ENGAGE | One: Showing Up
ENGAGE One: Showing Up
"Showing Up". That’s what so many of us did over the past year. Change is coming, and it feels like we’re collectively waking up to the bigger, more fundamental changes that need to happen. We won’t all agree about everything, but there is a sense of common purpose regarding the dangers of our current situation.
Jeff Parker plays a beautiful solo on this one, and I can’t tell you how stoked I was to play collectively with the full band.
Click here to learn more about the ENGAGE Subscriber Series. Program notes can be found here.
Greenleaf Subscribers can stream and download "Showing Up"on Bandcamp. We've posted a Public Preview of the track here.
If you’d like to join us a subscriber, visit our Bandcamp subscription page here.
ENGAGE: Program Notes
Optimism. Action. Community.
ENGAGE is a direct descendant of UPLIFT, the 2018 set of compositions dedicated to positive action. We will be following up with all the organizations and causes invoked in that piece. And engaged in community and activism. People showed up in 2018, and our hope is that this trend will continue. We are going to need to be engaged to make the changes that will save our environment, our equality, our sciences and humanities. My hope is that everyone, in every field, will be involved and engaged in this work. Writing and performing these pieces is a reminder to myself not to get mired in the negativity — to stay positive and engaged through music daily.
We’re digging into that optimism musically in these pieces. The compositional rule was simply to build them all out of major triads. Each of the twelve pieces approaches that in a different way, and they were built for this collaborative and communicative ensemble with Anna Webber (alto and bass flutes, tenor sax), Tomeka Reid (cello), Jeff Parker (guitar), Nick Dunston (bass), and Kate Gentile (drums).
On some of the monthly pieces, we will be joined by trumpeters Dave Adewumi and Riley Mulherkar. I can’t wait to share the whole series with you. ENGAGE.
If you know someone who would like to hear this music and be engaged with Greenleaf Music, please pass this link along to them.
ENGAGE: New Music from Dave Douglas for Subscribers 2019
Announcing ENGAGE: Dave Douglas’s new piece for Greenleaf’s subscriber series.
ENGAGE is a direct descendant of UPLIFT, the 2018 set of compositions dedicated to positive action.
You can read Dave's complete program notes here and subscribers can stream the first track, “Showing Up," on Bandcamp. We've also made this track public to non-subscribers here.
The ensemble came together for a debut performance at Zürcher Gallery in December 2018, featuring Anna Webber (alto and bass flutes, tenor sax), Tomeka Reid (cello), Jeff Parker (guitar), Nick Dunston (bass), and Kate Gentile (drums). The group then went into the studio a few days later to record the entire series of music.
Throughout 2019, we are releasing a new track each month exclusively for subscribers. Subscribers can stream and download the material on Bandcamp. There will also be engaging ‘extras’ on the subscriber feed as the year goes forward.
Please join us as a subscriber to gain access to this unique material and more.
Project details:
Personnel:
Dave Douglas, trumpet
Jeff Parker, guitar
Tomeka Reid, cello
Anna Webber, alto and bass flutes and tenor saxophone
Nick Dunston, bass
Kate Gentile, drums
Production Credits:
Recorded and mixed by Tyler McDiarmid at Recorded on December 3, 2018 at The Bunker Studios, Brooklyn, NY.
Assistant Engineer: Nolan Thies
Photography by Anna Yatskevich
Graphics by Lukas Frei
YEAR END SALE: 20% off all subscriptions
Support the musicians you love by joining us as a subscriber now and save 20%. Get access to our full catalog plus a plethora of exclusive content for a reduced rate until January 2.
Here's a note from Dave Douglas about the importance of our subscriptions:
Musical freedom, diverse community, unfettered creativity: all are qualities supported by your subscription to Greenleaf Music. The base of subscribers have become a crucial aspect of our forward motion, allowing ultimate independence and growth. If you have considered joining us, now is a great time. Aside from just the discount, it’s also a demonstration, for us, that we are on a path with a community of artists and listeners, moving into a new year. Please consider being with us. Thanks.
Whether you prefer a purely digital subscription or you're looking for physical CDs and LPs, all three tiers of subscription are on sale via Bandcamp:
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Check out our page for all the benefits for subscribers and subscribe before this sale ends on Wednesday, January 2 at 11:59 PM EST.
Hear the third single from Greg Ward’s ‘Stomping Off From Greenwood’
"Excerpt 1" from Greg Ward's upcoming album, Stomping Off From Greenwood, is available now. Greg talk about how the song came about:
Almost everyday, I try to sit down and compose. Usually, I'm just working on thematic development of some sort with hopes of coming out with even a small fragment that's worth turning into a new piece. Sometimes, a short thought presents itself. "Excerpt 1" is one of these.
Stream the track on Spotify here. And get all three singles when you pre-order the album on Bandcamp and iTunes.
The album will be released on January 11 and features guitarists Matt Gold and Dave Miller, bassist Matt Ulery and drummer Quin Kirchner.
Happy Holidays
Thanks to our community and best wishes for Happy Holidays and New Year.
Dave Douglas here, personally grateful to you for joining us and sharing the music. I truly love this work, we live for the music and the music lives for us. We’ll continue to bring it in the new year with plenty of new artistic productions.
We couldn’t do it without you and your ears. Thanks for helping us spread the word and continue to document some of the music we love most.
Look out for the new subscription recording of my new group, ENGAGE, with Jeff Parker, Tomeka Reid, Anna Webber, Nick Dunston, and Kate Gentile. With special guest trumpeters Riley Mulherkar and Dave Adewumi. It’s a follow up to UPLIFT, continuing to put our good vibes, energy and resources into supporting positive social change in this complex era. This is our lane.
Thank you thank you thank you.
And my warmest wishes.
Dave
JAZZIZ premieres track from Greg Ward's 'Stomping Off From Greenwood'
JAZZIZ Magazine is premiering a track from Greg Ward's upcoming release, Stomping Off From Greenwood.
Listen to the "lively and unique arrangement" of Stardust, the Hoagy Carmichael composition arranged by Ward for alto saxophone, two guitars, bass, and drums.
The full album will be released on January 11.
Holiday Sale
For the next week, take 20% off our entire catalog on Bandcamp including CDs, LPs, downloads, and sheet music. Use the code holiday20 at checkout to receive your discount.
Now is the time to check out our 2018 releases from Dave Douglas, Joe Lovano and Rudy Royston, as well as the other great artists in our catalogue.
Also consider subscribing to access our entire catalog at Tier 1 for $75 US. Subscriptions are not included in this sale, but are a great value for an entire collection of great music, including hours of exclusive content for our subscribers.
Offer ends at 11:59 EST on Wednesday, December 26.
Second single from Greg Ward’s ‘Stomping Off From Greenwood’ available now
"The Contender," from Greg Ward's upcoming album Stomping Off From Greenwood, is available now.
Listen now on your channel of choice and pre-order the record on Bandcamp and iTunes. You'll get the first two singles instantly when you do.
The album features a new quintet that Greg has assembled which includes some really great Chicago musicians: guitarists Matt Gold and Dave Miller, bassist Matt Ulery and drummer Quin Kirchner.
Check it out!
'Scandal' makes Best of 2018 list in Rolling Stone
Rolling Stone has named Sound Prints Scandal one of the 20 Best Jazz Albums of 2018!
Here's what Hank Shteamer had to say about the record:
"For decades, narrow-minded observers have tried to keep jazz fragmented into discrete, even opposing strains: “straight-ahead,” “avant-garde” and so on. Fortunately, elite musicians such as trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Joe Lovano continue to ignore this line of thinking. The second release from Sound Prints — their collaboratively led band inspired by Wayne Shorter’s ever-unclassifiable aesthetic, and featuring the superb rhythm section of pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist Linda May Han Oh and drummer Joey Baron — finds the quintet settling into a wonderfully loose group M.O. Rubato themes, most by the leaders with a pair of pieces from Shorter’s legendary Sixties run for Blue Note, flow into searching, deep-listening improvisations where any group member can take the music anywhere they please. Scandal shows how, when great players dispense with categories, jazz can be everything at once."
The album is available on CD / digital on Bandcamp, iTunes, Amazon.
Watch trailer video for 'Stomping Off From Greenwood'
https://youtu.be/A7ni91HXQjA
We've posted a trailer video for the upcoming record by saxophonist Greg Ward, Stomping Off From Greenwood. It was originally premiered by Nextbop and is now on our YouTube channel.
Shot and edited by Greg's wife Diana Quiñones Rivera, the video features some footage from the recording session, along with audio from the the lead track, "Metropolis."
You can pre-order the album now to download the lead track now. The album will be released on January 11.
Look for a second single to be released soon!
Warehouse Sale!
We’ve been cleaning out our warehouse and we found some catalogue stock that we need to move, so we're having a sale!
Until Friday, December 14th (11.59 EST) buy any CD and receive two FREE additional CDs from our Classic Catalogue list, including great records by Dave Douglas, Ryan Keberle, Donny McCaslin, Linda May Han Oh, Rudy Royston, and Greg Ward.
All you have to do is buy any CD from our store and then simply send us an email with your two selections from the list below and we'll ship everything to you!
Classic Catalogue - List of Available Titles:
Dave Douglas - Mountain Passages
Linda May Han Oh - Initial Here
Matt Ulery - By a Little Light
Ryan Keberle & Catharsis - Into the Zone
Rudy Royston - Rise of Orion
Dave Douglas - High Risk
Donny McCaslin - Casting for Gravity
Dave Douglas Quintet - Brazen Heart (2015 Studio album)
Greg Ward - Touch My Beloved's Thought