Kris Davis


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Canadian jazz pianist born 1980 in Vancouver, based in New York. Davis studied classical piano at the Royal Conservatory of Music and got the Bachelor at the University of Toronto. 1997 and 2000 she visited the Jazz-Programm of the Banff Centre for the Arts, with Tony Malaby. In 2006 she studied with Benoît Delbecq in Paris. She was named 2017 Rising Star Pianist/2018 Rising Star Artist in Downbeat magazine and dubbed one of the music’s top up-and-comers in a 2012 New York Times article titled “New Pilots at the Keyboard,”. She teaches at the Maine Jazz Camp and at the Queens College. Davis works as a collaborator and side person with artists such as John Zorn, Ingrid Jensen, Terri Lyne Carrington, Craig Taborn, Chris Speed, Tyshawn Sorey, Eric Revis, Michael Formanek, Tony Malaby, Ingrid Laubrock, Julian Lage, Mary Halvorson and Tom Rainey.

ALBA


Borderlands Trio, Stephan Crump, Kris Davis, Eric McPherson
Rewilder
2024, 2xCD, Album, Intakt Records
Kris Davis
Diatom Ribbons Live At The Village Vanguard
2023, 2xCD, Album, Pyroclastic Records, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, Nicholas Payton, Matthew Stevens, Linda Oh
New Standards, Vol. 1
2022
Borderlands Trio, Stephan Crump, Kris Davis, Eric McPherson
Wandersphere
2021, 2xCD, Album, Intakt Records, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Hafez Modirzadeh With Kris Davis, Tyshawn Sorey, Craig Taborn
Facets
2021, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Øyvind Skarbø, Fredrik Ljungkvist, Kris Davis, Ole Morten Vågan
Inland Empire
2020, CD, Album, Clean Feed
Ingrid Laubrock + Kris Davis
Blood Moon
2020, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Ken Vandermark With Kris Davis • Hamid Drake • Paul Lytton • Ikue Mori • William Parker
Momentum 4 (Consequent Duos: 2015>2019)
2019, 5xCD, Album + Box, Ltd, Num, Audiographic Records, ,
Free Jazz
Kris Davis - Dave Douglas
Musicophilia
2019, File, FLAC, Greenleaf Music
Nick Fraser / Kris Davis / Tony Malaby With Ingrid Laubrock & Lina Allemano
Zoning
2019
Kris Davis
Diatom Ribbons
2019, CD, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Kris Davis & Craig Taborn
Octopus
2018, CD, Album, Pyroclastic Records, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz
Kris Davis, Matt Mitchell (6), Aruán Ortiz, Matthew Shipp
New American Songbooks Volume 2
2018, LP, Sound American
Michael Formanek Elusion Quartet, Tony Malaby, Kris Davis, Ches Smith
Time Like This
2018
Borderlands Trio, Stephan Crump, Kris Davis, Eric McPherson
Asteroidea
2017, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Nick Fraser With Tony Malaby & Kris Davis
Too Many Continents
2015, CD, Album, Clean Feed
Devin Gray, Kris Davis, Chris Speed, Chris Tordini*
RelativE ResonancE
2015, CD, Album, Skirl Records
Stephen Davis*, Ralph Alessi, Kris Davis
Sugar Blade
2015, CD, Album, Babel, ,
Free Jazz
Michael Musillami Trio, Kris Davis, Jimmy Greene, Mark Feldman
Pride
2014, 2xCD, Album, Playscape Recordings, ,
Free Jazz
3 D (3) : Dąbrowski*, Davis*, Drury*
Vermilion Tree
2014
Kris Davis
Capricorn Climber
2013, CD, Album, Clean Feed, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Ingrid Laubrock, Tom Rainey, Kris Davis, Ralph Alessi, Lark
Lark
2013, CD, Album, Skirl Records, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Kris Davis
Massive Threads
2013, CD, Album, Thirsty Ear
Eric Revis Feat. Kris Davis And Andrew Cyrille
City Of Asylum
2013, CD, Album, Clean Feed, ,
Free Improvisation/Contemporary Jazz
Paradoxical Frog (2), Kris Davis, Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey
Union
2012, CD, Album, Clean Feed, ,
Free Improvisation
Kris Davis
Aeriol Piano
2011, CD, Album, Clean Feed, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Kris Davis / Ingrid Laubrock / Tyshawn Sorey : Paradoxical Frog
Paradoxical Frog
2010, CD, Album, Clean Feed
Kris Davis
Good Citizen
2010, CD, Album, Fresh Sound New Talent, ,
Free Improvisation
Kris Davis
Rye Eclipse
2008, CD, Album, Fresh Sound New Talent, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Kris Davis
The Slightest Shift
2006, CD, Album, Fresh Sound New Talent, ,
Free Improvisation
Kris Davis
Lifespan
2004, CD, Album, Fresh Sound New Talent, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz
John Zorn
John Zorn's Bagatelles (Vol. 5-8)
2021, Box, Ltd + 4xCD, Album, Tzadik, Tzadik, Tzadik, Tzadik
Kris Davis Trio
Waiting For You To Grow
2014, CD, Album, Clean Feed, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Improvisation
Tony Malaby's Novela
Tony Malaby's Novela
2011, CD, Album, Clean Feed
SKM
Three
2010, CD, Album, Clean Feed, ,
Free Improvisation
The Kris Davis Trio
Run The Gauntlet
2024
Michael Formanek Elusion Quartet
As Things Do
2023, CD, Album, Intakt Records, ,
Avant-garde Jazz
Winged Serpents
Six Encomiums for Cecil Taylor
2018, CD, Album, Tzadik
Michael Formanek Elusion Quartet
Time Like This
2018, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Tom Rainey Obbligato
Float Upstream
2017, CD, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Sarah Bernstein Quartet
Still/Free
2016, CD, Album, Leo Records
Eric Revis Trio
Crowded Solitudes
2016, CD, Album, Clean Feed, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Avant-garde Jazz
Kris Davis Infrasound
Save Your Breath
2015, CD, Album, Clean Feed, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House
Roulette Of The Cradle
2015, CD, ,
Free Improvisation
Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House
Strong Place
2013, CD, Album, Intakt Records, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz
Ingrid Laubrock Anti-House
Anti-House
2010, CD, Album, Intakt Records, ,
Free Improvisation
RIDD Quartet
Fiction Avalanche
2008, CD, Album, Clean Feed

KOMPILACE +


Kris Davis
Duopoly
2016, CD, Album + DVD-V, NTSC, Pyroclastic Records
Ivanna Cuesta
A Letter To The Earth
2024, 6xFile, FLAC, Album, Orenda Records
Julian Lage
Speak To Me
2024
Kassa Overall
Animals
2023,
Mark Dresser
Tines Of Change
2023, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Improvisation
Rob Mazurek Quartet
Father's Wing
2022, CD, Album, Rogueart, ,
Avant-garde Jazz/Free Jazz
Tony Malaby's Sabino
The Cave Of Winds
2022, CD, Album, Pyroclastic Records
Walter Smith III, Matthew Stevens
In Common III
2022
David Leon
Aire De Agua
2021, CD, Album, Out Of Your Head Records
Eric Revis
Slipknots Through A Looking Glass
2020, CD, Album, Pyroclastic Records
Tineke Postma
Freya
2020
Spring Roll
Episodes
2019, CD, Album, Clean Feed
Různí
Option 1
2019, 2xCD, Album, Corbett vs. Dempsey
Rob Mazurek
Desert Encrypts Vol. 1
2019, CD, Album, Astral Spirits
Ben Goldberg
Good Day For Cloud Fishing
2019, CD, Album, Pyroclastic Records
Noah Preminger Group
Zigsaw: Music Of Steve Lampert
2019, CD, Album, Not On Label (Noah Preminger Self-Released),
Armen Nalbandian
Prayer
2018, 5xFile, FLAC, Album, Blacksmith Brother
Francisco Mela
Ancestros
2018, LP, Album, Newvelle Records
Různí
Clusters: American Piano Explorations
2018, CD, Album, New World Records, ,
Contemporary
Ingrid Laubrock
Contemporary Chaos Practices / Two Works For Orchestra With Soloists
2018
Eric Revis
Sing Me Some Cry
2017, CD, Album, Clean Feed
Max Johnson
In The West
2017, CD, Album, Clean Feed, ,
Contemporary Jazz/Free Jazz
Sam Bardfeld
The Great Enthusiasms
2017, CD, bjurecords,
Kristo Rodzevski
The Rabbit And The Fallen Sycamore
2017
Dave Douglas
Metamorphosis
2017, CD, ,
Free Improvisation
Christopher Hoffman
Silver Cord Quintet
2016, 9xFile, FLAC, Album, Asclepius Records
Michael Formanek, Ensemble Kolossus
The Distance
2016
Matt Bauder And Day In Pictures
Nightshades
2014, CD, Album, Clean Feed, ,
Post Bop/Free Jazz
Různí
DAMN!
2014, CDr, Comp, Chmafu Nocords
Tom Rainey
Obbligato
2014, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Andrea Wolper
Parallel Lives
2011, CD, Album, Jazzed Media
Sara Serpa
Mobile
2011, CD, Album, Inner Circle Music
Kermit Driscoll
Reveille
2010, CD, Album, Nineteen-Eight Records, ,
Contemporary Jazz
Jeff Davis
We Sleep Outside
2010, CD, Album, Loyal Label
Jon Irabagon's Outright!
Outright!
2008, CD, Album, Innova Recordings
Rocket Engine
What Is This That Stands Before Me?
2007, CD, Album, Loyal Label, ,
Heavy Metal
Trevor Dunn
Flexes For Carrieta White Mix-Tape Vol 3
2020, Cassette, ,
Experimental
K-wix
Cave Story Remix Project
2006, 2xCD, Album, Comp, Not On Label (K-wix Self-released), ,
Soundtrack