The Register Citizen (Torrington, CT)
Series wraps up with Caroline Davis quartet
Final summer jazz show is Aug. 18
WATERBURY » The Summer Jazz Series at the Palace Theater Poli Club concludes with the Caroline Davis Quartet on Friday Aug. 18 at the Palace Theater Poli Club. The series is produced by New England Arts and Entertainment. Showtime is at 8 p.m., with the bar and doors opening at 7:15 p.m.
Mobile since her birth in Singapore, composer, saxophonist, and educator Caroline Davis now lives in Brooklyn, New York. After making her mark on the Chicago jazz community during her 8-year stint there, she moved to New York in 2013, and has proven to be an active leader and side-woman in the national jazz scene.
She has shared musical moments with a diverse group of musicians, including Matt Wilson, Ellis Marsalis, Matt Mitchell, Randy Brecker, Bobby Broom, Greg Saunier, Ron Miles, Dennis Carroll, Erin McKeown, Allison Miller, Jenny Owen Youngs, and Billy Kaye.
Aside from her own quintet, Davis collaborates regularly with R&B indie band, Maitri, and has been a regular member of many outfits including Whirlpool, Fatbook, Deep Fayed, Matt Mitchell’s Sprees, Billy Kaye Quintet, Paul Bedal Quintet, Orso, Chicago Jazz Orchestra, Caili O’Doherty Group, Dion Kerr Group, Elliot Ross, Charles Rumback Group, and Materials and Their Destiny.
Her debut album, “Live Work & Play,” was featured on All About Jazz’s best releases, and she was named one of JazzTimes’ Best New Artists in the 2012 Expanded Critics’ Poll. Her second album, “Doors: Chicago Storylines,” was just released as an audio documentary that uniquely sets stories from Chicago’s jazz
scene from the 80s and 90s alongside her original music. “Doors” has brought her much acclaim in recent issues of DownBeat and JazzTimes.
As an educator, Davis brings her unique knowledge of music and psychology to her teaching, as she acquired a Ph.D. in Music Cognition at Northwestern University in 2010. She has been on the faculty at the Litchfield Jazz Camp for the past 10 years, and has been a guest educator at Northwestern University, University of Colorado at Boulder, St. Xavier University, Columbia College, DePaul University, University of Texas at Arlington, Loyola University, Texas Tech, New Trier High School, Evanston Township High School, Denver School of the Arts, Newman Smith High School, and Jazz at Lincoln Center. She has also participated in several jazz mentorship programs, including IAJE’s Sisters in Jazz and the Kennedy Center’s Betty Carter Jazz Ahead Program.
Tickets are available at the Palace Theater Box Office at 203-346-2000 or www.PalaceTheaterCT.org
Information on all jazz series shows can be found at www.neaae.com