Caroline Davis

About

Tickets: $33 for Adult Priced Tickets (includes fees) Discounts available for Seniors, Members, Military, & Students DOORS 6:30PM CONCERT: 7:30PM Brooklyn-based saxophonist, Caroline Davis ‘ solo performances are chosen spontaneously, given the atmosphere of the room and the people present. She explores sonic textures offered by interactive technologies, sharing sounds from the saxophone that she considers to be distinctive and quirky. She makes use of Pure Data patches developed by the open source community surrounding the Organelle (the technobear, shreeswifty, critterandguitari, tony j morton, nobuyasu sakonda, soxsa, varicela, nicky-system, samesimilar, and chrisk). The music during this performance will pull from Caroline’s recent solo album, Fallows (2026) , created during a time of rest on land in Ucross Wyoming. bell hooks was a constant source of inspiration during this time, through the following ideas: love as a practice of freedom, radical openness, maintenance of commitment, using community as a means of escape, belief in one’s capacity to transform, what it means to listen, and eliminating elimination. Over her career she has collaborated with Allison Miller, Lee Konitz, John Zorn, Marquis Hill, Angelica Sanchez, Miles Okazaki, Nicole Mitchell, Rajna Swaminathan, and Matt Mitchell among others. As well as performing she teaches at The New School and at a private studio at the Manhattan School of Music. Her work in advocacy and activism is centered on gender equity in jazz and justice, particularly her work through initiatives such as Justice for Keith LaMar, Freer Records, Keys Beats Bars, and Creative Beyond Incarceration. Caroline Davis photo by Michael Jackson