Dave Douglas and Keystone: Columbus, February 5, 2011
Dave Douglas & Keystone Lincoln Theatre Columbus, Ohio February 5, 2011
It seemed somehow fitting that composer Dave Douglas' presentation of Spark Of Being (Greenleaf Music, 2010) be held in the aftermath of the blizzard of 2011. The audience for this retelling of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, which begins and ends with a sailing ...
Dave Douglas at Zanzibar Blue
Dave Douglas Quintet Zanzibar Blue Philadelphia, PA January 26-27
As I walked along Broad Street to Zanzibar Blue, I passed the Academy of Music, where some Mummers were tuning up, and went by a huge tent and some media trucks that were set up for the 105th Anniversary celebration of ...
The Dave Douglas Quintet at the Jazz Standard, New York, Dec. 7
Dave Douglas Quintet The Jazz Standard, New York City Thursday, December 7, 2006 Early Show
Trumpeter/cornetist Dave Douglas, one of the most prolific bandleaders in the last decade, has embraced rather than cursed technology and used his six-night run at the Jazz Standard as a means of disseminating his music to the broadest ...
Dave Douglas & Keystone at SFJAZZ
Dave Douglas & Keystone Thursday, October 26, 2005 Palace of Fine Arts, SF Dave Douglas and his electrified Keystone band merged past and future on the last stop of their brief American tour, playing for an enthusiastic crowd of hipsters at San Francisco's Palace of Fine Arts as part of the 23rd annual ...
Dave Douglas at Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago
Dave Douglas and Keystone Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago October 8, 2005
This has been a great period for trumpeter Dave Douglas. The Infinite, Freak In, Strange Liberation, Mountain Passages--no bandleader this decade has surpassed Douglas in terms of remarkable recorded output.
The excellence of the above CDs makes the ...
Dave Douglas Quartet
Litchfield Jazz Festival Goshen Fairgrounds, CT August 6, 2000
Fresh from his quadruple victory in Downbeat magazine’s 2000 critics’ poll, trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas brought a slightly retooled version of his quartet to Connecticut’s annual Litchfield Jazz Festival. Ben Perowsky remained behind the drum kit, but Brad Jones replaced James Genus ...
Dave Douglas Septet
Dave Douglas conducts a group with his whole body. He nods to the bassist, glances toward the drums, shrugs at the DJ, and raises his brow to the saxophonist all within one swift measure of music. Then he plunges into a trumpet solo that cleanses the senses like dry white wine. Douglas shined as a leader ...
Dave Douglas New Quintet
Village Vanguard New York City
Take Dave Douglas's Magic Triangle and Leap of Faith quartet, swap Ben Perowsky for Clarence Penn on drums, keep Chris Potter on tenor and James Genus on bass, and add Uri Caine on Fender Rhodes. What have we got? The new Dave Douglas Quintet, which the chameleonic trumpeter/composer featured ...
