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Dave Douglas: Greenleaf Portable Series Volume 1: Rare Metals
by AAJ Italy Staff
Il titolo Rare Metals è quanto mai appropriato per questo CD, perché di rado capita di imbattersi in gemme rilucenti come questa. In primo piano un inusuale tappeto timbrico ed una front-line dominata dai timbri scuri e cupi di trombone e tuba, per contraltare la squillante tromba del leader. Douglas si rivela ancora una volta il magnifico musicista che conosciamo, ma lo è forse di più la sua progettualità che fa di questo disco un'opera corale, che rimanda alle brass ...
Continue ReadingDave Douglas: Greenleaf Portable Series Volume 2: Orange Afternoons
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nell'anno appena trascorso, la Greenleaf Music (etichetta, ma non solo, creata da Dave Douglas - visitate lo splendido sito ne vale la pena,) ha lanciato una nuova collana denominata Greenleaf Portable Series. I tre volumi finora usciti, con il trombettista impegnato in sessioni di registrazioni alla guida di formazioni diverse, pensati per una fruizione esclusivamente digitale, sono stati pubblicati, anche nel più tradizionale formato del CD, a furor di popolo, potremmo dire, viste le numerosissime richieste arrivate in rete. Quello ...
Continue ReadingDave Douglas: Greenleaf Portable Series, Volumes 1-3
by John Kelman
While many jazz artists have a variety of ongoing projects at any given time, few are as stylistically spread out as Dave Douglas. Since his emergence in the mid 1990s as a member of saxophonist/cottage industry proprietor John Zorn's flagship Masada quartet, the intrepid trumpeter has explored an almost unprecedented variety of detailed projects. In his early days he had his string quintet, where violin, cello and bass intersected with trumpet and drums on albums including Parallel Worlds (Soul Note, ...
Continue ReadingDave Douglas: A Creative Consciousness
by Dave Wayne
Considering trumpeter Dave Douglas' musical career, one word that comes to mind is “consistency." Sure, he's led a dizzying variety of bands playing in all sorts of styles. Yet, of the 30-odd recordings he's led, not one veers from the central mission of presenting challenging, original jazz. An inveterate musical risk taker, Douglas has always led several different bands simultaneously. Back in the mid-1990s, he had Parallel Worlds, Tiny Bell Trio, and the Dave Douglas Sextet--each with different instrumentation and ...
Continue ReadingDave Douglas Brass Ecstasy: United Front: Brass Ecstasy At Newport
by Mark Corroto
Brass bands, like wild animals are best viewed in their native habitats. Watching a lion on the savanna is a much different experience than seeing it caged in a zoo. Likewise, hearing Dave Douglas' Brass Ecstasy live is superior to any studio recording. Not that the band's Spirit Moves (Greenleaf, 2009) was a subpar Douglas recording; it's just that any band inspired by the trumpeter Lester Bowie and the New Orleans brass band tradition should be heard in public.
Continue ReadingDave Douglas and Keystone: Columbus, February 5, 2011
by Mark Corroto
Dave Douglas & KeystoneLincoln TheatreColumbus, OhioFebruary 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 ship frozen in the ice of the North Pole, had traveled to the Lincoln Theatre through huge drifting snows, with trees and power lines ...
Continue ReadingDave Douglas & Keystone: Spark of Being
by Troy Collins
Dave Douglas & KeystoneSpark of BeingGreenleaf Music2010 Trumpet player and composer Dave Douglas has risen from the ranks of tenacious Downtown improvisers to become a leading force in creative mainstream jazz in the past decade. Regularly overshadowing perennial favorite Wynton Marsalis in “Best Trumpeter" polls for the past few years, his liberal aesthetic encompasses everything from chamber-like small ensembles to international big bands, with his venerable Quintet and the electric sextet Keystone ...
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