Dave Douglas: Three Records, Five Months

Thursday November 10, 2011

from npr.org

Dave Douglas: Three Records, Five Months
By:Patrick Jarenwattanon

Time for a new ABS feature. On Tuesdays, I, the editor, will be recommending things for you. Mostly recorded music to listen to, but also books to read, and shows to go see, and other things I haven’t thought up yet. There are a lot of these good things being produced in jazz, and we don’t discuss enough of them, and this is a jazz blog, so that needs to be fixed. It’ll be kind of like an “editor’s picks” section. In fact, it will be that.

This week: The three new releases by Dave Douglas, and the Greenleaf Cloud Player they can be heard on.

The trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas has released three albums’ worth of music in under five months. That’s a lot.

How did he do it?

A few thoughts:

Dave Douglas is a super-prolific composer. You know how jazz journalism convention often identifies people as “[instrumentalist] and composer”? Sometimes it feels a little bit like, “OK, you wrote a few blues heads, that’s nice.” Other times, it properly credits the musician for the fact that he regularly generates original melodies, harmonies that make sense and interlocking arrangements for three to 21 different parts. Some jazz musicians find time to concentrate on this in particular, and others largely execute those visions for others. Dave is of the former category.

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