Saxophonist Donny McCaslin is best known to many Bowie fans for his work on Blackstar, where his expressive and adventurous playing helped shape the sound of Bowie’s final studio album. Over the course of a distinguished career, however, McCaslin has…
Saturdays are the days I typically post featured interviews on my YouTube channel. These interviews usually take the form of me asking one or more guests questions, sometimes in person but usually via video. Often, these interviews take weeks or…
My interview tomorrow is…well, it isn’t really an interview. And the video I’m going to post is hardly my work product. You’ll see, at the very beginning, that what will follow began like a typical interview. I supplied questions to…
As we approach the 10th anniversary of David Bowie’s death, I find myself not simply reflecting on Bowie, but on my larger Bowie project, which began with a series of Facebook posts I committed to myself to publish every day…
My Bowie news roundup yesterday included a link to a story about Blixa Bargeld’s new EP featuring four David Bowie covers recorded with longtime collaborator Nikko Weidemann. Titled Blixa Bargeld Sings David Bowie, the EP includes: - “Helden” – the…
Friend of the blog DoM, of DoM's Mashups and Covers continues to amaze me with what he does-- mashups are not unusual, but the seamlessness of DoM's mashups often produce a song that sounds like it, not its source components,…
I find that I don’t so much listen to a Marc Lowe album as much as inhabit it. Marc is an American living in Japan who I first encountered via one of his more conventional Bowie covers more than a…
When I interviewed Donny McCaslin, I knew I was speaking with a musician whose contributions to Blackstar helped shape not just David Bowie's final album, but one of the most important records of the 21st century. What I didn’t expect…
Donny McCaslin will be joining me tomorrow for an exclusive interview, where we talk about his path to working with David Bowie on Blackstar, the creative process behind the album, his thoughts on key tracks and performances, the emotional and…
This Saturday, I’ll be publishing my full interview with Henry Hey—the musician, arranger, and musical director whose work with David Bowie helped shape The Next Day and Lazarus. In that conversation, we talk in depth about Hey’s time working with…