Trumpeter Dave Douglas is a polite man, and an astounding player. Quite the most riveting trumpeter I’ve seen in many a long year.
I just came back from a gig by his Freak In septet at the Brighton Festival, a gig that was good in parts.
The main problem was boring soloing while most of the band laid out. Ironic, really, when Douglas was talking on BBC Radio 3 about rejecting the forms established by people like Coltrane.
The parts of the gig that really worked were the loud ensemble pieces, which sounded like Miles Davis’ On the Corner, from 30 years ago.
So, worth the price of admission, and glad to have finally caught Douglas, but lacking the promised Freakin’.
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