2013 Reno Jazz Festival - University of Nevada, Reno

The Mingus Big Band

Dave Douglas with The Collective

Thursday, April 25, 2013 / 7:30 p.m.
Nightingale Concert Hall

Two-time Grammy nominee Dave Douglas is a prolific trumpeter, composer and educator whose unique contributions to improvised music have garnered such distinguished recognition as a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Aaron Copland Award, numerous Jazz Artist and Jazz Album of the Year awards, and more than 20 Trumpet Player of the Year awards since 2000 from DownBeat and Jazz Times magazines and the Jazz Journalists Association. Douglas has developed his work for several unique ensembles with whom he is active including his electric sextet Keystone, Brass Ecstasy and Sound Prints Quintet, co-led with Joe Lovano. His new Quintet released their debut recording, Be Still, September 2012 with singer Aoife O’Donovan, the first time Douglas has featured a vocalist on a recording. Since 2005, Douglas has operated his own record label, Greenleaf Music, releasing his own recordings, as well as albums by other artists in the jazz idiom, and continues to prove himself as a forward-thinking leader in the realm of digital music distribution. He served as artistic director of the Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music at The Banff Centre in Canada from 2002-2012, and is co-founder and director of the Festival of New Trumpet Music, which celebrates its 10th anniversary in 2013.

Douglas appears with the University of Nevada, Reno's acclaimed faculty jazz ensemble, The Collective, with Larry Engstrom (trumpet), Peter Epstein (alto saxophone), David Ake (piano), Hans Halt (bass), and Andrew Heglund (drums). The Collective draws on a rich musical background and its members have performed alongside such jazz giants as Joe Lovano, Charlie Haden, Ravi Coltrane, Cedar Walton, Peter Erskine and many others.

Dave Douglas Quintet's debut recording, Be Still: ****
~ DownBeat Magazine, November 2012

For more about Dave Douglas, visit http://www.greenleafmusic.com/davedouglas.

The Dave Douglas with The Collective concert is included in the Jazz Fan, Full Festival and Thursday passes. Visit the ticket page for more information.