Results for "Dave Douglas"

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Bad Mango

December 7, 2011

Album: Bad Mango
By Dave Douglas
Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2011
Duration: 05:45

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The Gulf

December 6, 2011

Album: Orange Afternoons
By Dave Douglas
Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2011
Duration: 09:01

News: Interview

Trumpeter Dave Douglas Interviewed at All About Jazz...and More!

December 5, 2011

Since first leaping onto the scene as a member of John Zorn's Masada quartet, trumpeter Dave Douglas has emerged as one of modern jazz's freest thinkers, with a seemingly endless flow of ideas. Over nearly 20 years, he's created an almost unparalleled number of memorable groups, including Keystone, Charms of the Night Sky and Tiny Bell ...

Article: Multiple Reviews

Dave Douglas: Greenleaf Portable Series, Volumes 1-3

by John Kelman
December 5, 2011

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 ...

Article: Interview

Dave Douglas: A Creative Consciousness

by Dave Wayne
December 5, 2011

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 ...

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Safeway

December 5, 2011

Album: Rare Metals
By Dave Douglas
Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2011
Duration: 05:10

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Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy: Lush Life

Featuring the music of Dave Douglas
Duration: 07:27
December 5, 2011

Promotional video for Dave Douglas and his Brass Ecstasy group, performing Billy Strayhorn's enduring classic, "Lush Life," for its latest release, Rare Metals (Greenleaf Music, 2011), the first installment in the trumpeter's new Greenleaf Portable Series (GPS), that also includes GPS Volume 2: Orange Afternoons (2011) and GPS Volume 3: Bad Mango (2011). Available individually only as digital downloads, all three are also available in hard media format in the three-disc Three Views box set. Brass Ecstasy is: Dave Douglas: trumpet; Vincent Chancey: French horn; Luis Bonilla: trombone; Marcus Rojas: tuba; Nasheet Waits: drums.

Article: Album Review

The Landrus Kaleidoscope: Capsule

by Dave Wayne
December 3, 2011

After exploring post-bop and free-ish jazz with his first two CDs, multi-reed player Brian Landrus extends his stylistic range into the realm of electric jazz with Capsule. Despite listing Fender Rhodes and electric guitar among the CD credits, Capsule is not really a fusion record. Rather, it's a jazz recording with some electronic instrumentation, along the ...

News: Music Industry

Jazz Saxophonist Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas Quintet at Scullers Jazz Club on November 29-30

November 29, 2011

Acclaimed jazz saxophonist Joe Lovano is performing with the Dave Douglas Quintet at Scullers Jazz Club in Boston on November 29-30, 2011. They'll perform two shows each night, at 8:00 p.m. and 10:00 p.m. Tickets to the show are $25 each, which you can purchase online, and dinner/show is $67 per person. To reserve for dinner ...

News: Performance / Tour

Dave Douglas - Three Views (Greenleaf Portable Series, Vols. 1-3) (2011)

November 24, 2011

Dave Douglas is widely regarded as being elite among jazz trumpeters these days not just because of a polished technique, but a restlessness that drives him to try something new at least every couple of years. He's had a richly varied career that's gone from playing in Horace Silver's band to leading a “jazz-Balkan-improv" Tiny Bell ...