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Donny McCaslin with Scott Colley and Antonio Sanchez playing at Moviemento in Linz, Austria October 4th.

To view the whole concert playlist, click over to the GreenleafMusicHQ Youtube page. Thanks to wotan667 for posting.

We are proud to announce the release of Dave’s first big band album — a collaboration with Jim McNeely and one of Europe’s longest-running groups, the Frankfurt Radio Bigband.   A Single Sky is set for release in late October. It features 3 selections from Dave’s big band suite, Delighted States, which debuted at JazzBaltica 2008 (view that performance here), and 4 pieces from the Douglas catalog arranged by the multi-Grammy-winning Jim McNeely. Thanks to painter Terry Winters for the beautiful cover art.

More info coming soon.

We were lucky enough to have Geoff Countryman on tour with Brass Ecstasy in Europe this summer. Upon return, we were sent a boatload of clips from each of the bands performances as well as some candid shots of classic on-the-road happenings captured by Mr. Countryman. So we assembled a little montage for your viewing pleasure. As you watch, you will be hearing a track from the On Stage download series we put up last month called “Spirit Moves.”

Also, at the GreenleafMusicHQ YouTube page, we’ve made a new playlist compiling all the Brass Ecstasy videos — the live Tiny Desk Concert, this montage, as well as the in-studio videos from the DVD part of Spirit Moves.

Enjoy.

The Brass Ecstasy Tiny Desk Concert made it to the front page on YouTube with now over 85,000 views. With 187 comments posted so far you get a wide variety of opinions on the short set.

Here’s just a few…

“Being a typical modern teenager, I never knew a brass ensemble would ever sound this pleasant to listen to until now. Thanks NPR for posting this ”

“you guys are awesome if you really work on that you be playing pro.”

“Best 17 min and 53 secs i spent ever”

“the trumpet players’ ray bans are sick.”

“man i love that trombone player”

“where is the vocals?”

“Thanks for the political jab at Bush, Douglas. Couldn’t help yourself, right? Twilight of the Dogs. What a clever, dyslexic title. 1-20-09 was such an inspirational day for you. Transfer of power, and all that. Here it is roughly seven months later. R U proud of the job your messiah is doing? So vastly superior to Bush, right? Uh huh. obama and his administration remind me a lot of your music. Cataphonic. Ever hear of separation of music and politics? Try it sometime. It’s nice.”

“they should play ska music, cause we all know the best music involving horns is ska, true story.”

“i agree with chewbacca”

More video of live Brass Ecstasy. This one below is from the Jazz à Porquerolles Festival on July 15th via Arte Live Web in France.

Great set. Thanks to those who made this recording happen.

Filmé le 15/07/2009 à la Cour du Fort Sainte Agathe

For those who missed seeing DD & Brass Ecstasy play live as part of NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert series, you can stream that performance at the Tiny Desk Concert Archive.

Setlist: “Spirit Moves”; “This Love Affair”; “Twilight of the Dogs”

The European tour wraps up this week. The last few dates are below. Click here for more details and Dave’s complete tour schedule.

Spirit Moves has been a pleasure to release and work on. Kudos to all who helped and are continuing to help spread the word. And with the preorder long since past, the orders shipped out (more coming in daily, thank you!), we thought to gather some of our promotional material and news together in one post. And here it is.

Brass Ecstasy: On Stage

First, most recently, we’ve released two sets from Brass Ecstasy’s record release shows in NY. Each contain new tunes not found on SM or via our Subscription series. Both are available as MP3s or FLACs. If you preordered SM, you received an email from me this morning with a link to the 9:30 show on June 19th. We’re happy to have been able to get you this music and hope you enjoy it. Check the Brass Ecstasy tour page for their upcoming European tour dates.

Both sets available here. Also included is a bundle with both sets and a Deluxe Spirit Moves that saves you some money.

Sheet Music

These charts are some of my favorites. Here is a sample of the score format. Included with the full scores are charts of all the individual parts for each tune. We’ll most likely have an update for you soon.

>>> Sheet Music at our store.

Video

We’ve heard from so many of you regarding how much you like the DVD from the Spirit Moves Deluxe edition. We have to give props to Jem Cohen and Christoph Green for making this happen. Here are all 4 videos we’ve released on the web. More available on the aforementioned DVD.

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Fresh off the band’s run at the Jazz Standard, Brass Ecstasy head down to DC for a show this evening at Blues Alley. Tickets available here. Before the show, they’ll be stopping by NPR for a Tiny Desk Concert — a live performance on the 5th floor of NPR headquarters. The performance will be video streamed live at 3:30PM EST. Watch it here.

This is great for a chill Sunday morning hang.

In Bb 2.0 is a YouTube generated, collaborative remix of user contributed video that I’ve been playing all morning.

Here’s how creator and producer Darren Solomon describes the project:

In Bb 2.0 is a collaborative music and spoken word project conceived by Darren Solomon from Science for Girls.

The videos can be played simultaneously — the soundtracks will work together, and the mix can be adjusted with the individual volume sliders.

Participate! Create a video and send me the link! Here are some guidelines:

-Sing or play an instrument, in Bb major. Simple, floating textures work best, with no tempo or groove. Leave lots of silence between phrases.
-Record in a quiet environment, with as little background noise as possible.
-Wait about 5-10 seconds to start playing.
-Total length should be between 1-2 minutes.
-Thick chords or low instruments don’t work very well.
-Record at a low volume to match the other videos.
-You can listen to this mix on headphones while you record.
-After you upload to YouTube, play your video along with the other videos on this page to make sure the volume matches.

Update: Wow! This got bigger than I imagined! I greatly appreciate every submission, and I will watch everything, though I may not be able to reply to each. Also, I am being selective, in order to maintain the feel of the project. Many, many thanks to all who have submitted!

The first installment of a 3-part exclusive video stream at magnetmagazine.com hit last night. The first video is of Brass Ecstasy in the studio recording the track Great Awakening.

Click here to stream Great Awakening.

Each of the next two Tuesday’s will see an update, the final video posting on the Spirit Moves release date, June 16th. We’ll keep you posted.

Click here to reach the Spirit Moves preorder page where you can stream the full record and explore the different package options for this title.