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Donny McCaslin: The Way Through
by Florence Wetzel
The Way Through explores the many colors of jazz while at the same time respectfully stretching the music’s boundaries. Donny McCaslin, a tenor saxophonist with a rich, warm sound, is also an extremely skilled arranger with an interesting use of space. The basic instrumentation here is sax, bass, and drums, but there’s also sax duet improvisations, ...
The Way Through
Label: Arabesque Jazz
Released: 2003
Track listing: Skyward; San Lorenzo; Shadowlands; I Should Care; The Way Through; Break Tune; Free
California; Fe Fi Fo Fum; What Remains; Woody And You; Flutter.
Donny McCaslin: The Way Through
by Mark Corroto
Why should you listen to new jazz recordings? There will never be another Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, or Charles Mingus. Nor will there be another Jaco Pastorius, Thomas Chapin, or Tom Cora. We listen because each new generation produces a voice that resonates somewhere deep within our souls. And discovery of that voice ...
Donny McCaslin: Feeling the Spirit
by Bruce Crowther
When I play, I try to remember what this music means to me as a listener. When I hear something that really speaks to me on an emotional level -- like, say, a solo by Lester Young -- that is when I know what this is all about. The speaker is Donny McCaslin, who ...
Donny McCaslin: Seen From Above
by Glenn Astarita
When tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin hits his stride, he can hold his own with the best of them. On his first recording for the “Arabesque Recordings” label, titled Seen From Above, and second as a leader, the saxophonist incorporates some of the hard nosed voicings and complex time signatures also exhibited in the fine band, “Lan ...
Free To Dream
By David Binney
Label: Mythology Records
Released: 1999
Track listing: Goddess; Jalama; Oddman; One Year Ago; Girl of the Southern Sky; Voice of Reason; The Mondello Line; Where the Rain Shines; Free to Dream; I Lie Waiting...; Sea of Allurement.
Donny McCaslin: Exile and Discovery
by Glenn Astarita
1998 was a busy yet productive year for this young and gifted tenor saxophonist who hails from California. Donny McCaslin collaborated with sax dynamo David Binney on several projects for Binney’s Mythology record label which included Binney’s and Edward Simon’s fine solo recordings and the McCaslin-Binney turbo charged outing “Lan Xang”. McCaslin attended Boston’s Berklee School ...
Exile And Discovery
Label: Naxos Records
Released: 1998
Track listing: Along Came Betty, Exile and Discovery, Isfahan, Mountain Mama, Tenderly, Etude #3, Speak
Low, A Prayer for Francis, Bye Ya, Etude #4.
