Dave Douglas

Master drummer Andrew Cyrille is one of our heroes. So we jumped at the chance to share a wide-ranging conversation he had with trumpeter Dave Douglas, on the Greenleaf Music podcast A Noise From the Deep.

Freedom and form have always found active equilibrium in the music of Dave Douglas. His new album, Four Freedoms, considers that balancing act — along with an idea first voiced by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and worth revisiting now.

This week in Moment's Notice: Dave Douglas leads his Gifts Trio, Jerry Weldon plays at Rite of Swing, and Ruth Naomi Floyd premieres a powerful new multimedia piece.