I had a gig in the summer of 2010 with Jeff Kaiser at the Jazz Station, a gem of a venue in Eugene, Oregon’s music scene. I played the first set, Jeff played the second and Brian McWhorter played the third, running into the venue directly after playing ...
For those of you who couldn’t make it to The Stone for the Douglas Detrick Trio gig a few weeks ago, here is a link to my YouTube channel where the video is posted. If you like what you hear, check these upcoming performances in New York by the Douglas ...
I’ll be performing at 10 pm on September 11, 2010 at New York’s The Stone in a trio with John Sutton on bass and Christian Coleman on drums. It’s a huge thrill to return to the Stone for my first gig in New York as a full-time resident. We’ll be playing ...
Kelly Shaw Willman, a good friend of mine and a wonderful poet and performance artist, recently interviewed me for her blog. You can read the interview here. Kelly asked me about poetry, family, buddhism, poetry and many other random things. I really ...
Brian McWhorter, as well as being one of my greatest teachers, and who is responsible, quite seriously, for changing my life, is a tirelessly creative trumpet player whose activity in music is matched by few in the music world today. I asked Brian to ...
I recently completed a commission from the Machine Project for the Little William Theatre Festival of New Music at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. This project, a really exciting collaboration between over one hundred composers, was a thrill to ...
We recorded the first installment of what will become a series of EP recordings by the AnyWhen Ensemble, beginning with “Rivers Music”. Check the last entry in this blog for more about the piece. The series will include several short recordings of many ...
My chamber-jazz ensemble, Douglas Detrick’s AnyWhen Ensemble, will be embarking on a special group of performances in New York City and in Portland, Salem and Eugene, Oregon. We’re very excited to be making our New York City debut at avant-garde music ...
I wanted to take some time to write about the suite of new music for the AnyWhen Ensemble that we’ll be premiering in New York City at The Stone and in Oregon performances in Salem, Eugene and Portland. (Check the preceding blog entry for details.) In ...
On Sunday Dec 6, 2009 I joined forces for a show at the Jazz Station in Eugene, OR with the fantastic laptop musician He Can Jog, aka Erik Schoster, a friend of mine from Lawrence University who stopped through Eugene on his cross-country tour. Erik will ...