Francis Davis (journalist)

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Francis Davis (born August 30, 1946 in Philadelphia ) is an American author and journalist. He became known as a jazz critic for The Village Voice and The Atlantic Monthly .

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Davis studied at Temple University from 1964 to 1969 . In the early 1980s he began working as a jazz critic for The Philadelphia Inquirer . In addition, he wrote articles on topics from Seinfeld to Johnny Cash , which u. a. in The Atlantic Monthly , also on Frank Sinatra and the composer Anthony Davis . He conducted a number of interviews for New York magazine The Village Voice , including a. with Betty Carter , Sonny Rollins , Wynton Marsalis , Sun Ra and with the former film critic of the New Yorker , Pauline Kael , from which the book Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael emerged.

Davis received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1992 and a Pew Fellowship in 1993 . He has been honored several times with the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award ; In 1998 he was nominated (together with Martin Williams and Dick Katz ) for the Grammy Award for his liner notes for the album Jazz Piano of the Smithsonian Collection of Recordings. In 2007 he received the Award for Lifetime Achievement in Jazz Journalism ( Jazz Journalism Lifetime Achievement ) of the Jazz Journalists Association . At the 2009 Grammy Awards , he was recognized for his essay in the text accompanying the new edition of Kind of Blue: 50th Anniversary Collector's Edition . He has also worked in radio and film, and has taught jazz and blues classes at the University of Pennsylvania . Davis lives in Philadelphia and is married to Terry Gross , who produces and hosts the NPR program Fresh Air .

Works

  • In the Moment: Jazz in the 1980s (Oxford University Press, 1986)
  • Outcats: Jazz Composers, Instrumentalists, and Singers (Oxford University Press, 1990)
  • The History of the Blues (Hyperion, 1995)
  • Bebop and Nothingness: Jazz and Pop at the End of the Century (Schirmer, 1996)
  • Like Young (Da Capo, 2001)
  • Afterglow: A Last Conversation with Pauline Kael (Da Capo, 2002)
  • Jazz and Its Discontents: A Francis Davis Reader (Da Capo, 2004)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Report of the President and of the Treasurer (John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1994), p. 54.
  2. ^ Report of the President and of the Treasurer , p. 54.
personal data
SURNAME Davis, Francis
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz writer
DATE OF BIRTH August 30, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH Philadelphia