Dave Douglas (born March 24, 1963) is an American jazz trumpeter, composer, and educator. His career includes more than fifty recordings as a leader and more than 500 published compositions. His ensembles include the Dave Douglas Quintet; Sound Prints, a quintet co-led with saxophonist

Joe Lovano Joseph Salvatore Lovano (born December 29, 1952)"Joe Lovano." ''Contemporary Musicians''. Vol. 13. Farmington Hills, MI: Gale, 1994. Retrieved via ''Biography in Context'' database, May 5, 2017. is an American jazz multi-instrumentalist. T ...

; Uplift, a sextet with bassist

Bill Laswell William Otis Laswell (born February 12, 1955) is an American bass guitarist, record producer, and record label owner. He has been involved in thousands of recordings with many collaborators from all over the world. His music draws from funk, wo ...

; Present Joys with pianist

Uri Caine Uri Caine (born June 8, 1956) is an American classical music, classical and jazz pianist and composer from Philadelphia. Biography Early years Caine was born on June 8, 1956, in Philadelphia, to Burton Caine (1928–2023), a professor at Temple ...

and

Andrew Cyrille Andrew Charles Cyrille (born November 10, 1939) is an American avant-garde jazz drummer. Throughout his career, he has performed both as a leader and a sideman in the bands of Walt Dickerson and Cecil Taylor, among others. AllMusic biographer ...

; High Risk, an electronic ensemble with Shigeto, Jonathan Aaron, and Ian Chang; and Engage, a sextet with Jeff Parker, Tomeka Reid,

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, Nick Dunston, and Kate Gentile. He has won a

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, a

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, an

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award, and received

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nominations. As a composer, Douglas has received commissions from the Trisha Brown Dance Company,

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, Essen Philharmonie,

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and Monash Art Ensemble, which premiered his chamber orchestra piece ''Fabliaux'' in March 2014. From 2002 to 2012, he served as artistic director of the Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music at the

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in Canada. He is a co-founder of the Festival of New Trumpet Music in New York with trumpeter Roy Campbell Jr. Since 2003, Douglas has served as director of the nonprofit festival. He is on the faculty at the

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and is a guest coach for the

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Jazz Composer's Ensemble. In 2016, he accepted a four-year appointment as the artistic director of the Bergamo Jazz Festival. In 2005 Douglas founded Greenleaf Music, a record label for his albums, sheet music, podcasts, as well as the music of other modern jazz musicians. Greenleaf has produced over 70 albums.

Early life

Born in Montclair, New Jersey, Douglas grew up in the New York City area and attended

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, a private high school in

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. He was introduced to jazz by his father, Damon Greenleaf Douglas Jr., and as a young teen was shown jazz theory and harmony by the pianist Tommy Gallant. Douglas began performing jazz during his junior year in high school while on an abroad program in Barcelona, Spain. After graduating from high school in 1981, he studied at the

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and

New England Conservatory The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) is a Private college, private music school in Boston, Massachusetts. The conservatory is located on Huntington Avenue along Avenue of the Arts (Boston), the Avenue of the Arts near Boston Symphony Ha ...

, both located in

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Career

1980s

In 1984, Douglas moved to New York to study at

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, to study directly with Carmine Caruso, and he finished a degree in music. Early gigs included the experimental rock band Dr. Nerve,

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, Vincent Herring as well as street bands around New York City. He played with a variety of ensembles and came to the attention of the jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader,

Horace Silver Horace Ward Martin Tavares Silver (September 2, 1928 – June 18, 2014) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and arranger, particularly in the hard bop style that he helped pioneer in the 1950s. After playing tenor saxophone and piano at sch ...

, with whom he toured the US and Europe in 1987. In the late 1980s, Douglas began playing with bands led by

Don Byron Donald Byron (born November 8, 1958) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet but has also played bass clarinet and saxophone in a variety of genres that includes free jazz and klezmer. Biography His moth ...

Tim Berne Tim Berne (born October 16, 1954) is an American avant-garde jazz saxophonist and record label owner. His primary instruments are the alto and baritone saxophones. Biography Berne was born in Syracuse, New York, United States. He has said tha ...

, Marty Ehrlich, Walter Thompson, and others in New York. He played in the composer collectives Mosaic Sextet and New and Used. He also toured with theater companies including the world-renowned Bread and Puppet Theater and the Swiss ensemble .

1990s

In March 1993, Douglas got the opportunity to record his first album as a leader, '' Parallel Worlds'' (Black Saint/Soul Note), which featured his String Group with

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(violin),

Erik Friedlander Erik Friedlander is an American cellist and composer based in New York City. A veteran of New York City's experimental downtown scene, Friedlander has worked in many contexts, but is perhaps best known for his frequent collaborations with sax ...

(cello),

Mark Dresser Mark Dresser (born September 26, 1952) is an American double bass player and composer. Career Dresser was born in Los Angeles, California, United States. In the 1970s, he was a member of Black Music Infinity led by Stanley Crouch and performed w ...

(bass), Michael Sarin (drums). The album is a collection of original pieces, some using serial composition techniques, and arrangements of

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, Ellington,

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and

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. This first recording was followed in quick succession by the debuts of two groups, the Tiny Bell Trio (Songlines) with Brad Shepik and

Jim Black Jim Black is an American jazz drummer who has performed with Tim Berne and Dave Douglas. He attended Berklee College of Music. Career His band AlasNoAxis includes Hilmar Jensson on electric guitar, Chris Speed on tenor saxophone and clari ...

and The Dave Douglas Sextet, with Chris Speed, Josh Roseman,

, James Genus and

Joey Baron Bernard Joseph Baron (born June 26, 1955 in Richmond, Virginia) is an American drummer best-known for working in avant-garde jazz with Bill Frisell and John Zorn. Music career Baron, who is of Jewish heritage, was born on June 26, 1955, in Ric ...

, which recorded an homage to

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– accessed June 2010 was an American

called '' In Our Lifetime'' (New World). This began a period during which Douglas recorded widely as a side musician and as a member of many new jazz groups. Douglas also began touring extensively worldwide both as a leader and as a side musician. In 1993, Douglas also began performing with

John Zorn John Zorn (born September 2, 1953) is an American composer, conducting, conductor, saxophonist, arrangement, arranger and record producer, producer who "deliberately resists category". His Avant-garde music, avant-garde and experimental music, ex ...

in his Masada quartet, with

Greg Cohen Greg Cohen (born July 13, 1953) is an American jazz bassist who has been a member of John Zorn's Masada quartet and worked with numerous other noted musicians for over four decades. Career Cohen plays traditional jazz and other styles, includin ...

and

. The group, which still occasionally performs, deals with Jewish and diaspora culture and heritage through Zorn's original compositions. As such, it is an amalgam of jazz, new music, klezmer, and purely improvised styles. The band became one of Zorn's most long-standing and popular ensembles, and brought Douglas wider attention. Since the mid-1990s, Douglas has led a variety of groups simultaneously. In 1996, Douglas recorded ''

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'' with

Cuong Vu Cuong Vu (Cường Vũ) (born 19 September 1969) is a Vietnamese-American jazz trumpeter. In addition to his own work as a bandleader, Vu was a member of the Pat Metheny Group. He is the first American person of Vietnamese descent to win a Grammy ...

Anthony Coleman Anthony Coleman (born August 30, 1955) is an American composer and avant-garde jazz pianist. During the 1980s and 1990s he worked with John Zorn on ''Cobra'', ''Kristallnacht'', ''The Big Gundown'', ''Archery'', and '' Spillane'' and helped push ...

, Yuka Honda, Dougie Bowne, and other musicians of the New York downtown scene of the time. The group involved sampling and DJ improvisations in addition to jazz. In 1997, Douglas started a quartet featuring trumpet, violin, accordion, and bass (with Guy Lucevsek, Mark Feldman, and Greg Cohen) which recorded '' Charms of the Night Sky'', incorporating sounds of Eastern European and Argentinian folk musics as well as jazz influences on the music, which is generally mellow and relaxed. The album included a number of tracks with Douglas and accordionist Guy Klucevsek performing as a duo. A second album by the Charms of the Night Sky group, '' A Thousand Evenings'' was released in 2000. Also in 1997, Douglas founded a jazz quartet with Chris Potter, James Genus, and Ben Perowsky. This group recorded two albums in this period, '' Magic Triangle'' and ''

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''. Both were originally released by Arabesque Recordings, and have subsequently been reissued on Douglas's own imprint, Greenleaf Music. Greenleaf has also released sheet music containing all of the original compositions from these albums. This group further explored Douglas's interest in writing harmony for cordless groups and lyrical, accessible new acoustic jazz sounds. Towards the end of the 1990s, Douglas formed a Quintet with Uri Caine on

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, Chris Potter, James Genus and drummer Clarence Penn. The formation of this group coincided with Douglas signing a seven-record deal with major label

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. Douglas also began to appear at the mainstream jazz clubs around New York such as

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Village Vanguard The Village Vanguard is a jazz club at Seventh Avenue South in Greenwich Village, New York City. The club was opened on February 22, 1935, by Max Gordon. Originally, the club presented folk music and beat poetry, but it became primarily a jaz ...

and

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. His international touring continued with multiway residencies of his original works at festivals in Belgium, Italy, Poland, Germany, France and Spain. It was at the end of the 1990s that Douglas first visited the Banff Centre for the Arts as a visiting artist, at the invitation of pianist

Kenny Werner Kenny Werner (born November 19, 1951) is an American jazz pianist, composer, and author. Early life Born in Brooklyn, New York, on November 19, 1951, and then growing up in Oceanside, Long Island, Werner began playing and performing at a young ...

. A few year later he would begin a ten-year stint as the Director of the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music.

2000s

In 2000, Douglas released '' Soul on Soul'', a tribute to composer and pianist

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, featuring original arrangements of her music for the sextet and new pieces inspired by her work. Douglas also released albums featuring Charms of the Night Sky and the Dave Douglas Quartet in the same year. In the early years of the decade, Douglas worked often with the Trisha Brown Dance Company. '' El Trilogy'', an extended musical work accompanying modern dance, was performed during 2000–2001. ''

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'', a nine-part suite, was released in 2001. It features a band made up of trumpet, sax, two electric pianos, electronic percussion, bass, and drums. Douglas' music had always been informed by his political concerns, but this album was his most ambitious attempt to give them musical form, often by celebrating his political and cultural heroes through dedications and track titles. The album includes a 20-minute track entitled "Mahfouz", in which gravel-voiced singer

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reads an excerpt from the works of Egyptian writer

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, as well as pieces dedicated to

Edward Said Edward Wadie Said (1 November 1935 – 24 September 2003) was a Palestinian-American academic, literary critic, and political activist. As a professor of literature at Columbia University, he was among the founders of Postcolonialism, post-co ...

and

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. More recently, Douglas founded the Dave Douglas New Quintet and Nomad. The Quintet is a trumpet and tenor sax-led group but with Fender Rhodes electric piano. Their first album, '' The Infinite'' (2001), featured Douglas originals and pieces by or inspired by musicians

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and

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. This was followed up by 2004's '' Strange Liberation'' by the same group with guest

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on guitar. Formed in 2003, Nomad is made up of trumpet, clarinet, cello, tuba, and drums. With this band, Douglas performed his suite '' Mountain Passages'', commissioned for the Italian Sound of the Dolomites Festival, and released as the first album on Douglas' record label Greenleaf Music in 2005. The suite features a variety of different influences including Italian Ladino music, New Orleans jazz, and other musics, and is to be played from 9 to 12,000 feet above sea level. Douglas also started a new band called Keystone, which performs works influenced by the silent film actor and director Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle. The project includes pieces to be performed with Arbuckle's films. This ensemble is made up of trumpet, tenor sax, Wurlitzer (electric piano), turntables, electric bass, and drums. A CD of this music – accompanied by a DVD with two Arbuckle shorts – was released in 2005. 2006 saw Douglas release '' Meaning and Mystery'', where he plays again with his quintet, now with Donny McCaslin in place of Chris Potter on saxophones. In December 2006, Greenleaf Music recorded all the quintet's performances over a six-night engagement at New York's

jazz club, called them ''Live at the Jazz Standard'', and made the two-hour sets the band played each night available for download from the company's website within 24 hours. The 44 compositions, almost all of them by Douglas alongside covers of Wainwright,

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and

, featured 14 tunes not previously recorded by the band. Those 14 new compositions were released on a 2-CD set, '' Live at the Jazz Standard'', in 2007. In late 2007, ''

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'', a further recording by Keystone, was released. This was based upon recordings made of a concert performance by the band at that year's Bray Jazz Festival in Ireland. The Keystone band then led a 5-night run at Jazz Standard in April 2008. Greenleaf Music recorded and released all ten sets through their website as a download-only series, ''Keystone: Live at Jazz Standard (Complete Book)''. In 2009, Douglas released two albums: '' Spirit Moves'' by his Brass Ecstasy band which featured Vincent Chancey, Luis Bonilla, Marcus Rojas and

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; and his first album of big band compositions, '' A Single Sky'', a collaboration with Jim McNeely and the Frankfurt Radio Bigband.

2010s

In tandem with the 100th anniversary of the first Frankenstein film, Douglas collaborated with experimental film-maker Bill Morrison and released the 3-CD set '' Spark of Being''. Written for his Keystone ensemble, the set includes three related, yet subtly different, albums to accompany the Morrison film. The first edition, entitled ''Soundtrack'', comprises long-form pieces edited to accompany the film in real time. The second edition, ''Expand'', contains extended performances of the original themes from the soundtrack, arranged in a traditional jazz album format. ''Burst'', the third edition, consists of additional variations and unused outtakes recorded at the initial session. In 2011, Douglas released three albums within the span of five months through Greenleaf Music. The albums were released only in digital format and contained approximately 30 to 50 minutes of music per album, referencing album lengths of the LP era. Released under the unifying label of the Greenleaf Portable Series, or GPS, the albums showcased ensembles that Douglas may only "rarely get to play with" in some cases. The first album, ''Rare Metals'' featured Douglas' Brass Ecstasy ensemble. The second album, ''Orange Afternoons'' included Ravi Coltrane on tenor sax, Vijay Iyer on piano, Linda Oh on bass, Marcus Gilmore on drums. The third, ''Bad Mango'', paired Douglas with the innovative quartet

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. After the bandleaders' intersecting tenures in the

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in 2008, Douglas joined with tenor saxophonist

to form the co-led quintet Sound Prints with drummer

, bassist Linda Oh and pianist Lawrence Fields. Inspired by the music of tenor saxophonist

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the group debuted at New York's

in November 2012. In 2013 the

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commissioned Wayne Shorter to write two pieces for the group. Sound Prints premiered "Unknown” and “To Sail Beyond The Sunset” at the festival that year. The concert resulted in ''Live at Monterey Jazz Festival'' on

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in 2015. The group's second albu
''Scandal''
was released in 2018 on Greenleaf Music and it marked the first time the pair has recorded a full studio album of material together. The album boasts ten originals by Lovano and Douglas as well as treatments of two Shorter classics. Two tracks from the same recording session were released on a 7” 45 on green vinyl: On Pebble Street was a special release for

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in April 2018. The quintet released their third album of original compositions
''Other Worlds''
in May 2021. The CD artwork features space-inspired artwork by celebrated visual artis
Dave Chisholm
''Other Worlds'' was later released as a double vinyl LP for Record Store Day Black Friday on November 25, 2022. SFJAZZ Collective

Douglas released '' Be Still'' in 2012. The album featured Douglas' newly formed quintet of Jon Irabagon on saxophone, Matt Mitchell on piano, Linda Oh on bass, and Rudy Royston on drums with the addition of vocalist

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. Dedicated to the memory of Douglas' mother, Emily, who died in 2011, ''Be Still'' features nine tracks, of which six are hymns and folks songs that she requested Douglas perform at her funeral. The same ensemble, minus O'Donovan, recorded and released ''

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'' the following year. Inspired by 2005's ''Mountain Passages'', which the I Suoni delle Dolomiti festival in Northern Italy commissioned to be performed at a high altitude, Douglas initiated his 2013 tenure as the Monterey Jazz Festival's "Showcase Artist" with a benefit concert and hike at Glen Deven Ranch in Big Sur, California. The audience and performers alike hiked to a promontory overlooking the Pacific Ocean and then listened to a concert of Douglas' music. In celebration of his 50th birthday, Douglas launched his "50 States Project" and set out to perform in each of the 50 U.S. states throughout the course of 2013. The tour aimed to include performances in "unlikely and outdoors locations for people who might not otherwise have the same kind of access to live, improvised music as those in larger cities." The tour also coincided with the release of ‘DD, 50: Special Edition 50th Birthday Recordings’ a special box set that included three CDs (''Pathways'', ''Time Travel'', and ''Be Still'') and a DVD containing previously unreleased in-studio performances and art videos shot by Christoph Green. Douglas formed the collective ensemble Riverside in collaboration with tenor saxophonist Chet Doxas, electric bassist

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and drummer Jim Doxas out of a shared respect for Texas-born multireedist

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. The group's eponymously titled recording features originals by Douglas and Doxas, as well as Giuffre's "The Train and the River". The group's sophomore albu
''The New National Anthem''
was released in May 2017 featuring the pianist and composer

Carla Bley Carla Bley (born Lovella May Borg; May 11, 1936 – October 17, 2023) was an American jazz composer, pianist, organist, and bandleader. An important figure in the free jazz movement of the 1960s, she gained acclaim for her jazz opera ''Escalator ...

. The album features three compositions by Bley, as well as songs by Douglas, Swallow and Doxas. The group played a number of concerts and festivals in the summer and fall of 2017 with Bley as a special guest, including two concerts in Quebec and a ten-date tour of Europe In July 2014, Douglas released a duo projec
''Present Joys''
with his long-time collaborator, pianist Uri Caine. The two explore the music of the

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tradition, taking on four pieces from the shape-note tune books as well as several new Douglas compositions undertaken in the same vein. The duo expanded with the addition of drummer

. The trio released ''Devotion'' in 2019, performing Douglas compositions inspired by Franco D’Andrea,

, and

Dizzy Gillespie John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie ( ; October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer. He was a trumpet virtuoso and improvisation, improviser, building on the virtuosic style of Roy El ...

. The Monash Art Ensemble (MAE) is a collaboration between the Sir Zelman Cowen School of Music at

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in Melbourne, Australia, and the Australian Art Orchestra (AAO), an improvising chamber orchestra including some of Melbourne's finest players also affiliated with Monash University. In 2014, Dave composed a set of music drawing inspiration from composers of the early 14th century French Ars Nova, most notably

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. Scored for four winds, four brass, four strings, and four percussion, including electronics, the music explores ideas of

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, and modal counterpoint as points of departure, mixing improvisation with timbre and structure in unexpected ways. The resulting album
''Fabliaux''
was released in 2015 on Greenleaf Music in collaboration with Australian label JazzHead. Dave first met DJ, producer and beatmaker Shigeto (

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) at a

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event that paired musicians in a series of solo and duet improvisations, and the two found some common creative ground. Following that collaboration, Douglas formed an electronic ensemble to probe the possibilities of improvised jazz and electronic music. Adding Jonathan Maron on electric and acoustic bass and

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on electric and acoustic drums, as well as engineer Geoff Countryman - whose knowledge and skills as a musician and technician helped piece everything together – the group released ''High Risk'' in 2015. The group's follow up album, ''Dark Territory'', was released on LP as a

2016 Exclusive. In the fall of 2015, Dave released Brazen Heart, an album featuring his longstanding quintet with Jon Irabagon, Matt Mitchell, Linda May Han Oh, and Rudy Royston. The title track was commissioned for the Ecstatic Music Festival as a piece for large brass ensemble to be performed at the

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site in lower Manhattan, reimagined for a small group. Following a North American tour, the quintet played a week of shows at the

in November 2015. Recorded on the fly, each night's music was released the next day for digital download on

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, allowing fans to hear the music with a remarkable turnaround. The complete set of music – four nights, eight sets, eighty-four tracks in total – was released as ''Brazen Heart Live'', an 8-CD box set.

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compared the release to Miles Davis’ The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 sessions. In 2016, Douglas joined with French pianist Frank Woeste, bassist Matt Brewer and drummer Clarence Penn to produce a cooperative album with support from the French-American Jazz Exchange
''Dada People''
was inspired by the

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art movement and the work of

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and his circle of artists. Douglas composed a series of twelve short compositions, each named for an Italian month of the year entitle
''New Sanctuary''
The 2016 work touches on his compositional process from 1996's''Sanctuary''. It challenges the performers to maximally tease out the implications of each idea, using their own personal vocabulary to develop and explore the music in fresh ways every time. Douglas recorded the music in a new trio with guitarist

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and percussionist Susie Ibarra. In 2017, Douglas release
''Little Giant Still Life''
featuring the brass quartet, The Westerlies. After encountering the group at Seattle's Earshot Jazz Festival, Douglas began writing music for group of ensemble improvisors, later adding drummer Anwar Marshall. Much of the music is inspired by the American painter Stuart Davis. Douglas’ 2018 Subscriber Series is entitled
''UPLIFT''
Subtitled, “Twelve Pieces For Positive Action,” the music was conceived by Douglas as a response to the tumultuous political and social climate of the United States and beyond. Featuring twelve new Douglas compositions for a new sextet, each piece highlights a specific social cause and references organizations doing important work. The ensemble, which came together to record the music in December 2017, features saxophonist Joe Lovano, guitarists

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and Julian Lage, bassist

and drummer Ian Chang. Throughout 2018, a new track was released each month exclusively for subscribers with a CD coming out in December 2018. A descendant of UPLIFT, Douglas recorded a program of brand new compositions �
''ENGAGE''
- as reactions and ruminations on hope and positivity. Douglas sought out specific improvisers and collaborators from different generations and backgrounds to deal with music that inspires, challenges and stirs to action. The songs were specifically built for this collaborative and dynamic ensemble including woodwind player

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, cellist Tomeka Reid, guitarist Jeff Parker, bassist Nick Dunston and drummer Kate Gentile. On some of the pieces, the ensemble is joined by trumpeters Dave Adewumi and Riley Mulherkar. The twelve pieces are built using the compositional rule of major triads, with each of the twelve pieces in the “song cycle” approaching these triads in a different way. The pieces were released monthly during 2019 to Greenleaf Music subscribers, and a culminating CD was released in December 2019.

2020-present

To honor the legacy of the great trumpeter, composer and humanist

, Douglas wanted to explore Dizzy's experimental and wide open mind as well as the influence of his music. The project started out as a concert program, assembled for a performance presented by

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in February, 2018. For that, Douglas assembled a sextet that included Ambrose Akinmusire on trumpet, guitarist

, pianist Gerald Clayton, bassist Linda May Han Oh and Joey Baron on drums. Douglas began to conceive of a recorded version of the program, although with a different set of players. In addition to Baron, Douglas brought trumpeter Dave Adewumi, guitarist

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, pianist

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, and bassist Carmen Rothwell into the studio. The resulting albu
''Dizzy Atmosphere: Dizzy Gillespie at Zero Gravity''
was released in 2020. Douglas collaborated again with the Monash Art Ensemble in 2020 as a virtual Artist in Residence. Working with a 13-piece ensemble, the musicians workshopped five pieces that Dave composed with inspiration from the Australian writer and poet Kevin Gilbert, along with lyrics contributed by ensemble members. Recording online and remotely, everyone recorded their parts separately and the music was blended together after the fact. ''The Dream: Monash Sessions'' was released in digital format in March 2021. For the 2020 Greenleaf Music Subscriber Series, Douglas recorded a suite entitled, Marching Music. Subtitled ''Music to March By'', Douglas conceived of these pieces as music you could have in your headphones when you attend Climate Marches, Demonstrations for Equal Rights, Voting Rights Movements, and all other actions towards a just society. Featuring a special quartet with guitarist Rafiq Bhatia, bassist

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and drummer Sim Cain, the ten pieces were released throughout 2020 to subscribers. On December 4, 2020, Douglas released the album '' Overcome'' exclusively to Bandcamp, featuring vocalist Fay Victor, vocalist and guitarist Camila Meza, bassist Jorge Roeder, and drummer Rudy Royston. The album includes a version of “

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”, a gospel song that is best known as a

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of the American civil rights movement. Having been recorded remotely in first year of the

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, it was eventually issued on vinyl and via digital distribution in 2022. In 2021, Douglas was approached by the Kerrytown Concert House in Ann Arbor to produce an online solo trumpet concert, which was live streamed in December 2021. Using some of that material, plus some additional performances online for Greenleaf subscribers, the albu
''Hudson Solos''
emerged, all tied to thoughts about the Hudson River. A number of the pieces were released to Greenleaf Music subscribers in 2021 as part of the Subscribers Series and a CD was released in late 2021.
''Secular Psalms''
is a new Dave Douglas studio album featuring a newly commissioned suite of ten pieces, inspired by and dedicated to The Adoration of the Mystic Lamb by

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and

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– a polyptych originally painted for display in St. Bavo's Cathedral in Ghent, Belgium. Commissioned by Handelsbeurs Concert Hall in Gent, Belgium to celebrate the 600th anniversary of the Altarpiece with creation of new music. Drawing on Latin Mass, on early medieval folk songs, on composers of the period, like Guillaume DuFay, and on jazz and improvised music, Douglas and team deliver a lyrical, mystical, spiritual score full of upbeat optimism for our times. Douglas says the title refers to “songs of praise for all of us.” For this project Douglas branched out into new instruments including serpent, lute, organ and sampler, providing a painterly panorama of new sounds, and performed by group of international musicians: Tomeka Reid, Marta Warelis, Berlinde Deman, Frederick Leroux and Lander Gyselinck. The world premiere of the piece took place in Europe in November 2021 with performances in Gent and Brugge Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany. The CD was released by Greenleaf Music in April 2022. The albums and their compositions reference the

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, a set of songs from the Book of

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. The Dave Douglas Quintet featuring Irabagon, Mitchell, Oh, and Royston reunited to release its fourth studio album, ''Songs of Ascent: Book 1 - Degrees'' on October 7, 2022. The ensemble simultaneously released a second album, ''Songs of Ascent: Book 2 - Steps'' directly to subscribers of Greenleaf Music. Douglas recorded all his trumpet parts for both albums first, recording remotely with the musicians from their homes. In March 2023, Douglas released ''If There Are Mountains'' with pianist Elan Mehler, featuring

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sung by vocalist Dominique Eade. The album had previously been released in 2020 only on vinyl through Mehler's independent label Newvelle Records. The recorded ensemble, a sextet, also includes John Gunther, Simón Willson, and Dayeon Seok.

Personal life

Douglas lives in the New York area, lectures regularly at The New School and travels frequently worldwide as a composer and performer. His daughter Mia was born in 1984.

Discography

* '' Parallel Worlds'' (

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, 1993) * '' The Tiny Bell Trio'' (Songlines, 1994) * '' In Our Lifetime'' (

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, 1995) * ''

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'' ( Hat Hut, 1995) with Tiny Bell Trio * '' Five'' (Soul Note, 1996) * '' Live in Europe'' (

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, 1996) with Tiny Bell Trio * ''

'' (

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, 1997) * '' Stargazer'' (Arabesque, 1997) * '' Moving Portrait'' ( DIW, 1998) * '' Charms of the Night Sky'' ( Winter & Winter, 1998) * '' Magic Triangle'' (Arabesque, 1998) * ''

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'' (

, 1998) * '' Songs for Wandering Souls'' (Winter & Winter, 1999) * '' Soul on Soul'' (

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, 2000) * ''

'' (Arabesque, 2000) * '' A Thousand Evenings'' (RCA, 2000) * '' El Trilogy'' ( BMG, 2001) * ''

'' (RCA, 2001) * '' The Infinite'' (RCA, 2002) * '' Freak In'' (

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, 2003) * '' Strange Liberation'' (Bluebird, 2004) * '' Bow River Falls'' ( Koch, 2004) * '' Mountain Passages'' ( Greenleaf, 2005) * '' Keystone'' (Greenleaf, 2005) * '' Meaning and Mystery'' (Greenleaf, 2006) * '' Live at the Jazz Standard'' (Greenleaf, 2006) * ''Rue de Seine'' with

Martial Solal Martial Solal (23 August 1927 – 12 December 2024) was a French jazz pianist and composer. Life and career Solal was born in Algiers, French Algeria on 23 August 1927, to Algerian Jewish parents. He was persuaded to study clarinet, saxophone, ...

( CAM Jazz, 2006) * ''

'' (Greenleaf, 2007) * '' Spirit Moves'' (Greenleaf, 2009) * '' A Single Sky'' (Greenleaf, 2009) * '' Spark of Being'' (Greenleaf, 2010) * '' United Front: Brass Ecstasy at Newport'' (Greenleaf, 2010) * '' Three Views'' (Greenleaf, 2011) * '' Be Still'' (Greenleaf, 2012) * ''

'' (Greenleaf, 2013) * '' Present Joys'' with

(Greenleaf, 2014) * '' High Risk'' (Greenleaf, 2015) * '' Brazen Heart'' (Greenleaf, 2015) * '' Dark Territory'' (Greenleaf, 2016) * '' Brazen Heart: Live at Jazz Standard'' (Greenleaf, 2018) * ''Uplift - Twelve Pieces for Positive Action'' (Greenleaf, 2018) * ''Devotion'' (Greenleaf, 2019) * ''Engage'' (Greenleaf, 2019) * ''Dizzy Atmosphere'' (Greenleaf, 2020) * ''Marching Music'' (Greenleaf, 2020) * ''Overcome'' (Greenleaf, 2020) * ''Other Worlds'' (Greenleaf, 2021) * ''Hudson Solos'' (Greenleaf, 2021) * ''Secular Psalms'' (Greenleaf, 2022) * ''Degrees - Book 1 of Songs of Ascent'' (Greenleaf, 2022) * ''Songs of Ascent: Book 2 - Steps'' (Greenleaf, 2022) * ''If There Are Mountains'' (Greenleaf, 2023)

References

External links

Official site

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