Derek Douget

If a guy could be known by his friends, the personnel in the initial CD of Derek Douget speaks to the grade of the young musician. Jazz luminaries including Ellis Marsalis, Jason Marsalis, Roland Geurin, and Nicholas Payton sign up for Douget in the saxophonist’s 2002 Compact disc release, Perpetual Movement, which features unique material mainly penned by Douget and Jason Marsalis. On Perpetual Movement, it really is Douget’s consider lead the music group, after playing sideman on a lot of recordings along with his musical co-workers. His popular alto and soprano saxophone riffs possess won accolades through the critics, and may be noticed on recordings such as for example Jason Marsalis’ Yr from the Drummer and Music in Movement, aswell as Guerin’s You don’t need to See It to trust It and Roland Guerin: Live in the Blue Notice. Douget’s focus on these CDs displays the range from the talented musician. He blows everything from “Madness,” and subsequently gets soulful on “Loss of life March of Our Period,” joyful on “Da Homey Dance,” bluesy on “Penelope,” and religious on “Trust, Trust Jesus.” Most of Douget’s interpretations are educated by the initial perspective that his hometown New Orleans appears to impart to its indigenous sons. As the material can vary greatly, the music constantly swings with this peculiar Afro-Caribbean impact the Crescent Town embodies. It’s in the bloodstream, and it originates from seated in on gigs with great music artists, both known and unidentified outside of the town. Douget’s working arrangements is a good example. One might hear him at the Funky Butt, among the city’s most popular venues, using the Jesse Lewis Union; after that at Cafe Brazil, gigging with the neighborhood Afro-Cuban group, Mas Mamones; and catch his single performance on the city’s top contemporary jazz membership, Snug Harbor. Being a musician, he embodies the name of his brand-new Compact disc, for he’s a guy in perpetual movement.