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Dave Douglas: Keystone Live in Sweden
by John Kelman
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 ...
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by AAJ Italy Staff
Le strategie sonore di Dave Douglas si semplificano in questi anni recenti, nella dialettica tra quintetto acustico e gruppo elettrico, gruppi eccellenti curati con particolare meticolosita'. Escono ora per la Greenleaf, diretta in proprio, due CD in contemporanea: questo Keystone, ed un live" del vecchio quintetto col repertorio di The Infinite. Keystone e' pensato come sonorizzazione di un'opera del regista Roscoe Arbuckle, grande autore dell'epoca del muto, ingiustamente sottovalutato anche alla luce di una condanna penale che lo escluse da ...
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