Jazz Articles about Donny McCaslin

About Donny McCaslin

Live Review

Donny McCaslin al JazzMi di Milano

by Luca Muchetti
November 10, 2017

Donny McCaslin Teatro dell'Arte -Triennale JazzMi Milano 7.11.2017 Fast Future e Beyond Now sono i titoli degli ultimi album del sassofonista statunitense Donny McCaslin, fra gli ospiti di JazzMi 2017. Due titoli che è utile ricordare se si cercasse di sintetizzare in sole due espressioni l'esperienza del pubblico presente al concerto tenuto da McCaslin al Teatro dell'Arte della Triennale di Milano. La musica che McCaslin firma da titolare, infatti, non sembra avere punti ...

Live Review

Donny McCaslin At Belfast International Arts Festival 2017

by Ian Patterson
October 31, 2017

Donny McCaslin Limelight Belfast International Arts Festival Belfast, N. Ireland October 25, 2017 “Are you here because of Bowie or for jazz?" a woman asked those around her in the queue for Donny McCaslin's gig--part of the Belfast International Arts Festival. The answer, by and large, was both. McCaslin's current group will likely always be remembered--and no doubt billed for some time to come--as David Bowie's backing band on Black Star ...

In Pictures

Ottawa Jazz Festival 2017

by John R. Fowler
July 7, 2017

I always look forward to my hometown festival and over the past 30 years I have photographed Canadian and international artists that have performed at the Ottawa Jazz Festival. I try to capture the personality, energy, emotion, dedication and skill these talented artists display while playing jazz. Many of my festival photos have been exhibited in Ottawa at the National Arts Centre, National Library and Archives of Canada, National Press Club and at the Ginn Gallery.Enjoy a sampling of this ...

Live Review

The Donny McCaslin Group at The Arden Gild Hall

by Mike Jacobs
January 25, 2017

The Donny McCaslin Group Arden Gild Hall Arden, Delaware January 14, 2017 Arden Delaware isn't exactly known as a jazz mecca but, with the coming of the Donny McCaslin Group to the Arden Gild Hall, it became one--for a little while at least. And in the best jazz traditions, the show presented in Arden had all of the elements you would expect from one of those meccas--innovation, exploration, technical excellence and passion--presented by players in ...

Interview

Donny McCaslin: Bowie Deepened The Relationships In My Band

by Nenad Georgievski
January 16, 2017

Wherever the boundaries were in music, in most cases, they have perished and are no more. Jazz has always been a music of exploration and taking chances and as a result, has benefited from the dialogues with other music, be it folk, rock, classical or electronic. Saxophonist and composer Donny McCaslin certainly doesn't believe in boundaries. He is one of the handful musicians who uses different strands as a launching point for further exploration. His recent records Fast Future (Greenleaf, ...

Album Review

Donny McCaslin: Beyond Now

Read "Beyond Now" reviewed by Luca Muchetti

by Luca Muchetti
November 8, 2016

Il grande pubblico l'ha conosciuto soprattutto nelle vesti di musicista accanto al David Bowie degli ultimi tempi, e in modo particolare nello straordinario mondo musicale di Black Star, l'album di commiato del genio musicale britannico scomparso proprio quest'anno. Il sassofonista Donny McCaslin ora torna con un album nel quale è titolare e band leader, un'opera che pare legata a doppio filo con il portato artistico e probabilmente umano del sodalizio con Bowie. Non solo per la presenza ...

Album Review

Jason Palmer and Cédric Hanriot: City Of Poets

Read "City Of Poets" reviewed by Roger Farbey

by Roger Farbey
June 3, 2016

The formal structure of this album recorded live at London's Pizza Express Jazz Club on September 23, 2014, centres around Olivier Messiaen's Seven modes of limited transposition, musical modes or scales that fulfil specific criteria relating to their symmetry and the repetition of their interval groups. As with George Russell's Lydian chromatic concept of tonal organization much has been written about this, so this review will confine itself exclusively to the music. The titles of the nine pieces ...