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Chris Davis

Home Cookin'

By Cory Weeds

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2024
Track listing: Home Cookin'; Corner Kisses; Blossoms in May; Power Station; Thedia; Lullaby of the Leaves; Metamorphosis.

Holiday Music with Donald Vega, Band Of Other Brothers, JD Allen, Nicole Henry and more

by Benjamin Boddie
December 18, 2024

Today's Music--Right Now! Holiday Music by Donald Vega, Band Of Other Brothers, JD Allen, Scott Drier, Nicole Henry, Rosemary Clooney, Wynton Marsalis, Oscar Peterson, Kevin Mahogany, Etta James, Scott Hamilton, Vanessa Rubin, Billie Holiday, Benny Carter, Kurt Elling, Eric Reed, Nnenna Freelon, Javon Jackson, Al Jarreau, Diana Krall, Nat King Cole, and more. Playlist ...

Chicago Jazz Philharmonic Chamber Ensemble: Havana Blue

by Jack Bowers
August 13, 2016

With diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Cuba warming, the chances for musical reciprocity have escalated apace. As one who has long admired the music of our neighboring island the the south, Chicago-based trumpeter / composer Orbert Davis was quick to seize the initiative, spending nine days in Havana with Cuban-born choreographer Frank Chavez in October ...

Cellar Live Records: The Finest in Live Jazz Recordings

by Mike Oppenheim
February 25, 2014

Cellar Live Records is a contemporary jazz label located in Vancouver, British Columbia. Jazz saxophonist and producer Cory Weeds founded the label in 2001, one year after purchasing The Cellar Restaurant and Jazz Club (later renamed Cory Weeds' Jazz Cellar). Since that time, Cellar Live Records has released over seventy albums. Performers at Cory ...

The Night Crawlers: Down in the Bottom

by Raul d'Gama Rose
April 5, 2011

Various shades of indigo, as in the blues, are more than suggested on Down in the Bottom, by Vancouver, Canada's The Night Crawlers. The music is crafted around the alliterative, musical hyperbole-flinging sound of the Hammond B3 organ. Cofounder Cory Weeds suggests that this is tribute to the Hammond B3 bands of the '50s and '60s, ...

Baile Bonita

By Chris Davis

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2010
Track listing: Sweetie Pie; West 42nd Street; All That Glitters; Baile Bonita; You Dig; Iniquity; Walk In The Rain; He Be Struttin'; King of Hearts.

Chris Davis: Baile Bonita

by Raul d'Gama Rose
April 18, 2010

Just over a year ago in 2009, trumpeter Chris Davis debuted at Vancouver's Cellar Restaurant and Jazz Club and was captured on the Cellar Live label. A Night Remembered launched the recording career of a fine young musician who had moved northwest of the border, from Florida. Davis displayed the broad, round tonal legacy of Fats ...

A Night Remembered

By Chris Davis

Label: Cellar Music Group
Released: 2009
Track listing: Thru Traffic; Elevation; Happy-Go-Lucky Local; Gypsy Jingle Jangle; Infant Eyes; Nothing Serious.

Chris Davis: A Night Remembered

by Raul d'Gama Rose
February 13, 2009

The air is charged, not the least because the trumpet player displays remarkable chops. Add to that the fact that his band is right there with him--the saxophonist, trombonist, pianist, bassist and drummer. This is not just any live recording; it is the debut of the fine Florida-born-Vancouver-based trumpeter, Chris Davis on A Night Remembered. Once ...