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Chicago Tribune: Dave Douglas meets Columbia students in bold new music

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By Howard Reich

There's nothing more inspiring in jazz than watching young musicians sharing a stage with a master composer-improviser.

Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune

Armando L. Sanchez / Chicago Tribune

That happens periodically at the Jazz Showcase, when a collegiate band appears alongside a noted soloist, but on Thursday night there was a new twist to the formula: The students didn't just play the scores – they wrote them.

For the past several months, members of the Columbia College Jazz Ensemble have been penning and polishing their big-band compositions and rehearsing them with Dave Douglas, one of the most admired trumpeters in jazz. Douglas has been flying to Chicago periodically to develop the work with the students, who are being taught by Columbia's director of jazz studies, Scott Hall.

So when the band took the stage at the Showcase, they carried a triple load as composers, performers and partners of a major jazz artist. They did so with aplomb.

Read he rest here.

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Dave Douglas at Tallcorn Jazz Festival

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Dave Douglas will be the featured guest at this weekend's Tallcorn Jazz Festival, taking place at the University of Northern Iowa in Cedar Falls. Sponsored by the Beta Nu Chapter of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia, the festival includes masterclasses and band competitions, as well as performances by Dave on Friday and Saturday, February 20 and 21. Both shows are at 7:15 PM in Bengstom Auditorium. Tickets are available here.

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Dave Douglas to perform at Purdue University

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Dave Douglas will take part in Purdue University's 25th Anniversary Jazz Festival this weekend in West Lafayette, Indiana. Among the scheduled events at the sold-old festival are a masterclass on composition and improvisation and a concert of Dave's big band music from his album A Single Sky with the Purdue Jazz Band and drummer Carl Allen.

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Dave Douglas & Uri Caine to play "Present Joys" at SubCulture on 12/16

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Don't miss a very special opportunity to see Dave Douglas and Uri Caine perform music from this year's release Present Joys on Tuesday, December 16. Time Out New York says, "In Present Joys, trumpeter Dave Douglas and pianist Uri Caine have made the year's most quietly arresting jazz LP. . .We've got high hopes for these duo sets in support of the release." And Nate Chinen in the New York Times writes: "Inspired by the music of the Sacred Harp tradition, it’s an album of duologue that manages to be at once intimate, soulful and irrepressibly buoyant."

Purchase tickets here.

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"Present Joys" at SubCulture on December 16

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Longtime friends and collaborators Dave Douglas and Uri Caine will bring their recent exploration of Sacred Harp songs to SubCulture in NYC on December 16. Don't miss the opportunity to see these two play in such an intimate setting. Tickets can be purchased here.

“4 stars “Alluring … a 2014 jazz highlight.”
— John Fordham, The Guardian/UK
Photo by Alberto Gallo

Photo by Alberto Gallo

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The Arts Desk reviews Sound Prints at the EFG London Jazz Festival

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Charles Lloyd / Joe Lovano and Dave Douglas, Barbican

A jazz festival finale of rare brilliance

by Thomas Rees

It’s not easy to write about a gig when you’re still shaking with adrenaline, still less so when that gig is the grand finale of the 2014 EFG London Jazz Festival, the climax to a giddy ten days of world-class contemporary music. But it’s a cross I’ll have to bear, because last night’s performance from legendary saxophonist Charles Lloyd and jazz giants tenorist Joe Lovano and trumpeter Dave Douglas demands it.

Read the rest at theartsdesk.com.