Jazz Articles about Dave Douglas

Dave Douglas Quintet: Live at the Jazz Standard

by John Kelman
December 13, 2007

Trumpeter Dave Douglas' a six-night run at New York's Jazz Standard in December, 2006, was relatively revolutionary in the jazz world. Every set, featuring his longstanding quintet, was recorded and made available the following morning in downloadable MP3 format. The twelve sets included nearly everything from The Infinite (RCA, 2002), Strange Liberation (RCA, 2003) and Meaning and Mystery (Greenleaf, 2006), as well as fourteen new pieces. Live at the Jazz Standard collects the best performances of this new material into ...

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 at Zanzibar Blue

by Victor L. Schermer
February 2, 2007

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 Academy with special guests Prince Charles and Camilla. I felt miffed that they didn't invite moi, but then I realized that I'd ...

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: Keeping His Eye on the Ball

by Tom Greenland
September 14, 2006

Dave Douglas isn't one to sit around watching paint dry. Since 1994, he's made 25 recordings as bandleader/composer, collaborated with a Who's Who roster of jazz “names (uptown and Downtown) and garnered seven straight wins as Downbeat's “Jazz Trumpeter of the Year, two Grammy nominations, a Guggenheim fellowship and the artistic directorship of the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music. Douglas is also a primary force behind the Festival of New Trumpet (FONT), a celebration of the instrument ...

Dave Douglas: Meaning And Mystery

by AAJ Italy Staff
August 28, 2006

Se la presenza di Bill Frisell in Strange Liberation modificava alcuni assetti, ora la formazione riprende il discorso iniziato nel 2001 col disco The Infinite: uno sguardo all'estetica davisiana degli anni sessanta rivista alla luce della contemporaneità. Le influenza musicali di questo lavoro vanno oltre i gruppi di Davis con Shorter e lo stesso Douglas cita nelle note un ampio ventaglio di riferimenti: dai quintetti di Lee Morgan ai gruppi di Joe Henderson, Anthony Braxton/Kenny Wheeler, Julius Hemphill/Baikida Carroll, Tim ...

Dave Douglas: Music, Commerce and Culture Wars

by Paul Olson
June 26, 2006

Trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas is one of the best-known players and bandleaders in jazz music. With countless performances, groups and recordings to his credit, his success hardly seems surprising, or anything less than hard-earned. One struggles to list his accomplishments. If you randomly name a New-York-based improvisational heavyweight, Douglas has probably played with him. His longstanding role in John Zorn's Masada is sufficient to establish his bona fides as a supporting player, and his bands like the Tiny Bell Trio, Parallel ...