January 08, 2020

Kris Davis' 'Diatom Ribbons' - "the most versatile and bracing jazz recording of 2019."

'Diatom Ribbons' is the most ambitious project to date by Canadian jazz pianist and composer Kris Davis, but also "her most accessible and inviting". How so? "Incorporating elements of hip-hop, rock, and groove music... with voices, with horns, with electric guitars, with hip-hop techniques, with complex time signatures, and with butt-moving grooves", and with help of Terri Lyne Carrington, Esperanza Spalding, Marc Ribot, and Nels Cline. "It may also be recording from 2019 that most successfully combines thrilling vision and a hunger for repeat listenings" - PopMatters concludes in their review.