Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy on NPR's Tiny Desk Concert

Sunday July 19, 2009

NPR.org – The trombonists will be the first to tell you: It’s not technically a “spit valve.” It’s just collected condensation. Where that “condensation” comes from, and why it periodically needs to be evacuated unceremoniously on stage floors, I’m not sure of. Whatever the case, Bob Boilen wasn’t terribly pleased to see it on the ground under his desk.

But Bob’s a forgiving man. I mean, the whole NPR Music office was all so, well, ecstatic after seeing Brass Ecstasy, trumpeter Dave Douglas’ latest project, that we were more than willing to overlook the donations they’d left behind. Well, except for the recorded artifact of this Tiny Desk Concert.

Read the rest of the piece, and watch/listen to the performance that crashed the NPR music server here

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