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Concert Thu Mar 20 2008
Sax-a-ma-phoooone.....
The Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs' "New Music, New Millennium" series puts another notch in its upright bass neck this Saturday, welcoming saxophonist Donny McCaslin to the Chicago Cultural Center. If you've been following the NMNM series so far, you might be slightly surprised to see that this show is on Saturday at 1 p.m. (the rest of the shows have been weeknights), but it's still in the Claudia Cassidy Musical Theater in the Cultural Center building, 77 E Randolph. As with all of the concerts in this series (still six more to go after this one), the event is FREE.
McCaslin performs from his 2007 album In Pursuit, along with a large ensemble, in a style that suggests the innovations of middle '60s "modern" jazz before moving into more uncharted, late-'60s free styles. I can hear Coltrane, Oliver Nelson, Eric Dolphy, Jackie McLean and more in the sound samples from the artist's web site. A luscious sound with tinges of the type of Latin-jazz fire you could hear regularly in early Gato Barbieri. (If you can't get enough, McCaslin also plays later that night at the Green Mill [4802 N. Broadway] with the same ensemble)