Trumpeter-composer DAVE DOUGLAS has been commissioned by the Trisha Brown Dance Company, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Library of Congress, Stanford University, and Walker Art Center. In 2005, he won a Guggenheim Fellowship, and after seven critically acclaimed albums for Bluebird/RCA, launched his own label, Greenleaf Music, on which he has released albums with his quintet, the electronic sextet Keystone, the mixed chamber ensemble Nomad, and his new quintet, Brass Ecstasy. 2009 brought his first big band recording, "A Single Sky," in collaboration with composer/pianist Jim McNeely.