Press
The Virginia Gazette: “For 15 years, a Piano Sat in a Lightfoot Store. It Was Made for a Well-Known Ragtime Musician and Now Sits in a Museum”
The New York Times: He Was Born Into Slavery, but Achieved Musical Stardom
The New York Times: Lifting the Cone of Silence From Black Composers
John Celebrates Black Patti on Concert, June 9, 2018
John on WNPR’s Morning Edition
Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues
Exhibition of Early Printed Musical African Americana, Conceived and Curated by John in the Spring of 2017 at The John Hay Library, Brown University
Click here to read article in East Side Monthly about Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues
The Village Voice: Behold the Fancy Piano at the Met That Connects Parlor Music and Pop
[John Davis] resurrected music that would otherwise be lost forever
Click here to read the preview article in “The Village Voice” to John’s solo recital at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City
Lead Belly Fest: John at Carnegie Hall
John on NPR’s On Point, with Tom Ashbrook