caroline davis

CAROLINE DAVIS solo

Fallows

Caroline Davis chooses the songs in her solo performances mindfully based on atmospheres of the room and people. She explores sonic textures from the saxophone and interactive technologies on the Organelle, a pocket music computer / synthesizer. The distinctively quirky songs in Caroline’s solo performance come from her recent solo album, Fallows, created during a time of rest on land in Wyoming. bell hooks’ ideas were a constant source of inspiration for this album, such as - love as a practice of freedom, radical openness, belief in one's capacity to transform, and eliminating elimination.

"Fallows highlights Davis’s undeniable virtuosity and her hunger for styles and sounds." - L. Giuoco, The New Noise

Portals

Caroline Davis, Julian Shore, Chris Tordini, Timothy Angulo

Volume 1: Mourning

Volume 2: Returning

Caroline Davis’ Portals is an immersive sound and haptic experience, drawing upon the idea of mourning and ancestral communications as textural entities. The music has been mindfully written to offer connections to Caroline’s ancestors who have transitioned and elements they would like to explore through the life-cycle portal. Through the compositions, the ensemble engages in the connective tissue between dual and non-dual realms of existence. Two albums Portals Volume 1 (Mourning, 2021) and Portals Volume 2 (Returning, 2024) feature modular ensembles, and the current lineup includes Julian Shore, Chris Tordini, and Timothy Angulo.

"...music of bracing intelligence and raw emotion…" - N. Tesser, Jazziz

Caroline Davis, Qasim Naqvi, Grey McMurray

Trappings of Sleep

Davis, Mcmurray and Naqvi first played together at a casual bar show in Brooklyn in 2022, having crossed paths through New York's improvised music community. The connection was immediate, and for the next several years the three continued to develop that shared language whenever schedules allowed. Their album, Trappings of Sleep, was released October 30th 2026, on Red Hook Records.

"Davis’s alto tone was pure and measured. She tuned into controlled guitar feedback and sprung from it with confident, unfussy phrases." - K. Gottschalk, Jazz Times

Caroline Davis + Wendy Eisenberg

Accept When

"They can't be pinned down to this or that thing...On Accept When, the pair’s 2024 album with the drummer Greg Saunier, their intensely personal songs flout any sense of stylistic purity, embedding singer-songwriter tropes within complex harmonies and freewheeling improvisations. Davis and Eisenberg embrace diversity—regarding music, gender, and more—and see music-making and songwriting as acts of personal expression and impassioned resistance." - P. Margasak, Chamber Music Magazine

"The record is inviting and grounded, yet also takes us places unexpected and unimagined, a sonic magical realism...even when they’re in contrasting motions, there’s a complementary vibe that binds and illuminates." - M. Faloon, Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Caroline Davis x Michelle Boulé

movement, saxophone, electronics

(tours 2023, 2025)

Award-winning artists Caroline Davis and Michelle Boulé weave an immersive landscape of sound and movement—merging saxophone, voice, electronics, and dance. Through deep listening and improvisation, they create a living dialogue between body and music, inviting audiences into a field of transformation and presence.

"[Davis’s] music, and Boulé’s dance, together evoked a sort of anti-montage; one that asked audience members to consider their collaboration as a continuous, low-velocity deconstruction of the other, and their art as an emergent phenomenon as opposed to a synthesized, coherent presentation." - Conor Reilley, The Monitor

Click for full performances at the Westside Theater (MT) and Danspace Project (NY).

MY TREE

Where the Grace Is - Caroline Davis, Benjamin Jamal Hoffmann

Alula

Alula II (Captivity) - Caroline Davis, Chris Tordini, Tyshawn Sorey, Val Jeanty

Alula I - Caroline Davis, Matt Mitchell, Greg Saunier

Alula is an electro-acoustic group that pulls from genres of rock, punk, protest music, and jazz.

“Alula is one of the very best recordings of 2019.” - D. Sumner, Bird is the Worm

"On Captivity, the superb alto saxophonist and composer transmutes her alchemical mix into a cry for justice for incarcerated heroes who’ve soared above prison walls by keeping hope alive." - C. McCree, Downbeat Magazine

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