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New Blade Podcast!

7/28/2008

Brian Blade discusses his latest album on this brand new podcast. Enjoy!

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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...

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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!

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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."

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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!

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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."

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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...

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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!

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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."

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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...

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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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