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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
The Solastalgia Suite
By Kris Davis
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Interlude; An Invitation to Disappear; Towards No Earthly Pole; The Known End; Ghost Reefs; Pressure & Yield; Life on Venus; Degrees of Separation.
An Invitation to Disappear
Album: The Solastalgia Suite
By Kris Davis
Label: Pyroclastic Records
Released: 2026
Duration: 5:46
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 ...
Naoya Ogura, Bebel Gilberto, Tyrone Allen with Neta Ranaan and The Reverend Al Green
by Hobart Taylor
New Music from Naoya Ogura, Jamile with the Miki Yamanaka Trio, Julia Hulsmann and the Reverend Al Green. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Bebel Gilberto “No Return" from Tanto Tempo (Ziriguiboom) 00:09 Naoya Ogura “Everything Happens to Me" from Colors of a Journey (Bandstand Presents) 4:48 Jamile /Miki Yamanaka “Bodas de Prata/Quatro Cantos" from Pursuit ...
Kris Davis and the Lutoslawski Quartet: The Solastalgia Suite
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 ...
Kris Davis and the Lutoslawski Quartet: The Solastalgia Suite
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 ...
Kris Davis and the Lutoslawski Quartet: The Solastalgia Suite
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 ...
New Music from Seabrook, Lockheart, Eckemoff, Fernando & More
by Bob Osborne
Tradition meets experimentation in this fascinating collection of new releases. Beginning with the eclectic endeavours of Brandon Seabrook, via a mix of latin jazz, European exploration , free improvisation from the UK, a musical statement about the climate crisis, and closing with Thelonious Monk in concert in 1965.Playlist Brandon Seabrook “Name Dropping is the ...
A post generic mix-Rin Seo Collective, Catalyst, Messthetics with James Brandon Lewis, and Shostakovich
by Hobart Taylor
Crossroads: Askew nuanced arrangements from composer Rin Seo, a jazz master class from Thad Jones, Frank Wess, Kenny Burrell, and Mal Waldron, Third Stream explorations from Kris Davis with the Lutoslawski Quartet, and some Shostakovich for context. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 The Messthetics/James Brandon Lewis “Gestations" from Deface The Currency (Impulse) 00:15 Aubrey Johnson ...
