In the year of 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 …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› The third volume of the Greenleaf Portable Series (GPS), Bad Mango features Dave Douglas with So Percussion. From the first notes of the opening track One More News—originally recorded on Witness [2001]—it's clear that this session yielded a sound unlike any other in the expansive Dave Douglas discography. Pai†ring his plaintive trumpet with a myriad of percussion instruments including marimba, drumset, glockenspiel, and a whole host of nontraditional percussion like musical saw, toy bells, shruti box, crotales, et al, Douglas …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› The second volume of the Greenleaf Portable Series (GPS), Orange Afternoons features Dave Douglas, Ravi Coltrane, Vijay Iyer, Linda Oh, and Marcus Gilmore. This informal session in Brooklyn yielded six new Douglas compositions for this special quintet. The album opener—The Gulf—begins delicately with Iyer rolling clusters and Gilmore frosting the spectrum with cymbals before the plaintive melody offers the first taste of the frontline of Douglas' trumpet and Coltrane's saxophone. Moving along, Valori …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› In the early winter of 2011, trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas convened an informal recording session in Brooklyn with his group Brass Ecstasy. They were to record the first volume in a string of digital releases that Douglas dubbed the Greenleaf Portable Series (GPS). Greenleaf Portable Series Volume 1: Rare Metals finds Douglas — the indefatigably prolific composer — adding five new compositions and a new arrangement of Billy Strayhorn's, Lush Life, to an ever-expanding Brass Ecstasy music book. Free Download: Lush Life [MP3, …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› Originally recorded by WBGO Jazz 88 and presented as part of NPR’s live concert series, the album captures the group’s spectacular performance during the 2010 Carefusion Newport Jazz Festival. Free Download: United Front (live) [MP3, 275kbps vbr] “There was a special feeling for us on taking the drive out to the festival grounds at Fort Adams State Park,” said Douglas. “On the day of the gig, each of us was flying in from a different location. The weather was cooperating, and I remember watching boats in the harbor…such a …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› On April 24th, 2010, Dave Douglas and experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison unveiled their multimedia collaboration, Spark Of Being, at Stanford University. On film, it stands as a reinterpretation of that Frankenstein myth using new, archival, and distressed footage. The themes, penned by Douglas for his Grammy-nominated band Keystone, integrate electronics seamlessly into the improvised music, piecing sounds and movement together to make three strikingly different Creatures. Part 1: SOUNDTRACK Part 2: EXPAND Part 3: BURST …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› On April 24th, 2010, Dave Douglas and experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison unveiled their multimedia collaboration, Spark Of Being, at Stanford University. On film, it stands as a reinterpretation of that Frankenstein myth using new, archival, and distressed footage. The themes, penned by Douglas for his Grammy-nominated band Keystone, integrate electronics seamlessly into the improvised music, piecing sounds and movement together to make three strikingly different Creatures. SOUNDTRACK is literally the soundtrack to the film by …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› On April 24th, 2010, Dave Douglas and experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison unveiled their multimedia collaboration, Spark Of Being, at Stanford University. On film, it stands as a reinterpretation of that Frankenstein myth using new, archival, and distressed footage. The themes, penned by Douglas for his Grammy-nominated band Keystone, integrate electronics seamlessly into the improvised music, piecing sounds and movement together to make three strikingly different Creatures. SOUNDTRACK is literally the soundtrack to the film by …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› On April 24th, 2010, Dave Douglas and experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison unveiled their multimedia collaboration, Spark Of Being, at Stanford University. On film, it stands as a reinterpretation of that Frankenstein myth using new, archival, and distressed footage. The themes, penned by Douglas for his Grammy-nominated band Keystone, integrate electronics seamlessly into the improvised music, piecing sounds and movement together to make three strikingly different Creatures. SOUNDTRACK is literally the soundtrack to the film by …MORE

A Single Sky, music for big band: Full scores and individual parts for performance. All compositions by Dave Douglas. Arranged by Dave Douglas: The Presidents, Campaign Trail, Blockbuster. Arranged by Jim McNeely: Tree & Shrub, A Single Sky, Bury Me Standing, The Persistence of Memory. All arrangements scored for 5 Saxes (AATTB), 4 Trumpets, 4 Trombones, 4 Rhythm (G/P/B/D) and solo trumpet. Woodwind doubles: (SS = soprano sax; F = flute; C = clarinet; BC = bass clarinet; AC = alto clarinet).

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› A Single Sky, music for big band. Featuring Douglas with Grammy-winning arranger/conductor Jim McNeely at the helm of the Frankfurt Radio Bigband, this collaboration offers three new Douglas compositions alongside four works from the Douglas songbook reimagined by McNeely. Sheet Music for this title is available in score format. Parts + Scores for each arrangement in full are available for purchasing performing ensembles here. Subscriber Bonus: DDQ: Live at Village Vanguard, 2009 Dave Douglas Quintet playing new music (*) …MORE

Dave Douglas' SFJAZZ Suite written for the SFJAZZ Collective. All three movements are included: Alcatraz, Amoeba, and Assisi. Available in score format as digital PDFs.

Released as part of our Download-Only Series, this is Dave Douglas with his Brass Ecstasy group—Vincent Chancey, Luis Bonilla, Marcus Rojas, and Nasheet Waits—performing at the Spirit Moves Record Release shows at Jazz Standard in New York. Featuring new Douglas compositions only available on these sets. [glm_full_book_sets] PERSONNEL: Dave Douglas, trumpet; Vincent Chancey, horn; Luis Bonilla, trombone; Marcus Rojas, tuba; Nasheet Waits, drumsRecorded by Geoff Countryman and Tyler McDiarmid at Jazz Standard, NYC. Subscriber Bonus Sets

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› Douglas' first studio album in three years and the debut recording of his project Brass Ecstasy, Spirit Moves features Douglas alongside Vincent Chancey (French horn), Luis Bonilla (trombone), Marcus Rojas (tuba) and Nasheet Waits (drums) paying homage to the brass instrument with eight new original compositions and three arrangements of classics by such disparate artists as Otis Redding, Hank Williams and Rufus Wainwright. Over the past several years, Douglas has steadily honed his work with Brass Ecstasy with appearances at the 2008 …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› As the second installment of our download-only series, Greenleaf Music presents Dave Douglas & Keystone, Live at Jazz Standard. Fresh off of their 2006 release, Moonshine, this group took to the stage at the famous Jazz Standard in New York, New York for 4 consecutive nights playing 2 sets per night. With plenty of ear-bending sonics and relentless polyrhythmic funk, these performances twist and turn Douglas' silent era-inspired compositions in ways that only a live performance would allow. The band debuted new compositions by …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› Moonshine, the newest album from trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas' Grammy-nominated band Keystone, is an album that moves musical genres forward into uncharted territory. The evolutionary, revolutionary aspect is found in the vibrant alchemy between Douglas' avant-garde leaning compositions, the relentless, polyrhythmic funk of drummer Gene Lake and bassist Brad Jones, the Sun-Ra-esque sonics of Adam Benjamin who plays a highly modulated Fender Rhodes and the post-post blowing of the front line featuring Douglas and saxophonist Marcus …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› Between December 5 and 10, 2006, the Dave Douglas Quintet settled into New York's Jazz Standard for a six night run. Greenleaf Music recorded all 12 sets the group played that week and released each set within 24 hours as downloadable MP3s. The project represented the broadest documentation of the Grammy nominated group to date and featured a unique combination of compositions and improvisations culled from previous albums The Infinite (2001), Strange Liberation (2003) and Meaning and Mystery (2006), as well as a book of new pieces …MORE

 Between December 5 and 10, 2006, the Dave Douglas Quintet settled into New York's Jazz Standard for a six night run. Greenleaf Music recorded all 12 sets the group played that week. This project represents the broadest documentation of this critically acclaimed band to date. Each set, 60 minutes in length, features a unique combination of compositions and improvisations culled from previous albums The Infinite (2001), Strange Liberation (2003) and Meaning and Mystery (2006), as well as a book of new pieces recently road-tested on the Quintet's November, 2006 European tour. In all, …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› The second release in our Paperback Series. Paperback releases are packaged in a minimal but distinctive chipboard packaging. In a brilliant stroke of tour routing, this gig at the Umea Jazz Festival in northern Sweden was immediately preceded by the San Francisco jazz festival in California and followed by one in Cormons, Italy. Nonetheless everyone came ready to play. The Keystone sound really came together here: sloppy and wild, but also focused, lyrical, delicate, and at times simply bizarre. Also, like the films it was …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› Meaning and Mystery is the third album from the Dave Douglas Quintet and first for the Greenleaf Music label. It follows 2004's critically-acclaimed Strange Liberation and 2002's Grammy-nominated The Infinite in building upon and establishing Douglas' version of a modern living jazz quintet music. Inspired by Miles Davis, the current work of the Wayne Shorter Quartet as well as more obscure groups such as those led by Julius Hemphill and Baikida Carroll to name a few, the album's nine dynamic Douglas compositions reflect Douglas' …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› Keystone features Douglas compositions inspired by the great and unfairly maligned Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, one of America's earliest and funniest movie stars. Focusing on his early works for the Keystone production company (1915-1916), the new music attempts to mirror the humor and drama, the tragedy and hilarity of Arbuckle's films and his life. The electric invoked scores are warm, funny, funky, and experimental, perfectly capturing the atmosphere of the films. Keystone is a two-disc release: a CD and a DVD. The CD contains …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› From their acclaimed October 2002 European tour in support of the Grammy-nominated album The Infinite, Dave Douglas, Live at the Bimhuis, captures Douglas' Quintet in peak form performing at one of the world's leading jazz venues. In front of a very lively and enthusiastic audience, and beautifully recorded by VPRO Radio-Amsterdam, this is the first live set available from one of jazz's leading bands. A must-have for fans of this Quintet. This release is packaged minimally although distinctively in a cardboard slip-sleeve with full …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› Dave Douglas' Mountain Passages is an album of music inspired by the myths and the spirit of rural mountain culture. The first live performance of the material, which features Dave's band NOMAD, took place high in the Italian Dolomites, as part of the festival I Suoni delle Dolomitti. Partially inspired by Douglas' love of world folk music, Mountain Passages also carries the spirit of jazz that informs all of Dave's music. The record is a profound and playful mix that veers between the solemnity of solitary contemplation and the drunken …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› Released on Premonition Records in 2004, Bow River Falls was recorded in a single afternoon at The Banff Centre in June 2003. This was truly a meeting of musicians -- each a member of the faculty at the 2002 Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music, each bringing compositions/arrangements to this book of music. Released in 2004 on Premonition Records, this stands as Douglas' first release after his departure from RCA just prior to starting his own label, Greenleaf Music. Personnel: Dave Douglas (trumpet), Louis …MORE

Music for violin and piano Written in 2003 and commissioned by the McKim Fund at the Library of Congress. The piece was composed for Mark Feldman and Sylvie Courvoisie on the occasion of their marriage, and premiered by them at Coolidge Hall in Washington, D.C.

Private Music, two movements for brass quintet, was written for Brian McWhorter and the Extension Ensemble in the summer of 2001. It was first recorded on their album, New York Presence. At the time there were plans to add a drummer for this piece, but in the end the group performed the piece as written. The score is available in transposed and non-transposed versions.

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› Leap of Faith finds Dave Douglas with friends - tenor saxophonist Chris Potter, bassist James Genus and drummer Ben Perowsky - simply making some of the leader's most challenging original music yet. This band can improvise as exhaustively and exhilaratingly as some listeners prefer: the quick, hard swing of the title cut; the trumpet squawking and chattering back and forth in conversational modes; the cowbell rattles and tenor pokes on the shorty (just over one minute) "Emmenthaler"; and the funky underpinnings and palpable urgency on …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› This intriguing quartet consisting of trumpeter Dave Douglas, tenor saxophonist Chris Potter, bassist James Genus and drummer Ben Perowsky features free bop, some sound explorations, and straight-ahead sections in its music (nine originals by Douglas). Falling between hard bop and avant-garde jazz, the music tugs and pushes at the boundaries of the modern mainstream. Douglas varies the tempos and moods from piece to piece, giving listeners not only expertly played performances but a constantly flowing program. One of four Arabesque …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› Dave Douglas' Tiny Bell Trio is one of his most intriguing groups, a band consisting of the leader's trumpet, guitarist Brad Shepik, and drummer Jim Black. Due to Shepik's versatility, Douglas' inventive originals (only a Hungarian folk song and a classical melody from Robert Schumann are not by the trumpeter) and the interplay between the musicians, this project is a strong success. The music often looks towards Eastern Europe folk melodies but maintains its ties with American jazz and is full of constant surprises. One of four …MORE

‹‹‹ Click the cover to view the full artwork ››› Continuing the innovative approach to tribute records he began in 1994 with the Booker Little homage In Our Lifetime, Douglas dedicates Stargazer to the great Wayne Shorter. Only three tracks, however, are Shorter compositions: "Pug Nose," "On the Milky Way Express," and "Diana." The rest are Douglas originals that are inspired by Shorter, although Douglas is far too clever to make the inspiration obvious. Featuring Joey Baron on drums, Uri Caine on piano, James Genus on bass, Chris Speed on tenor sax/clarinet and Josh Roseman on …MORE