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Photo gallery of Dave Douglas with Ravi Coltrane, Vijay Iyer, Linda Oh, and E.J. Strickland at Jazz Standard celebrating the Greenleaf Portable Series.

Photos of Dave Douglas with Vincent Chancey, Luis Bonilla, Marcus Rojas, and Rudy Royston at Jazz Standard celebrating the Greenleaf Portable Series.

Congratulations to Bill Morrison for taking the Experimental Film category at the recent LA Critics awards with Spark of Being.

here's a new Subscriber download this month from the Key Motion Quintet co-led by Dave Douglas and Donny McCaslin recorded earlier this year in Salzau. Check out the Douglas composition, Split Personality, above via Soundcloud. Subscribers can download both this track and the "B-side"—McCaslin's Five Hands Down.

As many around the jazz internet saw yesterday, Vijay Iyer has been announced as the successor to Dave as the director of the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music starting in 2013. Details on the Banff Workshop for this, Dave's last year as director, are below.

In the hunt for Paul Motian videos I came across this great interview and performance with Bill Evans from 1970. Keen insights.

Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Quintet, Sound Prints; an all-star ensemble including up and coming pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist James Genus, and drummer Joey Barron. Performing new repertoire as well as brand new Shorter compositions in direct collaboration with Shorter, the quintet is less an homage to Wayne Shorter and more of a unique convergence of three unparalleled trajectories.

Due to the overwhelming response for the Greenleaf Portable Series, and multiple requests for a physical format issue, we present Three Views: GPS Vol 1-3 [3CD Box]. Available now for preorder.

In 2011, Greenleaf launched a new series of releases dubbed the Greenleaf Portable Series. These three recordings found Dave Douglas leading recording sessions with different groups and players harkening back the shorter, more informal sessions that were the backbone of jazz recording for many years. GPS releases were designed to be digital-only releases to be distributed quickly here at the Greenleaf store, on iTunes, and through the Greenleaf Cloud Player. Due to the overwhelming response for the series and after multiple requests for a physical format issue, we present Three Views chronicling the three GPS releases from 2011.

New gigs posted at the /Shows page including two dates with the new band Sound Prints—Joe Lovano, Dave Douglas, Lawrence Fields, James Genus, Joey Barron—and the four-night, four-band run at Jazz Standard celebrating GPS 2011 this December.