Dave Douglas High Risk Feat. Mark Guiliana, Jonathan Maron & Shigeto at Regattabar

High Risk is all at once a new musical ensemble - a highly collaborative quartet convened by veteran trumpeter, composer and bandleader Dave Douglas. While it might be tempting to superficially slot the four musicians who comprise High Risk into one or the other side of the jazz/electronic divide, none is exactly a neophyte to this sort of cross-pollination.
Bassist Jonathan Maron, who contributes both electric bass guitar and synth (keyboard) bass to this recording, was, as a founding member of Groove Collective, a prominent figure in the fusion-oriented acid jazz movement of the 1990s, when he and Douglas first crossed paths. Mark Guiliana (with whom Douglas first collaborated on a jointly-led project with saxophonist Donny McCaslin) may be one of the hottest, most in-demand young drummers in the jazz scene. His firepower behind the kit is on full, explosive display here - but he's also an inveterate experimentalist who regularly incorporates electronic elements into his work with his bands Beat Music, Heernt and, perhaps most notably, Mehliana, his genre-defying duo project with Brad Mehldau. And though Michigan-based Zachary Saginaw, who records under his middle name, Shigeto, is a producer and beatmaker who has released three full-lengths for noted American electronica hub Ghostly International (home to Matthew Dear, Gold Panda, Tycho, HTRK, etc.), and contributes here in the amorphous, hard-to-define role of "electronics," he's also a lifelong lover and student of jazz, which undeniably informs the nuance, fluidity and melodicism of his productions. ...

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High Risk is all at once a new musical ensemble - a highly collaborative quartet convened by veteran trumpeter, composer and bandleader Dave Douglas. While it might be tempting to superficially slot the four musicians who comprise High Risk into one or the other side of the jazz/electronic divide, none is exactly a neophyte to this sort of cross-pollination.
Bassist Jonathan Maron, who contributes both electric bass guitar and synth (keyboard) bass to this recording, was, as a founding member of Groove Collective, a prominent figure in the fusion-oriented acid jazz movement of the 1990s, when he and Douglas first crossed paths. Mark Guiliana (with whom Douglas first collaborated on a jointly-led project with saxophonist Donny McCaslin) may be one of the hottest, most in-demand young drummers in the jazz scene. His firepower behind the kit is on full, explosive display here - but he's also an inveterate experimentalist who regularly incorporates electronic elements into his work with his bands Beat Music, Heernt and, perhaps most notably, Mehliana, his genre-defying duo project with Brad Mehldau. And though Michigan-based Zachary Saginaw, who records under his middle name, Shigeto, is a producer and beatmaker who has released three full-lengths for noted American electronica hub Ghostly International (home to Matthew Dear, Gold Panda, Tycho, HTRK, etc.), and contributes here in the amorphous, hard-to-define role of "electronics," he's also a lifelong lover and student of jazz, which undeniably informs the nuance, fluidity and melodicism of his productions.

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