''Moonshine'' is the 28th album by

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er Dave Douglas. It was released on the Greenleaf label in 2007 and features a live performance recorded in a studio in front of an audience by Douglas, Adam Benjamin,

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, Gene Lake,

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, and Brad Jones.

Reception

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review by Thom Jurek awarded the album 4 stars, stating: "This is not 'jazz' in the conventional (read: conservative) sense, but without the jazz heritage, this creative tour de force of 21st century jazz-funk wouldn't -- and probably couldn't -- exist. ''Moonshine'' is a(nother) monster outing by Douglas".Jurek, T
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John Kelman said "What makes ''Moonshine'' ultimately such a success, however, is Douglas' ability to cloak avant-garde concerns in accessible surroundings. As deep and challenging as anything he's ever recorded, Moonshine remains an album that's as much food for the heart and soul as it is for the mind, and continues Douglas' remarkably unbroken string of superb and uncompromising releases".Kelman, J.
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, Bill Milkowski wrote "Inspired by the unfinished 1917

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comedy film '' Moon-shine'', this collection of cutting edge, groove-oriented tunes by Douglas’s electrified, genre-bending Keystone band picks up where 2005’s '' Keystone'' left off".Milkowski, B.
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Track listing

''All compositions by Dave Douglas'' # "Dog Star" - 5:01 # "Moonshine" - 7:30 # "Married Life" - 9:43 # "Silent Stars" - 8:39 # "Scopes" - 2:39 # "Flood Plane" - 7:42 # "Kitten" - 4:23 # "Tough" - 10:54

Personnel

* Dave Douglas: trumpet * Adam Benjamin: Fender Rhodes piano *

: turntables *

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

References

{{Dave Douglas Dave Douglas (trumpeter) live albums 2007 live albums Greenleaf Music live albums