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Dave Douglas: Songs Of Ascent Book 1 — Degrees
by Giuseppe Segala
La curiosità di Dave Douglas verso l'esplorazione, la scoperta, lo stimolo intellettivo, non si placa. Si focalizza, con inesauribile attenzione, su progetti sempre diversi. Così la sua musica, che poggia sempre su un motivo di ispirazione forte: di carattere musicale, poetico, artistico e spirituale in senso ampio. Tra gli altri, Mary Lou Williams, Wayne Shorter, Booker Little, Miles Davis, Dizzy Gillespie, hanno fornito negli anni passati al trombettista materiali, ma soprattutto motivi di riflessione dai quali partire con le proprie ...
Continue ReadingDave Douglas Quintet: Songs Of Ascent Book 1—Degrees
by Dan McClenaghan
“Devotion is not a singular expression. I wanted to come at this from as many directions as the psalms do." Dave Douglas. Trumpeter Dave Douglas released one of the finest recordings of his career in 2010, Spark Of Being (Greenleaf Records), a musical immersion into Mary Shelley's pioneering horror & science fiction novel Frankenstein. Douglas is at his best when he bites into themes--Frankenstein, the films of Fatty Arbuckle, the music of pianist & composer Mary Lou Williams, ...
Continue ReadingPowerful music from John McLaughlin, Chick Corea and Dave Douglas
by Len Davis
Retrospective of the the years 2000-2010 including John McLaughlin, Chick Corea, fretless bassist Mark Egan, trumpeter Dave Douglas, Chris Poland and OHM and CAB. Playlist John McLaughlin “Recovery" from To The One (Abstract Logix) 00:00 Wallace Roney “Miles Runs The Voodoo Down" from Miles From India (Times Square) 08:34 Mark Egan “Three Way Mirror" from As We Speak (Waveton) 17:04 Chick Corea-John McLaughlin “New Blues Old Bruise" from Five Peace Band (Concord) 25:40 Dave Douglas “Catalyst" from Strange ...
Continue ReadingDave Douglas: Secular Psalms
by Jerome Wilson
Trumpeter Dave Douglas has worked with religious themes in the past, notably on Be Still, (Greenleaf Music, 2012), and he gets back into that realm on this wide-ranging 2022 album. The music is a suite commissioned by the city of Ghent, Belgium to commemorate the 600th anniversary of the creation of an altarpiece for its St. Bavo's Cathedral. For this occasion Douglas assembled a group of young European musicians along with cellist Tomeka Reid who, because of the pandemic, had ...
Continue ReadingNew Music From Douglas, Rieu, Carelli & Lacabe And More
by Bob Osborne
On this week's show a new album from Dave Douglas, recent releases from Yannick Rieu, Marcello Carelli and Santiago Lacabe. There is also a trio of guitar led releases from OTTO, Smith Komma John and Spacepilot.Playlist Show Intro 00:00 Dave Douglas “Arrival" from Secular Psalms (Greenleaf) 00:44 Yannick Rieu Génération Quartet “Time Is, Life Was" from Qui Qu'en Grogne (Yari Productions) 10:10 Santiago Lacabe “Coquito" from Jusitici Adivina (ears&eyes) 16:44 OTTO “Prelude Suite n2 BWV 997" from Danses ...
Continue ReadingJoe Lovano & Dave Douglas Soundprints: Other Worlds
by Vic Albani
Stile e ricercatezza. La cifra di questo nuovo lavoro di due giganti del jazz contemporaneo quali Joe Lovano e Dave Douglas è tutta in questi due vocaboli. Sound Prints (che richiama nel nome la ben celebre “Footprints" fermata dal signor Wayne Shorter) è il nome del quintetto titolare di questo progetto nato nel 2013 per Blue Note per festeggiare con un disco dal vivo l'ottantesimo compleanno del grandissimo sassofonista del New Jersey e per dare nuova linfa e ...
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