MORE COFFEE PLEASE >> new Dezron Douglas single/video + ATALAYA coffee collaboration w/ Four Letter Word + NY release shows @ Smalls 11/25 & 11/26
MORE COFFEE PLEASE
Anyone who knows Dezron Douglas knows how much of a coffee aficionado he is... the highest standards, only the good shit! They also know how high his standards are for melodically massive, limber low end lumber thrums... That is: Bass Lines. Today's new single from Dezron and his quartet – "More Coffee Please" – is a perfect showcases for both those affinities.
Perhaps more than any other tune on Dezron's forthcoming album ATALAYA, “More Coffee Please” demonstrates Dezron’s ability to really rip the double bass... swinging so hard, lifting the band up to full-blown levitation, like caffeine in the bloodstream. It's an impressive showcase for the bass, and a beautiful homage to the bean.
Another one if you know Dez... you might follow his IG stories... and if so, you may start your morning almost every day watching a close-up of him making pour-over coffee in his kitchen. He's really got a style with how he lines up that shot, and he's taking those directorial instincts to a new level in his video for "More Coffee Please." He invited friends and family to send shots of themselves enjoying coffee; and our man Itzi Marques cut it all together into this 5 minute 23 second celebration of caffeine dependency.
ATALAYA
!!! coffee collaboration with Four Letter Word !!!
Keeping with the subject matter... We're also very hype to share news of this beautiful collaboration with Chicago's finest coffee roaster, Four Letter Word, available to purchase from our Bandcamp page today!
ATALAYA is a blend of 2 impeccable coffees hailing from Gera, Jimma, Ethiopia. A washed coffee from Telila Yukro Station/Mike Mamo sings with bergamot, black tea and breezy nectarines; while producer Mensur Aba Hika’s natural processed coffee resonates with night flowers, oranges and deep velvety mulled wine. Exceptional producers producing undeniably beautiful coffees.
The beans for the blend were selected by Dezron with assistance from Four Letter Word co-founder Ria Neri. Dezron says: "Ria truly knows and loves Ethiopian coffee beans just as much as I do and she has a true and direct connection with the farmers! This love for the entire process of coffee is present in the first sip to the last sip and I’m proud to be a part of this special blend of personal Ethiopian beans direct from the farmer!”
ATALAYA ALBUM RELEASE SHOWS @ SMALLS, NEW YORK
NOVEMBER 25th & 26th
One last bit of good news for today... The weekend after Thanksgiving, Dezron will be doing a weekend of album release shows in at legendary Greenwich Village NYC jazz club Smalls. Friday and Saturday night November 25th and 26th, he'll do two sets with his quartet featuring Emilio Modeste (saxophones), George Burton (piano), and Joe Dyson Jr. (drums). Both shows will be live streamed via Smalls' website.
Tickets for the Friday night sets here
Tickets for the Saturday night sets here
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Dezron Douglas - ATALAYA
LP, CD, Digital album out November 18th, 2022
ATALAYA is new work by bassist Dezron Douglas, and it is alive. That is, ‘alive’ in all the ways that jazz is at its best – as a pure and personal expression of Black Music channeled through time-honored traditions by a group of musicians who practice sonic coherence through musical unity. As Dezron puts it in the opening statement of his liner notes for the album: “Mysticism, Magic, Faith, Love, Power, Discernment! These are words that embody the creative process of Music.”
((( photos by Deneka Peniston )))
Followers of contemporary jazz might recognize Dezron for his bass work behind Pharoah Sanders, Louis Hayes, or Ravi Coltrane. Others might know him as the newest full-time member of the Trey Anastasio Band. Steady International Anthem listeners might remember him from the New York side of Makaya McCraven's Universal Beings. More recently we presented Force Majeure, Dezron’s sublime duo record with harpist Brandee Younger, which compiled the best of livestream performances from their Harlem apartment during the original covid lockdown. That album, which came out in December of 2020, reflected the speed and feeling of the moment while somehow simultaneously distracting from the harsh reality of it. It also captured a very vulnerable, intimate, and real impression of Dezron on double bass, sharing his power and truth without abandon.
ATALAYA, similarly, wasn’t processed in the lab, but rather, captured in the room. The realness factor is once again forefront in the sound; but the difference is in the energy and ambition of the music, which reaches for the stratosphere. Again, let’s defer to Dezron here: “Welcome to the Black Lion rocket ship.”
With Emilio Modeste on saxes, George Burton on keys, and Joe Dyson Jr. on drums, Dezron’s crew summons the dynamism of Coltrane’s classic Quartet, or Dave Holland’s Quintet on Prime Directive, or Charles Mingus on Nostalgia In Times Square… swinging virtuosically and firing on all 4 cylinders. But there’s nothing remotely revisionist here – Dezron and his quartet embody poetry, presence, artistic and emotional clarity in every note they play. Free and dissonant, sweet and consonant, sweeping and pure… This is the band you hope is playing every time you walk into a club.
*Deluxe Vinyl Package*
Deep Sea blue vinyl
ATALAYA comes on a 160-gram vinyl LP (pressed by Smashed Plastic in Chicago, with lacquers cut by Bob Weston at Chicago Mastering Service) inside a heavyweight reverse board jacket, with IARC obi strip and dome-patterned inner-sleeve.
And, as always, we have a limited edition color vinyl option for the first pressing only, available via our Bandcamp page only, which is 555 copies of *Deep Sea* blue vinyl.
Distribution via RedEye for US, Canada, North & South America
This album will also be available on CD and Classic Black Vinyl (same package specs as listed above).
Retailers in the United States or Canada or anywhere else inside of North, South and Central America... Please reach out to your sales rep at RedEye Worldwide if you are interested in making wholesale purchases of this album, or any other album in our catalog. Don't yet have a RedEye rep? Please just reach out to us and we'll get you hooked up!
Distribution via !K7 for Europe, UK, Australia, and ROW
This album will be distributed by our good friends at !K7 and their various territory partners in Europe, UK, Australia, and everywhere else in the world outside of North & South America.
If you are a retailer or store with questions about wholesale or are just looking to get some of our records... we'd like to make things as easy for you as possible, please do not hesitate to reach out!!!
