The 10th Anniversary of The Festival of New Trumpet Music – September 8 – October 7

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FONT Music Presents:

The 10th Anniversary of The Festival of New Trumpet Music

September 8 through October 7, 2012 – in NYC and Brooklyn

The Festival of New Trumpet Music, directed by Dave Douglas, presents its 10th Anniversary Festival, a multi-genre, multi-venue celebration of new trumpet music by the instrument’s most creative musicians. Hailed as “a grand highlight of the musical season” by The New Yorker and “a cross-stylistic extravaganza” by The New York Times, FONT Music reaffirms its status as one of the most adventurous and consistently innovative music festivals in the New York scene.

DAVE DOUGLAS RELEASES BE STILL, A Collection of Deeply Personal Hymns & Originals

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Aoife O'Donovan, Composer, Dave Douglas, greenleafmusic.com, Guitarist, Jon Irabagon, Label Founder, Matt Mitchell, Trumpet

Featuring A Newly–Formed Quintet Plus Americana Vocalist AOIFE O’DONOVAN

Dave Douglas QUINTET, BE STILL

The Trumpeter/Composer/Label Founder Celebrates 10 YEARS of Festival of New Trumpet Music with Debut Performance By New Dave Douglas Quintet September 19, 2012 AT 92YTriBeCa To Be Broadcast Live on WBGO-FM & NPR Music

Featuring Jon Irabagon, Matt Mitchell, Linda Oh, Rudy Royston with Special Guest Aoife O’Donovan

Douglas To Launch 50-State US Tour in 2013 To Celebrate His 50th Birthday Benefitting Rails to Trails ® and Other Outdoors Charities.

Dave Douglas describes the title of his new release, Be Still, as “aspirational.” The continually evolving trumpeter and composer settles down for a ballad-like set that presents a series of hymns and folk songs with an intensely personal connection. Be Still brings out the most lyrical side of Douglas, and introduces both a newly configured Quintet, and an important new collaborator, vocalist and guitarist Aoife O’Donovan.

The 2012 Copenhagen Jazz Festival, July 6-15, Announces Its Full Program

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Ambrose Akinmusire, Brad Mehldau Trio, Christian Scott Quintet, Dave Douglas, Gerald Clayton, Jim Hall Quintet, Joe Lovano, Lee Konitz, The Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Vijay Iyer Trio, Wayne Shorter

“New Orleans and New York are renowned for being the world epicentres of jazz, but leave State-side to find yourself in Europe, and there’s truly only one city that approaches that same spirit, passion and swing: Copenhagen, called by some ‘Europe’s Jazz Capital’.” – The Copenhagen Post

“The richness of Denmark’s jazz tradition is beyond question. The country whose love of the music once embodied resistance to the Nazis and later offered a comfortable home to American exiles such as Stan Getz, Ben Webster and Dexter Gordon continues to breed formidable new talents and ideas nearly nine decades after its first homegrown artists appeared. But knowing this doesn’t prepare one for the mammoth scope of the Copenhagen Jazz Festival. Its sheer size-the most lightly programmed of its 10 days (of which this writer saw the final five) featured 76 performances-is overwhelming by itself, even without considering its stylistic and international breadth.”
– Michael J. West – JazzTimes

Trumpeter/Composer Dave Douglas Reissues Magic Triangle and Leap of Faith (Dave Douglas Quartet 1995-1999)

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Ben Perowsky, Chris Potter, Composer, Dave Douglas, James Genus, Trumpet

Out June 5th, 2012 on Greenleaf Music | Featuring Chris Potter, James Genus and Ben Perowsky

Dave Douglas, Magic Triangle and Leap of Faith

Greenleaf Music is proud to reissue Magic Triangle and Leap of Faith, two landmark albums by the always-innovative trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas. Originally recorded in the late 1990s, these two albums comprise the entire catalogue of the Dave Douglas Quartet featuring tenor saxophonist Chris Potter, bassist James Genus, and drummer Ben Perowsky, each of whom have remained crucial voices in the modern jazz world. Both discs highlight Douglas’ gift for dense, multi-hued compositions that draw equally from across the jazz spectrum, creating captivating environments for his collaborators to explore.

Dave Douglas & Greenleaf Music Announce Big Plans for 2012:

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Dave Douglas, Donny McCaslin, Linda Oh, Matt Ulery, Trumpet

New Artists, New Technologies, New Dave Douglas Quintet Album With All-New Lineup

Dave Douglas

While 2012 could be the year of the global apocalypse as predicted by the Mayans, trumpeter, composer and label head Dave Douglas and his label Greenleaf Music (GLM) continue to roll full-steam ahead by releasing jazz, post-jazz, and other creative music. The label’s credo is simply about creativity in musical expression. As a result, GLM’s sound is defined by the artists Douglas chooses to sign, allowing them room to define their own world—new sounds that connect, music that has something personal to say that is unique to that individual, as well as having something universal to offer. GLM believes that what interests listeners is not just the recorded product, but the artists themselves. As such we are interested in making available sheet music, artist commentary, discussion and more.

Dave Douglas & Keystone -][- Spark Of Being: 3 Disc Box Set [Box set]

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Dave Douglas & Keystone - SPARK OF BEING

Dave Douglas & Keystone -][- Spark Of Being: 3 Disc Box Set (Box set) – [GREEN LEAF RECORDS, 2010]

Two-time Grammy-nominated jazz musician Dave Douglas is arguably the most prolific and original trumpeter-composer of his generation. From his New York base, where he’s lived since the mid 1980s, Mr. Douglas has continued to earn lavish national and international acclaim including prizes from such organizations as the New York Jazz Awards, Down Beat, JazzTimes, Jazziz, and the Italian Jazz Critics’ Society. His solo recording career began in 1993 with Parallel Worlds on Soul Note Records, and he has since released more than 30 recordings. In 2005, after seven critically acclaimed albums for Bluebird/RCA, Mr. Douglas launched his own record label, Greenleaf Music.

The same year, he was honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship. On Greenleaf, Mr. Douglas has released albums with his long standing quintet, the electronic sextet Keystone, and the mixed chamber ensemble Nomad. In 2009, he released Spirit Moves with his new brass quintet, Brass Ecstasy and his first big band recording, A Single Sky, a collaboration with Jim McNeely and Frankfurt Radio Bigband. This year brings a new collection of work by Keystone entitled, Spark of Being, a retelling of the Frankenstein myth in collaboration with award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison.–BIOGRAPHY | Greenleaf Music

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Masada Quartet feat: Joe Lovano -][- Book Of Angels: Stolas Vol. 12

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Masada Quintet - Book of Angels - Stolas Vol12

Masada Quartet feat: Joe Lovano -][- Book Of Angels: Stolas Vol-12 – [Tzadik, 2009]

Stolas: The Book of Angels, Vol. 12 is the newest installment in John Zorn’s ongoing Book of Angels series, and possibly the best yet. For most Zorn fans, I would imagine that this part of the series would be particularly exciting, as it features the studio return of the Masada Quartet (Zorn on alto sax, Dave Douglas on trumpet, Greg Cohen on bass, and the great Joey Baron on drums), with some augmentations; Joe Lovano on tenor sax replaces Zorn and pianist Uri Caine is added. Despite the relative change in the lineup, the Masada Quintet plays with all the tightness, taste and musical intuition of a band together for years. Lovano adds a more round, even tone, and isn’t as aggressive or abrasive in his playing as Zorn (although he is capable of some fire). This makes for a more relaxed, evenly-tempered Masada. Uri Caine’s piano adds a lot of harmonic flavor without limiting the players, and adds some interesting solos like the Cecil Taylor-like one on “Sartael”.

The pieces, all by Zorn, feature memorable themes, fun grooves, and plenty of space for both the individual and the ensemble to shine, as well as some entertaining, interactive out playing, although nothing really on the level of the fiery, intimidating previous Masada quartet releases. (The only things that come close are “Sartael”, a speedy, energetic blowing session driven by Baron’s forceful drumming, and “Rahtiel”, the only piece that features Zorn on alto.) Cohen and Baron are a world-class rhythm section as always, adding plenty of propulsive force, groove, and melodic color. This is a worthy addition to the Masada catalog and a rewarding listen. —Art Johnson | Amazon.com

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Dave Douglas | Soul on Soul

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Dave Douglas | Soul on Soul – [RCA Victor – 2000]

Dave Douglas - Soul on Soul

I really do reserve that title for only one album every year. Now maybe my views will change by December 31, but I doubt it. First things first: even at his most accessible, Dave Douglas is not very accessible on first or second listen. But the more I listened to this album, the more I realized that these compositions are brilliant; these musicians are playing at the top of their game; and that they are interacting telepathically with one another. By the fifth listen or so, my ears were finally catching up to the wonderful music that these guys were hearing as they made the album. It was then that I realized why this album really is a heartfelt tribute to Mary Lou Williams. Sure, before that I knew that Douglas had thrown in some superficial tributes: for example, a few tunes were written by Mary Lou, and several tracks (most notably, Soul on Soul) incorporate stride piano lines and bebop licks and other styles that Williams played during her long career.

Dave Douglas | A Single Sky

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Dave Douglas | A Single Sky – [GREEN LEAF RECORDS, 2009]

Two-time Grammy-nominated jazz musician Dave Douglas is arguably the most original trumpeter/composer of his generation. From his New York base, where he’s lived since the mid 1980s, Douglas has continued to earn lavish national and international acclaim including trumpeter, composer, and jazz “Artist of the Year” by such organizations as the New York Jazz Awards, Down Beat, Jazz Times, Jazziz, and the Italian Jazz Critics’ Society. His solo recording career began in 1993 with Parallel Worlds on Soul Note and has since released over twenty-eight recordings.

In 2005, after seven critically-acclaimed albums for Bluebird/RCA, Douglas launched his own record label, Greenleaf Music. The same year, he was also honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship. His latest release, Moonshine, imagines a new soundtrack to the silent films of Roscoe (Fatty) Arbuckle with his band Keystone, boasting an instrumental cohort of saxophone, electric keyboards, turntables, bass and drums.

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