Dave Douglas Career Highlights From The Past 18 Months:
Released three albums on Greenleaf Music including the recent Meaning and Mystery (April 11 release). Both Mountain Passages and Keystone were called the “best recording of his career" by many journalists
Earned his second Grammy nomination (for Keystone)
Received a Guggenheim Fellowship
Expanded his Festival of New Trumpet Music into a very well respected and growing annual event
Did three U.S. and two European tours, all rather extensive
Wrote a full-blown, contemporary classical piece, Blue Latitudes, for 14 musicians (the U.K. Birmingham Contemporary Chamber Players), and 3 improvisors, which premiers in early April
Started his own label, Greenleaf Music, which has, along with other entities such as Artist Share, seriously redefined what a jazz label might look like in the future
Continued leading his annual workshops at the Banff Center
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