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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.
We just posted two tracks from Dave’s newest album at the Subscriber Blog. The Presidents (track 1) composed and arranged by Dave Douglas, and A Single Sky (track 3) composed by Dave Douglas and arranged by Jim McNeely are up for download.
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More info on the A Single Sky preorder coming VERY soon.
As Dave alluded to, we posted a preview of the upcoming Spirit Moves record for our subscribers. The track, “View From Blue Mountain,” is up for download at the subscriber section along with a behind-the-scenes video from the recording session for that tune. It was shot by Christoph Green and Jem Cohen. More vids coming soon.
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After a few meetings and an extremely helpful conversation with our Subscribers, we can now announce updates to our Subscription Series. These include more free music including 2 previously unreleased sets from Keystone: Live at Jazz Standard, more choices for what you can receive with your Subscription, VIP treatment at concerts, and even a new level of subscription called the Patron.
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With all the hulla-ba-loo revolving around the Keystone: Live at Jazz Standard sets, the April download was never updated. So our May post is a double post. Not only that, but it is your first taste of two upcoming Greenleaf releases from artists new to the label.
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First, we have Donny McCaslin’s Trio album which has yet to be titled. Many of you know McCaslin from playing with Dave’s Quintet for the past few years, and the list of artists he has worked with–Gary Burton, Maria Schneider, etc–is impressive too. This track, Recommended Tools, is an alternate take of the first track on this upcoming release.
Donny McCaslin Trio is Donny McCaslin, Tenor Saxophone; Jonathan Blake, Drums; Hans Glawischnig, Bass
Second, we have Michael Bates’ Outside Sources coming out late summer/early fall. “Clockwise” is Michael’s 3rd record and follows “Outside Sources” and “A Fine Balance” both of which met with much buzz and acclaim. The music, as you will hear, is as accessible as it is experimental. Michael cites many disparate influences including Shostakovich, Ornette Coleman, and Bad Brains. We hope you like what you hear. This alternate take is of a composition titled “Poor Man’s Cure”
Michael Bates’ Outside Sources is Quinsin Nachoff, Saxophone and Clarinet; Russ Johnson, Trumpet; Jeff Davis, Drums; Michael Bates, Double Bass.
Usually we have a Subscription update at the beginning of each month. But this is an exceptional month given the release of Moonshine.
When you subscribe to Greenleaf, we will be sending you a free copy of this new recording by Dave Douglas & Keystone! This is on top of having access to all of our past Subscriber Series Downloads, of which there are 28 rare and unreleased tracks… soon to be 29 at the beginning of December.
We will be extremely grateful for your support. We’re doing everything we can to make Greenleaf Music the most wonderful creative environment that we can. Your subscription will help facilitate that.
As many of you know, Greenleaf has a subscriber system that allows you to contribute some of your hard earned cash to our cause of getting great music out into this world. It works like public radio: you support us, and we give you free stuff. But instead of a mug or a book or a tote, we give you free CDs and access to our monthly downloads. These tracks are culled from Greenleaf’s and Dave’s archives of unreleased outakes and never-released rare live tracks. They come to you on the first of every month without fail when you subscribe.
There has been a great response to these tracks. Because of this response, we thought we would share with you one of these subscriber downloads as a taste of what you could have on your e-plate.
Here is April’s download: Come To Jesus played by Dave Douglas Quintet with Chris Potter, Uri Caine, James Genus, and Clarence Penn, written by Dave’s high school buddy Adam Guettel.
Enjoy!
It’s subscriber download time again! “Leaving Autumn” is one of five extra tracks recorded at the Meaning and Mystery session that were mixed and mastered but not included on the final version of the record. These five tracks are not “outtakes” but tracks Dave recorded specifically to be made available in any number of ways — this first one, as a free monthly download exclusively for our subscribers. A rare cut featuring Dave in a trio setting with two of his favorite players, Clarence Penn and James Genus, “Leaving Autumn” is an especially original reading of the old standard.
Subscribers can log in and start downloading! If you’re not a subscriber, give it a look …
Another month, another downloadable track for our subscribers! This time, it’s Dave Douglas’s “Just Another Murder (Brass Version)”, from a new group called Brass Ecstasy. Dave says:
“Just Another Murder” is, for me, a title evocative of the daily violent shenanigans at Keystone Studios. In August 2005 I put together a band to celebrate the memory of the great Lester Bowie. I call it Brass Ecstasy. This track, a “cover” of the Keystone tune, was recorded at our first gig, at The Jazz Standard in New York on August 4, 2005. We also played tunes by Hank Williams, Missy Elliott, Rufus Wainwright, and Otis Redding. More to come from this new band in 2006. Long Live Lester.
If you’re a subscriber, log in and start downloading! If you’re not a subscriber, think about it — there are wonderful benefits (besides this fabulous track).
Well, it’s a new month (November, if you haven’t been paying attention), so that means a new monthly download for Greenleaf Music subscribers. This month, we’re proud to offer “Bub”, an unreleased Kneebody track composed by Adam Benjamin and recorded at No Big Whoop Studios in 2004. Intended to be a part of the Kneebody debut album on Greenleaf but left off, it was inspired by a Ben Wendel song called “Hub.”
So subscribers, log in and download the mp3 of “Bub” any time you’d like. If you’re not a subscriber, well … if only there was some way you could become one right now …
