Dave Douglas

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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, 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 he 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 honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship. On Greenleaf, Douglas has released albums with his long standing Quintet, the electronic sextet Keystone, and the mixed chamber ensemble Nomad. His latest project, Brass Ecstasy, features a brass quintet of trumpet, french horn, trombone, tuba and drums and has released two recordings, Spirit Moves (2009) and Brass Ecstasy at Newport (2011), on Greenleaf Music.

Douglas is currently the artistic director of the Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music at the Banff Center and the co-founder and director of the Festival of New Trumpet Music, which celebrated its 10th year in 2012. In addition to leading his own groups, Douglas has an important ongoing musical relationship as a member of John Zorn’s Masada and with artists such as Anthony Braxton, Don Byron, Joe Lovano, Miguel Zenon, Uri Caine, Bill Frisell, Cibo Matto, Mark Dresser, Han Bennink and Misha Mengelberg. As a composer, Douglas has been commissioned by the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Norddeutscher Rundfunk, Essen Philharmonie, Library of Congress and Stanford University. Recent large scale works have included Blue Latitudes, for chamber orchestra and 3 improvisers, and Delighted States, for big band with soloists.

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Jun 3rd 2013

Burlington, VT USA

Flynnspace

Dave Douglas

Jun 28th 2013

New York, NY USA

Town Hall

Wayne Shorter 80th Birthday Celebration Featuring Wayne Shorter Quartet, ACS, Sound Prints: Dave Douglas & Joe Lovano Quintet

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Aug 18th 2013

Salt lake City, UT USA

Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre

Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas Quintet: Sound Prints Featuring: Lawrence Fields, Linda Oh and Joey Baron

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Aug 28th 2013

Los Angeles, CA USA

Hollywood Bowl

Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas Quintet: Sound Prints Featuring: Lawrence Fields, Linda Oh and Joey Baron

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Sep 15th 2013

Monterey, CA USA

Palo Corona Ranch

Dave Douglas Quintet

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Sep 16th 2013

Santa Cruz, CA USA

Kuumbwa Jazz Center

Dave Douglas Quintet

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"Finest 'new' current American jazz acts": Dave Douglas and Joe...

From Santa Barbara Independent Belgrade Jazz Festival: Belgrade Hosts a Hot Jazz Fest By: Josef Woodard Sometimes, especially for those of us jazzheads stuck out here in fringes of the west coast, a fine way to discover America, jazz-wise, is...

Posted Nov 30th, 2012

Sound Prints Live Performance on NPR Nov 28

Few jazz bandleaders are as active — and actively acclaimed — as saxophonist Joe Lovano and trumpeter Dave Douglas. But while they’ve met from time to time on the bandstand, their brief overlap in the SFJAZZ collective — during a...

Posted Nov 25th, 2012

Live Review: Sound Prints, "mutual trust between Joe Lovano and...

networkedblogs.com/DP4Nx Review: Dave Douglas / Joe Lovano Soundprints By: Sebastian Scotney In the corporate world and in business schools there is an endless debate as to whether a dual CEO arrangement can ever work. (if I’ve put you off with...

Posted Oct 24th, 2012

Live Review: Sound Prints at Ronnie Scott's

from telegraph.co.uk Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, review By: Ivan Hewett What a joy it was, to see two of jazz’s biggest personalities together and up close on Ronnie’s stage. The only doubt was: would there...

Posted Oct 17th, 2012

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Sound Prints

Grammy-winning saxophonist and composer Joe Lovano and two-time Grammy nominated trumpeter Dave Douglas are current masters on their respective instruments within the pantheon of modern jazz. From their collaborations on acclaimed recordings such as Trio Fascination: Edition Two and more recently John Zorn’s Stolas, Lovano and Douglas have shown that their distinct and robust voices can lead, blend and push the idiom forward both in composition and improvisation, while embracing the front-line masters of previous generations. In 2008, when Lovano and Douglas were co-leaders of the renowned SFJAZZ Collective, the group paid tribute to living icon Wayne Shorter showcasing arrangements of Shorter originals alongside newly composed pieces influenced by Shorter’s compositional voice. The experience was a catalyst that lead the two instrumentalists to conceive the Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Quintet, Sound Prints; an all-star ensemble including up and coming pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist James Genus, and drummer Joey Barron. Performing new repertoire as well as brand new Shorter compositions in direct collaboration with Shorter, the quintet is less an homage to Wayne Shorter and more of a unique convergence of three unparalleled trajectories.