Track Listings (12) - Disc #1| All Artists: Dave Douglas Title: Thousand Evenings Members Wishing: 0 Total Copies: 0 Label: RCA Original Release Date: 10/10/2000 Release Date: 10/10/2000 Genres: International Music, Jazz, Special Interest, Pop Styles: Avant Garde & Free Jazz, Modern Postbebop, Bebop Number of Discs: 1 SwapaCD Credits: 1 UPC: 090266369829 |
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Trumpeter Dave Douglas's feet have always been planted all over the map. A mere eight months separate the release of his Soul on Soul and A Thousand Evenings, each played by very different, long-standing Douglas bands. Dou... more » |
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Amazon.com Trumpeter Dave Douglas's feet have always been planted all over the map. A mere eight months separate the release of his Soul on Soul and A Thousand Evenings, each played by very different, long-standing Douglas bands. Douglas's Charms of the Night Sky quartet helms Evenings and does a fine, dramatic job at creating drummerless drama extraordinaire. They weave together a convincingly broad spectrum of accordion (Guy Klucevsek), violin (Mark Feldman), bass (Greg Cohen), and the leader's trumpet--invoking tangos, impressionism, a touch of avant jazz, and a host of other disparate musical strains into a lovely chamberesque set that sounds spirited rather than staid, colorfully middle-range, and burnished rather than monochromatic. Douglas's horn is liquidly brilliant in an unhurried way, but it's still able to go frantic (as on the two-part "Branches"), as are Feldman's violin and Klucevsek's more artfully lumbering accordion. His nod to the late pianist Jaki Byard (the three-part "In So Many Worlds") likewise alternates between the lyrical and the urgently impassioned. As with Astor Piazzolla's bands and, later, the Tin Hat Trio, Douglas is looking to mine his drummerless band's multiple layers for a rhythmic push, and Evenings shows that the band is with the trumpeter all the way. --Andrew Bartlett Similar CDs
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CD ReviewsA Great Follow Up! Stephen | Virginia Beach, VA USA | 10/24/2000 (5 out of 5 stars) "This is a wonderful follow-up to Charms of the Night Sky. As stated above, this is a great display of group interaction. You can tell these guys have been playing together a while now. This release contains humor (check out Goldfinger) and passion and plenty of instrumental sparks. I was lucky enough to see this group a couple of days after the Cd came out. As good as this set is, it pales in comparison to that show. "On Our Way Home" was so exciting that the entire audience had to same "DAMN" during Feldman's solo and during Douglas' solo. If you get a chance to see them - Do!I admire Douglas' method of confronting his musical interests. I think most people involved in music, whether as players or listeners, genreally have a wide variety of stuff they like to hear. Douglas actually puts together separate bands for each style, releasing albums that are consistant instead of mixing the groups on the same releases. In the words of Mr. T, "I pity the fool" who has to put a greatest hits package someday." A Miles Prodigy with Accordian and Violin Gary Bastoky | San Jose, CA United States | 09/17/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "Imagine "In a Silent Way" re-interpreted by another excellent trumpet player. Instead of sax and electric piano though, Dave Douglas's band includes accordian and violin, a seemingly incongrous mix. Douglas and his band pull it off so well that I'm sure Miles himself would have given this recording his blessing. All artists are influenced by those who came before, but the truly creative are able to take those influences and make them their own, and so it is with Dave Douglas. This CD may remind you of Miles' work during the Silent Way period, but it is Dave Douglas and crew that we are hearing, and whatever influences he may have it, he has made it all his own." WOAHH!!!! SWEEEEET Charlie Dresser | chicago area | 04/11/2002 (5 out of 5 stars) "this group blows my mind! the creepy, mysterious sounds they can produce are just incredible! and then the powerful, passionate, emotional melodies are simply moving. the instrumentation on this album rules with trumpet, violin, accordian and bass. I LOVE THIS ALBUM. i can't stop listening to it. although more classically based, you can totally hear jazz influence everywhere. it's awesome, get it. or else..."
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