Dave Douglas / Donny McCaslin Quintet live at JazzBaltica 2011

Dave Douglas - Trumpet
Donny McCaslin - Tenor Saxophone
Jason Linder - Keyboards
Tim Lefebrve - Bass
Mark Guiliana - Drums
recorded live at Konzertscheune Salzau, Jazzbaltica Salzau, July 3, 2011

1. Five Hands Down (Donny McCaslin)
2. Creature Theme (Dave Douglas)
3. L.Z.C.M. (Donny McCaslin)
4. Prologue (Dave Douglas)
5. Memphis Redux (Donny McCaslin)

Donny McCaslin´s Perpetual Motion meet Dave Douglas´ Keystone. For this concert the two Greenleaf recording artists joined forces.

Following the sparse tenor trio album Recommended Tools (Greenleaf, 2008), Perpetual Motion is a 180° turn for McCaslin. Never sounding more confident, McCaslin delves into angular post-bop, blistering polyphonic funk, backbeat-driven R&B, and delicate, ethereal balladry, all without compromising his distinct compositional voice.

On April 24th, 2010, Dave Douglas and experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison unveiled their multimedia collaboration, Spark Of Being, at Stanford University. On film, it stands as a reinterpretation of that Frankenstein myth using new, archival, and distressed footage. The themes, penned by Douglas for his Grammy-nominated band Keystone, integrate electronics seamlessly into the improvised music, piecing sounds and movement together to make three strikingly different Creatures.