Leading a quintet whose debut recording, Be Still (Greenleaf Music, 2012) was an elegiac song cycle dedicated to his late mother, Dave Douglas' Brazen Heart, sadly, finds the trumpeter / composer in ...

With more than 50 years in the music business, 71-year-old Augie Meyers has stories. Lots of stories. An original member of the Sir Douglas Quintet, Meyers had a kidney transplant last year but has ...

Time Travel is the follow-up to 2012's Be Still, the critically acclaimed debut of trumpeter Dave Douglas' new Quintet. Since co-founding Greenleaf Records with label manager Michael Friedman in 2005, ...

There are few figures in country music as influential and perhaps as underappreciated in modern culture as Doug Sahm, who changed the climate of the genre when he fused psychedelic San Francisco rock ...

UPDATE: Show's over. Thanks for listening. Check out the audio archive here. The Dave Douglas quintet performed live at the Village Vanguard last night. As you may know, we do both online and ...

Before she died last year, Dave Douglas' mother left her son with a list of hymns and folk songs to play at her memorial service, down to the specific verses. But even after the funeral, the songs ...

In a recent radio interview, trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas explained his plan to get focused like so: he’s going to stick to two or three projects at a time, instead of juggling the six or eight ...

It wasn’t quite subterfuge, and it wasn’t exactly a scam. But during the mid-‘60s any band that smacked of the British Invasion was hot and sure to get attention. So, a number of, um, decidedly ...

Johnny Perez, drummer on the Sir Douglas Quintet's biggest hits and an accomplished songwriter collaborating on hit songs with Joe “King” Carrasco, has died. Perez was 69. He died Tuesday at a Topanga ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Gruff, airy-toned saxophonist Joe Lovano and spiky, brittle-voiced trumpeter Dave Douglas have a long history of ...