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