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Dave Douglas and Keystone: Moonshine

by Matthew Miller
August 30, 2008

Dave Douglas is not your typical iconoclast. The progressive trumpeter--a mainstay of John Zorn's Masada and more typically avant-garde groups--favors an understated upheaval in his efforts as a leader, courting, in the words of writer Andy Battaglia “tradition and progression without puzzling over the difference." On Moonshine, his second album with Keystone, a sextet featuring Marcus Strickland (saxophone), Adam Benjamin (Fender Rhodes), Brad Jones (bass), Gene Lake (drums) and DJ Olive (turntables and laptop), Douglas once again focuses his modernist ...

Dave Douglas & Keystone: Moonshine

by Mark F. Turner
May 29, 2008

As one of jazz's most omnivorous thinkers, trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas continues to explore ideas outside of the norm. Moonshine is a continuation with Keystone--an electric sextet that includes Marcus Strickland (saxophones), Adam Benjamin (Fender Rhodes), Brad Jones (bass), Gene Lake (drums), and DJ Olive (turntables)--exploring in music, the life and art of 1920s silent film actor/director Roscoe “Fatty" Arbuckle, whose career was abruptly ended when he was falsely accused of murder. Whether or not Douglas' odd juxtaposition ...

Dave Douglas & Keystone: Moonshine

by John Kelman
December 7, 2007

It's unlikely that Dave Douglas expected the Grammy-nominated Keystone (Greenleaf Music, 2005) to turn into an ongoing project, but as a parallel to his quintet of the past half decade, the trumpeter has forged a distinct entity with the group he now calls Keystone. This sextet shares some commonality with the quintet responsible for Meaning and Mystery (Greenleaf, 2006), but there are just as many differences, if not more. Moonshine affirms that Keystone is a band with a very different ...

Dave Douglas: Keystone Live in Sweden

by John Kelman
October 4, 2006

In the early days of silent film, scores were played live, most often by a single musician--simplifying the response to the on-screen activities. In recent years artists like guitarist Bill Frisell and clarinetist Louis Sclavis have upped the ante by combining composed music with improvisation on silent film scores for small ensembles, making the coordination of sight and sound much more challenging.

Trumpeter Dave Douglas' Keystone (Greenleaf, 2005) is another contemporary entry, a two-disc release including a DVD of the ...

Dave Douglas: Keystone

by Michael McCaw
November 7, 2005

Keystone is an incredibly mature-sounding album from Dave Douglas--not because his work up till now has not been complete, but because he has fully integrated the technology and mode of the music first espoused by Miles Davis. Yet he has moved beyond that reference point and created a group sound that is thoroughly modern and doesn't need to push itself to musical extremes to demonstrate mastery.Dedicated to and inspired by early film comic Fatty Arbuckle, Keystone uses the ...

Dave Douglas: Keystone

by John Kelman
September 14, 2005

Paradoxically consistent yet somehow unpredictable, trumpeter Dave Douglas is an artistic rarity. Even when he records a followup to an existing project, you know it's going to be an evolution which throws in some surprises. Last year's Strange Liberation may have been a sequel to 2002's The Infinite, but the addition of Bill Frisell inspired new tactics, both compositionally and in performance.

Douglas' new disc, Keystone, has some precedence in his electronica-informed 2003 release, Freak In. Like that record, however, ...

John Medeski, Billy Martin, John Scofield, DJ Logic, DJ Olive, Sex Mob, Antibalas, Marco Benevento, Vijay Iyer, Eric Krasno + Unite in Benefit for the Scotty Hard Trust

Source: Allegro Media
March 5, 2008

DOWNTOWN NYC JAZZ LUMINARIES OFFER HEARTFELT PERFORMANCES IN BENEFIT FOR FELLOW MUSICIAN AND PRODUCER SCOTT HARDING AT HIGHLINE BALLROOM NYC ON MARCH 19, 2008 JOHN MEDESKI, BILLY MARTIN, JOHN SCOFIELD, DJ LOGIC, DJ OLIVE, SEXMOB, ANTIBALAS, MARCO BENEVENTO, VIJAY IYER, ERIC KRASNO and more UNITE TO HELP RAISE MEDICAL FUNDS FOR BELOVED RECORD PRODUCER NEW YORK, NY — Downtown NYC luminaries unite for one astonishing benefit concert at the Highline Ballroom in New York City on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, ...
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