It’s our esteemed privilege to bring a new Dave Douglas album into the world yet again. And he’s outdone himself on this one—as he always does!
You can read more on Time Travel here on Greenleaf, or by following the #ddTimeTravel hashtag on Twitter.
Time Travel Release Day!
Time Travel also available at:
American Jazz Museum
On Monday I will be back in Kansas City with the quintet, playing music from the new release, Time Travel. With me in the band are Rudy Royston, drums; Greg Garrison, bass; John Gunther, sax; Eric Gunnison, piano.
I look forward to seeing The Blue Room at American Jazz Museum again. Please join us, tickets are available at that link as well. If you haven’t been there, it’s a great living repository of information, artifacts, and music. It also happens to be right near Gates BBQ!
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Two videos: Dave Douglas Quintet with Aoife O’Donovan in Milan
Dave Douglas Quintet performing at Aperitivo in Concerto in Milano Italy, March 3, 2013
Dave Douglas, trumpet
Walter Smith III, tenor saxophone
Matt Mitchell, piano
Linda Oh, bass
Rudy Royston, drums
“One Morning” (Gillian Welch cover)
“Garden State”
Get the album version of Garden State for free here.
Dave Douglas events this week
APR 04 — University of Wyoming-Laramie
APR 05 — University of Colorado-Boulder
APR 08 — The Blue Room / Kansas City
APR 09 — University of Central Oklahoma
APR 11-12 — Dazzle Jazz / Denver*
*with Aoife O’Donovan
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Dave Douglas Workshops
Thanks to the great crew that came out on February 24 for the first in this series of workshops. I’m looking forward to working with all of you again on March 17.
We spent most of the session playing through the music from my 1994 album In Our Lifetime, dedicated to Booker Little. Also had a chance for some nice discussion about composition, playing, and Booker Little’s music and impact.
On March 17 the workshop series will continue with a session playing music from the record Stargazer, dedicated to Wayne Shorter. And on April 21 we will continue with Soul on Soul, dedicated to Mary Lou Williams. On May 30 there will be a performance of some of this music. All of this is happening at ShapeShifter Lab in Brooklyn.
Drop us a line if you are interested in attending. Look forward to hearing from you.
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Yesterday’s Show at Teatro Manzoni
Dave Douglas Quintet plus Aoife O’Donovan
Be Still
March 3, 2013.
Walter Smith III, Matt Mitchell, Linda Oh, Rudy Royston.
Thanks to Roberto Cifarelli for the pictures!
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Parallel Worlds, part of the new 6CD Dave Douglas box set
Parallel Worlds was my first record as a leader, recorded one week before my 30th birthday on March 17, 1993. It has just been reissued in a box set of work I did for the Black Saint/Soul Note label.
Memories are of working really hard on it. I’m indebted to Tim Berne who introduced me to the Bonandrini family and helped me produce the record. I’m also indebted to the players, Mark Feldman, violin; Erik Friedlander, cello; Mark Dresser, bass; and Michael Sarin, drums. Not only for the playing but also for the laughter. That was a funny band.
John Rosenberg recorded it at Sear Sound and painstakingly put up with my very picky (and probably annoying) thoughts about the audio mix. Remember battling print-through on the two inch analogue tapes (that’s when loud sound “burns though” to the tape spooled next to it, causing a shadow of the louder sound to appear in the spaces). Walter Sear was a collector of vintage microphones, so I was introduced then to the RCA 44 microphone I have played into on so many records. Didn’t know how lucky I was.
Memories of making sequence tapes on cassette over and over and over. Then listening to them all the way through, in almost exactly the amount of time it would take to walk around Prospect Park in Brooklyn. Also remember working hard to find a balance in the music between all the different influences. Covering Webern, Ellington, Weill, and Stravinsky seemed like a jazz move to me, improvising with materials and playing like a band. Likewise on the title track working pretty strictly with 12 tone language inspired by Charles Wuorinen and his book Simple Composition, and also reaching to find an openness for the players and a blues feeling in the interpretation. It was a working band and in looking back it feels like I was lucky to be able to document that at that stage.
[Parallel Worlds was just rereleased in a box set with Dave's other recordings for Black Saint / Soul Note. Those records included Five and Convergence with Dave Douglas String Group as well as recordings with Rova, Mark Dresser, and Jon Lindberg.]
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Be Still special offer wrapping up.
Dave and I are touched by the response to Be Still — really great to hear from so many of you. This is a special record, and we hope that you’ll share your enthusiasm with others who might not normally be aware of it.
Remember that special offer for the first 100 premium orders? We’re just about finished with that. There are few free copies of Mountain Passages and Be Still photo sets left to go out with the special vinyl and CD orders. Now’s the time to put in that order if you haven’t done so.
Otherwise, have a great season, keep in touch, and don’t miss these upcoming Dave Douglas shows with Aoife O’Donovan.
19 SEP — 92Y / New York ***record release/WBGO live stream***
13 NOV — Blues Alley / Washington DC
15 NOV — Regatta Bar / Boston
16 NOV — Chris’ Jazz Cafe / Philadelphia
17 NOV — Chris’ Jazz Cafe / Philadelphia
14 DEC — Green Mill / Chicago
15 DEC — Green Mill / Chicago
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Be Still LPs are in.
After stacking up the 20 or so 40lb boxes that our favorite FedEx delivery man brought to our office door today, we snapped this shot of the new Dave Douglas album Be Still on vinyl for our Instagram followers (@greenleafmusic). It’s a solid 180 grams of wax nested in a gatefold package with free download card. #bestill preorder coming soon.
