New Dave Douglas recording!

Moonshine now available at Greenleaf Music Order yours now!

Features the musicians from Keystone in an all original production:

DJ Olive

Gene Lake

Brad Jones

Adam Benjamin

Marcus Strickland

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Dave is blogging and creating listening streams and more at Greenleaf Music, his new recording outlet. Please visit Greenleaf to support the music of Dave and many others. This is a new thing for the record industry and we hope you will enjoy being a part of it. Greenleaf Music and Dave will thank you profusely.

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The latest CD by the Dave Douglas Quintet is the collection: DDQ Live at the Jazz Standard, featuring all the new quintet tunes that have never been released on CD. Buy it now at Greenleaf Music, it's a specially priced 2 CD set.

Also available at Greenleaf Music: Dave Douglas Quintet, Live at the Jazz Standard, The Full Book. A recording of the entire week 12/5 -12/10, 2006. Available as a package of 12 one-hour sets for $70, or individual sets for $7. It's all at Greenleaf Music.

And don't forget the studio release Meaning and Mystery. You can get it here or better yet here.

The Dave Douglas Quintet, and Meaning and Mystery features Donny McCaslin tenor sax, Uri Caine on fender rhodes, and James Genus and Clarence Penn, bass and drums.

Other titles by Kneebody, Nicole Mitchell, and more.

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US Premier!

Dave's composition Blue Latitudes, for three improvisers and chamber orchestra, will be performed for the first time on the U.S. on September 16, 2007 at Manhattan School of Music in New York. Mark Gould will be conducting and the soloists will be Dave, Mark Dresser, and Gerald Cleaver. It's part of the Festival of New Trumpet Music, at www.fontmusic.org

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Another special event: Inspiration, Dave and trumpeter Jeremy Pelt

invite the legendary trumpeter Eddie Henderson to join them for a

very special evening of music at the Jazz Standard in New York on

September 20, 2007.

It's all part of the Festival of New Trumpet Music, at www.fontmusic.org

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Dave's recording Keystone was nominated for a Grammy in 2006. It is available at Greenleaf Music. The CD/DVD features DJ Olive, Gene Lake, Brad Jones, Jamie Saft, and Marcus Strickland. And it was deftly mixed by David Torn from splattercell.

You can now find all of Dave Douglas' work at Greenleaf Music, including back catalog titles from labels like Soul Note and Arabesque. Please visit the site and spread the word.

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Dave continues to serve as the director of the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music. The three week workshop invite participants to work on creating their own music, on the fundamentals of musicianship in improvised music, on composition, and on many other topics.

Visiting artists have included Don Byron, Bill Frisell, Mark Feldman, Sylvie Courvoisie, Steve Cardenas, Vijay Iyer, Miguel Zenon, Mark Dresser, Greg Osby, Susie Ibarra, Clarence Penn, John Abercrombie, Jason Moran, Jeff Parker, Roberto Rodriguez, Misha Mengelberg, Han Bennink, Ernst Glerum, Joe Ferla, and many others.

Dave will continue as artistic director in 2008. This program continues to be his main educational outlet, as he is not available for private instruction. Please visit

the Banff Centre for more details and application materials. The 2008 workshop will run from May 11 - May 31. Deadline for applications for the 2008 workshop is mid-January, 2008.

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The 5th annual Festival of New Trumpet Music runs from September 15 to 30,

2007, with an expanded roster of performances and educational events.

Dave Douglas and Roy Campbell started this festival at Tonic in the

summer of 2003 to celebrate and demonstrate the diversity, vibrancy,

and richness of New Trumpet Music. Joined by fellow director and

trumpeter Jon Nelson, of the Meridian Arts Ensemble, in 2006, FONT

Music continues to grow in new directions, commissioning 5 composers

in 2006 and five more in 2007.

Taylor Ho Bynum, Mark Gould, John McNeil, and Jeremy Pelt recently joined our curatorial board. FONT Music is now a NYC non-profit entity. That means you can

now support the creation of new trumpet work in a snazzy, tax-deductible fashion. Please do so.

For further information please visit the festival web site: www.fontmusic.org

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A book of Dave's sheet music is now available, published by Cherry Lane

Music. The Dave Douglas Collection contains scores for twelve of

Douglas' most popular compositions, as well as solo transcriptions by

David Pearl.

Available at the Greenleaf Music web site, and fine music stores everywhere.

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Read Dave's article A Universe Of Music, Roswell and Relativity.

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'El Trilogy', Dave's recording of music for the Trisha Brown choreography

is now available only by mail order from downtown music gallery.

Includes a beautiful cover designed by Terry Winters.

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