A flagship music festival for Downtown Jamaica, Queens – “home of jazz.” The Jamaica Downtown Jazz Festival aims to celebrate the rich jazz heritage rooted … Read More “Downtown Jamaica Jazz Festival in Queens”
Caroline Davis’ previous Sunnyside album, Heart Tonic (2018), was inspired by research the alto saxophonist conducted upon discovering that her father had a heart arrhythmia. … Read More “Caroline Davis: Portals, Volume 1: Mourning (Sunnyside)”
Saxophonist Caroline Davis and keyboardist Rob Clearfield’s Persona, much like the 1966 Ingmar Bergman film inspiring the group’s name, is bent on exploring themes of … Read More “Caroline Davis and Rob Clearfield’s Persona: Anthems (Sunnyside)”
Heart Tonic opens like a Jefferson Airplane or Soft Machine record—with long, eerie, psychedelic organ tones. It ends like West African funk, with a slippery … Read More “Caroline Davis: Heart Tonic (Sunnyside)”
Caroline Davis’ debut as a leader is her second appearance on record overall, so in that sense the Chicagoan comes out of nowhere. She arrives, … Read More “Caroline Davis: Live Work & Play”
