Friday, April 8th – Jazz Listings The New York Times By NATE CHINEN
Jeff Davis (Saturday and Wednesday) Mr. Davis, a versatile and texture-aware drummer, appears on Saturday with a quintet much like the one on his exploratory debut, “We Sleep Outside” (Loyal Label). Next Wednesday he introduces a new trio with a pair of familiar partners, the pianist Russ Lossing and the bassist Eivind Opsvik. Saturday at 9 and 10:30 p.m., Tea Lounge, 837 Union Street, near Sixth Avenue, Park Slope, Brooklyn, (718) 789-2762, tealoungeny.com; suggested donation, $5. Wednesday at 8 p.m., Barbès, 376 Ninth Street, at Sixth Avenue, Park Slope , (347) 422-0248, barbesbrooklyn.com; $10 cover. (Chinen)
April 16, 2010 – Jazz Listings The New York Times by NATE CHINEN
JEFF DAVIS BAND (Tuesday) “We Sleep Outside” (Loyal Label) is the restlessly episodic debut by Jeff Davis, a drummer of broad experience in left-of-center jazz circles. It features most of the musicians assembled here: the trumpeter Kirk Knuffke, the tenor and soprano saxophonist Tony Barba, the guitarist Jonathan Goldberger and the bassist Eivind Opsvik. (The trombonist Ben Gerstein, who isn’t on the album, will be a welcome addition.) At 8:30 p.m., Cornelia Street Café, 29 Cornelia Street, West Village , (212) 989-9319, corneliastreetcafe.com; cover, $10, with a one-drink minimum. (Chinen)
The New York Times Jazz Listings Feb 1, 2011
Jeff Davis New Trio / Tim Berne’s Totopos (Tuesday) Jeff Davis, a versatile and texture-aware drummer, plays a 9 p.m. set with two expressive partners, the pianist Russ Lossing and the bassist Eivind Opsvik. At 10:30, the alto saxophonist Tim Berne leads his rugged new working band Los Totopos, with Matt Mitchell on piano, Oscar Noriega on clarinets and Ches Smith on drums. At 8:30 p.m., Korzo, 667 Fifth Avenue, at 20th Street, Park Slope, Brooklyn , (718) 285-9425, myspace.com/konceptions; $5 suggested donation. (Chinen)
We Sleep Outside - Jeff Davis (Loyal)
by Matthew Miller
Fans of progressive jazz know Jeff Davis, if not by name, then as the propulsive force behind bassist Michael Bates, multireedist Oscar Noriega, and a host New York mainstays. The Colorado native’s articulate, often-fiery brand of percussion has precedence in the styles of Tony Williams and Jack DeJohnette, but transcends them through a process of de and reconstruction, and an episodic style that carries over into his compositions. Recorded in 2007, Davis’ debut as a leader, “We Sleep Outside,” is a remarkably assured document that finds the astute drummer in the company of a quartet of first-rate improvisers.
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All About Jazz (Troy Collins):
“Like many of his generation, his writing encompasses a number of genres, yet Davis understands the importance of creating a context for such diversity. Sequencing individual tunes into a suite-like program, the set unfolds episodically, seamlessly blending divergent moods.”
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