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Dave Douglas and Nomad in CHicago Feb 28th |
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Written by Administrator
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Monday, 21 February 2005 |
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On February 28th Dave Douglas and Nmad will appear at the Chicago Cultural Center. Here's what Dave has to say about this new band: "This is a really
new and wonderful group of players, and I'm having a blast writing
for the unique combination of instruments and outlooks. I think
people who enjoyed Charms of the Night Sky and Tiny Bell Trio will
find something they love here, and will be really turned on to hear
these new players. I'm especially excited by the way this band can
play so lyrically, but turn on the drive at a moment's notice. I'm
looking forward to these gigs."
Partially inspired by Douglas' love of world folk music, Nomad also
carries the spirit of jazz that informs all of Dave's music. The
recording is a profound and playful mix that veers between the
solemnity of solitary contemplation and the drunken debauchery of
ecstatic celebration.
For the past half decade Dave Douglas has repeatedly been named
trumpeter, composer, and jazz artist of the year by such organizations
as the New York Jazz Awards, Down Beat, Jazz Times, Jazziz, and the
Italian Jazz Critics' Society.
Born March 24,
1963, in Montclair, New Jersey, Douglas grew up in the New York
Metropolitan area. He started playing piano at age five and trombone at
seven before discovering the trumpet two years later. He learned jazz
and classical harmony in high school and began playing improvised music
as an exchange student in Barcelona, Spain in 1978. From 1981 to 1983,
Douglas studied in Boston at the Berklee School of Music and the New
England Conservatory. He cites Igor Stravinsky, John Coltrane, and
Stevie Wonder as primary influences on his music. Moving to New York
City in 1984, he attended New York University, studying trumpet with
Carmine Caruso, and performed around the city with jazz, funk and
experimental music groups. From 1987 to 1990 he toured internationally
with artists such as Horace Silver, Vincent Herring, Tim Berne, Don
Byron, Dr. Nerve, and the Bread and Puppet Theater. He began to record
in earnest in the 1990s and his discography includes recordings on the
Hat Art, Soul Note, New World, Arabesque, Songlines and Winter &
Winter labels.
Douglas
has received fellowships for his work from the National Endowment for
the Arts, Meet the Composer, the Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust and
Arts International, which helped finance a trip to India in 1998. Dave
was recently commissioned by the Vooruit Culture Center in Ghent,
Belgium to write music for the contemporary chamber music ensemble
Ictus. The resulting 'Flemish Primitives' were performed in Ghent in
March 2002. The New York based Extension Ensemble commissioned a brass
quintet entitled 'Private Music' which premiered in 2001 and was
recorded by the ensemble for an upcoming release. The Library of
Congress' McKim Fund supported the composition of 'Irrational
Exuberance' in 1999, and the piece was performed at the Library's
Coolidge Auditorium by Mark Feldman and Sylvie Courvoisier in October
of that year. In November 1998, Dave took part in Southwest German
Radio's "New Jazz Meeting," collaborating on pieces with Lebanese oud
player Rabih Abou-Khalil and French clarinetist Louis Sclavis. Douglas
has also toured as a guest with the Clusone Trio (Michael Moore, Ernst
Reijseger, and Han Bennink), one of Holland's most exciting improvising
ensembles.
Douglas' own ensembles have toured
widely since 1994, performing at major jazz and new music festivals in
the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Germany, Austria, France, Holland,
Belgium, Spain, Portugal, Italy, Poland, Slovenia, Sweden, Norway,
Switzerland, Finland, Estonia, Australia and New Zealand.
In
addition to his work as a trumpeter, composer and bandleader leading a
wave of innovative, ground breaking and socially and politically aware
artists, Douglas is also a sought after educator. He has given master
classes and workshops at universities and schools worldwide, including
Harvard College, University of North Texas, Eastman College, and New
York University. Douglas recently accepted the position as Artistic
Director at the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative
Music, where he will direct the faculty and programming from May 23 -
June 11, 2005.
Dave Douglas & Nomad tour dates:
- Tuesday, February 22, 2005 - Friday, February 25, 2005 Loyola University - New Orleans, LA
- Thursday, February 24, 2005 - Friday, February 25, 2005 Snug Harbor - New Orleans, LA
- Saturday, February 26, 2005 Kerrytown Concert House - Ann Arbor, MI
- Monday, February 28, 2005 Chicago Cultural Center - Chicago, IL
- Tuesday, March 1, 2005 The Triple Door - Seattle, WA
- Wednesday, March 2, 2005 - Saturday, March 5, 2005 The Jazz Bakery - Los Angeles, CA
- Sunday, March 6, 2005 Athenaeum School of the Arts San Diego Studio - San Diego, CA
- Wednesday, March 9, 2005 Jazz at Lincoln Center - New York, NY
- Saturday, March 12, 2005 Centro Cultural de Belém - Lisbon, Portugal
- Monday, March 14, 2005 - Madrid, Spain
- Tuesday, March 15, 2005 - Terrassa, Spain
- Wednesday, March 16, 2005 - Montpellier, France
- Thursday, March 17, 2005 - Vaux-en-Velin, France
- Friday, March 18, 2005 - Utrecht, Holland
- Saturday, March 19, 2005 - Torino, Italy
- Sunday, March 20, 2005 - Porto d'Ascoli, Italy
- Tuesday, March 22, 2005 - Mestre, Italy
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