Dave Douglas Quintet 5/31/13 Firehouse 12

Trumpeter and purveyor of positive karma Douglas hits F-12 as part of his 50th birthday gift of touring 50 states. "Connecticut, while not the first, is certainly not the last." Bringing improvised jazz to odd venues and locales, Douglas is idealistic. Pulling from two recent recordings, Be Still and Time Travel, the quintet was firing on all cylinders. Sharing the stage was Jon Irabogon on sax, Matt Mitchell on piano, Chris Tordini on bass. and Rudy Royston on drums. Be Still was an album of hymns requested by his dying mother. Title cut from Time Travel and Garden State from the same record were great. Closed with a Scottish ballad, this jazzy chameleon can slip in and out of any musical genre.