#Dezron Douglas

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Dezron Douglas - ATALAYA

I first heard Dezron Douglas on Force Majeure, his terrific album of duets with harpist Brandee Younger from a few years back. But it turns out he has a high-profile gig with some guy named Trey Anastasio. Heard of him? Anyway — ATALAYA! At times, this solo effort for International Anthem could pass for some mid-1960s Blue Note session or a Classic Quartet-era Coltrane LP. But the playing is so crisp and purposeful that it never once feels like an exercise in nostalgia. It just feels timeless. Douglas' bass playing (on both acoustic and electric) is extremely strong and sturdy as he leads a crackling group of musicians (George Burton on keys, Joe Dyson on drums, Emilio Modeste on sax) through a selection of brisk, up-tempo numbers and romantic ballads. There are a few surprises, too, like Melvis Santa's show-stopping vocal on "Weeping Birch" and Douglas' watery solo electric excursion on "Octopus." I'd take a whole album of this kind of thing ...

[thebowerypresents]

Trey Anastasio Makes Sweet Music with His Other Band at Brooklyn Steel on Wednesday Night

Trey Anastasio and Classic TAB – Brooklyn Steel – May 22, 2024

Trey Anastasio, the lead guitarist from Phish, has been playing shows under his own name for almost exactly 25 years. His main side-project started as a trio and then added horns in various configurations. The lineup and the fact that the repertoire largely avoided overlaps meant that Anastasio’s solo work could largely avoid comparisons with the main band. Over the years, the distinctions in the song lists have blurred significantly and with the most recent “Classic TAB” lineup consisting of an identical guitar-bass-keys-drums, it’s more inviting than ever to make those one-to-one comparisons. But playing the second of three packed nights at Brooklyn Steel, Anastasio and his band showed they are their own thing with a distinct sound and their own chemistry.

The band, featuring Dezron Douglas on bass, Ray Paczkowski on keys and Russ Lawton on drums, brings a jazz mindset to the jamband world. Douglas particularly made his presence felt, driving jams in “The Way I Feel” and “Cayman Review” early and creating space for the guitar and keys to explore. Phish songs like “Prince Caspian” and “Ocelot,” in the second set, exposed the quartet to “the book was better” notions, but TAB made each their own. The array of keyboards employed by Paczkowski to flavor “Ocelot” was revelatory and Lawton infused “Prince Caspian” with a fun shuffle that the rest of the band was happy to swing along to. 

While there were plenty of awe-inspiring guitar solos, Anastasio soaring, probing and grooving to the audience’s delight, the band was at their best when they democratized the jamming, the guitarist elevating his bandmates to equals on extended explorations out of “The Endless Dream,” “Hey Stranger,” “Oblivion” and “Life Saving Gun.” In these jams, each member layered his own improvised riffs to match the others, creating a distinctive “Trey Anastasio Band” sound that was sonically textured almost like pieces of electronica while staying eminently danceable. Like with his main band, Anastasio is an unprecedented multiple decades into the TAB project and still flowing with new ideas with a talented quartet poised to make them happen. —A. Stein | @Neddyo

Photos courtesy of Adela Loconte | www.adelaloconte.com

[overgrounders]

Trivia! Regarding Terra's dossier: We wanted the theme songs in the official character dossiers to be whole and complete, so readers could listen to each song in a row uninterrupted--but in many ways, I consider this performance of Rama Rama by Brandee Younger and Dezron Douglas to be Terra's true theme song. While If It's Magic is the best runner-up (featuring legendary jazz harpist Dorothy Ashby), this cover of Rama Rama is the song I listened to most frequently while figuring out Terra's background and plot. (If you like this sound, you can find Brandee Younger and Dezron Douglas on Bandcamp.) --A.

[noloveforned]

it's a brand new year and no love for ned still airs on wlur every friday night from 8pm-midnight. swing by tonight for the latest show featuring our new winter theme (which we kicked off last week) "songs about work sucking".

no love for ned on wlur – january 6th, 2023 from 8-10pm

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[theloniousbach]

ALMOST LIVESTREAM: RENEE ROSNES with Steven Nelson, Peter Washington, and Lewis Nash, SMOKE JAZZ CLUB, 22 NOVEMBER 2024, 9 pm set

I have written before that when this show was also happening, I was on the Smalls Live stream for Billy Drummond with David Virelles and the always remarkable Dezron Douglas. I am no longer relying on YouTube for recent Smalls/Mezzrow’s shows as the ads became too annoying. So I try to catch things in real time or wait for them to be archived. I could finesse things with Smoke, so I did.

RENEE ROSNES is not to be missed. As fine a pianist as she is, she is quite the bandleader—of Artemis, but also as music director of a Joe Henderson tribute here at Smoke. Her albums too are thematically strong and full of top drawer players. She had Steven Nelson and Peter Washington from her Written In The Rocks, a favorite for a paleontology suite, of which Galapagos, my unbiased nomination for the best tune, was the best tune of this set. It revolves around an insistent left hand/bass figure that drives the tune and the solos from all four. Nelson is an interesting effective soloist, but it took me to listen to the notes as if they were a horn to hear that as the vibraphone has limitations of range and decay (because the heavy vibrato leads to muddiness). Milt Jackson and Bobby Hutcherson and, to be fair, Nelson figured out how to do it, but I would prefer a horn to get out of the piano range. Still Rosnes danced around him for, by turns, accompaniment and parallel complementary lines.

The opener was John Lewis’ Rouge from Birth of the Cool, not the Modern Jazz Quartet with Milt Jackson. But she also called Hutcherson’s Little B’s Poem which showed them in nicely parallel orbits. She called the Walt Weiskopf tune Intuition, but, on the basis of her recordings, I think it was NonFiction which featured on of this nice piano/vibes interactions. Peter Washington was a stalwart all night as he generally is. He found lots of places to drive things with a steady walk and to reinforce Rosnes’ left hand figures as in Galapagos. But it was for Duke Pearson’s You Know I Care where he found lots of space and turned it into a particularly rich solo. Lewis Nash was no slouch and contributed to Galapagos among others.

But it was Rosnes’ gig and she plays with drive and taste, listening hard to her band. She synced up with all of them at various points organizing them into enhancing what she was up to as a soloist not just a bandleader. She’s a better pianist for the way she leads the band and she leads the band through her piano playing. It’s a nifty subtle thing to watch.

[trukqsofficial]

You Make Me Feel Brand New § Dezron Douglas

[jaleelshaw]

I’ll be performing at The Jazz Gallery in New York City on July 30th & 31st w/ my quartet featuring Lawrence Fields on piano, Dezron Douglas on bass, and Joe Dyson on drums. Sets at 7:30pm & 9:30pm. Tickets are available here:

https://jazzgallery.org/calendar/jaleel-shaw-july30-2024

📷 by Bill Douthart

[still-single]

HEATHEN DISCO SHOW #322 (1/15/2023)

HOUR 1 Wormdoom – Blessed Assurance In Camera – Fatal Day Raajmahal – excerpt from Anthemoessa Space Afrika – Strength Roy Montgomery – On the Eve of Leaving Dunedin for Christchurch Funkadelic – Wars of Armageddon Cheater Slicks – Current Reflections Grauzone – Alone in the Jungle Stonewall – Outer Spaced Mary Halvorson – Hoodwink MARRIED FM – There Ain’t Nothing

HOUR 2 The Tubs – Illusion Pt. II The Smashing Times – Mother Nature’s Son Weird Nightmare – Searching for You Buckingham Nicks – Long Distance Winner Dusty Springfield – Let Me Get in Your Way Iggy Pop – The Endless Sea Almond Joy – Candy The Grand Jury – Music Is Fun Yukihiro Takahashi – Glass Tristan Disco – Social Dance #4 400 Blows – Dubbing Pressure Model Home – Fake Feet Puppet Wipes – Athletic Table and What? Bas Jan – Profile Picture (RAGGS Mix) Dezron Douglas – Jones Beach Shadow – Ah Come

HOUR 3 Sun City Girls – Space Prophet Dogon Sic Alps – Love Is Strange Dippers – Drift Space The Mad Scene – Suzy Alan Rankine – The World Begins to Look Her Age Prince Charles and the City Band – Cash (Cash Money) Maku Sica – Sensed Dana Buoy – African Violet The Seeds – Fallin’ Fela Ransome Kuti & the Africa 70 with Ginger Baker – Ye-Ye De Smell Gunslingers – Be-Bop-a-Lula-Louie-Loua

[doomandgloomfromthetomb]

Makaya McCraven - KEXP Studio, Seattle, Washington, October 25, 2022

Like that Dezron Douglas LP, Makaya McCraven's In These Times came out this year on the International Anthem label — a label that has become a trademark of quality over the past few years. I've liked McCraven a lot in the past, but In These Times feels like a genuine masterpiece, weaving together elements of lush CTI-era jazz, beat scientist wizardry and heady post-rock and emerging with something extraordinary.

The Denver gig I saw a few months back (pictured above) was by necessity a more stripped down affair, but no less transfixing, thanks in no small part to McCraven's wildly talented band — D'Sean Jones on sax/flute/synth, Jeff Parker on guitar and Junius Paul on bass. That's the same band you'll see and hear on this great KEXP in-studio performance. Very cool to see the quartet putting all of the pieces together, and McCraven is a wonderful player; muscular and virtuosic without sacrificing sensitivity. If it were up to me, we'd be getting a live album from this group, sooner rather than later.

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[audiomatiquecfou]

Audiomatique 11-01-23 feat. : m2 - The Future Sound Of London - Portico Quartet - Dezron Douglas - The Chemical Brothers - Loopez - No Te Va Gustar - Eat Static

L’émission de radio Audiomatique du 11 janvier 2023 Transmission 428 présentée de 17 h à 18 h sur les ondes de CFOU 89,1 FM animée par Les Sonoristes

Radio show Audiomatique January 11, 2023 Transmission 428 aired from 5 PM to 6 PM on CFOU 89,1 FM hosted by Les Sonoristes

1) m2 : « Our New Found Unity » (Parsec)

2) The Future Sound Of London : « Magnify Within The Thoughts » (Music For 3 Books)

3) Portico Quartet : « View From A Satellite » (Untitled (Aitaoa #2))

4) Dezron Douglas : « Foligno » (Atalaya)

5) The Chemical Brothers : « The Sunshine Underground » (Surrender)

6) Loopez : « Too Long » (..Too..)

7) No Te Va Gustar : « Chau » (Por Lo Menos Hoy)

8) Eat Static : « Spawn » (Science Of The Gods)

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[twistedsoulmusic]

As bassist/bandleader Dezron Douglas says in his liner notes for ATALAYA: “Welcome to the Black Lion rocket ship.” Dezron’s crew summons the dynamism of Coltrane’s classic quartet, Dave Holland’s Quintet on Prime Directive, Charles Mingus on Nostalgia In Times Square… swinging virtuosically and firing on all four cylinders. But there’s nothing remotely revisionist here – Dezron and his quartet embody poetry, presence, artistic and emotional clarity in every note they play.

[ceevee5]

Dezron Douglas (bass), Emilio Modeste (sax), George Burton (piano), Joe Dyson Jr. on drums

[burlveneer-music]

Dezron Douglas - ATALAYA - double bassist’s new quartet set, straight-ahead to spiritual (International Anthem)

ATALAYA is new work by bassist Dezron Douglas, and it is alive. That is, ‘alive’ in all the ways that jazz is at its best – as a pure and personal expression of Black Music channeled through time-honored traditions by a group of musicians who practice sonic coherence through musical unity. As Dezron puts it in the opening statement of his liner notes for the album: “Mysticism, Magic, Faith, Love, Power, Discernment! These are words that embody the creative process of Music.” With Emilio Modeste on saxes, George Burton on keys, and Joe Dyson Jr. on drums, Dezron’s crew summons the dynamism of Coltrane’s classic Quartet, or Dave Holland’s Quintet on Prime Directive, or Charles Mingus on Nostalgia In Times Square… swinging virtuosically and firing on all 4 cylinders. But there’s nothing remotely revisionist here – Dezron and his quartet embody poetry, presence, artistic and emotional clarity in every note they play. Free and dissonant, sweet and consonant, sweeping and pure… This is the band you hope is playing every time you walk into a club.  Dezron Douglas – basses George Burton – piano and rhodes Joe Dyson Jr. – drums Emilio Modeste – saxophones Melvis Santa – vocals and percussion on “Wheeping Birch” Artwork by Adama Coulibaly.