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New Blade Podcast!7/28/2008Brian Blade discusses his latest album on this brand new podcast. Enjoy!
Road Trip: Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band 6/30/2008 "I thought I really knew the band's music from its three CDs, but seeing
the group in a club brought some things into focus...I hear now why
those songs are so memorable, leaving me and others singing bits of
their melodies as we wandered into the...
Listen to the live interview with Brian Blade on Soundcheck 6/18/2008 Soundcheck's John Schaefer conducted an interview with Brian Blade on June 18. Be sure to check it out!
Listen to Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band live from the Village Vanguard! 6/17/2008 "Live at the Village Vanguard is a newly
launched monthly series from WBGO, The Village Vanguard and NPR that
presents jazz programming in a completely fresh way, using
multi-platform media to heighten the jazz experience."
Listen to a recent interview with Brian Blade conducted by Josh Jackson of WBGO 6/17/2008 WBGO's Josh Jackson recently conducted a 50 + min interview with Brian Blade. Don't miss it!
Baltimore Sun Season of Changes Review 6/6/2008 "Though jazz may only account for 2 percent of all record sales
worldwide, the genre is still pulsing with creative energy. Season of
Changes is proof of that."
Season of Changes Guardian.Co.UK Review 6/3/2008 "Blade's power is unleashed into an electronics melee on the second
version of Most Precious One, and his rich tapestry of cymbal
variations, swelling snare-rolls and asymmetrical accents, coupled with
an unfaltering heartbeat of a pulse, marks out an...
Brian Blade wins 2008 Modern Drummer Readers Poll Award! 5/27/2008 Check out the July 2008 Modern Drummer for Brian's cover story. Included is his 2008 "Contemporary Jazz" Readers Poll Award!
Season of Changes WBGO Review 5/20/2008 "Few have matched the intensity of the quest the way saxophonist John
Coltrane did in the 1960s. But the Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band, a sextet
whose name underscores its chief tenet, is finding the path of the
enlightened."
Season of Changes JazzTimes Review 5/16/2008 "Hugely celebrated as a drummer, Brian Blade has never really received his due as a composer and bandleader. If Season of Changes changes anything, let it be that. The new album arrives 10 years after the Fellowship’s eponymous debut and ends an...
Season of Changes NY Times Review 5/16/2008 "The earnest, glowing euphony of the Fellowship Band, led by the drummer Brian Blade, can seem out of place within the complex ecosystem of modern jazz. On Season of Changes post-bop sophistication is gently sifted through layers of gospel, country, folk...
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