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Kris Davis: The Solastalgia Suite
by Mike Jurkovic
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 ...
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by Alberto Bazzurro
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) ...
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by Glenn Astarita
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 ...
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by Don Phipps
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 ...
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An Invitation to Disappear
From: The Solastalgia SuiteBy Artur Rozmysłowicz
