Douglas, Dave / Mountain Passages
Album: Mountain Passages   Collection:Jazz
Artist:Douglas, Dave   Added:Jan 2005
Label:Greenleaf Music  

A-File Activity
Add Date: 2005-01-30 Pull Date: 2005-04-03 Charts: Jazz
Week Ending: Apr 3 Mar 20 Mar 13 Mar 6 Feb 27 Feb 20 Feb 13 Feb 6
Airplays: 2 1 2 2 1 1 2 2

Recent Airplay
1. May 02, 2006: Umami Jazz Program
Summit Music
4. Apr 12, 2005: Umami Jazz Program
Cannonball Run
2. Apr 24, 2006: No Cover, No Minimum
Twelve Degrees Proof
5. Apr 01, 2005: Memory Select
Off Major
3. Mar 17, 2006: Memory Select
Twelve Degrees Proof
6. Mar 29, 2005: umami jazz program
Summit Music

Album Review
Ben
Reviewed 2005-02-01
Dave Douglas – Mountain Passages

Excellent group work from Douglas’s brand new label. This features parts of the group on the Bow River Falls album that came out last year, but this is focused on the composition rather than the improvisation. There’s a range of nice textures here, all with old-school Americana feel: lush, tender ballads, bounding marches and late night blues swing. Definitely some excellent stuff here, hopefully this signals an end to the disastrous dabbling with electronics he started a few albums back.

**1. Funereal march builds nicely
2. Slow moving bluesy harmonies
*3. Loud, crazy march
**4. Bluesy soloing over relaxed swing
*5. Nice tuba bounce builds to solid swing
6. Tender ballad
*7. Driving composition
8. Slow but intense
*9. Great modern swing
10. Majestic slow statement
*11. Playful bounce
12. Mellow, dark mood
*13. Cinematic finale

Ben B 1/27/04

Track Listing
1. Summit Music   7. Cannonball Run
2. Family of the Climber   8. Palisades
3. Gnarly Schnapps   9. A Nasty Spill
4. Gumshoe   10. Purple Mountains Majesty
5. Twelve Degrees Proof   11. Off Major
6. North Point Memorial   12. Bury Me Standing
  13. All Is Forgiven