Alto sax player Caroline Davis returns to The Mitch with her quartet

Caroline Davis, alto sax
Julian Shore, piano
Chris Tordini, bass
Tim Angulo, drums

Caroline’s music covers a wide range of styles, owed to this shifting environment. As a leader, she has released nine albums: Live Work & Play (2012), Doors: Chicago Storylines (2015), Heart Tonic (2018), Alula (2019), Anthems (2019), Portals, Vol. 1: Mourning (2021), Alula: Captivity (2023), Portals, Vol.2: Returning (2024), and Fallows (2026). Her active projects include jazz-leaning Portals, experimental R&B My Tree, and protest band Alula. She has won Downbeat’s Critic’s Poll Rising Star Alto-Saxophonist (2018) and has been included in numerous Reader and Critics Polls. Her work has garnered much praise from NPR, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Wire, DownBeat, and many international publications.

Davis is active as both a side-person and a leader in a diverse set of expressions. Davis has shared the stage with Lee Konitz, Rajna Swaminathan, Allison Miller, Michelle Boulé, Angelica Sanchez, Nicole Mitchell, John Zorn, Bari Kim, Wendy Eisenberg, The Femme Jam, Matt Mitchell, Terry Riley, Miles Okazaki, and Billy Kaye.

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Earthwise welcomes Throw It In The Sink

Earthwise welcomes Throw It In The Sink gabby fluke-mogul violin Lily Finnegan drums. Flatways with Jordan Glenn drums opens the show

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Lily Glick Finnegan is a Chicago-born and -based drummer, composer, improviser, and organizer who transcends musical styles. As of 2026 Lily is a New Music USA “Next Jazz Legacy” awardee. She was spotlighted by The Chicago Reader as a “Chicagoan of Note” and included in The Chicago Sun Times “Next Generation of Jazz Musicians”.

Lily leads her own quartet, Heat On, which put out their debut album in 2025 on Cuneiform Records. Described as a “love letter to Chicago” the band features Edward Wilkerson Jr., Fred Jackson Jr., and Nick Macri, and has received acclaim in Downbeat Magazine, Wire Magazine, Dusted Magazine and The Vinyl District. Other current projects include an improvisational duo with gabby fluke mogul which released Throw It In The Sink on Sonic Transmission Records, and playing in Ken Vandermark’s Edition Redux.

On top of ongoing projects, Finnegan has collaborated with wide ranging artists including James Brandon Lewis, Nicole Mitchell, Nick Dunston, Bill Orcutt, Tomeka Reid, Macie Stewart, Fay Victor, Tashi Dorji, Brandon Seabrook,Lia Kohl, Dave Rempis, Katie Ernst, Devon Gates, Jason Stein, Katinka Kleijn, Emma Dayhuff, Julia Blair, Hannah Frances, Sarah Clausen, Erez Dessel, and Shanta Nurullah,

Lily has toured extensively in the United States and Europe. She has performed at festivals including The Hyde Park Jazz Fest, Sound and Gravity Festival, Wels Music Unlimited, All Ears Festival Oslo, Vision Sound Outdoor Festival, Madrid Jazz Festival, Catalytic Sound Festival and OCT-LOFT Jazz Festival in Shenzhen, China.

In 2021, Lily completed a Masters of Music from Berklee College of Music, receiving a full scholarship to participate in the Berklee Global Jazz Institute. At Berklee, she was part of the Institute of Jazz and Gender Justice where she was mentored by Terri Lyne Carrington, Kris Davis, and Linda May Han Oh. Her work with Carrington includes contributions to “Music for Abolition” as part of the Visualizing Abolition Exhibit at the University of California Santa Cruz. Prior to attending Berklee, she earned a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Music from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her studies fueled her interest in the confluence between power structures, history, and social movements within music.

In addition to her composing and performing, Lily co-curates the Option Series, a showcase of contemporary approaches to improvisation and composition, held at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago. She is a member of international music cooperative Catalytic Sound.



Educator gabby fluke-mogul is a violinist, improviser, composer, & educator living in Oakland, California.

They exist within the threads of free improvisation, the jazz continuum, noise, & experimental music.

Their playing has been described as embodied, visceral, & virtuosic.

gabby is humbled to have collaborated with Kyle Bruckmann, Nava Dunkelman, Wendy Eisenberg, Fred Frith, Jordan Glenn, Jacob Felix Heule, Lisa Mezzacappa, Kanoko Nishi-Smith, Pauline Oliveros, Danishta Rivero, & Tom Weeks, among many other musicians, poets, dancers, & visual artists.

Flatways Jordan Glenn Sudhu Tewari Matt Robidoux drums electronics stringless guitar.
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Earthwise welcomes Emi Makabe

Emi Makabe leads her group, playing samisen and singing.

Emi Makabe, voice, samisen
Thomas Morgan, bass
Kenny Wollesen drums
Vitor Gonçalves piano

Emi Makabe is a Japanese composer, vocalist, shamisen player, and educator based in New York City. Her songs, described by New York Music Daily as "rapturous, adventurous Japanese folk-influenced jazz," encompass jazz, pop, classical and improvised music, and also reflect her background in Japanese music. She has performed in renowned venues in New York City, Europe and Japan. She sings in English and Japanese as well as wordlessly, and plays piano and shamisen, a Japanese traditional string instrument.

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