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About Me

The music you hear on this page comes from two sources: "15 Minutes of Fame" and "As the Stream Flows" are on my soon-to-be-released trio CD "A High Tolerance for the Truth," which features Garth Stevenson on bass and Ziv Ravitz on drums. They are former Berklee students now making a name for themselves in New York."Bopmania" is from my last quartet CD, "Hymn to Freedom," with Masa Kamaguchi on bass, Phil Grenadier on trumpet, and Joe Hunt on drums.The Suzanne Davis Quartet appears in various incarnations as a quartet, trio, or duo, depending on the circumstances. The core band meets once a week at my house for a session. It is a musical laboratory in which we develop vaccines against the disease of living in contemporary American society. I view this music as the music I have always wanted to play but could not on my regular gig for 19 years at the Four Seasons Hotel in Boston. There, if you played in an odd meter, and people suddenly realized they couldn't tap their feet (on 1 and 3, of course) to it, or if you messed with the harmony so they no longer recognized the tune, you got fired. I wanted to play music that was like "a swarm of angry bees," as Larry Kukers says. My band members are a constant source of inspiration to me, especially Phil Grenadier, whom many of you reading this may know as one of the greatest trumpet players in the world. This group isn't really about me. It's a conversation that never ends...

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Member Since: 7/14/2006
Band Website: suzjazz.com
Band Members: Current Personnel:
Phil Grenadier, trumpet
Suzanne Davis, piano
Larry Kukers, bass
Dave Fox, drums:

Other personnel: Bruno Raberg, bass Garth Stevenson, bass Joe Hunt, drums Karen Kocharyan, drums
Sounds Like: Nothing you've ever heard before.
Record Label: AsIf! records
Type of Label: None

My Blog

Spammers

You know who you are. If you get that irresistible urge to spam everyone on myspace, please stop.Maybe you need an intervention or a 12 step program.I WILL NOT TOLERATE SPAMMING. I HAVE ALREADY COMPL...
Posted by The Suzanne Davis Quartet on Tue, 15 Apr 2008 06:04:00 PST

Its almost spring

On the music front, the news is: The Suzanne Davis Quartet (known in some circles as The Angry Bees) performed in relative obscurity at Berklee College of Music. Despite a massive publicity blitz, onl...
Posted by The Suzanne Davis Quartet on Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:30:00 PST

Dreaming of Paris in the winter

Ah, mon Dieu, oh la la la la...I miss France--I am dreaming about Paris. La reve:I had a dream in which I thought I was flying to NYC and I ended up in Paris instead. I didn't want to leave. I staye...
Posted by The Suzanne Davis Quartet on Tue, 11 Dec 2007 09:54:00 PST

Videos of the Suzanne Davis Quartet Live at LEntrepôt, Paris, November 22

Fifteen Minutes of Fame (excerpt): As the Stream Flows: ...
Posted by The Suzanne Davis Quartet on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:54:00 PST

Some commentary on French hotel rooms, strikes, etc.

Mission accomplished, as George Bush said when it wasn't.Some comments on aspects of French culture:1) Le smokingThank GOD, it will be banned soon from the nightclubs, hotels, and restaurants. Or rat...
Posted by The Suzanne Davis Quartet on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 02:46:00 PST

Duck Fat Lovers Part 3

Thursday night was my last performance. This time, it was at a real nightclub which seats about 100. L'entrepot is a great venue with a good sound system, a Bechstein grand piano in good tune except ...
Posted by The Suzanne Davis Quartet on Sat, 24 Nov 2007 01:40:00 PST

Duck Fat Lovers in Paris: part 2

Stay tuned for more tales of la vie de boheme...we met a brilliant blogger last night and had a 3 hour conversation about music, art, politics, and other bloggers.I have to get to the Musee d'Orsay be...
Posted by The Suzanne Davis Quartet on Sun, 18 Nov 2007 06:57:00 PST

Duck Fat Lovers in Paris: part 1

Well, I just played the second of 3 shows with my French group (Julien Coulon, bass; Franck Filosi, drums; Jérome Fouquet, trumpet) I was pleased to discover that France is on the same page as the U....
Posted by The Suzanne Davis Quartet on Sat, 17 Nov 2007 05:10:00 PST

PARIS

I am in Paris, France, about to play some shows with a French jazz group.Rehearsal tonight! I am psyched...
Posted by The Suzanne Davis Quartet on Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:42:00 PST

Now you can buy my tunes for .99 each!!!!!

Hey all,You may have noticed the "SNOCAP" mp3 sale window on my page. It's brand new!You can now buy any or all of the tunes listed to put on your iPod, iTunes, whatever.I hope you willbuy at leastd ...
Posted by The Suzanne Davis Quartet on Thu, 09 Aug 2007 06:56:00 PST