Genre: Jazz
Original Release: 4/1/2008
1. Perceptual
6:28
2. Evinrude-Fifty (Trembling)
7:56
3. Reconciliation
6:44
4. Crooked Creek
9:10
5. Patron Saint Of Girls
2:40
6. The Sunday Boys (Improvisation)
1:06
7. Variations of a Bloodline: From the Same Blood/Fellowship (Like ...)
9:09
8. Steadfast
8:21
9. Trembling
2:17
With this second date from the Fellowship, Brian Blade proves that while he is one of the most in-demand session drummers of the '90s, his skills as a bandleader and composer are not to be overlooked. Blade composes songs as if he were painting a broad mural. He sculpts landscapes of sound, orchestral in their feel and truly breathtaking in their grandeur. His own playing, sinuous and breathy, ties the septet together in ways that recall the best progressive jazz of the 1960s, as well as the fusion of the 1970s. Inspired by childhood memories of fishing the Louisiana bayous of his youth on "Evinrude-Fifty (Trembling)"; or ethnic strife around the world, as on the three-part epic "Variations of a Bloodline"; or by the violent world that children must face every day "Steadfast," Blade Read More
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