Moonshine (Dave Douglas album)

Moonshine is the 28th album by trumpeter Dave Douglas. It was released on the Greenleaf label in 2007 and features a live performance recorded in a studio in front of an audience by Douglas, Adam Benjamin, DJ Olive, Gene Lake, Marcus Strickland, and Brad Jones.^[1]

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[2]
All About Jazz	^[3]

The Allmusic review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars, stating: "This is not 'jazz' in the conventional (read: conservative) sense, but without the jazz heritage, this creative tour de force of 21st century jazz-funk wouldn't -- and probably couldn't -- exist. Moonshine is a(nother) monster outing by Douglas".^[2] On All About Jazz John Kelman said "What makes Moonshine ultimately such a success, however, is Douglas' ability to cloak avant-garde concerns in accessible surroundings. As deep and challenging as anything he's ever recorded, Moonshine remains an album that's as much food for the heart and soul as it is for the mind, and continues Douglas' remarkably unbroken string of superb and uncompromising releases".^[3] In JazzTimes, Bill Milkowski wrote "Inspired by the unfinished 1917 Buster Keaton/Fatty Arbuckle comedy film Moon-shine, this collection of cutting edge, groove-oriented tunes by Douglas’s electrified, genre-bending Keystone band picks up where 2005’s Keystone left off".^[4]

Track listing

All compositions by Dave Douglas

"Dog Star" - 5:01
"Moonshine" - 7:30
"Married Life" - 9:43
"Silent Stars" - 8:39
"Scopes" - 2:39
"Flood Plane" - 7:42
"Kitten" - 4:23
"Tough" - 10:54

Personnel

Dave Douglas: trumpet
Adam Benjamin: Fender Rhodes piano
DJ Olive: turntables
Marcus Strickland: saxophone
Brad Jones: bass
Gene Lake: drums

References

↑ Roussel, P., Discography of Dave Douglas, accessed July 21, 2015
1 2 Jurek, T. Allmusic review, accessed September 26, 2011.
1 2 Kelman, J., All About Jazz Review, December 7, 2007
↑ Milkowski, B., JazzTimes Review, June 2008

Dave Douglas

Studio albums	Parallel Worlds (1993) The Tiny Bell Trio (1994) In Our Lifetime (1995) Constellations (1995) Five (1996) Stargazer (1997) Moving Portrait (1998) Charms of the Night Sky (1998) Magic Triangle (1998) Convergence (1999) Songs for Wandering Souls (1999) Soul on Soul (2000) Leap of Faith (2000) A Thousand Evenings (2000) El Trilogy (2001) Witness (2001) The Infinite (2002) Freak In (2003) Strange Liberation (2004) Bow River Falls (2004) Mountain Passages (2005) Keystone (2005) Meaning and Mystery (2006) Spirit Moves (2009) A Single Sky (2009) Spark of Being (2010) Three Views (2011) Be Still (2012) Time Travel (2013) Present Joys [with Uri Caine] (2014) High Risk (2015)

Live albums	Live in Europe (1997) Sanctuary (1997) Live at the Bimhuis Set 1 & 2 (2005) Live at the Jazz Standard (2007) Moonshine (2007) United Front: Brass Ecstasy at Newport (2011) Sound Prints [with Joe Lovano] (2015)

Related	Discography

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