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3 unusual facts about Francis Davis


Francis Davis

Stanley Crouch, a famed jazz critic who frequently writes about race relations, took Davis to task in a 2003 Jazz Times column for speaking with condescension toward the predominantly black contingent of musicians who create "jazz that is based on swing and blues."

Along with his jazz writing he has tackled wide-ranging subjects from Seinfeld to Johnny Cash, for whom he published to what many fans consider the definitive appreciation, in The Atlantic Monthly.

Greg Osby

The Village Voice critic Francis Davis wrote of his contribution to their double album Upriver, "Greg Osby superimposes his own brand of rhythmic complexity (one fully worthy of Wayne Shorter) on the rhythm section's static vamps every time he steps forward."



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