July/November 2024

GIFTS QUARTET

DAVE DOUGLAS, tompeta. JON IRABAGON, saxo tenor. RAFIQ BATHIA, guitarra y electrónica. IAN CHANG, batería y electrónica.

Del 14 al 22 de julio

Trumpeter and composer Dave Douglas presents a new version of a recent project: Gifts Quartet featuring Jon Irabagon (tenor sax), Rafiq Bhatia (guitar) and Ian Chang (drums and electronics).
Featuring new, original, energy music-influenced compositions from Douglas, as well as inspirations from the life and music of Charles Lloyd. Gifts Quartet reflects on the wisdom, vision, and positivity of the composer and saxophonist in an innovative way, notably exploring Lloyd's fascination with the music of Billy Strayhorn. The quartet’s sound focuses on song form, emphasizing textural and timbral enhancement in service of each song.
Douglas has long considered his work to be a projection of societal possibility, where a musical ensemble is an allegory for how social justice can be enacted and promoted. In ways both explicit and implicit, Douglas' music speaks to the many struggles to be overcome in currently prevailing systems.
Gifts Quartet envisions a new sense of interaction through expression of song form, using sound and atmosphere as a field of action. develop and capture an improvisational process, the four musicians will realize their vision for the first time.
Gifts Quartet will tour Europe in July 2024, presenting a fresh take on the format that Douglas has featured extensively over the last times.