Caili O'Doherty

Caili O'Doherty
Jersey City, NJ
Grant amount: $14,395

About the Artist

The Caili O’Doherty Quartet is a New York-based ensemble led by pianist Caili O’Doherty, featuring fellow Portland native tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover, Israeli bassist Tamir Shmerling, and Houston native drummer Cory Cox. O'Doherty and Glover grew up playing together throughout middle and high school. The rhythm section started playing together in Boston in 2011, while O’Doherty and Shmerling attended Berklee College of Music. Cox graduated from Brubeck Institute and The New School. The quartet officially formed in 2018, however they have been playing together in different configurations regularly since they all moved to New York City. Although they have not toured together in this specific configuration, the rhythm section has toured the west coast in 2016 and the quartet has performed many times throughout New York City at venues such as Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola, The National Jazz Museum in Harlem, and Smoke Jazz Club. The ensemble also leads educational performances in New York City schools about jazz, democracy and civil rights for JALC’s Jazz for Young People program. They recently recorded O'Doherty's second album as a bandleader and first release with Posi-tone Records, entitled Quarantine Dream, which will be released in early June 2022. The album features O'Doherty's recent original compositions, as well as a few arrangements on compositions like Oscar Peterson's Blues for Big Scotia and Duke Pearson's You Know I Care.