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A nice review of the Brass Ecstasy performance last night by the Oregon Music News blog hit this morning. Click here to read.
UPDATE: Check out another review from Mainly Music Meanderings here with accompanying photos. Note: one tune was missing from Posty McPosterton’s setlist — “The Brass Ring” (with the drum solo Posty mentions) should appear between “Awake Nu” and “Mr. Pitiful.” That update came straight from the horse’s mouth. Thanks for posting Posty!
Early Warning: Brass Ecstasy’s next scheduled performance this year will be at the Red Sea Jazz Festival this coming August. More info on that festival coming soon. As always, keep your eye on Dave’s tour page for the most recent tour news.
Special 1/2 price Student/Senior Tickets
Half-price tickets are available to students and seniors via walk-up only at the Crystal Ballroom. Limited availability.
For non-seniors and non-students, buy your tickets in advance here.
Left-coasters can hear Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy this coming Sunday the 28th at the Crystal Ballroom [map] as part of the Portland Jazz Festival. Get your tickets here.
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To celebrate, this week at the Greenleaf store we have a sale going for all the Brass Ecstasy music.
Spirit Moves: Buy the CD and receive a free upgrade to the Deluxe CD+DVD package. Saves you 40%.
On Stage: Part of our download-only series, pick up these live sets for $5 MP3 or $7 FLAC saving you 30%.
Sheet Music: Five bucks off the digital PDFs of the extended Spirit Moves book of music. Saves you 25%.
Sale ends Monday the 29th.
A quick reminder…
February 11th, 2010 – 8:00PM
Dave Douglas Quintet
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Young Artist Workshop Participants
LaGuardia Performing Arts Center
31-10 Thomson Ave
Queens, NY 11101
***Free to the Public***
more detailed post from earlier this week including details for the Friday performance…
We are very excited to announce that Dave’s big band will be playing this years Hollywood Bowl on July 28 performing music from A Single Sky and Dave’s big band work Delighted States with very special guest Jim McNeely.
Click here to listen to A Single Sky.
Click here for the full scores to all 7 tunes.
The night is a triple bill with Dave Holland Big Band and Count Basie Orchestra. Tickets and subscription packages for the Hollywood Bowl are available now.
Live at the Bimhuis was one of the very first releases on Greenleaf Music, and the first in Dave’s Paperback Series. It predates my time here, actually, but not by much.
An order came in this morning for the final physical copy on hand. So, as of today, the CD format for this title is Out-Of-Print. Digital formats are of course still available here.
Thanks to all who have ordered it in the past and for making it one of the most successful releases in our catalog.
“Constellations is a new set of songs written and arranged for the trio. It was recorded in mid tour, and so has a different, perhaps more live, character … Many thanks go to Brad and Jim for their dedications and commitment to the music. They are two of the finest listeners around, and in our three years as atrio, we’ve developed split-second reaction times and true fluidity between roles of soloist and accompanist.” – Dave Douglas, 1995
The HatHut reissue of Constellations is now available at our store with full track samples for your listening pleasure. Click the newly-designed album art above to reach the album page. This disc is also available in the Trio Bundle with Donny McCaslin’s Recommended Tools, Nicole Mitchell’s Indigo Trio, Live in Montreal, and a bonus MP3 download of Tiny Bell Trio Live in Europe.
It had been awhile since I listened to these tracks. Man, what a killer album!
Click here to read the AllAboutJazz review of this reissue.
Douglas’ trumpet, visceral and vocalized, steers most of the tracks, counterpointed by Shepik’s emphatic, rock-tinged guitar and Black’s leathery syncopations. As Douglas observes in his (brief) liner notes, three years down the line Tiny Bell had achieved split-second reaction times and extraordinary fluidity between the roles of soloist and accompanist. Douglas is undoubtedly the leader here but the music is a true collective endeavor. Three exploding stars, a shared focus, and one enduring masterpiece. -Chris May, AAJ
Thanks to Werner Uehlinger at HatHut Records for putting this music out there.
The Quintet continues at the Vanguard tonight. Thanks to all who’ve been and will be there this weekend.
The FLACs of the set from the Vanguard last night are being added to our subscriber downloads database. Those are lossless files that you subscribers can download and sink your ears in to. Thanks to WBGO and NPR for their work. Enjoy.
For non-subscribers, plenty of music to listen to at the NPR Vanguard page. And if you’d like to join our Greenleaf subscriber community, click here to see all the current special offer.
We hope to see you out at the Vanguard. Tickets are available here.
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December 11th, 2009
A quick update on those files. We’ve split the set into tracks rather than the one big file up over at NPR Vanguard page. We cut the chatter, too. So it’s as clean as possible.
Also, of the seven tunes played, four have not been released yet. Those tunes and a lot of the new book that the Quintet have been and will play this weekend is scheduled to be recorded and released on the next Quintet studio album tentatively scheduled for late 2010.
Happy friday, everyone. If you read our site regularly, you probably received an email blast this morning. If not, we announced our Holiday Bundles earlier today. There are some pretty sweet deals on every album in our catalog over at the store. Also, a pretty killer Subscriber package for new people wanting to overload their hard drive with tunage and support what we do.
More specials coming next week. Happy post-Turkey day.
