Jun 17, 2025 11:12 AM
Kandace Springs Sings Billie Holiday
When it came time to pose for the cover of her new album, Lady In Satin — a tribute to Billie Holiday’s 1958…
Greenleaf Music recently released Meaning & Mystery from label owner’s Dave Douglas Quintet on April 11. The album, Douglas’ first quintet recording since 2004’s Strange Liberation, was recorded on Feb. 1 in New York and includes nine new original compositions by Douglas.
The ensemble playing on Meaning & Mystery has been together for six years and includes Uri Caine on Fender Rhodes, Donny McCaslin on tenor sax (who replaced Chris Potter), James Genus on bass and Clarence Penn on drums.
Douglas tapped into inspiration from poetry, visual arts, architecture, dance, film, and artists such as Lee Morgan and Anthony Braxton, as well as groups he said are “not given the appropriate credit for the great expansions in music.” Of the songs that fill Meaning & Mystery, Douglas said they are “songs that can be approached with –- that invite -– personality, expressiveness, immediacy.”
A national tour in support of the new album will launch with three nights at The Jazz Bakery in Los Angeles, April 20-23.
Tour dates and more information can be found at greenleafmusic.com and davedouglas.com.
“There’s nothing quite like it,” Springs says of working with an orchestra. “It’s 60 people working in harmony in the moment. Singing with them is kind of empowering but also humbling at the same time.”
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