Kris Davis returns to her boldly progressive, yet deeply swinging trio on 2026’s Lost in Geneva. The follow-up to 2024’s Run the Gauntlet, the album finds the daring New York pianist once again joined by bassist Robert Hurst and drummer Johnathan Blake. All three bring a deep wealth of experience to bear on the proceedings which largely find them interpreting a handful of Davis’ originals. That said, when Davis first introduced the trio it was a somewhat unexpected combination, especially given her close ties to the avant-garde and contemporary music scene. Both Hurst and Blake are widely celebrated for their hard-hitting post-bop and straight-ahead work, both as leaders and with icons like Wynton Marsalis, Diana Krall, Dr. Lonnie Smith, and Kenny Barron,…
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Kris Davis isn’t interested in giving listeners a place to get comfortable, and The Solastalgia Suite makes that clear right away. She wrote the piece out of a growing unease about climate change, and you can hear that tension all over the record.
Across the eight pieces, Davis and Poland’s Lutosławski Quartet keep coming at that feeling from different angles, sometimes leaning into beauty, sometimes into abrasion. The music lives in a modern chamber space that only occasionally brushes up against jazz.
“Interlude” opens the door abruptly. The piano hits with blunt sounding chords, more Bartók than bop, while the strings move in tight unison, growing louder and heavier as they stack on top of each other. One violin breaks out to…
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