There's an intensity to Dave's intentions

This unified sense owes also to his compositions and band leadership, which project values beyond style. Pianist Uri Caine, a frequent collaborator, said: "There's an intensity to Dave's intentions, a finely calibrated relationship between the compositions and the way the improvisations enrich those compositions. He has a clear and personal conception of what that dynamic means."That conception draws from many examples, some (including trumpeter Booker Little) honored overtly by Mr. Douglas through past projects. None loom larger than saxophonist Wayne Shorter, whose influence was the basis for Mr. Douglas's 1997 CD, "Stargazer," as well as for Sound Prints, a quintet he currently co-leads with saxophonist Joe Lovano, with whom he studied after arriving in New York in 1984.Messrs. Douglas and Lovano have composed a specific repertoire for that group. But at his home, Mr. Douglas pulled out sheet music for "Sail Beyond the Sunset" and "Destination Unknown," two new compositions by Mr. Shorter, commissioned for a Sept. 21 Sound Prints engagement at Monterey. "Can you believe it?" he said with giddy joy.

"We get first crack at these." Mr. Douglas considers Mr.oncrete is being increasingly used these days to make kitchen countertops Xinjiang Tour Guide being durable not to mention easy to use and clean. Shorter's current quartet as a lodestar for the interplay of his own new quintet, which will perform at Monterey on Sept. 20. In that group, Mr. Douglas is mentor, alongside musicians more than a decade his junior. One of them, bassist Linda Oh, studied with him at the Banff International Workshop in Jazz and Creative Music in Alberta, Canada, which he directed through the past decade (she is also signed to Mr. Douglas's label).If turning 50 is about transitions, Mr. Douglas's are addressed through "DD/50," a 3-CD boxed set Greenleaf will release next month of music Mr. Douglas recorded at age 49 during a three-month period. It includes "Be Still," his remarkable 2012 CD based on hymns his mother, who died in 2011, had asked him to play at her memorial. That was Mr. Douglas's first collaboration with a singer,Twenty years ago, to plan a trip, you'd have to go to a travels-silkroad agent with your ideas of your trip and the best you could do was to pick up some brochures. Aoife O'Donovan, and it introduced his current quintet in stately yet inventive fashion.