REVIEW Dave Douglas @ PDX Jazz Fest (Portland, OR)

Sunday February 28, 2010

(From Oregon Music News)
PORTLAND JAZZ FESTIVAL: The Music — Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy
by Jack Berry on March 1, 2010

Never underestimate the sonic possibilities of interwoven brass. And what better close-out for this year’s Portland Jazz Festival than Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy?

Two of the biggest sounds in American music are the tenor saxophone of Pharoah Sanders and the trumpet of Dave Douglas. We got them back to back. But I don’t think Douglas would mind the suggestion that, in the context of Brass Ecstasy, his sound is frequently gobbled up.

The “Hot Time” was an interpolation in “Bowie,” the band’s tribute to Lester Bowie, who was both “out there” and a great lover of American vernacular. It was entirely fitting that this selection was the most purely New Orleans in the group’s repertoire.

A reviewer’s job is generally made easier by the stellar performance of one or two members of a band. But every member of Ecstasy is amazing. It was as if drummer Nasheet Waits was tired of hearing about Justin Faulker, the young whiz that drove the Mingus Big Band and the Pharoah Sanders group. Waits could certainly settle into the happy but rigid pattern of traditional brass band drumming, but he broke away from that to tear things up in a fashion that conformed to no given style.

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