Dave Douglas Ideas Quotations

I don't really think of these as projects. I think of them as bands. I have tried to not just convene a group of musicians and make one record or make one gig and just drop it. Each of them develop over time. I have been really fortunate to keep a band like the Sextet together over three very different albums. Each time, the goal got more deep for me in terms of how I wanted to write for those people. So it is really about trying to develop ideas and trying to have a consistent focus on a way to come up with new ideas in music that I want to do.

The couple of days of practice we've had this week, we've tried working on getting some of those ideas going. Quicken up the game a little bit, put the ball in play, make the defensive plays, and I think we did a good job of that.