Wednesday July 22, 2009
IMN is proud to announce the addition of two time Grammy nominated Jazz musician and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient Dave Douglas.
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. . 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 recently released their first recording, Spirit Moves, 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 will celebrate its 7th year in 2009.
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| I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry (live) | 7:32 | Dave Douglas |
| Fats (live) | 3:36 | Dave Douglas |
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| Spark of Being EPK | |
| The View from Blue Mountain |
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