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We're sharing a FREE Dave Douglas track from the album Orange Afternoons.

Steve Lehman talks about his composing, and his various approaches to ensemble writing and playing.

Dave Douglas, Orange Afternoons. The second volume in the Greenleaf Portable Series. With Dave Douglas, Ravi Coltrane, Vijay Iyer, Linda Oh, and Marcus Gilmore.

A lot of Rare Metals was written during my residency at the Aaron Copland House. In particular Safeway, which was written as a response to the political violence in Tucson, Arizona which occurred the day I began my residency. Copland himself was constantly speaking to contemporary events and public engagement in his music, and I felt that influence, as well as some of his musical mannerisms, strongly as I composed.