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Zorn Bagatelles: March 30- Elbphilharmonie (Hamburg, Germany) April 2- Philharmonie de Paris (Paris, France) Solo Performance: April 4- Centro D’Arte (Padova, Italy) Eric Revis Quartet with Ken Vandermark, Chad Taylor and Kris Davis April 5- Alter Schlachthof (Wels) April 6- Porgy and Bess (Vienna) April 7- Stockwerk (Graz) April 8- AMR (Geneva) April 9- Jamboree (Barcelona) April … Read more

The Jazz Gallery’s Alone Together piano Festival happens on April 22/23rd and should prove to be an interesting night of solo piano performances by Fabian Almazan, Aaron Parks, Theo Hill, Luis Perdomo and myself.  I go on a solo European tour between May 11-19 (see calendar). Also, I’m very excited to be playing John’s Zorn’s … Read more

Very excited to announce that I will perform at the Newport Jazz festival in July this year! I will be performing twice- a solo concert and with Eric Revis’ quartet with Ken Vandermark and Nasheet Waits! In March, Eric Revis’ new trio record is coming out on Cleanfeed with Eric, myself and Gerald Cleaver. We … Read more

I’m very excited to announce that I was chosen to receive a 2015 Doris Duke Impact Award along with Tyshawn Sorey, Matt Mitchell, Henry Threadgill, Mark Dresser, Milford Graves and Mark Dresser.  More information can be found here. Also, I just found out that I made 2nd place in the category of Rising Star Pianist … Read more

My project for 4 bass clarinets (Ben Goldberg, Andrew Bishop, Oscar Noriega, Joachim Badenhorst) with organ (Gary Versace), guitar (Nate Radley), drums (Jim Black) and piano (me!) is coming out soon on Clean Feed.  Here’s a video about the project and the upcoming release on Clean Feed Records.  

I am honored to present a series of projects I am involved in as well as my own projects at the Stone between June 24-29th. June 24 – 8pm, the collective quartet LARK with Ralph Alessi, Tom Rainey, Ingrid Laubrock and Kris Davis and 10pm Tom Rainey’s Obbligato featuring Ralph Alessi, Ingrid Laubrock, Drew Gress, … Read more

As part of a residency at Cornelia Street Cafe, I will perform with 2 of my well established groups and one experimental ensemble. This will take place on the last Saturday of September, October and November.  See below… September 28th- Kris Davis Trio with Tom Rainey and John Hebert.  Performing the music I composed for … Read more

Really looking forward to playing with Eric Revis’s trio (Eric Revis, myself and Andrew Cyrille) again at the Vision Festival (Saturday June 15th at 8:45).   Also looking forward to playing with LARK (Ralph Alessi, Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey and myself) at the Red Hook Jazz Festival (June 16th at 1pm). Heres the New York … Read more

Through the Jerome Foundation, the Jazz Gallery commissioned me to compose a series of new works in the month of April.  I composed a series of new pieces for my working trio with Tom Rainey and John Hebert.  Looking forward to premiering the new music in Europe next week (see dates below) and in New … Read more