 |  |  |  | | |  | Declaration | Declaration is available on Sunnyside Records August 11th, 2009. Click here to purchase through Amazon.
Stream two tracks at the album page on my site here.
Players:
Donny McCaslin (tenor sax), Ben Monder (guitar), Scott Colley (bass),
Edward Simon (piano), Antonio Sanchez (drums), with Pernell Saturnino
(percussion), Alex “Sasha” Sipiagin (trumpet), Tatum Greenblatt
(trumpet), Chris Komer (horn), Marshall Gilkes (trombone), and Marcus
Rojas (tuba/bass trombone)
Produced by David Binney
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|  | New Album, Declaration, Announced | Read the full review at AllAboutJazz.
Excerpt:
“After my last recording, Recommended Tools, which is a trio recording
on Greenleaf Records, David Binney and I talked about shifting gears and doing a larger project
that would push me into new areas composition-wise and orchestration
wise, so the overall idea was for me to get into new and different
territory as a composer and as an improviser,” McCaslin says. “I hadn’t
written for a brass group before so this was new for me. Initially the
idea was having the brass as padding but the more I wrote the more
involved the brass became. The addition of brass gives me more options
to play off as an improviser as well.
“I wanted this to be a beautiful record as it was recorded just before
the birth of our daughter Claire,” McCaslin says. “She’s here now and
is such a blessing to my life. My hope is that this record conveys some
of feelings that have run so strongly through me during the process of
birth and new parenthood; joy, wonder, and tremendous love.”
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|  | Donny McCaslin Trio - Recommended Tools | Recommended Tools is the 7th release from 2008 Downbeat Rising Star Poll winner Donny McCaslin, and his first for Dave Douglas' Greenleaf Music label. With bassist Hans Glawischnig and drummer Johnathan Blake, McCaslin has made this highly emotive trio format a vehicle for his
virtuosic blowing and distinct compositional voice.
Click HERE to hear audio and explore this title.
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"[McCaslin’s] finest record as an improviser."
- Downbeat
"If this is one tenor player’s major announcement of his presence in his horn’s elite, it’s a ripper."
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