Archive for the ‘Subscriber News’ Category
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.
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.
As many found out via email this week, we launched a new Subscription Series. The expanded benefits lists includes an exclusive first listen of Dave’s new record, Spark Of Being: Soundtrack (the first release in a trio of releases slated for a Box Set release).
If you are a Subscriber, or become one, all you have to do is sign into your account at the store (the store recognizes your subscriber account), go to the Spark:Soundtrack album page, and click on the tracks. (We’re working a on Play-All function to update soon)
Once you are signed in at the store, you can play all of our front-line titles in their entirety as many times as you want. This is included in all new levels of Subscriptions. Plus you can get higher percentage discounts than before, access to the new Subscribercasts, et al. Updates with streaming our Full Book packages coming soon.
For the Subscriber Downloads Blog with the massively large 10+ hours of unreleased content, you sign in at the same place with the same user/pass just as before. Newbies will get an email with user/pass for this blog if they subscribe at the higher two levels. We’ll update you with a new track to download soon.
We built the new system with help from our subscribers. We hope you’ll continue to send us your feedback, suggestions, or funny stories about running into Dave at the local pool (thanks, John T!).
Happy weekend.
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.
Subscriber login here.
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.
If you’re not a subscriber, click here to become one. Subscribers get the first taste of all our releases plus access to our ever-growing stockpile of unreleased material–MP3, FLAC, Sheet Music, Ringtones, and much more.
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.
Our Subscribers have become an integral piece of Greenleaf Music. It is Subscribers’ input and feedback that helped build our webstore, helped give this Series a makeover, and will continue to shape what we do.
Please consider supporting our efforts.
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!
