''Keystone'' is the twenty-fifth album by

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er Dave Douglas. It was released on the Greenleaf label in 2005 and features performances by Douglas,

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, Gene Lake,

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, and Brad Jones. The music was written to accompany

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s and a DVD containing the complete film ''

Fatty and Mabel Adrift ''Fatty and Mabel Adrift'' is a 1916 Keystone short comedy film starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, and Al St. John. Plot The story involves Arbuckle as a farm boy marrying his sweetheart, Normand. They have their honeymoon with ...

'' (1916) and a collage of Arbuckle's scenes set to "Just Another Murder" is included with the album.

Reception

The

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review awarded the album 4 stars stating "''Keystone'' is an excellent, brave, and exciting offering from a man whose talent and vision are perfectly balanced". On

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Michael McCaw said "''Keystone'' is an incredibly mature-sounding album from Dave Douglas—not because his work up till now has not been complete, but because he has fully integrated the technology and mode of the music first espoused by

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. Yet he has moved beyond that reference point and created a group sound that is thoroughly modern and doesn't need to push itself to musical extremes to demonstrate mastery".McCaw, M.
All About Jazz Review
November 7, 2005 on the same site John Kelman noted "Despite all manner of electronic treatments at work, the core is a real playing band. But what distinguishes Keystone most is that it's Douglas' most groove-oriented album to date—and his most funky".Kelman, J.
All About Jazz Review
September 14, 2005 In

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, David R. Adler wrote "Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, the silent-film legend and the father of pie-in-the-face comedy, has inspired some of the most inviting melodies of Dave Douglas's career. ...Arbuckle may have been the archetypal screwball comic, but Douglas' tribute is remarkably free of camp, restoring a measure of dignity to its subject".Steinberg, A.
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November 2005

Track listing

# "A Noise from the Deep" - 6:54 # "Just Another Murder" - 4:51 # "Sapphire Sky Blue" - 4:55 # "Butterfly Effect" - 6:14 # "Fatty's Day Off" - 2:31 # "Mabel Normand" - 4:47 # "The Real Roscoe" - 4:31 # "Famous Players" - 6:52 # "Barnyard Flirtations" - 1:42 # "Hollywood" - 4:19 # "Tragicomique" - 5:18 :''All compositions by Dave Douglas''

Personnel

* Dave Douglas: trumpet *

: saxophone *

: Wurlitzer piano *

: turntables * Brad Jones: bass *Gene Lake: drums

References

{{Authority control 2005 albums Dave Douglas (trumpeter) albums Greenleaf Music albums