Saxophonist Donny McCaslin on The Blueprint with Chris Philips

Grammy Award-winning musician and composer Maria Schneider introduced rock legend David Bowie to the music of saxophonist Donny McCaslin at a tiny New York club called the 55 Bar. Bowie immediately decided Donny and his band were just what he was looking for to record his final album 'Blackstar'. Donny himself already has a long and accomplished career as a genre bending jazz man, heavily influenced by electronica and dance music. The pairing was a fateful one and a perfect fit and the rest, as they say, is history. Donny was in London for the jazz festival with a sell-out date at Rich Mix. He came in to see Chris Philips and spoke openly about the emotion that remains raw after the loss of Bowie this year and explains how his new album 'Beyond Now' became a tribute to the great man.