Dave Douglas is the Ironman of jazz

The trumpet star, who performs here Wednesday, leads multiple bands, heads a record label and annual festival, teaches and much more

By George Varga4 P.M.OCT. 4, 2013
Casual fans may find it intriguing that internationally acclaimed trumpeter Dave Douglas runs marathons in his spare time. But longtime followers of Douglas are more likely to react with disbelief that this perpetually busy jazz maverick has any spare time at all.

This, after all, is the same Dave Douglas who leads up to half a dozen different bands, almost concurrently, runs his own record and DVD label, Greenleaf Music, and works around the world as a jazz educator (he just concluded a 10-year run as the director of the Jazz & Creative Music Program at the Banff Center in Canada). He is also the founder and director of the New York-based Festival of New Trumpet Music, which celebrated its 10th anniversary last month, and he hosts “A Noise from the Deep,” a regular series of Podcasts in which he interviews prominent musicians.

For good measure, to commemorate his 50th birthday this year Douglas is doing a 50 States Tour, which he launched with the goal of performing this year in all 50 states. He performs here Wednesday, under the auspices of the La Jolla Athenaeum, at TSRI Auditorium (known until last year as the Neurosciences Institute Auditorium). He’ll be accompanied by an all-star band that features saxophonist Jon Irabagon, bassist Linda Oh, pianist Bobby Avey and drummer Rudy Royston.
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