It's contest time again. Due to the overwhelming response to our Dave Douglas Mixtape contest this past summer, we've decided to hold another mix tape contest of sorts. And this time, we'll be pressing a Best of Greenleaf Music volume 1 on vinyl based in part on your submissions. No one knows our catalog better than the community we have here. So take a moment and read the rules / requirements ...
As part of Weill Music Institute, Carnegie hosts a workshop in small group composition and improvisation. This is an opening for twelve to fourteen player/composers to work in New York for a week, fully funded, and participate in two final performances. Click the link for application details - the deadline for applicants is September 15, 2009.It will be a pretty hands-on, intimate forum to crea...
This is part of the series Jazz in the Digital Age at NPR's A Blog Supreme.Niches Brew: Musicians Creating a Way ForwardMore and more folks in the music industry are singing the blues these days.A critic lamented the lack of paid outlets for his writing and sheepishly admitted taking a gig with a jazz festival. A club owner sobbed over attendance and how the music is just not what it used to be...
June 10th, 2009 | Author: Jim Tuerk |DD Mixtape The first ever Greenleaf contest. And it's a good one, too. All you have to do is submit your perfect Dave Douglas mixtape and you're immediately be entered to win some great prizes and have your mixtape featured on our site. We hope to hear from you. And we're excited to see the content our Greenleaf community (and beyond) comes up with. Detai...
May 19th, 2009 | Author: Jim Tuerk | Categories: Dave Douglas (News), Dave Douglas (Updates), Greenleaf Music NewsWe are getting some great feedback on Dave's new album. We thank everyone for the outpouring of support and kind words. But as much as we love hearing how much everyone is loving the record, be sure we'd love it more if you told someone you know who hasn't heard the record yet. ...
This is part of the series Jazz in the Digital Age at NPR's A Blog Supreme.Niches Brew: Musicians Creating a Way ForwardMore and more folks in the music industry are singing the blues these days.A critic lamented the lack of paid outlets for his writing and sheepishly admitted taking a gig with a jazz festival. A club owner sobbed over attendance and how the music is just not what it used to be...
Dave has a guest post on solo trumpet recordings at Destination : out. Here's a sample…Solo Tubes : A guest post by Dave Douglas June 30th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Dave Douglas, guest postsWe at D:O are incredibly honored to be able to present the following guest post from composer, trumpeter, blogger, label magnate, and all-around brass advocate Dave Douglas. If you like what you read and hear he
May 29th, 2009 | Author: Jim Tuerk |Categories: Listening, MusicYou ever get into a mood where all you can listen to is one artist? I've been sitting here for the last few days working away on getting the word out on this killer Brass Ecstasy record all while listening to Mingus records on repeat. Mingus (x5), Mingus in Wonderland, Black Saint…, Pithecanthropus Erectus, Oh Yeah, Shoes of the F.
Dave has a guest post on solo trumpet recordings at Destination : out. Here's a sample…Solo Tubes : A guest post by Dave Douglas June 30th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Dave Douglas, guest postsWe at D:O are incredibly honored to be able to present the following guest post from composer, trumpeter, blogger, label magnate, and all-around brass advocate Dave Douglas. If you like what you read and hear he
May 19th, 2009 | Author: Jim Tuerk | Categories: Dave Douglas (News), Dave Douglas (Updates), Greenleaf Music NewsWe are getting some great feedback on Dave's new album. We thank everyone for the outpouring of support and kind words. But as much as we love hearing how much everyone is loving the record, be sure we'd love it more if you told someone you know who hasn't heard the record yet. ...
May 29th, 2009 | Author: Jim Tuerk |Categories: Listening, MusicYou ever get into a mood where all you can listen to is one artist? I've been sitting here for the last few days working away on getting the word out on this killer Brass Ecstasy record all while listening to Mingus records on repeat. Mingus (x5), Mingus in Wonderland, Black Saint…, Pithecanthropus Erectus, Oh Yeah, Shoes of the F.
June 10th, 2009 | Author: Jim Tuerk |DD Mixtape The first ever Greenleaf contest. And it's a good one, too. All you have to do is submit your perfect Dave Douglas mixtape and you're immediately be entered to win some great prizes and have your mixtape featured on our site. We hope to hear from you. And we're excited to see the content our Greenleaf community (and beyond) comes up with. Detai...
May 15th, 2009 | Author: Jim Tuerk | Categories: Dave Douglas (News), Dave Douglas (Updates), Greenleaf Music News, Music…and we're up!Click over the to Spirit Moves page at our webstore to see the packages we've put out there for you. The album is streaming in it's entirety at that page as well. Plus there's a new video from the DVD that is included in the Deluxe packaging. And there is sheet .