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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)

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Outing

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Rollover; Incantation; Transformations; A Nice Boy/Discover Laughing; Stand in the River; Roundtable; The Gospel of Bone Drye; Shiny Stockings.

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Hearts of Palm

Label: XJAZZ Music
Released: 2024
Track listing: Hearts of Palm; Amarna; Embedded; Pinks; Leaf; Nethermead.

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Miniature America

Label: Cygnus Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: The Cocktail Party; The Funambulist; The Funicular; Lookout Below; Wheel Of Cloud; And The Deep River; Follow That Car; Open Road; Whack A Mole; Promise; The Cavern; Chutes And Ladders; The Haze; The Hive; Venus Calling; Zodiacal Cloud; Only Outer Space; The Firmament; The Furniture; Pulsation Station; In The Fullness Of Time; A Clean Slate.

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Portals, Volume 2 : Returning

Label: Intakt Records
Released: 2024
Track listing: Gate of the Year; Coming 'Round; Back Again; Olympian Air; Kites; Only the Names Are Changed, Part 1; Darien; Only the Names Are Changed, Part 2; Everlasting Fire; City Flora; Oblivion; Cover Up.

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Spinifex, Angelica Sanchez / Camila Nebbia Duo, & Rob Mazurek

Read "Spinifex, Angelica Sanchez / Camila Nebbia Duo, & Rob Mazurek" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


The unpredictable but always powerful Dutch sextet, Spinifex, is releasing its latest album in North America, Undrilling The Hole, so it will be interesting to see if the band gains some traction in North America. Hopefully it will; they're a no-prisoners-taken ensemble. Brooklyn's I-Beam was the venue for a most interesting and perhaps inevitable hook-up for ...

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Article: Album Review

Caroline Davis: Portals, Volume 2 : Returning

Read "Portals, Volume 2 : Returning" reviewed by Glenn Astarita


Alto saxophonist/composer Caroline Davis, a rising star in the jazz world, has unveiled her second installment of the “Portals" series, titled Portals Vol. 2: Returning. This album serves as a sonic memoir, inspired by her grandmother, Joan “Lady" Anson-Weber, and it represents a deeply personal journey of reflection and healing. As a gifted saxophonist and composer, ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

D. D. Jackson, Asher Gamedze & Caroline Davis

Read "D. D. Jackson, Asher Gamedze & Caroline Davis" reviewed by Maurice Hogue


A big “welcome back" to pianist D.D. Jackson who's not been heard much on recordings for the last several years. He returned to his native Canada to make Poetry Project, inspired by a commission received during the pandemic to compose music for a poem written by former poet laureate George Elliott Clarke. That led to Clarke ...

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The Cocktail Party

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Label: Cygnus Recordings
Released: 2024
Duration: 1:50

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Marie Goudy's Paloma Sky, Gino Amato, Caroline Davis, The Danish Radio Big Band and Kurt Elling New Releases

Read "Marie Goudy's Paloma Sky, Gino Amato, Caroline Davis, The Danish Radio Big Band and Kurt Elling New Releases" reviewed by Mary Foster Conklin


This broadcast includes new releases from Marie Goudy's Paloma Sky, Gino Amato, Caroline Davis, April Aloisio & Joanie Pallatto, The Danish Radio Big Band and Kurt Elling, with birthday shoutouts to composer Doris Tauber (Them There Eyes, Drinkin Again), Helen Sung, Bobby Short (100), Wesla Whitfield, Amy Winehouse, Lorraine Feather, Champian Fulton and Maria Muldaur, among ...


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This and That: November 2024
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