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Pianist-composer Kris Davis has blossomed as one of the singular talents on the New York jazz scene, a deeply thoughtful, resolutely individual artist who offers “uncommon creative adventure,” according to JazzTimes. The Vancouver-born, Brooklyn-residing Davis was dubbed one of the music’s top up-and-comers in a 2012 New York Times article titled “New Pilots at the Keyboard,” with the newspaper saying: “Over the past couple years in New York, one method for deciding where to hear jazz on a given night has been to track down the pianist Kris Davis.” Reviewing one of the series of striking albums Davis has released over the past half-decade, the Chicago Sun-Times lauded the “sense of kaleidoscopic possibilities” in her playing and compositions. Long favored by her peers and jazz fans in the know, Davis has earned high praise from no less than star pianist and MacArthur “Genius” Grant honoree Jason Moran, who included her in his Best of 2012 piece in Art Forum, writing: “A freethinking, gifted pianist on the scene, Davis lives in each note that she plays
A Letter To The Earth
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Chaos; Human vs. Human; A Letter to the Earth; Ongoing Cycles; Duality; Este Lugar.
Reflection Of Another Self
Label: Candid Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: THIS IS MY HAIR (!);
O.C.T (Oda to the Crazy Times);
Yet I Can See;
Introspection I - I;
Lidia y los Libros;
Unconditional Love;
Introspection II - Preguntas;
Circles;
Let’s Paint the World;
Introspection III - Courage;
Resilience;
Circles (Retrospection);
SELF LOVE.
New Music From Politzer, Davis, West, Genovese & More
by Bob Osborne
This set moves through solo sketches, trio interplay, and full ensemble fire, tracing acoustic and electric textures across studio, live, and archival formats. It opens with flowing piano, moves into exploratory trio improvisation, and shifts between guitar meditations, reworked soul and rock standards, and tightly arranged ensemble writing. Abstract textures and ambient passages emerge mid-set, followed ...
New releases honoring Kenny Wheeler + Tomeka Reid, Shawn Lovato with Ingrid Laubrock and music from the Charles Tyler Ensemble Resurfaces
by Hobart Taylor
Dave Holland and Norma Winstone, Etienne Charles and Emma Rawicz, celebrate Kenny Wheeler on two new releases. New music from Jane Ira Bloom, Zachary Wilder and Kris Davis with the Lutoslawski String Quartet. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Yelena Eckemoff “Ruins of Alvsborg" from Ruins of Alvsborg (L&H) 00:16 Kenny Wheeler Legacy /Etienne Charles/Emma Rawicz ...
Loren Schoenberg And His Jazz Orchestra, Lisa Hilton, Tomoko Omura, Lafayette Harris, Jr., Denise King, Kris Davis
by Mary Foster Conklin
This broadcast includes new releases from Loren Schoenberg And His Jazz Orchestra, Lisa Hilton, Tomoko Omura, Lafayette Harris, Jr., Denise King, Kris Davis, with birthday shoutouts to Sheila Jordan, Gloria Lynne, Hoagy Carmichael, Dr. John and Whitney Ross-Barris, among others plus more Grammy nominees. Happy listening and please support the artists you hear--see them live, buy ...
Aditi Malhotra, Indian Hindu-influenced jazz vocalist and composer from New Delhi
by Doug Hall
Today our musical guest is jazz artist Aditi Malhotra, a vocalist and composer from New Delhi, India. With an early background in Hindustani Classical Music, and later influences in jazz and Black American music, and Brazilian music, she has performed at notable venues such as the NCPA Mumbai and the Kennedy Center in Washington DC. She ...
Now and Then - Fieldwork, LaTanya Hall, Tomas Fujiwara new releases, and tunes from Kris Davis and Mary lou Williams
by Hobart Taylor
New Music from Fieldwork (Steve Lehman, Tyshawn Sorey, and Vijay Iyer), Tomas Fujiwara and Jon Irabagon, and call backs from Kris Davis and Mary Lou Williams.Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Kris Davis “Bird Call Blues" from Diatom Ribbons (Live at the Village Vanguard) (Pyroclastic) 00:14 Tomas Fujiwara “Mobilize" from Dream Up (Out Of Your Head) ...
Radio Eclectica: 360 Degrees of Jazz and Jazz Adjacent Musics
by Hobart Taylor
New Music from Robin Holcomb with Peggy Lee, Lafayette Gilchrist, Sylvie Courvoisier with Wadada Leo Smith, and folklorist John Lomax III. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Ellen Rowe “Refractions" from Vinton's Cove (Sleddog Records) 00:15 John Lomax III “Ain't No Cane on Dis Brazos" from American Folk Songs (Self Produced) 8:51 Robin Holcomb Peggy Lee ...
Nels Cline: Trio Of Bloom
by Vic Albani
La straordinaria etichetta Pyroclastic Records, guidata da Kris Davis, aggiunge un altro gioiello alla sua collezione di incisioni di questo primo decennio di attività. Protagonista questa volta è un trio d'eccezione: Craig Taborn, Nels Cline e Marcus Gilmore. L'idea nasce dal produttore e poeta David Breskin, mente creativa dietro l'etichetta e collaboratore di lunga ...
