Dave Douglas Quintet at Jazz Festival Imaxina Sons (Vigo, Spain)

“Jazz is alive, it is vibrant and is vital”. These are the words of Dave Douglas (New Jersey, US, 1963), one of the most productive and outstanding musicians of current jazz and a great believer in its modernity. Douglas, a world renowned trumpeter and composer, thinks that the power of music is well above that of words, and that although it is true that his is a kind of personal work (just like that of any other musician), it is still connected with the concerns and fears which make the world go round.

Dave Douglas, who was nominated twice for the Grammy Awards, will close this Sixth Imaxina Sons Festival in the company of his quintet, one of the most well-thought-out projects of his career, one with which he ventures into a wide range of contemporary jazz trends....

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“Jazz is alive, it is vibrant and is vital”. These are the words of Dave Douglas (New Jersey, US, 1963), one of the most productive and outstanding musicians of current jazz and a great believer in its modernity. Douglas, a world renowned trumpeter and composer, thinks that the power of music is well above that of words, and that although it is true that his is a kind of personal work (just like that of any other musician), it is still connected with the concerns and fears which make the world go round.

Dave Douglas, who was nominated twice for the Grammy Awards, will close this Sixth Imaxina Sons Festival in the company of his quintet, one of the most well-thought-out projects of his career, one with which he ventures into a wide range of contemporary jazz trends.

Miles Davis and Wayne Shorter are the inspiration for the project of a trumpeter who is not at all against the style of his predecessors, but quite on the contrary, one who feels compelled to acknowledge their mastery.

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