Anthony Davis

About the artist

Please note there are multiple artists with this name; 1.) Anthony Davis, better known as Tony Davis (born February 20, 1951 in Paterson, New Jersey), is an American composer, jazz pianist, and student of gamelan music. Davis composed an opera entitled X (about Malcolm X), taught at Yale University, and has played with Anthony Braxton and Leo Smith. In 1981, he formed an octet called Episteme. He also wrote the incidental music for the Broadway version of Tony Kushner's Angels in America.

Top songs

  1. Beyond Reason
  2. Lady Of The Mirrors
  3. Of Blues and Dreams
  4. Under The Double Moon
  5. Five Moods From an English Garden
  6. Man on a Turquoise Cloud
  7. Whose Life?
  8. Variations in Dream-Time
  9. A Walk Through the Shadow
  10. Whisperings Voices
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  1. The Fast Life
  2. Estraven
  3. Ming
  4. The Enemy of Light
  5. The Hill
  6. Jasvan
  7. Whose Life
  8. Man On A Turquoise Cloud (For Edward Kennedy Ellington)
  9. Section 2 (Sustained Tones)
  10. Dewey's Circle
  11. Suite for Another World (Graef)
  12. Still Waters
  13. Driving Home for Christmas
  14. Wayang No. II (Shadowdance)
  15. Five Moods From An English Garden - For Vasili Kandinsky
  16. Strokes
  17. Suite for Another World (Lethe)
  18. Undine
  19. Five Moods From an English Garden (For Vasili Kandinsky)
  20. Wayang II (Shadowdance)
  21. Suite for Another World (Madame Xola)
  22. Enemy of Light
  23. Man On A Turquoise Cloud - For Edward Kennedy Ellington
  24. Five Moods From An English Graden (For Vasili Kandinsky)
  25. Middle Passage
  26. Home
  27. Wayang No. IV (under the Double Moon) I - Dance
  28. Strippers
  29. Wayang No. IV (under the Double Moon) II - Sustained Tones
  30. Andrew
  31. Locomotif n' .1
  32. Behind The Rock
  33. Past Lives
  34. An Anthem For The Generation That Died
  35. Wayang No. IV (under the Double Moon) III - Variations
  36. X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X: Overture
  37. Evidence
  38. Grinder
  39. On an azure plane
  40. Choctaw Blues
  41. Family History
  42. Edibles
  43. Snakes
  44. Gregory
  45. Santa Barbara and Crenshaw Follies
  46. Overture
  47. Monk's Mood
  48. Last of the Hipmen
  49. X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X: Act I, Scene 1, "Africa for Africans"
  50. Slip jigs - 113
  51. Reels - 113
  52. Section 3
  53. Porn
  54. Heavy jigs - 73
  55. Thelonious
  56. Single Jigs (Hop)
  57. Mvt II: Little Richard's New Wave
  58. 3-d Family
  59. MVT V - Clonetics
  60. Hornpipes - 113
  61. Mvt V: Clonetics
  62. Wayang No. 2 (Shadowdance)
  63. The Blackbird (Trad)
  64. Suite For Another World: I. Lethe
  65. Graef
  66. The Pool Hall
  67. Introduction By Stanley Crouch
  68. Africa for Africans
  69. Section 1 Opening (Dance)
  70. Suite For Another World: II. Graef
  71. A Proposition For Life
  72. Madame Xola
  73. Section 1 Opening - Dance
  74. Particle W
  75. St Patrick's Day (trad)
  76. Juneteenth
  77. Crepuscule: A Suite For Monk - Evidence
  78. King Of The Fairies (Trad)
  79. Light jigs - 115
  80. Lethe
  81. Notes from the Underground: I. Shadow
  82. Suite for Another World - Lethe
  83. Under The Double Moon (Wayang IV)
  84. Amistad, Act I: Overture
  85. You Have the Right to Remain Silent: I. Interrogation
  86. X, The Life and Times of Malcolm X: Act I, Scene 1, "Momma, help me."
  87. Suite for Another World - Madame Xola
  88. Job Of Journeywork (Trad)
  89. Vertical Motion
  90. Wayang No. IV (Under The Double Moon): Section 3

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