When trumpeter Dave Douglas debuted his latest quintet a couple of years ago with the wonderful album Be Still (Greenleaf), a big part of its repertoire was composed of hymns and folk songs his mother had requested to be played at her memorial service—at the time, in 2011, she knew she was losing a three-year battle with ovarian cancer. On that recording the horn man enlisted the services of the superb singer Aoife O'Donovan of the progressive bluegrass outfit Crooked Still.…
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