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.

Band Members:
Caroline Davis - Saxophone
Julian Shore - Piano
Chris Tordini - Bass
Tim Angulo - Drums

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"One of the city's strongest and most exciting jazz saxophonists." (Peter Margasak, Chicago Reader)
"Her long-lined improvisations offer fascinating development of ideas, and she has a marvelous way of floating above the time without losing her connection with the ground beat." (Thomas Cunniffe, Jazz History Online)

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Caroline Davis’s dreams for playing music stem from a desire to connect and a wish for listeners to expand their ears, minds, and hearts. When she was about 6 years old, Caroline’s Swedish-British family moved from Singapore to the United States, where she enjoyed R&B—full of horns—which lured her to choose the saxophone. Caroline’s musical expression covers a wide range of styles. She has released eight of her own albums and has contributed to countless others. She has worked with Lee Konitz, John Zorn, Angelica Sanchez, the Femme Jam, Miles Okazaki, Nicole Mitchell, Rajna Swaminathan, and Matt Mitchell. Caroline has been a resident fellow of MacDowell, the Jazz Gallery, the Rockefeller Estate, Mutual Mentorship for Musicians, UCross, and Civitella Ranieri. She is a recipient of Guggenheim Foundation, Jerome Hill, Chamber Music America, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, the Jazz Gallery, and NYFA fellowships and a winner of the DownBeat Critics Poll Alto Saxophone Rising Star Award. Her teaching practice centers around gender studies in jazz at The New School and a private saxophone studio at Manhattan School of Music. Caroline is an active advocate for gender equity (This Is A Movement) and current/formerly incarcerated people (Justice for Keith LaMar, Keys Beats Bars, Creatives Beyond Incarceration).