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Monday June 06, 2011

From Something Else! Reviews

Dave Douglas – Moonshine (2007)
By Tom Johnson

— June 6, 2011 8:16 am
Dave Douglas – Moonshine (2007)
Posted by Something Else! Reviews

by Tom Johnson

I really admire trumpeter Dave Douglas. Not only is he world-renowned as one of jazz’s best, he has taken the high and difficult road by setting out to create his own little sanctuary for musicians, a label in Greenleaf Music where they get treated fairly and where listeners can feel the same. My dealings with them have always been nothing less than wonderful — great products and quick shipping, what more can you ask for … other than “more?”

For Moonshine, Douglas called together his Keystone band (Marcus Strickland on saxophone; Gene Lake on drums; Brad Jones on bass; Adam Benjamin on Fender Rhodes; DJ Olive on turntables and electronics) for another album based around, like Keystone, a silent film — this time the unfinished Buster Keaton/Fatty Arbuckle project of the same name from 1917.

Where the first project worked as a soundtrack to the accompanying DVD, which included Arbuckle’s “Fatty and Mabel Adrift” and a shorter video of footage compiled from “Fatty’s Tin-Type Tangle,” Moonshine is meant to stand on its own, simply using the film as inspiration, a jumping off point. And, just like the first project, you don’t really need to know the films to enjoy this.

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