Dezron Douglas/ Black Lion

May 13 Wednesday Night 🚀 730pm PORTSMOUTH, NH What’s really good? Shoutout to @dorielleeeeee for keeping the creative vibes top tier in this LION Pride!! 🙏🏿

It just gets more and more real everyday. I’m not delusional. A True Matriarch! Sometimes it’s better to say nothing knowing that doing so speaks volumes. I have felt in my body every shift that has happened in my family on both sides( Maternal/Paternal ) and Nanny joining PopPop on that safari in Heaven was felt tremendously yet I pushed through why? Because that’s what my grandparents showed me everyday. No matter what is happening in the world around you and abroad , take care of the people you love, make sure they are ok, enjoy life as much as you can with them, and “GET IT DONE!” It’s gonna take me some time, but I’m gonna play every note and teach every class and protect my castle with every fiber of my being because that’s who I am, and she gets a lot of credit for that. She may not be here in the flesh, but lawd when I look at my MOM? She still here. When I look at my aunties Vivian and Jackie? She still here. When I look at my uncle Garland? She still here. I love you Nanny. 🕊️

Thank you Jeff! Can’t wait to charge this speaker up and get the vibes going. #iykyk #wallofsound

Proof of Life on a Friday. Pre show vibes.

Today’s Playground! Yes I just played and recorded all instruments! 👀 Great session with Anna Badkhen

Such a fortune to be spending a day in the studio @firehouse12studio with the great @dezthought ahead of the concert tomorrow. Give thanks. Love accordingly. @bellevueliterarypress

In the first year of Israel’s latest genocide in Gaza, I listened to @dezthought 's record, Atalaya, on repeat. If you’ve been to Dezron’s concerts, you know that they always begin with the sonic blessing you hear in the beginning of this song. Or perhaps it is a call to attention. I want the first piece in my new essay collection, TO SEE BEYOND, to serve as such a blessing or attunement, to set the tone for what we have at hand and an intention for what we are hoping to reach. For thirty years I have been recording the violence we commit against one another, and still I am at a loss about human nature, about men deporting families and marching children to an abat­toir, about a country caging children who don’t speak its language, about an army firebombing refugees in their sleep, about men walking into a village and shooting its elders dead. You might say our capacity for magical thinking is the antidote to our capacity for atrocity. But I want to believe that radical hope is more than a balancing act—that it is, in fact, a call to attention, an attunement, a setting of intention and direction. This Friday, May 8, Dezron & I invite you to join us in setting intention for hope. 8:30 & 10 pm at @firehouse12studio See you there!

🤷🏾 w/ DBlaque and EMac

Had a blast bangin on a Can with David Murray and Nasheet Waits. Festival continues today. Bless up your Sunday!

Happy International Jazz Day Blessed to spend it making music and fellowship with NEA Jazzmaster Louis Hayes, Jeremy Pelt, Wayne Escoffery and Rick Germanson. We played set dedicated to Miles and Trane , whom Louis had associations with while they were here in the flesh. We got to do this Uptown in Harlem at the famous Mintons Playhouse! Thank you JazzMobile for making this all happen. So great to see friends and get such a good feeling today. Forza Miles and Trane! Forza African American Classcal Music. Be sure to tune into the livestream airing tonight via @jazzmobileny at 8pm

Saturday Night I will be creating art with these two powerhouse humans. @bangonacan long play festival. Brooklyn 🚀

Dezron Douglas Quartet mark their first return trip to Jimmy's Jazz & Blues Club on Wednesday, May 13th in Portsmouth, New Hampshire Doors at 5:30pm! Dinner and Drink service is available from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. No reservations needed, you'll have dinner right at your ticketed seat! Bassist, composer, bandleader, and educator Dezron Douglas has established himself as a major force in contemporary creative music. A protégé of the great Jackie McLean, the Downbeat Magazine 2019 Rising Star is known for his work with Pharoah Sanders, Ravi Coltrane, Cyrus Chestnut, David Murray, Louis Hayes, Enrico Rava and also with piano legends George Cables, Eric Reed, Mulgrew Miller and Benny Green. In 2021, he joined the Trey Anastasio Band. Dezron has recorded on more than 100 albums, contributing to the artistry of numerous bandleaders and maintaining an integral presence in the sounds of his peers, including Keyon Harrold, Jonathan Blake, Melanie Charles, and Makaya McCraven. He is an active music educator, currently on the Jazz Studies faculty at NYU Steinhardt. He has released six albums as a lead artist and maintains a variety of projects that he uses as platforms for his compositions. On Stage: George Burton (Piano), Anwar Marshall (Drums), Silka (Vocals), Dezron Douglas (Bass) 📸: @smithfoto59