Guest Recital: Caroline Davis Quartet – “Portals”, Presented by the IU Jazz Studies Department

Caroline Davis’s Portals project 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 have liked to explore through the life-cycle portal. Through the compositions, the ensemble engages in the improvisatory tissue between dual and non-dual realms of existence. The core quartet features Julian Shore, Chris Tordini, and Timothy Angulo, and invited guests on her two Portals albums: Volume 1: Mourning (2021) and Volume 2: Returning (2024).