In this clip from The Tonearm Podcast, Caroline Davis describes the texture of daily life at Ucross during the Fallows sessions and how the combination of being in nature and part of a creative community kept isolation from tipping into loneliness.
Check out more on the latest episode of our podcast: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/caroline-davis-the-saxophone-reimagined-in-the-fallows/
On today's new episode of The Tonearm Podcast, saxophonist and composer Caroline Davis joins us to discuss 'Fallows', her debut solo album. Davis recorded the twelve-track set entirely alone during an artist residency at Ucross, Wyoming, using prepared saxophone techniques and an Organelle processing unit.
The conversation covers the making of the album in close detail: aluminum cans dragged across a saxophone bell, hand-built drum sequences assembled through Pure Data patches, and the ancestral figures — Steve Lacy, Geri Allen, Thich Nhat Hanh, and Connie Crothers — whose presence Davis summoned throughout the sessions.
Don't miss this particularly fascinating episode: https://podcast.thetonearm.com/caroline-davis-the-saxophone-reimagined-in-the-fallows/
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Saxophonist, composer Caroline Davis plays a stylistically broad range of jazz, with a through line that focuses on experimentation and carries a spiritual tone that's woven into a layer of angst.
Find out more about her music at https://thepropagandasite.com/artist/caroline-davis
Caroline Davis is a jazz saxophonist whose work refuses getting siloed into any particular style, though she seems to come back to post-bop and free jazz with some frequency. She often takes on themes with emotional heft and spiritual undertones in her work as a composer and a performer. Her pieces are nuanced and complex, revealing a sense of restlessness as well as a quite distinctive, angsty touch in her compositions. There is also an experimental streak to her work that fits right into her exploratory nature, with occasional spoken word inserts. At the end of the day, hers is not the kind of jazz one can toss in the background and go about doing their own business. It feels fresh and engaging as it demands the listener's attention.
Then: late set at Jazz Gallery with Caroline Davis and her aptly-named Portals band. Too much talent in this town. This one did my brain good.
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When the rippling ringing of the ride cymbal flies from the long day into an open night and the snare-drum accents and alto-sax accidentals ...
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