4 EVENINGS OF NEW MUSIC WITH 4 DIFFERENT BANDS;
FEATURING GREENLEAF PORTABLE SERIES ARTISTS
From December 8-11 at Jazz Standard in New York City, prolific jazz trumpeter and label owner Dave Douglas will present four evenings of new music with four different bands, including artists from his Greenleaf Portable Series (GPS). On December 8, Douglas will feature a new group, Key Motion Quintet, with Donny McCaslin, Adam Benjamin, Tim Lefebvre, and Mark Guiliana, performing music from Douglas'Keystone and McCaslin's Perpetual Motion. On the following nights, Douglas will debut three groups featured on the first three volumes of his GPS 2011digital EPs, offered in the new limited edition box set, Three Views: So Percussion (December 9), Orange Afternoons with Ravi Coltrane, Vijay Iyer, Linda Oh and EJ Strickland (December 10), and Brass Ecstasy with Luis Bonilla, Vincent Chancey, Marcus Rojas and Rudy Royston (December 11).
Ever since Douglas launched his Greenleaf Music imprint in 2004, the label has been ahead of the curve in embracing new media and technology. Greenleaf was one of the first jazz labels to have a blog and a web store that catered to listeners wanting various high-quality digital formats. In doing so, Douglas recognized the importance and value of not only delivering music, but also offering artistic insight into the process of being a creative musician and consumer preference for differing audio fidelities.
Dave Douglas - Three ViewsDouglas acknowledges the importance of technology to him as an artist, “It feels like the relationship of the artist to the listener is changing, especially in the recorded domain. Listeners have more choice in how they interact with music, and an artist can provide more choices and more immediacy. I feel like new formats are an extraordinary opportunity for music and sound artists. In the case of Three Views, the GPS system gave me the spark to ignite these three sets of new music.”
Though Greenleaf recognizes the demand for digital and alternative content delivery methods, the label and its owner still also love the real deal. The Three Views limited edition box set offers beautiful artwork and packaging.
Three Views represents not only the three different vantage points presented here of Douglas as a composer, but also the three ways listeners can now listen to Greenleaf products – on a computer, on a mobile device or on their stereo.
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