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NPR Jazz Critics poll names Kris Davis’ Diatom Ribbons #1 Jazz album of 2019!
Kris Davis Diatom Ribbons (Pyroclastic) At a glance, an odd candidate for consensus: Kris Davis, an improviser-composer with the instinct of an alchemist, made Diatom Ribbons by drawing inspiration from oceanic microbiology, tectonic movement and piano precursors ranging from Messiaen…
New York times names Kris Davis’s ‘Diatom Ribbons’ as #1 Jazz Album of 2019!
KRIS DAVIS, ‘DIATOM RIBBONS’ Kris Davis, 39, has spent years as her generation’s powerhouse pianist in waiting. No longer. On “Diatom Ribbons,” her skills as a composer, band assembler, system builder and improviser — a musical auteur, basically — come…
Pitchfork – Kris Davis – Diatom Ribbons
by Seth Colter Walls Aided by Nels Cline, Marc Ribot, and Esperanza Spalding, the New York pianist and her band mix lyrical song form, turntablism, and avant-garde strategies in unusually fluid fashion. Not long after Cecil Taylor’s death, the Tzadik…
New York Times – Kris Davis, a Pianist Fighting for Fringe Music
by Giovanni Russonello The prolific musician has started a nonprofit and taken a leadership role at Berklee College of Music. On a new album, “Diatom Ribbons,” she continues to make her point clear. Kris Davis is working to guide challenging…
Kris Davis Joins Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice
By Tori Donahue Berklee Now A world-renowned jazz pianist and composer, Davis has been praised by The New York Times, JazzTimes, and DownBeat.Acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Kris Davis will join the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice this fall. – Image…
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News & Reviews
NPR Jazz Critics poll names Kris Davis’ Diatom Ribbons #1 Jazz album of 2019!
Kris Davis Diatom Ribbons (Pyroclastic) At a glance, an odd candidate for consensus: Kris Davis, an improviser-composer with the instinct of an alchemist, made Diatom Ribbons by drawing inspiration from oceanic microbiology, tectonic movement and piano precursors ranging from Messiaen…
New York times names Kris Davis’s ‘Diatom Ribbons’ as #1 Jazz Album of 2019!
KRIS DAVIS, ‘DIATOM RIBBONS’ Kris Davis, 39, has spent years as her generation’s powerhouse pianist in waiting. No longer. On “Diatom Ribbons,” her skills as a composer, band assembler, system builder and improviser — a musical auteur, basically — come…
Pitchfork – Kris Davis – Diatom Ribbons
by Seth Colter Walls Aided by Nels Cline, Marc Ribot, and Esperanza Spalding, the New York pianist and her band mix lyrical song form, turntablism, and avant-garde strategies in unusually fluid fashion. Not long after Cecil Taylor’s death, the Tzadik…
New York Times – Kris Davis, a Pianist Fighting for Fringe Music
by Giovanni Russonello The prolific musician has started a nonprofit and taken a leadership role at Berklee College of Music. On a new album, “Diatom Ribbons,” she continues to make her point clear. Kris Davis is working to guide challenging…
Kris Davis Joins Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice
By Tori Donahue Berklee Now A world-renowned jazz pianist and composer, Davis has been praised by The New York Times, JazzTimes, and DownBeat.Acclaimed jazz pianist and composer Kris Davis will join the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice this fall. – Image…