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Francis Davis (born August 30, 1946) is an American author and journalist. He is best known as the jazz critic for The Village Voice , and a contributing editor for The Atlantic Monthly . He has also worked in radio and film, and taught courses on Jazz and Blues at the University of Pennsylvania .
Francis Pierpont Davis, who went by Pierpont Davis, was born in 1884 in Baltimore, Maryland to Frank Earlougher Davis, an architect, and Annie Legate Swindell. He was elder to three brothers, William, Walter, and Henry, and one sister, Dorothy. The family also had one servant. [1]
Francis Davis is an American author and journalist.. Francis Davis may also refer to: . Francis Davis (poet) (1810–1881), Irish poet and editor Sir Francis Boileau Davis, 2nd Baronet (1871–1896), of the Davis baronets
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Lebow is known for his publications and presentations about the practice of couple and family therapy, integrative psychotherapy, the relationship of research and psychotherapy practice, and psychotherapy in difficult divorce, as well as for his role as an editor in the fields of couple and family therapy and family science.
[13] Francis Davis wrote: "If the myth that Coleman had to be physically present in order for his music to be played properly persisted in some quarters, Old and New Dreams dispelled it once and for all. The band played Coleman's music with a joy and a sense of purpose that bore witness to Coleman's acuity as a composer.
Francis Davis, in his book In the Moment: Jazz in the 1980s, wrote that by "fashioning a group music in which the improvised chorus and all that surrounded it were of equal importance, Lewis performed a feat of magic only a handful of jazz writers, including Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton, had ever pulled off—he reconciled the composer ...
Samuel Davis (1760–1819) was an English soldier turned diplomat who later became a director of the East India Company (EIC). He was the father of John Francis Davis , one time Chief Superintendent of British Trade in China and second governor of Hong Kong .