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James Davis
James Davis, a Chicago trumpeter and music maker, is comfortable in and enjoys exploring a wide array of musical environments. As a composer, improviser, and educator he is involved in a diverse blend of musical communities in the Chicagoland area.
In addition to leading different formations of his own groups, James has also recently collaborated and/or recorded with Matt Ulery, The Chicago Jazz Orchestra, Chris Dammann's Restroy, The Metropolitan Jazz Octet, The Heritage Jazz Orchestra, and The New Standard Jazz Orchestra. He has performed at many of Chicago’s premier performance venues including The Chicago Jazz Festival, The Green Mill and Jazz Showcase. James’ playing has been heard at famed venues and festivals around the world including The Kennedy Center, The Montreaux Jazz Festival, The North Sea Jazz Festival, and the Montreal Jazz Festival. James has earned recognition as a finalist both in the 2004 International Trumpet Guild Jazz Improvisation Competition and the 2007 Carmine Caruso International Jazz Trumpet Competition and has completed degrees at the University of Texas at Arlington, and at the University of North Texas. At UNT, James had the opportunity to tour and record with the Grammy nominated One O’clock Lab Band and the UNT Wind Symphony.
Arc and Edge
By James Davis
Label: Calligram Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: Long Road Home; Search for Itness; Rothko Sketches; Open Door, Closed Door; Unending
Path; Pamplemousse; Balancing Act; Heartstring Saga; Pulsar; The Blind Watchmaker; As the
Crow Flies.
Christopher Dammann Sextet
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: If I Could Time Travel I Would Mend Your Broken Heart AKA Why Did The Protests Stop; Song For Mabel; No Hope At All Other Than I Don’t Want To Die Today: Part 1; No Hope At All Other Than I Don’t Want To Die Today: Part 2; No Hope At All Other Than I Don’t Want To Die Today: Part 3; When I Was Young and My Heart Had Windows.
Terry Callier, Tobias Meinhart, and The Thing
by Jerome Wilson
This episode features jazz hybrids by Terry Callier, Tone Forest, and The Thing as well as purer genre sounds from the likes of Melissa Aldana, Tobias Meinhart, and Mose Allison. Playlist Henry Threadgill Sextett “I Can't Wait Till I Get Home" from The Complete Novus & Columbia Recordings of Henry Threadgill & Air (Mosaic) ...
James Davis' Beveled: Arc and Edge
by Mark Corroto
Trumpeter James Davis' sextet is aptly named Beveled--a word that means transforming a sharp, square edge into something smoother, more refined. That concept of reshaping and softening defines both the ensemble's instrumentation and its sonic character. Davis sets the tone by trading his bright trumpet for the warmer, more introspective voice of the flugelhorn. He deepens ...
James Davis' Beveled: Arc and Edge
by Jack Bowers
Beveled, according to Webster's, translates roughly to “slanted" or “grooved." On Arc and Edge, flugelhornist James Davis' Chicago-based sextet clearly has its own slant on contemporary post-bop jazz wherein the groove ranges from typically improvised passages to cutting-edge motifs and classical chamber music, using a second flugelhorn, two bass clarinets and rhythm to flesh out the ...
Altus: Animus Live
Label: Passerine Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Recycle (live), What if Everything is Not Enough (live), Animus (live), Kind Folk (live), Train to the City (live), OK Corral (live), Etude From Another Time (live).
Kind Folk
Album: Altus: Animus Live
By Michael Hudson-Casanova
Label: Passerine Records
Released: 2024
Duration: 9:34
Mannerist
By Matt Ulery
Label: Woolgathering Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Bridges; The Brink of What; Another Room of Ornaments; Left Room; Under the Dusken Crown; The
Prairie is a Rolling Ocean.
Animus
Label: Passerine Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Recycle, What If Everything Is Not Enough, The Now, Animus, Etude For Clementine, Continuum, Infinite
Perspective,
Aftermath, Etude For Clementine (Duo Version)
