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Dave Douglas & Uri Caine – Present Joys (2014)
Although trumpeter Dave Douglas and pianist Uri Caine have performed and recorded numerous times together in the past, 2014’s Present Joys marks the first time they’ve recorded as a duo. An intimate,...
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Dave Douglas – High Risk (2015)
As a highly experimental musician, trumpeter Dave Douglas has spent his career investigating sounds often far outside the acoustic jazz tradition. Douglas’ 2015 effort High Risk finds him testing the...
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Dave Douglas & Joe Lovano – Sound Prints: Live at Monterey Jazz Festival (2015)
Named after Wayne Shorter’s classic composition “Footprints,” the Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas quintet Sound Prints is a collaborative ensemble born out of the duo’s involvement in the 2008 SFJAZZ...
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Dave Douglas Quintet – Brazen Heart (2015)
A few years ago the trumpeter-composer Dave Douglas released Be Still, a beautifully poignant album made in response to the loss of his mother. The album also formally unveiled his new band, a young...
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Dave Douglas – Dark Territory (2016)
The second album from Dave Douglas’ High Risk ensemble, 2016’s Dark Territory, finds the trumpeter reuniting with electronic musician Zachary Shigeto Saginaw, aka Shigeto, for another set of ambient,...
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Dave Douglas & Frank Woeste – Dada People (2016)
Produced with the support of the French American Jazz Exchange, Dada People is trumpeter Dave Douglas and pianist Frank Woeste’s paean to surrealist photographer Man Ray (he’s the gent glaring from the...
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Dave Douglas – Little Giant Still Life (2017)
Dave Douglas has evolved into one of the giants of jazz. He’s willing to take chances and expands familiar concepts, while possessing a signature sound and style amid all his technical gifts. On this...
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Hideo Yamaki, Bill Laswell with Dave Douglas – The Drawing Center (2017)
There are rules, and then there are exceptions to those rules. In the musical universe, Bill Laswell has cultivated an extraordinary body of work that pretty much breaks the mold. Whether producing...
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Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas – Scandal (2018)
Fourteen months have now elapsed under a Trump presidency and the number of egregious infractions political, cultural and environmental is now difficult to gauge with accuracy as they continue amass...
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Dave Douglas, Uri Caine, Andrew Cyrille – Devotion (2019)
Trumpeter Dave Douglas teams up once again with pianist Uri Caine, a member of his prestigious quintet in the 1900s, for a sequel to their 2014 album Present Joys. For Devotion, the musicians adopt the...
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Dave Douglas – ENGAGE (2019)
On Engage, the long-established trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas boasts tight-knit arrangements of 12 self-penned compositions shaped with the help of his cross-generational musical cohorts: Anna...
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Dave Douglas – Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie at Zero Gravity (2020)
The distinctive trumpet of Dizzy Gillespie (1917- 1993), with the idiosyncratic upward angle of its bell, is transformed into a starship on the cover of Dave Douglas‘ Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie...
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Dave Douglas – Overcome (2020)
Trumpeter Dave Douglas has long been attracted to hymns, traditional songs, and the like; his 2012 album Be Still was packed with them, and the title track from 2019’s Devotion was a version of a...
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Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Sound Prints – Other Worlds (2021)
Since debuting with their 2015 Wayne Shorter tribute album Sound Prints: Live at Monterey Jazz Festival, Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas’ Sound Prints quintet has thrived. While continuing to draw...
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Dave Douglas – Secular Psalms (2022)
…Trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas is, apparently, not a believer. It’s right there in the name of his latest album: Secular Psalms. Commissioned by the City of Gent and the Handelsbeurs Theater to...
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Dave Douglas Quintet – Songs of Ascent: Book 1 – Degrees (2022)
Trumpeter Dave Douglas released one of the finest recordings of his career in 2010, Spark of Being, a musical immersion into Mary Shelley’s pioneering horror & science fiction novel Frankenstein....
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