Background
Davis was born in Vancouver in 1980 and grew up in Calgary, Alberta.
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Kris Davis
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She studied classical piano from the age of six and discovered jazz while a high school student.
Career
She transcribed performances by pianists Herbie Hancock and Keith Jarrett. She later reported that, "By the eighth grade I knew I wanted to be a jazz musician." She later majored in jazz piano at the University of Toronto. Davis moved to New York in 2001.
Her piano style changed after her first album, Lifespan – "I decided not to play chords anymore, just to play lines".
She later obtained a classical composition degree from the City College of New New York In 2009, Davis played solo concerts during a tour of Portugal.
She followed this with a solo piano album, Aeriol Piano, which included sections for prepared piano. Her 2014 trio album Waiting for You to Grow was the follow-up to Good Citizen around five years earlier.
She commented that, on the earlier release, "I had this concept to make it almost like a popular record, where the tunes are really short on the new record the tunes are much longer and explore multiple areas.
I just wanted to write and not have any preconceived ideas". In 2013, Davis composed a suite for four bass clarinets, guitar, piano, organ and drums. In 2014, Davis had a six-day residency at The Stone in New York City, and played in the United Kingdom for the first time.
