Sometimes to find your inner self, you have to take respite from the outside world. That’s what alto saxophonist and bandleader Caroline Davis did when she spent a four-week artist residency in northern Wyoming, where she recorded set of tracks in a cabin there, on the fallows. Fallows is unlike anything Davis has ever done before, stepping mostly outside the jazz genre and her jazz persona to follow a muse that’s looks at art and the world it inhabits on natural, spiritual terms.
A rare record made in Ucross, Wyoming, Fallows takes advantage of the serenity offered there to create music with a mind freed of clutter. Accordingly, it’s an un-self-conscious set of recordings, made without any consideration of how the public might receive it. Davis comes…