Donny McCaslin & Ishkero at Jazz à Vienne

Donny McCaslin & Ishkero at Jazz à Vienne

Since its creation in 1981, under the leadership of Jean-Paul Boutellier, the Jazz à Vienne festival has celebrated the world of jazz during the first two weeks of July.

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“It’s a fresh wind that blows against the empire.”

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.

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