Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy, live in Jazz à Porquerolles Festival

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This could be an amazing preview of what can happen next Thursday night at Jazz em Agosto. Dave Douglas will return to Portugal and will open the second half of the 2009 Gulbenkian Foundation Jazz festival.

Brass Ecstasy super group features Dave Douglas alongside the "best tuba player in the world", Marcus Rojas, Vincent Chancey on French horn, trombonist Luis Bonilla and drummer Nasheet Waits. Check by yourself if there is any reason to miss an amazing night in Gulbenkian's garden.

[Filmed by Arte , at the Jazz à Porquerolles Festival on July 15th. 2009]

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