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Recommended Tools

By Donny McCaslin

Label: Greenleaf Music
Released: 2008
Track listing: Recommended Tools; Eventual; Late Night Gospel; Excursion; Isfahan; The Champion; Margins Of Solitude; New Thirds; 2nd Hour Revisited; Fast Brazil.

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Donny McCaslin: Recommended Tools

Read "Recommended Tools" reviewed by Tom Greenland

by Tom Greenland

Recommended Tools, saxophonist Donny McCaslin's seventh session as a leader and his first for Dave Douglas' Greenleaf Music, follows in the tenor trio tradition of Sonny Rollins' A Night at the Village Vanguard and Joe Henderson's The State of the Tenor. Going chordless, without the safety-net of a comping instrument, gives the frontline instrumentalist more latitude ...

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Donny McCaslin Trio: Recommended Tools

Read "Recommended Tools" reviewed by Woodrow Wilkins

by Woodrow Wilkins

The title song to Donny McCaslin Trio's Recommended Tools says it all. The tenor sax, bass and drums go all out in a freely expressive preview of what's to come. Each instrument gets its moment in the spotlight.McCaslin is a product of Santa Cruz, California, and a father who played piano and vibraphone. He ...

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Donny McCaslin: Recommended Tools

Read "Recommended Tools" reviewed by Budd Kopman

by Budd Kopman

From the opening, title tune, tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin, very tightly supported by bassist Hans Glawischnig and drummer Johnathan Blake, lays down the gauntlet on Recommended Tools with music that is decidedly cerebral, but containing enormous energy and drive that supports the feeling of playing with abandon while remaining under control. The aural ...

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Donny McCaslin Trio: Recommended Tools

Read "Recommended Tools" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey

Tenor saxophonist Donny McCaslin debuts on Dave Douglas' Greenleaf Music label with Recommended Tools. McCaslin shows his world-class cojones by heading a tenor trio with bassist Hans Glawischnig and drummer Jonathan Blake. The recording is produced by David Binney, no saxophone slouch himself, and executive produced by Douglas, who asked McCaslin to “write and record the ...

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Donny McCaslin Trio: Recommended Tools

Read "Recommended Tools" reviewed by Troy Collins

by Troy Collins

The venerable trio tradition has long been viewed as a proving ground for the talents of upcoming tenor saxophonists. Thrust into the spotlight with minimal accompaniment, the stripped-down setting provides microscopic attention to an improviser's melodic ingenuity, harmonic subtlety and sense of rhythm; free of harmonic restraints, there is no room for error. His ...


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