Kris Davis w/ GEORGE w/ Kris Davis

Name: Kris Davis w/ GEORGE w/ Kris Davis
Start: 2025-03-06T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Lilypad Inman

Schedule

Thu, 06 Mar, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Lilypad Inman | Cambridge, MA

8:00PM Kris Davis solo joined by members of GEORGE
9:30PM GEORGE (joined by Kris Davis)
GEORGE:
ANNA WEBBER : TENOR SAXOPHONE, FLUTE, ALTO FLUTE
SARAH ROSSY : VOICE, SYNTHESIZER
CHIQUITAMAGIC : SYNTHESIZERS, VOICE
JOHN HOLLENBECK : DRUMS, GLOCKENSPIEL, COMPOSITION
From vintage funk to infectious electronic futurism, this energetically enigmatic group “likes to blur the distinctions between the knotty virtuosity of jazz and the broad appeal of pop” (Pitchfork). Known as the leader of the prolific and constantly surprising Claudia Quintet, drummer/composer/bandleader John Hollenbeck formed GEORGE remotely during the pandemic. The group finally met in Montréal to record 2023’s Letters to George, followed that summer by shorts, four re-composed remixes based on improvisations from their initial remote recording session. With Anna Webber tenor sax/flute, Sarah Rossy voice/keyboards, and Chiquita Magic keyboards/voice alongside Hollenbeck, GEORGE’s sound is firmly planted outside any categories or labels, but “magic happens in the margins and the middle, between analog and digital textures, genre detours and a
collective will which is dogmatically subject to change” (DownBeat).
Kris Davis is a Grammy award-winning pianist and composer described by The New York Times as a beacon for “deciding where to hear jazz [in New York] on a given night.” Davis has released 24 recordings as a leader or co-leader and collaborated with artists such as Terri Lyne Carrington, Dave Holland, John Zorn, Craig Taborn, Ingrid Laubrock, Tyshawn Sorey and Esperanza Spalding. She was named a 2021 Doris Duke Artist alongside Wayne Shorter and Danilo Perez, Pianist of the Year by DownBeat magazine in 2022 and 2020, and Pianist and Composer of the Year by the Jazz Journalists Association in 2021. In 2019, Kris Davis’ “Diatom Ribbons” was named jazz album of the year by both the New York Times and the NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. The album draws from the musical worlds of free improvisation, spoken word, electronica, mainstream jazz, R&B and rock. In September 2023, Davis released ‘Diatom Ribbons – Live at the Village Vanguard’ featuring Grammy winner and NEA Jazz Master Terri Lyne Carrington on drums, Julian Lage on guitar, Val Jeanty on turntables and electronics, and Trevor Dunn on bass. Davis is the Associate Program Director of Creative Development at the Berklee Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice and the founder of Pyroclastic Records. Davis is a Steinway Artist.