phipps
January 23, 2026

Kris Davis's The Solastalgia Suite is a towering achievement. Straddling the diverse worlds of modern classical and jazz idioms, Davis, already a notable heavyweight on the jazz scene, has moved to another level, the emergence of a kind of beyond jazz. Here, teamed with the Lutoslawski Quartet--Roksana Kwasnikowska (1st violin), Marcin Markowicz (2nd violin), Artur Rozmysłowicz (viola), and Maciej Młodawski (cello)--Davis brings her skills as a composer and pianist to eight tracks of challenging, sublime, chaotic but controlled beauty and ...

Live Review

Kris Davis Trio al Torrione di Ferrara

by Libero Farnè
May 15, 2025

Kris Davis Trio Jazz Club Il Torrione Ferrara in Jazz Ferrara 10 maggio 2025 Con il concerto del Kris Davis Trio, in cui la pianista canadese viene affiancata da Robert Hurst al contrabbasso e Johnathan Blake alla batteria, si è chiusa la sempre ricca stagione 2024-25 del Torrione Jazz Club. Era questa la prima apparizione in assoluto della Davis a Ferrara; irrinunciabile quindi l'occasione di ascoltare dal vivo questa formazione, il cui disco, Run ...

Album Review

Kris Davis: Run the Gauntlet

Read "Run the Gauntlet" reviewed by John Sharpe

by John Sharpe
January 8, 2025

While Kris Davis hews close to the hallowed piano trio format on Run The Gauntlet, her first return to the set-up since Waiting For You To Grow (Clean Feed, 2014), she inevitably gives it a few intriguing twists. By recruiting bassist Robert Hurst, alumni of Tony Williams, Steve Coleman and Wynton and Branford Marsalis, and drummer Johnathan Blake, a Blue Note leader also to be heard with Kenny Barron, Ravi Coltrane and Pharoah Sanders, she ensures a driving beat which ...

Multiple Reviews

Kris Davis and Younee: Keys To The Eighty-Eights

by Doug Collette
December 11, 2024

The role of pianist has been crucial to the evolution of jazz throughout its history. To that end, Art Tatum, McCoy Tyner and Bill Evans have achieved iconic status over the decades and, in more recent years, Brad Mehldau and Fred Hersch have laid the groundwork for their own ascents to similarly hallowed positions, Meanwhile Diana Krall has achieved no little popular success and perhaps not coincidentally, during this same contemporaneous period, other skilled distaff musicians including Renee Rosnes, Tania ...

Album Review

Kris Davis Trio: Run the Gauntlet

Read "Run the Gauntlet" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro

by Alberto Bazzurro
November 7, 2024

Innanzitutto le dediche: a Geri Allen, Marilyn Crispell, Angelica Sanchez, Carla Bley, Renee Rosnes, Sylvie Courvoisier, sei colleghe di strumento (e non solo), ognuna con la sua brava colonnina esplicativa nel booklet che accompagna il CD, a cui Kris Davis si sente evidentemente vicina. Poi la musica: un piano trio pieno, vitale, contemporaneo ma senza eccessi, come già l'iniziale title--track, tredici minuti di un jazz fluente, privo di particolari barriere, ci dice eloquentemente. Poi, però, ecco subito appresso ...

Radio & Podcasts

Kris Davis Trio, Propulsion and Porchbone

by Maurice Hogue
September 24, 2024

This week features the first trio recording by pianist Kris Davis in ten years--Run The Gauntlet. It's on her own label, Pyroclastic, and of course it's excellent. The potent avant-garde scene of Chicago emerges on Propulsion in the form of a new quartet led by saxophonist Dave Rempis, while the free jazz scene of NYC contributes another Live At Scholes Street Studio session, this time with saxophonist Stephen Gauci, drummer Kevin Shea and bassist Adam Lane. Another Adam--O'Farrill--shows why he's ...

Radio & Podcasts

Kris Davis, Luke Stewart, Rob Mazurek and More

by Hobart Taylor
September 11, 2024

New music from Kris Davis, Luke Stewart and Silt Remembrance Ensemble, Rob Mazurek's Exploding Star Orchestra and more. Playlist Rahsaan Barber “The Long Wait For Justice" from Six Words (Jazz Music City) 0:00 Kris Davis “Knotweed “ from Run The Gauntlet (Pyroclastic) 6:15 Luke Stewart and Silt Remembrance Ensemble “ATTENTION !!!"from The Order (Self Produced) 14:20 Host Speaks 26:14 Satoko Fujii “Low" from Dog Days of Summer (Libra) 29:00 m: Andile Khumalo “The Broken Mirrors of Time (featuring ...