IMN : Updates for Sound Prints

Confirmed Tourdates As Of May 14th, 2013

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June 28th, 2013: Town Hall New York, NY USA [Wayne Shorter 80th Birthday Celebration Featuring Wayne Shorter Quartet, ACS, Sound Prints: Dave Douglas & Joe Lovano Quintet]
August 28th, 2013: Hollywood Bowl Los Angeles, CA USA [Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas Quintet: Sound Prints Featuring: Lawrence Fields, Linda Oh and Joey Baron]
August 29th, 2013: Red Butte Garden Amphitheatre Salt Lake City, UT USA [Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas Quintet: Sound Prints Featuring: Lawrence Fields, Linda Oh and Joey Baron]
September 24th, 2013: Wexner Performance Space Columbus, OH USA [Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas Quintet: Sound Prints Featuring: Lawrence Fields, Linda Oh and Joey Baron]

Sound Prints Live Performance on NPR Tonight

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November 28th, 2012

Few jazz bandleaders are as active — and actively acclaimed — as saxophonist Joe Lovano and trumpeter Dave Douglas. But while they’ve met from time to time on the bandstand, their brief overlap in the SFJAZZ collective — during a season where the compositions of Wayne Shorter were featured — got them to front a band together. It’s a quintet where they share the compositional duties, and the top billing. And it’s also a band featuring two up-and-coming musicians in pianist Lawrence Fields and bassist Linda Oh, as well as a drummer they’ve grown up in music with, Joey Baron.

The Sound Prints Quintet has been touring this year, and will play some U.S. dates when it swings into New York’s Village Vanguard for a week. (Both Douglas and Lovano are well acquainted with the place.) WBGO and NPR Music will feature a live concert by the band, broadcast on air and as a video webcast, on Wednesday, Nov. 28 at 9 p.m. ET.

For a link to the webcast click here

Live Review: Sound Prints, "mutual trust between Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas is palpable"

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October 24th, 2012

networkedblogs.com/DP4Nx

Review: Dave Douglas / Joe Lovano Soundprints
By: Sebastian Scotney

In the corporate world and in business schools there is an endless debate as to whether a dual CEO arrangement can ever work. (if I’ve put you off with this irrelevance read Ivan Hewett’s succinct and spot-on review – or John Fordham’s thoughtful five-star-er ).Perhaps, as in many areas of life, jazz can be allowed to lead the way, and show how unselfishness and respect can make things work. The mutual trust between Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas is palpable. They both compose for this band, they introduce each other generously, each listens intently to what the other plays, but above all they leave space. In fact Joe Lovano’s playing in this band gives true expression to that phrase of the veteran baroque ‘cellist and teacher Anner Bylsma: “ a rest is never nothing.” Lovano built a whole solo around rests. When he chose – theatrically, at the last split-second – to leave another idea unsaid rather than said, you could see the expression of sheer glee light up his face. It makes the listener appreciate all the more the sheer presence and humanity of his saxophone sound as it returns.

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Live Review: Sound Prints, "enough ideas for a gig twice as long."

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October 23rd, 2012

guardian.co.uk

Dave Douglas/Joe Lovano – review
By: John Fordham

The Soundprints quintet, led by trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Joe Lovano, played almost two hours straight on their first night at Ronnie Scott’s – yet the show felt as if it had passed by in a flash, while boiling with enough ideas for a gig twice as long.

Soundprints is a reference to the saxophonist Wayne Shorter’s famous theme, Footprints. But though Footprints and other Shorter classics surfaced as passing references within the swirl of solos, the band’s mission is the development of a tradition inspired not just by Shorter, but by the innovators before and since – not least Douglas and Lovano themselves. Ornette Coleman’s presence, for instance, was plain in the springy pulse and intertwining sax and trumpet line of the opening Soundprints, with the magnificent Joey Baron gleefully ticking off the cymbal beat over Linda Oh’s tenacious bass walk.

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Live Review: Sound Prints, "rarely sounded better together"

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October 21st, 2012

from telegraph.co.uk

Joe Lovano & Dave Douglas Quintet: Sound Prints, Ronnie Scott’s, London
By: Mike Hobart

Gruff, airy-toned saxophonist Joe Lovano and spiky, brittle-voiced trumpeter Dave Douglas have a long history of collaboration – John Zorn’s Masada project and Germany’s NDR Bigband capture the recent range. Their latest joint project, the Sound Prints quintet, celebrates the devious logic and collaborative freedoms of saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter. The band was a standout at last July’s Copenhagen Jazz Festival, and this gig, with its intricate detail and shifting-sand arrangements, confirmed that the cut of the Douglas trumpet into Lovano’s breathy sax has rarely sounded better.

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Live Review: Sound Prints at Ronnie Scott's

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October 17th, 2012

from telegraph.co.uk

Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas, Ronnie Scott’s Jazz Club, review
By: Ivan Hewett

What a joy it was, to see two of jazz’s biggest personalities together and up close on Ronnie’s stage. The only doubt was: would there be room, metaphorically speaking, for the two of them?

They’re such different animals: saxophonist Joe Lovano, as expansive and generous in tone and line as he is in girth, his playing firmly rooted in a post-bop idiom: trumpeter Dave Douglas, short, wiry, rooted nowhere in particular, with a restless and probing tone and temperament.

In fact these two have been playing together for some years, and know just how to steer around each other, and when to come together in a dance, or a scrum. The first number started off with an air of deliberate casualness, as if each player were marking out a space and simultaneously searching for the other, as if in a darkened room. Suddenly we were hurled into a fast bop tempo; but no, this was a false alarm, we weren’t there yet.

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Star-filled lineup delivers at Detroit Jazz Festival

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September 5th, 2012

from freep.com
By: Mark Stryker

Star-filled lineup delivers at Detroit Jazz Festival

The best Detroit Jazz Festival ever?

Well, there’s no doubt that the 33rd annual Labor Day weekend orgy of jazz in downtown Detroit, which closed Monday night, offered the greatest collection of quality performers the event has ever seen. First-year artistic director Chris Collins aimed high and delivered, building creatively on the artistic victories achieved by his predecessor Terri Pontremoli during her landmark tenure.

It wasn’t just the starry headliners Sonny Rollins, Wayne Shorter, Chick Corea, Pat Metheny, Joe Lovano and artist-in-residence Terence Blanchard. There was simply no filler in the lineup, and the undercard delivered at every turn, from former Detroiters Louis Hayes, Charles McPherson and Gerald Cleaver, to leading contemporary lights Steve Wilson, Larry Goldings, Ellery Eskelin, Brian Lynch and countless others.

Blessed with great weather, the public seemed to respond. I can’t remember crowds as thick as I saw all weekend at the festival. Festival leaders expected official attendance estimates today.

I think the sprawling character of this year’s event could have used a few more thematic ideas to give shape to the programming. Still, Collins implemented some terrific ideas, from an ambitious Sunday tribute to Wayne Shorter to producing a performance of Duke Ellington’s Sacred Music and adding more creativity to the Detroit homecomings that play a vital role in the event’s character. It also was nice to see some long-neglected local musicians back at the festival, among them Spencer Barefield, Ursula Walker and Buddy Budson.

Here are some entries from a critic’s diary covering the fest’s four days:

Best Set, Silver Medal: Saxophonist Joe Lovano and trumpeter Dave Douglas’ Quintet revealed charismatic chemistry and a loose and limber aesthetic that girded give-and-take among the leaders. Also notable: the flexibility of pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist Linda Oh and drummer Joey Baron.

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LIVE REVIEW: It’s a Marvel Comics kind of question

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July 15th, 2012

from nippertown.com

LIVE: Joe Lovano/Dave Douglas Quintet Sound Prints @ Skidmore College’s Zankel Music Center, 7/3/12
By: J Hunter

It’s a Marvel Comics kind of question: What if Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas teamed up? I mean, Lovano and Douglas are this jazz era’s equivalent of the Incredible Hulk and Thor, God of Thunder: They can (and will) do whatever the hell they want, and they’ll do it absolutely splendidly – witness the sterling music Lovano’s created with the atypical configuration that is Us Five; or Douglas’ almost-all-horn band Brass Ecstasy, one of the biggest highlights of last year’s rain-soaked Solid Sound Festival. That’s just two examples from a long, long list of choices! Sure, Lovano and Douglas shared space on the SFJAZZ Collective front line a few years ago, but they were working on someone else’s ideas. But what if they came up with their own concept… like a set of original compositions inspired by jazz icon Wayne Shorter, for instance?

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LIVE VIDEO: Sounds Prints in Pescara

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July 15th, 2012

LIVE VIDEO: Sounds Prints at North Sea

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July 8th, 2012

LIVE REVIEW: Sound Prints at the Ottawa Jazz Festival

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July 2nd, 2012

from allaboutjazz.com

Ottawa Jazz Festival, Days 4-8: June 21-23, 2012
By: John Kelman

If OIJF festival director Catherine O’Grady was responsible for getting the world premier of Prism, she also deserves credit for bringing trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Joe Lovano’s nascent Sound Prints group—also featuring pianist Lawrence Fields, up-and-coming bassist Linda Oh and, perhaps only in competition for the title “happiest drummer in jazz” with Matt Wilson, perennial favorite Joey Baron—for its second of just three North American dates before, like Holland, heading across the Atlantic for a 12-date European tour, followed by a return to the US in August for (so far) an additional two dates, and yet another transatlantic flight for 13 additional European shows, coming home again and finishing up the year with a week-long run at the Village Vanguard.

The NAC Studio was the perfect venue for the group, and if the material was unfamiliar—there’s no record, at least not yet—it was another case, like Holland and Prism, of a group so new to the material that fireworks began going off from the get-go. Any group that has Baron in the engine room is assured an intrinsic rhythmic unpredictability, as the drummer pushed the pulse but peppered it with unexpected punctuations—at times, all the more dramatic for his complete command of dynamics, as he went from thundering explosions to quiet but fervent swing, all at the drop of a hat.

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A Flat-out Fierce Tribute to Shorter

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June 26th, 2012

from ottawacitizen.com

Jazzfest Review: A flat-out fierce tribute to Shorter
By: Peter Hum

Trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Joe Lovano must feel that you can’t tip your hat too many times to the stellar jazz elder Wayne Shorter.

In 2008, Douglas and Lovano were part of an all-star octet, the SFJAZZ Collective, which paid tribute to Shorter, arguably the finest jazz composer of the last 50 years and a singular voice on the saxophone. In the fully packed NAC Studio Monday night, Douglas and Lovano were at it again with their brash new Sound Prints quintet that had Shorter on its mind.

Tribute projects abound in jazz, and more than a few can strike a cynical fan as tired and by rote. While neither the SFJAZZ Collective nor Sound Prints fall down in that way, they’re very different projects that could never be confused for one another.

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LIVE REVIEW: Brash new Sound Prints quintet that had Shorter on its mind.

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June 26th, 2012

from blogs.ottawacitizen.com

http://blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2012/06/26/dave-douglasjoe-lovano-quintet-in-the-nac-studio-concert-review/
By: Peter Hum

Trumpeter Dave Douglas and saxophonist Joe Lovano must feel that you can’t tip your hat too many times to the stellar jazz elder Wayne Shorter.

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