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| Multi-media Premiere of Dave Douglas' Keystone On Saturday, February 18, 2006, trumpeter/composer Dave Douglas will present the New York City multi-media premiere of the Grammy-nominated project Keystone, original music set to films of early 20th century silent film legend, Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, one of America's earliest and most ingenious movie stars. The compositions on the Keystone CD/DVD were originally commissioned by The Paramount Center for the Performing Arts in Peekskill, NY (with a National Endowment for the Arts Commissioning Grant). Dave Douglas will be appearing at Zankel Hall with Marcus Strickland (tenor saxophone), Adam Benjamin (Fender Rhodes), Brad Jones (bass), Gene Lake (drums) and DJ Olive (turntables)--the band collectively known as Keystone. Press enquiries should be directed to Jason Byrne at Red Cat Publicity. The New York City premiere of Keystone is part of In Your Ear Too (a weekend festival curated by John Adams), and the international multi-media tour in support and celebration of the CD/DVD release on Greenleaf Music; the follow up recording to the much praised Mountain Passages, and Douglas' encomium to the unjustly maligned Arbuckle. Keystone is comprised of a CD featuring eleven new compelling and modernistic Douglas compositions and a DVD containing two of Arbuckle's most revered films, Fatty and Mable Adrift and Just Another Murder (circa 1916, Keystone/Triangle Studios), accompanied by Douglas' “score” (these films and others can be viewed in streaming video at www.Greenleafmusic.com). Dave Douglas, a recent recipient of a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Grammy Award nominee, is joined on Keystone by a band of five of the most groundbreaking and gifted musicians in the world today: Jamie Saft on Wurlitzer, Gene Lake on drums, Marcus Strickland on saxophones, Brad Jones on bass and DJ Olive on turntables. Keystone, co-produced by Douglas and David Torn, is the fourth release, and the first Grammy nominated recording, from Greenleaf Music, Douglas' new label formed in partnership with music industry veteran Mike Friedman. write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Jazz News :: home page |