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University, and walker Art Center. His solo recording career began in
1993 with Parallel worlds on Soul Note Records. In 2005, he won a
Guggenheim Fellowship, and, after seven critically acclaimed albums
for Bluebird and RCA Records, launched his own label, Greenleaf
Music, on which, he has released albums with his long-standing
quintet, as well as the electronic sextet Keystone, the mixed chamber
ensemble Nomad, and his new quintet, Brass Ecstasy. 2009 brought
his first big band recording, “A Single Sky”, in collaboration with
composer and pianist Jim McNeely. His newest work for Keystone,
“Spark Of Being”, is a retelling of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein,
together with award-winning filmmaker Bill Morrison. He has an
important ongoing musical relationship with John Zorn’s Masada, is
the Co-Founder and Director of the Festival of New Trumpet Music,
and Director of the workshop in Jazz and Creative Music at Canada’s
Banff Centre.
websites: www.davedouglas.com and www.greenleafmusic.com
Interview: April 18th 2008 Croton-On-Hudson, New York, United States
Interview arranged by Emily Rosenblum, Tony Margherita Management
Photo: Paul Natkin
KAREN DRuCKER is a conference speaker, singer-
songwriter, and workshop facilitator from Mill
Valley, California. “Songs Of The Spirit I” (1999),
“Hold On To Love” (2000), “Songs Of The Spirit II”
(2001), “Beloved” (2002), “All About Love” (2004),
“Chants And Sing-A-Longs For All Kinds Of
Gatherings [Book & CD]” (2005), “Songs Of The Spirit III” (2005),
“The Heart Of Healing” (2006), “Shine” (2007), “Power Of women”
(2008), “Songs Of The Spirit IV” (2009) are all available from
KarenDrucker.com, and “Let Go Of The Shore: Stories And Songs
That Set The Spirit Free [Book & CD]” (2010) is available from
KarenDrucker.com and DeVorss & Company. Karen Drucker has been
the Music Director of three New Thought Churches in Northern
California, as well as the National and Regional Conferences for
United Centers for Spiritual Living and Religious Science International.
Karen was rewarded with an Honorary Doctor of Music, and Beloved