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Thank you Jeff! Can’t wait to charge this speaker up and get the vibes going. #iykyk #wallofsound

Proof of Life on a Friday. Pre show vibes.

Today’s Playground! Yes I just played and recorded all instruments! 👀
Great session with Anna Badkhen

Such a fortune to be spending a day in the studio @firehouse12studio with the great @dezthought ahead of the concert tomorrow. Give thanks. Love accordingly.
@bellevueliterarypress

In the first year of Israel’s latest genocide in Gaza, I listened to @dezthought 's record, Atalaya, on repeat. If you’ve been to Dezron’s concerts, you know that they always begin with the sonic blessing you hear in the beginning of this song. Or perhaps it is a call to attention. I want the first piece in my new essay collection, TO SEE BEYOND, to serve as such a blessing or attunement, to set the tone for what we have at hand and an intention for what we are hoping to reach.

For thirty years I have been recording the violence we commit against one another, and still I am at a loss about human nature, about men deporting families and marching children to an abat­toir, about a country caging children who don’t speak its language, about an army firebombing refugees in their sleep, about men walking into a village and shooting its elders dead. You might say our capacity for magical thinking is the antidote to our capacity for atrocity. But I want to believe that radical hope is more than a balancing act—that it is, in fact, a call to attention, an attunement, a setting of intention and direction.

This Friday, May 8, Dezron & I invite you to join us in setting intention for hope. 8:30 & 10 pm at @firehouse12studio

See you there!

🤷🏾
w/ DBlaque and EMac

Had a blast bangin on a Can with David Murray and Nasheet Waits. Festival continues today.

Bless up your Sunday!

Happy International Jazz Day

Blessed to spend it making music and fellowship with NEA Jazzmaster Louis Hayes, Jeremy Pelt, Wayne Escoffery and Rick Germanson. We played set dedicated to Miles and Trane , whom Louis had associations with while they were here in the flesh. We got to do this Uptown in Harlem at the famous Mintons Playhouse! Thank you JazzMobile for making this all happen. So great to see friends and get such a good feeling today. Forza Miles and Trane! Forza African American Classcal Music.

Be sure to tune into the livestream airing tonight via @jazzmobileny at 8pm

Happy International Jazz Day

Blessed to spend it making music and fellowship with NEA Jazzmaster Louis Hayes, Jeremy Pelt, Wayne Escoffery and Rick Germanson. We played set dedicated to Miles and Trane , whom Louis had associations with while they were here in the flesh. We got to do this Uptown in Harlem at the famous Mintons Playhouse! Thank you JazzMobile for making this all happen. So great to see friends and get such a good feeling today. Forza Miles and Trane! Forza African American Classcal Music.

Be sure to tune into the livestream airing tonight via @jazzmobileny at 8pm

Happy International Jazz Day

Blessed to spend it making music and fellowship with NEA Jazzmaster Louis Hayes, Jeremy Pelt, Wayne Escoffery and Rick Germanson. We played set dedicated to Miles and Trane , whom Louis had associations with while they were here in the flesh. We got to do this Uptown in Harlem at the famous Mintons Playhouse! Thank you JazzMobile for making this all happen. So great to see friends and get such a good feeling today. Forza Miles and Trane! Forza African American Classcal Music.

Be sure to tune into the livestream airing tonight via @jazzmobileny at 8pm

Happy International Jazz Day

Blessed to spend it making music and fellowship with NEA Jazzmaster Louis Hayes, Jeremy Pelt, Wayne Escoffery and Rick Germanson. We played set dedicated to Miles and Trane , whom Louis had associations with while they were here in the flesh. We got to do this Uptown in Harlem at the famous Mintons Playhouse! Thank you JazzMobile for making this all happen. So great to see friends and get such a good feeling today. Forza Miles and Trane! Forza African American Classcal Music.

Be sure to tune into the livestream airing tonight via @jazzmobileny at 8pm

Happy International Jazz Day

Blessed to spend it making music and fellowship with NEA Jazzmaster Louis Hayes, Jeremy Pelt, Wayne Escoffery and Rick Germanson. We played set dedicated to Miles and Trane , whom Louis had associations with while they were here in the flesh. We got to do this Uptown in Harlem at the famous Mintons Playhouse! Thank you JazzMobile for making this all happen. So great to see friends and get such a good feeling today. Forza Miles and Trane! Forza African American Classcal Music.

Be sure to tune into the livestream airing tonight via @jazzmobileny at 8pm

Saturday Night I will be creating art with these two powerhouse humans. @bangonacan long play festival.
Brooklyn
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Dezron Douglas Quartet mark their first return trip to Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club on Wednesday, May 13th in Portsmouth, New Hampshire

Doors at 5:30pm! Dinner and Drink service is available from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. No reservations needed, you'll have dinner right at your ticketed seat!

Bassist, composer, bandleader, and educator Dezron Douglas has established himself as a major force in contemporary creative music. A protégé of the great Jackie McLean, the Downbeat Magazine 2019 Rising Star is known for his work with Pharoah Sanders, Ravi Coltrane, Cyrus Chestnut, David Murray, Louis Hayes, Enrico Rava and also with piano legends George Cables, Eric Reed, Mulgrew Miller and Benny Green. In 2021, he joined the Trey Anastasio Band.

Dezron has recorded on more than 100 albums, contributing to the artistry of numerous bandleaders and maintaining an integral presence in the sounds of his peers, including Keyon Harrold, Jonathan Blake, Melanie Charles, and Makaya McCraven. He is an active music educator, currently on the Jazz Studies faculty at NYU Steinhardt. He has released six albums as a lead artist and maintains a variety of projects that he uses as platforms for his compositions.

On Stage: George Burton (Piano), Anwar Marshall (Drums), Silka (Vocals), Dezron Douglas (Bass)

📸: @smithfoto59

Throwing the spotlight on my student Audrey today. She’s finishing up her Freshman year and she’s been playing a pile of Bass all year, working hard and making a ridiculous amount of progress. I’m super proud of her. Just look at her hands!!!! Makes me wanna 😭 Lol.
Sound, vibe and Intent. Look out world. All of my bass students are working on this classic by Duke Ellington and Jimmy Blanton for their final. This ain’t the finished product , but she working on it and they all are and in a couple weeks they all better sound good! 👊🏿
For now get into it. This semester at NYU has been a blast. So many promising students/humans are ready to get involved in ART!

Wednesday Night
MAY 13

Hit the link in my Bio and grab some tickets. 🙏🏿 #earthdayeveryday #earthday #ddq