Blow. Donny McCaslin

• 1 What About the Body 04:29
• 2 Club Kidd 04:53
• 3 Break the Bond 09:13
• 4 New Kindness 04:30
• 5 Exactlyfourminutesofimprovisedmusic 04:02
• 6 Tiny Kingdom 06:19
• 7 Great Destroyer 04:22
• 8 The Opener 05:52
• 9 Beast 05:41
• 10 Tempest 01:12
• 11 Eye of the Beholder 04:33
• Total Runtime 55:06

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Wenige Tage vor seinem Tod im Januar 2016 veröffentlicht David Bowie sein letztes Album Blackstar. Während dieses Album den Schlussstein im Werk dieses legendären Künstlers bildet, markiert es für den Jazz-Virtuosen Donny McCaslin einen Neuanfang. Sein Saxophon und der unverwechselbare Sound seiner Band nehmen eine Schlüsselrolle in der visionären Stilfusion von Blackstar ein.

Jetzt, zwei Jahre nach Blackstar erscheint das neue Album von McCaslin, Blow. Durch Bowies Einfluss entwickelt McCaslin seinen eigenen künstlerischen Ansatz noch vollständiger als bisher. Die Vision von Blow wird von den außergewöhnlichen Stimmen von Mark Kozelek (Sun Kil Moon), Gail Ann Dorsey, Jeff Taylor, dem Sänger und Songwriter Ryan Dahle und den Blackstar-Bandkollegen Tim Lefebvre, Jason Lindner und Mark Guiliana getragen. McCaslin betont die »breite Palette von Stimmungen«, die auf Blow zum Tragen kommt. Sie reichen von Prog-Rock und Art-Rock zu instrumentellen down-tempo Stücken, die von den Beastie Boys und A Tribe Called Quest beeinflusst sind.

"Donny McCaslins neues Album "BLOW" wird dem Albumtitel durchaus gerecht: McCaslins virtuose, spannungsgeladene Herangehensweise an Progrock, Artpop, Hiphop-Fusion und Avantjazz sind so dicht, so komplex und so wagemutig gedacht, als handele es sich um den Nachfolger des Blackstar-Albums. McCaslin ist der Spiritus Rector, der die Songs zu einer Tour de Force werden lässt, in der Soul Coughing, A Tribe Called Quest, King Crimson und Bowie eine kreative Kollaboration eingehen. Die Arbeit mit David Bowie für sein letztes Meisterwerk "Blackstar" war ihm eine prägende Erfahrung, die ihn dazu brachte sein Spiel zu erweitern: er lud charismatische Stimmen wie Mark Kozelek (Sun Kil Moon), Gail Ann Dorsey, Jeff Taylor und Ryan Dahle ein, sowie seine Blackstar-Bandkollegen Tim Lefebvre, Jason Lindner und Mark Guiliana an den 10 neuen Titeln mitzuwirken." (jazz-fun.de)

Donny McCaslin, saxophone
Jeff Taylor, vocals
Gail Ann Dorsey, vocals
Ryan Dahle, vocals, guitar
Ben Monder, guitar
Jason Lindner, keyboards, synthesizer, piano, Wurlitzer, bass
Tim Lefebvre, bass
Nate Wood, bass
Zach Danziger, drums
Mark Guiliana, drums
Steve Wall, drum programming
Eren Cannata, backing vocals

Donny McCaslin
In many ways, these nine words encapsulate the ethos of Donny McCaslin, whose escapades on the tenor saxophone have both embraced and sometimes repudiated contemporary notions of jazz—often simultaneously and with a deep understanding of what has come before and what lies ahead. Although he garnered widespread acclaim for his stint as bandleader for David Bowie’s swansong LP Blackstar, McCaslin’s journey to that point encompassed numerous yard markers of the up-and-coming jazzer with boundary-busting on his mind.

McCaslin began playing the sax at 12 in Santa Cruz, CA and during his teenage years he performed in his vibraphonist father’s band. His background and acumen inevitably led to a full scholarship at the Berklee College of Music, a four-year stint with Gary Burton’s quintet, and a subsequent three-year stretch with Steps Ahead, Additional shift work with Maria Schneider, Danilo Pérez, The Gil Evans Orchestra, and Elvis Costello also dot his resumé.

The Bowie gig, obtained through the recommendation of Schneider, ultimately lit the fuse and super-charged McCaslin’s aspirations to take his music in exhilarating new directions and carve new pathways in what used to be called jazz fusion. For McCaslin, this meant leaning into a hybrid of jazz and art rock, which is clearly evident in his two most recent albums.

First came Blow (2018), which introduced searing electric guitars, programming of all sorts, studio effects galore, and provocative lyrics sung over the top, followed by I Want More (2023), a return to instrumental music but produced and mixed by Dave Fridmann (Flaming Lips, MGMT, Tame Impala, Mercury Rev, Sleater-Kinney) to bring a distinctly non-jazz consciousness to the act of creation. The striking result prompted the jazz journal Jazzwise to declare the album “…a uniquely hard-hitting, direct, studio-driven recording that organically joins together elements from electronica, post-rock, jazz and improve more persuasively than perhaps anything before it. Strike another blow for the revolution in McCaslin’s head. New music is always right around the corner that underscores the insurgency in the music to come

Bandleader behind David Bowie's revered 'Blackstar' album, Donny McCaslin releases the long awaited album "I Want More" on Edition Records.

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