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FONT Music: FORWARD FLIGHT
The Festival of New Trumpet Music (FONT Music) will present Forward Flight, the third and final event of its 7th annual performance season, from Wednesday, January 13th through Saturday, January 16th at New York’s Abrons Arts Center. This four-day celebration of the eclecticism of ...
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Quintet Press
A couple press quotes from the European Quintet tour. Pics, vids, and audio coming soon. Suomen Kuvalehti 2009/43, Marko Ylitalo American Trumpeter Dave Douglas Doesn’t Want to Think about His Excellence “It’s just one of those accidents, which are impossible to explain ...
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Newport Archives
I just got wind of Wolfgangs Vault opening the flood gates of archived material dating back to the second Newport Festival via Ben Ratliff’s article at the Times . “…posting free streams of a handful of performances from the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival, at wolfgangsvault.com: ...
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Vandermark & Joe McPhee
Great article at Neil Tesser’s new outlet Examiner.com , too.
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Listening back…
Great interview with Willard Jenkins over at A Blog Supreme . “…I think baby boomers have to a great extent been products of arrested musical development; that is they have stayed with those more popular music genres — even to the point of being more invested in ...
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Quintet Season
Man, it’s been a blast playing with these guys every night. Doesn’t leave too much time for blogging. But tonight is off in Rome, we’ll play Casa de Jazz tomorrow and then continue to the last dates in Hungary and France. I’ll be home for a day and then playing ...
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Hilarious Horn Happenstance
Hilarious Horn Happenstance
greenleafmusic.com — Sometimes on the road, the strangest meetings come about completely coincidentally. Yesterday on the train from Zurich to Milan, a mini trumpet conference. Trumpeters Franco Ambrosetti, Dave Douglas, Chris Botti. Captured by the quick thinking ... Hilarious Horn Happenstance
Are you ready to meet the grandfather of the synthesizer?
Berna vintage electronic studio from Tobor Experiment on Vimeo . Berna 1.0 (MAC OSX) Vintage Electronic Studio Between the 1950s and the mid 1960s, long before Robert Moog and Wendy Carlos injected electronics into pop-music (with a few exceptions like the Barrons and Raymond ...
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Skratchbox
Never ceases to amaze me what creative people can do with bare essentials and contact microphones… While watching that, all I wanted to do was run the sound into a Kaos Pad and maybe some delay and get freaky. – From Google Reader feed from Make Magazine .  ...
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Halloween in Finland
Uri Caine, Matt Penman, Dave Douglas, Clarence Penn, Donny McCaslin in Tampere, Finland on Halloween, October 31, 2009. The acoustic piano brings a whole new sound into the quintet, and the new tunes are a blast to play with these friends. Travel has been challenging, but the music is ...
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A Single Sky Sheet Music Update
Release day is always one for news and updates. This morning we updated the digital sheet music piece of the A Single Sky release with the four Jim McNeely arrangements. These charts are meticulously put together as you may expect, as are the three DD charts we originally posted. ...
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DDQ at the Village Vanguard
Hey all. If you received our email blast this afternoon, we’d like to apologize for the editorial error we included. Dave Douglas Quintet will be performing at the Village Vanguard this December. The correct dates are December 8th – 13th. You can see all those dates here .  ...
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Brass Diplomacy?
I performed recently in Guangzhou, China and saw this on street signs everywhere. Not sure why, but it appears that a lot of people there seem to have something against trumpet players. Still, we just wanted to let everyone know that the band did everything within our somewhat limited ...
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Money Vid + Miles Phones
After a short tour out East and back, I’m back in the office working away. It was a great trip, but good to be home and away from rest stops and fast food. A few things that were sent to me over the weekend that I wasn’t able to find time to post… First, long-time ...
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