Jazz Articles about Dave Douglas

Dave Douglas: Keystone

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 2, 2006

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 ...

Dave Douglas & Keystone at SFJAZZ

by Forrest Dylan Bryant
November 8, 2005

Dave Douglas & KeystoneThursday, October 26, 2005Palace of Fine Arts, SFDave 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 San Francisco Jazz Festival. The Keystone project is focused on new scores Douglas has written for the silent films of Roscoe “Fatty" Arbuckle, a brilliant comedian whose ...

Dave Douglas: Keystone

by Michael McCaw
November 7, 2005

Keystone is an incredibly mature-sounding album from Dave Douglas--not because his work up till now has not been complete, but because he has fully integrated the technology and mode of the music first espoused by Miles Davis. Yet he has moved beyond that reference point and created a group sound that is thoroughly modern and doesn't need to push itself to musical extremes to demonstrate mastery.Dedicated to and inspired by early film comic Fatty Arbuckle, Keystone uses the ...

Dave Douglas at Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago

by Paul Olson
October 12, 2005

Dave Douglas and Keystone Old Town School of Folk Music, Chicago October 8, 2005This 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 fact that I like his new Keystone the best of all of them pretty much a matter of subjective taste; we're dealing with an ...

Dave Douglas: Keystone

by John Kelman
September 14, 2005

Paradoxically consistent yet somehow unpredictable, trumpeter Dave Douglas is an artistic rarity. Even when he records a followup to an existing project, you know it's going to be an evolution which throws in some surprises. Last year's Strange Liberation may have been a sequel to 2002's The Infinite, but the addition of Bill Frisell inspired new tactics, both compositionally and in performance.

Douglas' new disc, Keystone, has some precedence in his electronica-informed 2003 release, Freak In. Like that record, however, ...

Dave Douglas: Mountain Passages

by Brandt Reiter
February 23, 2005

A chunky stew of countless cultural influences and myriad musical forms, jazz has always stolen freely from just about anything it could get its hands on. This unfettered kleptomania has always been key to music's vibrant nature, yet at the same time has made the music itself increasingly difficult to define. Case in point: pathologically restless trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas' Mountain Passages , the first release by his newly minted Greenleaf label. The 41-year-old Douglas, who seems intent on ...

Dave Douglas: Mountain Passages

by Jim Santella
January 31, 2005

Dave Douglas wrote the music for Mountain Passages at the request of the festival at The Sound of the Dolomites. The band hiked up to Rifugio Boe in Valle di Fassa and to Rifugio Brentei, near Madonna di Campliglio in the Alps of northern Italy, and played the music for hundreds of fans who had hiked up to hear them. Later, they put the music together again in a studio.Douglas' modern mainstream jazz offers various moods. The band ...