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 |
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| Week Ending: | Apr 3 | Mar 20 | Mar 13 | Mar 6 | Feb 27 | Feb 20 | Feb 13 | Feb 6 |
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| 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 |
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| 2. | Apr 24, 2006: | No Cover, No Minimum
Twelve Degrees Proof |
5. | Apr 01, 2005: | Memory Select
Off Major |
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| 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
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
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 | 8. | Palisades | |||
| 2. | Family of the Climber | 9. | A Nasty Spill | |||
| 3. | Gnarly Schnapps | 10. | Purple Mountains Majesty | |||
| 4. | Gumshoe | 11. | Off Major | |||
| 5. | Twelve Degrees Proof | 12. | Bury Me Standing | |||
| 6. | North Point Memorial | 13. | All Is Forgiven | |||
| 7. | Cannonball Run | . |