Dave Douglas - Devotion (2019) Hi Res

Most of these pieces are devoted to the particularly important people who helped them come about. D’Andrea and Francis of Anthony, to Franco D’Andrea. Miljøsang (Environmental Tune) and False Allegiances to Carla Bley. Prefontaine to Steve Prefontaine. Rose and Thorn to Mary Lou Williams. Curly to Jerome Horwitz. Pacific to Aine Nakamura and the Mannes/New School composition class of Fall 2017. We Pray to Dizzy Gillespie.

Devotion, as recorded here, is an amalgam of 200 year old songs from the Sacred Harp that Uri Caine and I have been playing for several years. We were delighted to invite the extraordinary and always surprising Andrew Cyrille on drums. Preparing for this recording was a humbling act of dedication, focus, love and ultimately devotion, for which I am grateful.