October 7, 2014
This Fall saxophonist Joe Lovano and trumpeter Dave Douglas will launch a 22-date tour across the United States and Europe with their co-led quintet Sound Prints featuring pianist Lawrence Fields, bassist Linda Oh and drummer Joey Baron. Sound Prints will be previewing their forthcoming Blue Note debut which will be released in early 2015. Listen to a track from the album below, which was recorded live at the 2013 Monterey Jazz Festival:
For almost twenty years, Lovano and Douglas have been prime moving forces in the jazz scene, their paths crossing often on stage and occasionally on record. Douglas appears on Lovano’s 2001 Blue Note album Flights of Fancy: Trio Fascination Edition Two and they overlapped as members of the SFJAZZ Collective for three seasons during which the band performed the repertoire of Thelonious Monk, McCoy Tyner, and their mutual touchstone: saxophonist and composer Wayne Shorter.
Sound Prints takes their inspiration from the music of Shorter – the band’s name is a nod to his classic “Footprints” – however the quintet’s focus is on new original compositions by Lovano and Douglas, as well as new Shorter compositions in direct collaboration with Shorter himself. The band is fueled by a desire to push the boundaries of their music as far as they can stretch, similar to the expansive role Shorter has played in jazz since his debut with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in 1959.
SOUND PRINTS – FALL 2014 TOUR DATES:
10/15 – TSRI – San Diego, CA
10/16 – Kuumbwa Jazz Center – Santa Cruz, CA
10/17 – Yoshi’s – Oakland, CA
10/18 – Earshot Jazz @ Town Hall Seattle – Seattle, WA
10/19 – Kay Meek Centre – West Vancouver, BC
10/21-26 – Village Vanguard – New York, NY
11/12 – Auditori De Barcelona – Barcelona, Spain
11/13 – Theatre Des Louvrais – Pontoise, France
11/14 – Reithalle im KulturForum – Offenburg, France
11/15 – Bielskie Centrum Kultury – Bielsoko Biala, Poland
11/16 – Jazzclub Unterfahrt – Munich, Germany
11/17 – Moods im Shiffbau – Zurich, Switzerland
11/18 – Sala Sinopoli – Rome, Italy
11/20 – Copenhagen Jazz House – Copenhagen, Denmark
11/21 – National Jazzscene – Oslo, Norway
11/22 – Nefertiti Jazzklubb – Goteborg, Sweden
11/23 – London Jazz Festival @ Barbican Centre – London, UK
