|
|
2006-05-10
7:30PM
|
"an original thinker blessed with a seemingly bottomless well of intriguing ideas."
- Howard Reich, The Chicago Tribune
"As a composer and trumpeter, his chops are tops. He never gets in a rut, his formats and viewpoints always swinging from intellectual acoustic to tripped-out electronic to the totally unexpected."
- Greg Burk, L.A. Weekly
2005, Down Beat Reader's Poll, Trumpeter of the Year
2003, 45th Annual Grammy Awards, Nomination for: Best Instrumental Jazz Album, Individual or Group for the album: The Infinite, The Recording Academy Grammy Awards
|
[ Complete Show Schedule... ] |
|
FEATURING:
Dave Douglas - trumpet
Donny McCaslin - saxophones
Uri Caine - fender rhodes
James Genus - bass
Clarence Penn - drums |
Greenleaf Music proudly announces the April 11, 2006 release of trumpeter/composer DAVE DOUGLAS� new Quintet recording, Meaning & Mystery, the follow up recording to the Grammy Award nominated CD/DVD tribute to silent film star Roscoe Arbuckle, Keystone. On Meaning & Mystery (recorded on February 1, 2006 in New York City), Douglas�s first quintet recording since 2004�s Strange Liberation, the 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient is joined by a crack ensemble that is exuberant and virtuosic in their interpretation of Douglas�s new original compositions: Uri Caine on Fender Rhodes, Donny McCaslin on tenor saxophone, James Genus on bass and Clarence Penn on drums. This group has been together for six years, and Douglas, Uri Caine and James Genus have been playing together in various contexts for more than fifteen years.
Dave Douglas is widely recognized as one of the most important and original American musicians to emerge from the jazz and improvised music scene of the last decades. His collaborations as a trumpeter read like a who's who of important contemporary artists: John Zorn, Joe Lovano, Bill Frisell, Don Byron, Steve Lacy, Fred Hersch, Anthony Braxton, Myra Melford, Andy Bey, Nick Didkovsky, Trisha Brown, Terry Winters, Jennifer Tipton, Louis Sclavis, Henry Grimes, Tim Berne, Tom Waits, Rabih Abou-Khalil, DJ Olive, Ikue Mori, Han Bennink, Misha Mengelberg, Chris Potter, Uri Caine, Mark Turner, Roswell Rudd, Andrew Cyrille, Marc Ribot, Karsh Kale, Mark Dresser, Mark Feldman, Marty Ehrlich, and many others.
Born March 24, 1963, in Montclair, New Jersey, Douglas grew up in the New York Metropolitan area. He started playing piano at age five and trombone at seven before discovering the trumpet two years later. He learned jazz and classical harmony in high school and began playing improvised music as an exchange student in Barcelona, Spain in 1978. From 1981 to 1983, Douglas studied in Boston at the Berklee School of Music and the New England Conservatory. He cites Igor Stravinsky, John Coltrane, and Stevie Wonder as primary influences on his music.
Moving to New York City in 1984, he attended New York University, studying trumpet with Carmine Caruso, and performed around the city with jazz, funk and experimental music groups. From 1987 to 1990 he toured internationally with artists such as Horace Silver, Vincent Herring, Tim Berne, Don Byron, Dr. Nerve, and the Bread and Puppet Theater. He began to record in earnest in the 1990s and his discography includes recordings on the Hat Art, Soul Note, New World, Arabesque, Songlines and Winter & Winter labels.
Douglas has received fellowships for his work from the National Endowment for the Arts, Meet the Composer, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and Arts International, which helped finance a trip to India in 1998. Dave was recently commissioned by the Vooruit Culture Center in Ghent, Belgium to write music for the contemporary chamber music ensemble Ictus. The resulting 'Flemish Primitives' were performed in Ghent in March 2002. The New York based Extension Ensemble commissioned a brass quintet entitled 'Private Music' which premiered in 2001 and was recorded by the ensemble for an upcoming release. The Library of Congress' McKim Fund supported the composition of 'Irrational Exuberance' in 1999, and the piece was performed at the Library's Coolidge Auditorium by Mark Feldman and Sylvie Courvoisier in October of that year. In November 1998, Dave took part in Southwest German Radio's "New Jazz Meeting," collaborating on pieces with Lebanese oud player Rabih Abou-Khalil and French clarinetist Louis Sclavis. Douglas has also toured as a guest with the Clusone Trio (Michael Moore, Ernst Reijseger, and Han Bennink), one of Holland's most exciting improvising ensembles.
http://www.davedouglas.com/ |
