Donny McCaslin at Mission Theater

By now, the jazz virtuoso as a featured collaborator in pop and rock should hardly be novel. Joni Mitchell had Jaco Pastorius, Steely Dan had Larry Carlton, and even Q-Tip has leaned on the scintillating neologisms of guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. Yet, perhaps no such musician has had as brilliant or quietly vigorous a champion as David Bowie, whose keen eye—and ear—for talent was piqued by Stevie Ray Vaughan’s... read more