Archive for the ‘Dave Douglas (Updates)’ Category
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Expand fits Douglas’ catalog, but it goes a little further than usual, and there’s even a moment or two that sounds like a twisted video-game or circus (like the end of “Observer”). And with no shortage of hard beats and head-nodding potential, Expand should especially appeal to fans of jazz fusion and acid jazz.
Washington City Paper record review »
There’s a sense of slowly dawning wonder in the music, as if a reanimated corpse or a reinspired everyman were rediscovering the world, moving through the electronic chirping and trumpet fragments as if wading through water.
A killer set from Brass Ecstasy. A new tune called “United Front” is part of the setlist. It’s a burner. And “Bowie”… C’mon!
We’re working on getting you Subscribers the lossless audio to download. That would bring the third complete Brass Ecstasy set to the Subscriber Download archive (not to mention all the other full sets from the Quintet and Keystone). As always, more exclusive music coming your way in the coming weeks/months/years. Here’s a list of the current tracks/sets.
Non-subscribers can check out some of a couple live Brass Ecstasy sets at the webstore. Brass Ecstasy: On Stage chronicles the 2009 Spirit Moves record release shows at Jazz Standard.
East-coasters, be sure to check out the Brass Ecstasy set this Sunday at the Newport Jazz Festival. Those not able to attend can check out WBGO’s live broadcast from the fest. Gonna be great.
The last two Brass Ecstasy shows this year are at the Red Sea Jazz Festival in Israel. Click here for more info on those concerts and the clinic with Dave.
Posted at the LA Times…
In a rumpled shirt and straw hat fit for a Brooklyn block party, downtown New York trumpeter Dave Douglas showed a different side to his always eclectic tastes, leading his band through fluid, expansive selections from “A Single Sky,” an album released last year that was Douglas’ first big band recording.
Arranged by keyboardist [Jim] McNeely, Douglas’ lyrical set departed from the usual big band sound with energetic flashes of Latin jazz and funk, gaining strength as it slowed to an atmospheric purr for the evocative “The Persistence of Memory.” With the bandstand bathed in red light, Douglas and crew took the Bowl to a dark, noirish place highlighted by a giggling, gurgling trombone solo by Ed Neumeister, whose deft work with a mute had his horn occasionally resembling Peter Frampton’s talk box.
Frampton, eh? Man, wish I could have been there.
As we roll out the preorder for the second piece of Spark Of Being, we also launch a new Subscribercast. The newest addition is a continuation of Dave detailing tracks from the aforementioned trilogy release. This time, subscribers get an in depth look at the Creature Theme — from the morse code rhythmic breakdown, to isolating some of the many sound sources used, to the final versions.
Be sure to check out the Travelogue subscribercast as well, if you missed it.
More Subscribercast updates coming soon. More exclusive downloads as well. For now, enjoy the new podcast and the exclusive first listen of Expand.
Dave Douglas with Keystone: Adam Benjamin, Marcus Strickland, Brad Jones, Gene Lake.
Thanks to Brice Rosenboom and Adam Shatz for organizing this festival. It was a thrill to be a part of it and to see so many of you out there.
Dave Douglas & Keystone
12-Jun-10 | Le Poisson Rouge, Lower East Side NY
tickets | map | facebook event page
Over the long weekend, we posted some new Subscribercasts recorded up at the Banff Workshop. Special thanks to those engineers who’ve helped out.
The first is a two-part conversation with Dave Douglas and Donny McCaslin discussing Donny’s albums Recommended Tools and Declaration with selected audio tracks from both, composing, practicing, the Banff Workshop, and much more.
The second Subscribercast update is titled Travelogue: Birth, Growth, and Maintenance. This one has Dave detailing various versions of the tune Travelogue from the Spark of Being release. Five versions of the piece are showcased, from the earliest trio recording with Dave, Adam Benjamin, and DJ Olive, to the fully-realized Soundtrack mix with commentary on each.
These Subscribercasts are exclusively available for Subscribers to stream. If you’re already a Subscriber, simply login at the store with your email/password, and head over to the Subscribercast page and click on a ‘cast. Also, check the Subscriber Downloads blog for a preview of Spark Of Being: Expand (out August 2010). The track Tree Ring Circus is available in MP3 and FLAC formats.
For non-subscribers, we’ve recently given the Subscriber system a make-over, including a new economically-friendly level for those who want to access these Subscribercasts. Remember also, with any Subscription, you get unlimited access to full-album streams for all our frontline titles.
Happy listening.
The who: Dave Douglas & Keystone
The when: May 7th, 7:00 PM (that’s tonight)
The where: CSUB Amphitheater, Bakersfield, CA [map]
The festival site: Bakersfield Jazz Festival
