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Orange Afternoons
Dave Douglas
Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2011
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Tracks
The Gulf; Valori Bollati; Solato; Orologi; Orange Afternoons; Frontier Justice.
Personnel
Dave Douglas
trumpet
Ravi Coltrane
saxophone, tenor
Vijay Iyer
piano
Marcus Gilmore
drums
Linda May Han Oh
bass, acousticAlbum Description
The second volume of the Greenleaf Portable Series (GPS), Orange Afternoons features Dave Douglas, Ravi Coltrane, Vijay Iyer, Linda Oh, and Marcus Gilmore. This informal session in Brooklyn yielded six new Douglas compositions for this special quintet. The album opener—The Gulf—begins delicately with Iyer rolling clusters and Gilmore frosting the spectrum with cymbals before the plaintive melody offers the first taste of the frontline of Douglas’ trumpet and Coltrane’s saxophone. Moving along, Valori Bollati—translated as Revenue Stamps—swings it’s way into gorgeous solos by Iyer and Oh. Solato features a simple harmonic figure floating on top of a deep groove, and a solo from Douglas that culminates in a single long tone towering over a wash before fizzling back to the intro figure. All in all, the six tracks on this album feel immediate, with urgent playing from each of these stalwart musicians.
