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Genres: Jazz Styles: Avant-Garde Jazz, Post-Bop, Modern Creative Instruments: Trumpet
Dave Douglas has arguably become the most original trumpeter/composer of his generation. Douglas' stylistic range is broad, yet unaffected; his music is not a pastiche, but rather, a personal aesthetic that reflects a wide variety of interests. He explicitly cites such diverse influences as Igor Stravinsky, Stevie Wonder, and John Coltrane. As a composer, Douglas adapts and synthesizes unusual forms and creates his own out of disparate elements. As a trumpeter, Douglas possesses a comprehensive jazz technique; certainly, one hears the ghost of Lester Bowie in Douglas' expressive manipulations of timbre and pitch, but more pronounced is the integration of distinctive compositional and improvisational conceptions that ultimately defines his work.
Douglas grew up in the New York City area. He started playing piano at the age of five, then trombone at seven before discovering the trumpet at nine. He learned jazz harmony in high school and began playing improvised music as an exchange student in Barcelona, Spain. From 1981-1983, he studied in Boston, first at Berklee School of Music, then the New England Conservatory. He moved to New York City in 1984, where he attended New York University and studied with Carmine Caruso. In 1987, he toured Europe with Horace Silver. The early '90s saw Douglas begin to record in earnest; he led or co-led dates for the Hat Art, Soul Note, New World, and Arabesque labels. His various bands include the Tiny Bell Trio, a self-described "jazz-Balkan-improv" group with drummer Jim Black and guitarist Brad Schoeppach; his String Group, which includes violinist Mark Feldman, cellist Erik Friedlander, and bassist Mark Dresser; and his Quartet and Sextet, which includes drummer Joey Baron. Douglas began recording for RCA in 2000 with a tribute to jazz pianist Mary Williams entitled Soul on Soul. That same year A Thousand Evenings featuring Guy Klucevsek was released, followed by El Trilogy and Witness in 2001. It was with Witness that Douglas began to broaden his already eclectic scope, incorporating electronics savvy improvisers like Jamie Saft and Ikue Mori. His next album, The Infinite, featured a more familiar sound but surprising covers of songs by Rufus Wainwright and Bjork. Also busy as a sideman, he can be heard on recordings with Patricia Barber, Myra Melford, John Zorn, and Anthony Braxton, among others. Douglas' Freak In was released in 2003.
- Chris Kelsey (All Music Guide)
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CD коллекции, связанные с исполнителем: |
как основной исполнитель ... |
Dave Douglas - 'A Thousand Evenings' - 2000, RCA |
Dave Douglas - 'Be Still' - 2012, Greenleaf Music |
Dave Douglas - 'Bow River Falls' - 2004, Koch |
Dave Douglas - 'Charms Of The Night Sky' - 1998, Winter & Winter |
Dave Douglas - 'Constellations' - 1995, hatHUT |
Dave Douglas - 'Convergence' - 1999, Soul Note |
Dave Douglas - 'Five' - 1995, Soul Note |
Dave Douglas - 'Freak In' - 2003, Bluebird |
Dave Douglas - 'In Our Lifetime' - 1994, New World |
Dave Douglas - 'Keystone' - 2005, Greenleaf Music |
Dave Douglas - 'Live In Europe' - 1997, Arabesque |
Dave Douglas - 'Mountain Passages' - 2005, Koch |
Dave Douglas - 'Moving Portrait' - 1998, DIW |
Dave Douglas - 'Parallel Worlds' - 1994, Soul Note |
Dave Douglas - 'Sanctuary' - 1997, Avant |
Dave Douglas - 'Songs For Wandering Souls' - 1999, Winter & Winter |
Dave Douglas - 'Soul On Soul' - 2000, RCA Victor |
Dave Douglas - 'Spark Of Being' - 2010, Green Leaf |
Dave Douglas - 'Spirit Moves' - 2009, Koch |
Dave Douglas - 'Stargazer' - 1997, Arabesque |
Dave Douglas - 'Strange Liberation' - 2004, RCA |
Dave Douglas - 'The Infinite' - 2002, RCA |
Dave Douglas - 'The Tiny Bell Trio' - 1994, Songlines Recordings |
Dave Douglas - 'Witness' - 2001, Prospekt, RCA |
как соисполнитель ... |
Burt Bacharach - 'Great Jewish Music: Burt Bacharach' - 1997, Tzadik |
Patricia Barber - 'Modern Cool' - 1998, Premonition |
Patricia Barber - 'Verse' - 2002, Blue Note, Lider |
Don Byron - 'Plays The Music Of Mickey Katz' - 1993, Elektra Entertainment |
Uri Caine - 'Toys' - 1996, JMT |
Uri Caine - 'Urlicht, Primal Light' - 1997, New Edition, Winter & Winter |
Greg Cohen - 'Way Low' - 1998, DIW |
Tom Cora - 'It's A Brand New Day. Tom Cora Live At The Knitting Factory' - 2000, Knitting Factory |
Mark Dresser - 'The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari' - 1995, Knitting Factory |
Fred Hersch - 'Point In Time' - 1995, Enja |
Guy Klucevsek - 'The Multiple Personality Reunion Tour' - 2012, Innova, Naxos of America |
John Lindberg - 'Bounce' - 1998, Black Saint |
Myra Melford - 'Even The Sounds Shine' - 2003, hatART |
Misha Mengelberg - 'Four In One' - 2000, Songlines |
Ned Rothenberg - 'Power Lines' - 1995, New World |
John Zorn - 'Bar Kokhba' - 1996, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Masada. First Live 1993' - 2002, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Masada. Live At Tonic 2001' - 2001, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Masada. Live In Jerusalem' - 1999, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Masada. Live In Middelheim' - 1999, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'The Gift' - 2001, Tzadik |
John Zorn - 'Zayin' - 1999, DIW |