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Caroline Davis
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Mobile since her birth in Singapore, composer and saxophonist Caroline Davis’s music covers a wide range of styles, owed to her shifting environment as a child. As a leader, she has released six albums: Live Work & Play (2012), Doors: Chicago Storylines (2015), Heart Tonic (2018), Alula (2019), Anthems (2019), and Portals (2021). She won Downbeat’s Critic’s Poll Rising Star Alto- Saxophonist (2018) and was listed in both Downbeat’s Readers Poll (2021) and JazzTimes Expanded Critics Poll (2021). Her work has garnered much praise from NPR, The New York Times, The Wire, DownBeat, JazzTimes, and many international publications. Davis is active as both a side-person and a leader in a diverse set of music communities (jazz, improvised music, modern classical, R&B, folk)
Archie Shepp's The Magic of Ju-Ju, Serbian Improvisors + New Releases from Caroline Davis, Ishmael Ali, Phil Haynes, Rodrigo Amado and others
by Jon Greenbaum
Creative improvisors from Chicago to Brooklyn to Serbia.Playlist 8 Bold Souls “Chapel Hill" from 8 Bold Souls (Sessoms) 00:00 Archie Shepp “The Magic of Ju-Ju" from The Magic of Ju-Ju (Impulse) 12:31 Ishmael Ali “Anathema" from Burn The Plastic, Sell The Copper (Amalgam) 32:04 São Paulo Underground “Evetch" from Beija Flors Velho E Sujo ...
Caroline Davis: The Saxophone Reimagined In The Fallows
by Lawrence Peryer
Today, The Tonearm's needle lands on saxophonist and composer Caroline Davis. Caroline made her album Fallows (Ropeadope, 2026) alone during a residency in Ucross, Wyoming, improvising and recording in a cabin, using prepared saxophone techniques and a unique instrument called an organelle to process and build sounds she'd never put to tape before. The ...
Poets and Jazzers Embrace + the Latest from Caroline Davis and introducing Clarinetist Virgina MacDonald
by Hobart Taylor
Jean Derome plays a Steve Lacy composition with poetry from Bob Kaufman, Ann Duhamel sets a Charles Wright poem to music, and Lena Bloch interprets the work of Marina Tsvetaeva. Playlist Host Speaks 00:00 Caroline Davis “She Knows She is Water" from Fallows (Ropeadope) 00:12 Caroline Davis “Barbara Allen" from Fallows (Ropeadope) 03:42 Brian ...
Daniel Rotem, Stefano Bollani, Asher Gamedze, Holly Palmer & More
by Ludovico Granvassu
From Cape Town to L.A., New York to Brussels, Rome to the Bay Area--with a stopover in Wyoming--hop on an around-the-world tour in eight songs.Happy listening!Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Asher Gamedze “Of the Fire" A Semblance: Of Return (Northern Spy) 0:16 Host talks ...
Caroline Davis: Fallows
by Katchie Cartwright
Fallows, the singular saxophonist Caroline Davis' debut release as a one-woman band (sax and electronics), was written and recorded on a 20,000-acre ranch in the high plains of Wyoming, the fruit of a month-long artist residency at the Ucross Foundation. Davis, who is Brooklyn-based at present, had gotten into working with electronics in 2006 while living ...
Caroline Davis: The Un-Becoming
by David Bixler
What happens when you go off the grid to find your sound? For saxophonist Caroline Davis, the answer is Fallows (Ropeadope, 2026), her first solo release which was conceived during a month-long residency at Ucross, Wyoming. During this time, Davis stripped away the “self" to make room for pure creation: the album is the result of ...
Do You Feel Good (Feat. Jana Nyberg, Elyse Jones, Kavyesh Kaviraj, Lucia Sarmiento)
Album: Sampled
By Adam Meckler
Label: Ropeadope
Released: 2025
Duration: 04:33
LIVE FROM DEATH ROW
Label: Self Produced
Released: 2025
Track listing: Woke Up This Morning (With My Mind Stayed on Freedom); The Journey; Calling All Souls; Alabama; Transformation; Tell 'Em The Truth; Intro to Strange Fruit; Strange Fruit; On Living; Acknowledgement; The Drowned and The Saved; Truth.
