Stanford Jazz Workshop presents Donny McCaslin’s Fast Future
2015-07-20
Dinkelspiel Auditorium
Stanford University, 471 Lagunita Drive, Stanford, CA
7:30 PM, Monday, July 20, 2015

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[7:34 PM; lights down, announcements from Jim Nadel]

1. [7:39 PM] ?
2. [8:05 PM] ?
3. [8:16 PM] ?
4. [8:30 PM] ? Stadium Jazz
5. [8:42 PM] ?
6. [8:47 PM] ?
7. [8:59 PM] ?
   [set ends 9:17 PM; no encore]

• Matt Clohesy: bass;
• Mark Guiliana: drums;
• Jason Lindner: keyboards;
• Donny McCaslin: tenor saxophone.

Tonight Donny and his merry band gave us a very interesting blend of straight up analog jazz with a hefty dose of electronica in the keyboards and bass parts. I was a little perturbed when Jim Nadel allowed that the band was only going to play one set, but I definitely enjoyed my fill, so I guess the takeaway there is not to get attached to superficiality. One Set, two sets, it's all good if the music is blazing!

Donny did a good job telling us about the tunes, but I must have been distracted, because I don't seem to have written anything intelligible about the titles. I'm gonna go out on a limb (hah!) and assert that he played a big chunk of his latest album, Fast Future, available for the bargain price of $10 at BandCamp, which offers tags “drum & bass edm jazz New York” – a reasonably succint (and accurate!) list, IMHO! Stadium Jazz was definitely one of the later cuts, but I'm hard pressed to recall whether it was actually the fourth tune or not. Should have taken better notes!

Back to the previous event! ☸ Up to the 2015 yearbox! ☸ Up to the 2015 event list! ☸ On to the next event!