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Dave Douglas and Donny McCaslin each say down with Grammy.com for an interview after the Detroit Jazz Festival earlier this summer. Each are celebrating new albums this month: Dave's "Be Still" is available now (at Greenleaf and iTunes, and Donny's "Casting For Gravity"hits October 2nd (preorder at Greenleaf and iTunes)

Where Donny's previous album Perpetual Motion was a blistering electro-acoustic hybrid, Casting for Gravity soars past fusion into alchemy, forging a visionary voice from eclectic influences.

The in-studio video of track 1 from Dave Douglas' album Be Still featuring Aoife O'Donovan of Crooked Still, Jon Irabagon, Matt Mitchell, Linda Oh, and Rudy Royston.

The music on Be Still is very personal for me, consisting of hymns and songs requested by my mom for her service last year. It was a heart opening experience to get into these pieces, and even more to have such a great musician in Aoife to sing them. I hope the warmth and commitment of all the musicians on this date will be apparent when you hear the music. The first 100 orders of Be Still in one of these preorder packages will receive a set of photographs related to the album and a free copy of Mountain Passages, the first of my releases on Greenleaf Music, from 2004. I chose Mountain Passages to include with the first 100 orders of Be Still because it had a similar personal meaning for me, eulogizing my father in 2003.

Konceptions Music Series at Korzo, Brooklyn | Tuesday, August 28th, $10 | 10:30pm Shane Endsley – Trumpet, Curtis Macdonald – Sax, Jason Nazary – Drums, Chris Tordini – Bass | 9pm Jeff Lederer – Reeds, Matt Wilson – Drums, Kirk Knuffke – Cornet, Bob Stewart – Tuba