#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 ...

[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.

[culturedarm]

Following the delicate harmonies and swinging melodies of Mesmerism, the drummer Tyshawn Sorey returns to the repertoire alongside Aaron Diehl, Russell Hall, and Greg Osby on a freewheeling three-and-a-half hour live performance from The Jazz Gallery in New York City. As Touch celebrates forty years of fierce resistance to the status and trappings of 'record label', the multi-instrumentalist Patrick Shiroishi takes a novel approach to field recording, emanating from within the dotted landscape of Evergreen Cemetery in Los Angeles for a stirring treatise on stillness and presence. The sound sculptor Sawako returns with her first solo album since 2014, Yves Tumor sees the spectre of God in life's same old circle, and Gloria de Oliveira embarks on a celestial Brazilian island for the video to 'Eyes Within', as tracks by Klein, Tomu DJ, Rat Heart, Tom Skinner, and Yo La Tengo also feature in the latest roundup of best new music. https://culturedarm.com/tracks-of-the-week-05-11-22/

[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]

TRIOS BACK TO BACK AT MEZZROW’S, 13 SEPTEMBER 2024

GLENN ZALESKI with Dezron Douglas and Adam Aruda, 9 pm set

CAELAN CARDELLO with Graham Kozar and Mike Piolet, 10:30 pm set

I tried to catch GLENN ZALESKI’s earlier set in real time, but it wasn’t coming up. I watched Miki Yamanaka with tenor Anthony Orji, Pablo Menares, and, as usual, Jimmy Macbride and there will be a forthcoming souvenir. This way I have the illusion of just sticking around at MEZZROW’s.

GLENN ZALESKI has a deserved two night run, but Dezron Douglas was only along Friday night. So I wanted to see him as he is now only occasionally playing here. He was into all sorts of supportive mischief, including just casually hitting overtones as he walked his bass lines but always finding ways to enhance the harmonies. And Zaleski’s harmonic approach is rich. He made me think of Brad Mehldau just a bit and not just for how he leaned into his head sideways to the keyboard. He was subtle and patient while still digging in big. He celebrated Kenny Kirkland (Yamanaka did too earlier in the week interestingly) and James Williams, tipping his hat to those lesser known heroes. The opener was a standard I should have recognized but I’m In The Mood for Love was definitely there. They caressed them as they deserved. The originals were a very sweet one for the pianist’s son and an earlier tune that had some finger twisting intricacy and drive. I think the rhythm section the last time I saw Zaleski was Bill Charlap’s team of Peter Washington and Kenny Washington. He deserves to play with them and Douglas and Adam Aruda.

CAELAN CARDELLO came to my attention through a duo date with Rufus Reid which led to finding a quartet date on YouTube from a New Jersey public library’s music series. He also accompanied singer April Varner on an in studio performance for WGTE’s Jazz Spectrum. I was not prepared for but pleasantly surprised by just how hard he cooked in this trio setting. He opened with a big modal rumble that turned riffy in a Horace Silver/Cedar Walton way. He honored Billy Taylor with his quieter blues Easy Walker, Phineas Newborn Jr honoring Count Basie (Mike Piolet and then Cardello had shots at being the whole big band, and his mentor Harold Mabern with another modal rumble. Autumn in New York was gentle amid all the role.

Cardello has some sideman gigs coming up, so I’ll keep watching him. But with Zaleski too, these trio sets will start getting priority.

[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

[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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[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

[culturedarm]

This week Bashi Rose, Show Azar, and Jamal Moore unite for their debut album as Konjur Collective inspired by radical Black politics and the throbbing pulse of their home city of Baltimore, the duo of Noa Kurzweil and Levi Lanser issue missives with the crackle of old modems and leased telephone lines on the first digital-only offering from Stroom, Dezron Douglas harnesses rocket ships and straps in for a sweet ride on Atalaya, while Loraine James follows rhapsodic takes on the legacy of Julius Eastman with more muted meditations on musicianship and identity as she vaporizes the piece 'Crazy Nigger' with its sweeping cascades and lapping shores. Tracks by Vicky Chow, Lori Goldston, Moin, Theon Cross, Sana Nagano, Antonina Nowacka, and Sofie Birch also feature in the latest roundup of new music.

https://culturedarm.com/tracks-of-the-week-08-10-22/

[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)

Écoutez en différé / Listen : https://archive.org/details/audiomatique-11-01-23 https://www.tumblr.com/audiomatiquecfou Contact : audiomatiquecfou@gmail.com Facebook : www.facebook.com/audiomatiquecfou

[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.