Donny McCaslin Trio - Recommended Tools
Friday, October 24, 2008
Greenleaf Music GRE 1008 | **** McCaslin (ts), Hans Glawischnig (b) and Jonathan Blake (d). Rec. 2008 This is like waiting ages for a bus. Then two come along at once! There hasn’t been a really outstanding tenor pianoless trio record since the classics by Rollins and Joe Henderson on Blue Note – and now, four weeks apart – we get two killer CDs, first by JD Allen (I Am I Am) and now by Dave Douglas’ tenorman McCaslin, not only known for his Grammy-nominated role in the Maria Schneider Orchestra, but also his many left-of-centre experiments with the likes of David Binney. The story goes that Douglas (half jokingly) asked him to “write and record the Great American Tenor Trio Record. Well, he delivered – with a stunning set of music”.
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