Listen to Dave Douglas and Uri Caine’s Present Joys
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ere's a complete stream of trumpeter Dave Douglas and pianist Uri Caine’s upcoming album Present Joys, shared via the WYNC Soundcheck programme.
Drawn from the Shape Note Sacred Harp singing tradition Douglas and Caine interpret notation taken from shape-note tunebooks adding new matching Douglas compositions.
“I’ve always loved the Sacred Harp songs and started thinking about how to do them in the wake of Be Still,” Douglas says on the issuing label Greenleaf's website referring to his 2012 album.
The Shape Note tradition is American sacred folk choral music sung a cappella in four parts with the aid of a 19th-century songbook The Sacred Harp that uses shape notes. The ‘shape’ refers to the graphic representation of the notes on the page that connects directly to solfège, for a quick grasp of pitching.
Tracks are 'Soar Away', 'Ham Fist', 'Bethel', 'Present Joys', 'Supplication', 'Seven Seas', 'Confidence', 'End to End', 'Old Putt', and 'Zero Hour.'
