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Donny McCaslin: Perpetual Motion
by Dan McClenaghan
Saxophonist Donny McCaslin can be called, quite accurately, a fearless player, whether it's for his prodigious and always adventurous work as a sideman--very notably with trumpeter Dave Douglas' quintet and with Maria Schneider's award-winning orchestra (for which he garnered a Grammy nomination), or on his own discs as a leader.McCaslin's musical spirit is a ...
Donny McCaslin: Perpetual Motion
by Dan Bilawsky
Each new record from tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin is cause for celebration. With each album, McCaslin has put himself in the middle of a different instrumental configuration, challenging the saxophonist to reach new heights, and Perpetual Motion is no different. Now that he has proven his mettle on the piano-less trio battleground with Recommended Tools (Greenleaf, ...
Donny McCaslin: Perpetual Motion
by Warren Allen
Donny McCaslin has long been one of the under-sung superstars of the modern tenor saxophone. In recent years, however, as both a leader and sideman with big band leader Maria Schneider, the Mingus Dynasty band, and trumpeter Dave Douglas, McCaslin has gained more and more well-deserved recognition. Drawing off the best of the 21st century's jazz, ...
You Can Have Your Moment
Label: Winter & Winter Records
Released: 2010
Track listing:
01. Teddy Ruxpin (Endsley); 02. Held (Endsley); 03. The Entrepeneur (Benjamin); 04. No Thank You Mr. West (Wendel); 05. You Have
an Unheard Message (Benjamin); 06. The Blind (Rastegar); 07. You Can Have Your Moment (Rastegar); 08. Desperation
Station (Benjamin); 09. Nerd Mountain (Endsley); 10. Call (Wendel); 11. Unforseen Influences (Benjamin); 12. High Noon (Endsley).
Alphabets & Consequences
Label:
Released: 2010
Track listing:
1. Practice Makes Perfect; 02. Old Joe Clark; 03. All the Things You Are; 04. Meaningless; 05. Monk's Dream; 06. Adam Benjamin;
07. Insensatez; 08. Cdg (lax); 09. Chick Corea; 10. Fall; 11. It's Me, O Lord; 12. Ben Wendel; 13. Contrarian;
14. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy; 15. Don't Get Around Much Anymore; 16. Karlheinz Und Paul; 17. Shane Endsley; 18. Idealist;
19. You Grew Up; 20. The Star-spangled Banner.
Kneebody: You Can Have Your Moment
by AAJ Italy Staff
Nel loro debutto su Winter & Winter - Twelve Songs by Charles Ives, con la collaborazione dello straordinario Theo Blackman - avevano sorpreso per l'approccio low-profile, che non lasciava per strada la visionarietà del gruppo, ma la declinava in forme rigorose e severe, a tratti quasi minimaliste. Con You Can Have Your Moment, i Kneebody tornano ...
Adam Benjamin: Alphabets & Consequences
by AAJ Italy Staff
Un percorso così impegnativo e fluttuante lo poteva mettere in atto solo uno spirito libero ed intrigante come Adam Benjamin, già componente dei Kneebody, quasi una rock band composta da jazzisti, che - tra l'altro - ha inciso con il cantante tedesco Theo Bleckmann un CD dedicato a Charles Ives. Ciò la dice lunga sulle sfuggenti ...
Dave Douglas & Keystone play to film in NYC
On October 24th, 2010, Dave Douglas & Keystone play the Highline Ballroom in New York. More than a concert, this event will feature the East Coast Premiere of the Bill Morrison film, Spark Of Being. Douglas, who composed the soundtrack to the film and has since released a 3CD box set of the same title chronicling ...
Dave Douglas & Keystone: Spark Of Being (3CD Box) Release Day
On April 24th, 2010, Dave Douglas and experimental filmmaker Bill Morrison unveiled their multimedia collaboration, Spark Of Being, at Stanford University. On film, it stands as a reinterpretation of the Frankenstein myth using new, archival, and distressed footage. The themes, penned by Douglas for his Grammy-nominated band Keystone, integrate electronics seamlessly into the improvised music, piecing ...
Dave Douglas & Keystone: Spark of Being
by Troy Collins
Dave Douglas & KeystoneSpark of BeingGreenleaf Music2010 Trumpet player and composer Dave Douglas has risen from the ranks of tenacious Downtown improvisers to become a leading force in creative mainstream jazz in the past decade. Regularly overshadowing perennial favorite Wynton Marsalis in “Best Trumpeter" polls for the past ...
