Dave Douglas

This box gathers six albums from the 1990s on which Dave Douglas plays trumpet for Soul Note and Black Saint. Three are his own, the records of his string group with violinist Mark Feldman. The other three are dates where he was one of the voices: bassist Mark Dresser's Force Green, the Rova Saxophone Quartet's concert version of John Coltrane's Ascension and bassist John Lindberg's Bounce. Each disc reproduces one original album, remastered by CAM Jazz for this 2012 edition from the original master tapes.

Parallel Worlds (1993), produced with Tim Berne, sets Douglas and Feldman with Dresser on bass and Michael Sarin on drums, ten tracks from Sehr Bewegt to Grand Choral, with Ballad In Which MacHeath Asks Everyone To Forgive Him along the way. For Five (1996) the group became a quintet, with Erik Friedlander on cello and Drew Gress on bass beside Feldman and Sarin, in ten pieces including Invasive Procedure and The Inflated Tear. The same five play Convergence (1998), the longest of the three, which runs from Chit Kyoo Thwe Tog Nyin Hmar Lar and Tzotzil Maya to the three-part Border Stories and Goodbye Tony. On Dresser's Force Green (1995), also produced by Berne, Douglas plays with pianist Denman Maroney, drummer Phil Haynes and singer Theo Bleckmann, in pieces such as Bosnia and Castles For Carter. Rova's Ascension, released in 1996 from a 1995 live recording, adds Douglas and Raphe Malik on trumpets, Glenn Spearman on tenor, pianist Chris Brown, two bassists and drummer Donald Robinson to the four saxophonists, the Coltrane piece preceded by an opening called Welcome. Bounce (1997) is a smaller group under Lindberg's name, with Ed Thigpen on drums and Larry Ochs on tenor, opening with a duet for bass and trumpet, Firewood Duet.

The Complete Remastered Recordings On Black Saint & Soul Note, CAM Jazz box BXS 1020 from 2012: six remastered CDs reissuing albums first released between 1993 and 1998.