Good Citizen (album)

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Good Citizen
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Studio album by
Kris Davis
Released2010
RecordedMay 28, 2009
Studio58 N6 Media Labs, Brooklyn
Genre Jazz
Length48:29
Label Fresh Sound New Talent
Producer Kris Davis
Kris Davis chronology
Paradoxical Frog
(2010)		Good Citizen
(2010)		 Aeriol Piano
(2011)
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Good Citizen is an album by Canadian jazz pianist Kris Davis, which was recorded in 2009 and released on the Spanish Fresh Sound New Talent label. [2]

Kris Davis is a Canadian jazz pianist and composer.

Fresh Sound, or Fresh Sound New Talent, is a jazz record label established in Barcelona, Spain, by Jordi Pujol. The label was initially founded as a reissue label.

Contents

Reception

The All About Jazz review by Mark F. Turner states, "Good Citizen is yet another top notch release from a pianist/composer cut from the same cloth as Myra Melford and Geri Allen." [3]

<i>All About Jazz</i> comprehensive American website for jazz enthusiasts and professionals, based in Philadelphia

All About Jazz is a website established by Michael Ricci in 1995. A volunteer staff publishes news, album reviews, articles, videos, and listings of concerts and other events having to do with jazz. Ricci maintains a related site, Jazz Near You, about local concerts and events.

Myra Melford Jazz pianist and composer

Myra Melford is an American avant-garde jazz pianist and composer. A 2013 Guggenheim Fellow, Melford was described by the San Francisco Chronicle as an "explosive player, a virtuoso who shocks and soothes, and who can make the piano stand up and do things it doesn't seem to have been designed for."

Geri Allen american composer and pianist

Geri Antoinette Allen was an American jazz pianist and composer.

In a review for Wondering Sound, Charles Farrell notes that, "Kris Davis, with very able partners, is working in the new areas where jazz and modern classical music meet. Good Citizen bodes well for their successful ongoing merger." [4]

Track listing

All compositions by Kris Davis except as indicated
  1. "Good Citizen" – 2:21
  2. "Where Does That Tunnel Go" – 5:51
  3. "Desert Prayers" – 6:28
  4. "Sinking Orchird" – 5:05
  5. "Recession Special" – 3:03
  6. "Skinner Box" – 6:12
  7. "B Side" – 3:47
  8. "KTJ 1" (Davis, Hebert, Rainey) – 4:04
  9. "Human Condition" – 4:16
  10. "KTJ 2" (Davis, Hebert, Rainey) – 3:31
  11. "The Iron Spider" – 3:51

Personnel

Piano musical instrument

The piano is an acoustic, stringed musical instrument invented in Italy by Bartolomeo Cristofori around the year 1700, in which the strings are struck by hammers. It is played using a keyboard, which is a row of keys that the performer presses down or strikes with the fingers and thumbs of both hands to cause the hammers to strike the strings.

Double bass Acoustic stringed instrument of the violin family

The double bass, or simply the bass, is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra.

Tom Rainey American jazz drummer

Tom Rainey is an American jazz drummer.

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References

  1. ↑ "Good Citizen". Allmusic . Retrieved 2019-02-02.
  2. ↑ Good Citizen at Fresh Sound
  3. ↑ Turner, Mark F. Good Citizen review at All About Jazz
  4. ↑ Farrell, Charles Good Citizen review at Wondering Sound
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