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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.

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December 5, 2011

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

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 ...

News: Education

Vijay Iyer Appointed Director, Banff Centre Jazz Program

November 22, 2011

One of the most critically acclaimed jazz musicians of the new century, pianist, composer, and bandleader Vijay Iyer has been appointed director of the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music at The Banff Centre. Iyer will be at the 2012 Workshop (May 21 to June 9), and will officially take over the role in ...

Article: Album Review

Katya Sourikova: Ivan's Dream

by Eyal Hareuveni
November 1, 2011

The third release of Berlin-based pianist and composer Katya Sourikova looks and sounds like something fitting the ECM catalog--the beautiful cover, the pristine and rich sound of the recording, and, obviously, the genre-binding beautiful, lyrical and nuanced music that moves freely and organically along the spectrum of jazz, both American and European, as well as folk ...

Article: Album Review

Naked Truth: Shizaru

by Lawrence Peryer
October 21, 2011

Naked Truth is the brain child of Italian bassist Lorenzo Feliciati, who has made a name for himself throughout Europe since 2005 as both a leader and collaborator. Feliciati has said that Naked Truth came from his desire to create a band where “each voice is equal and contributes to the musical conversation," and where no ...

News: Recording

Dave Douglas & So Percussion - GPS, Vol 3: "Bad Mango"

October 13, 2011

The third volume of the Greenleaf Portable Series (GPS), Bad Mango features Dave Douglas with So Percussion. From the first notes of the opening track One More News—originally recorded on Witness [2001]—it's clear that this session yielded a sound unlike any other in the expansive Dave Douglas discography. Pairing his plaintive trumpet with a myriad of ...

News: Event

PDX Jazz @ The Mission Theater Presents Cuong Vu, October 26

October 10, 2011

PDX Jazz, the presenting organization of the Portland Jazz Festival in partnership with The Mission Theater, along with The Crystal Hotel and our media sponsor KMHD Radio, is set to continue the PDX Jazz @ The Mission Theater series with Cuong Vu on Wednesday, October 26th at 8pm. The world renowned Vietnamese trumpeter will be performing ...