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Binding: Audio CDEAN: 0602517610477 Label: Verve Manufacturer: Verve MPN: 001069602 Number Of Discs: 1 Publisher: Verve Release Date: May 06, 2008 Studio: Verve Editorial Review: Album Description: 2008 release of Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band which is their first new album in eight years by this critically acclaimed ensemble. Season of Changes finds the dynamic performer and composer reunited with his writing partner and muse, Jon Cowherd (Lizz Wright's Salt) and the critically acclaimed guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel. Brian Blade is universally acknowledged as one of the finest drummers and musicians in all of popular music. His resume is as diverse as it is impressive having recorded and or/performed with Bob Dylan, Daniel Lanois, Bill Frisell, Emmylou Harris, Joni Mitchell, Joshua Redman, Seal, Wayne Shorter and more. 9 tracks. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Thanks Brian for some of Kurt's most enjoyable playingI just played this cd after listening to Progressions: 100 Years of Jazz Guitar, co-produced by John Scofield, and I was struck by how Kurt Rosenwinkel's playing with the Brian Blade Fellowship sounds better to me than the playing of most of the greats of the 70s, 80s, and 90s. So many of these guys sound tense, as if they're trying to prove something. I like virtuosity as well the next man, but I like it most when a player's skill gives him the confidence to relax and get into a tune. Kurt's ... Read More Rating: - The Wait is OverI have been checking and looking and waiting since Perceptual. In fact Perceptual is always in my rotation. The new CD Season of Changes has allowed Perceptual to rest (briefly). Contrary to it's title Blade and The Fellowship Band have not let up on making an audio experience visual. This groups sound makes you envision a place, a time or a person that you may or may not know. The sound is also atmosphere of intensity. When you hear them play, you feel them, you feel him. Absolutely outstanding ... Read More Rating: - Taking Jazz to a different place... music for you soul!All of Brian Blades Fellowship albums (this is the third) are excellent! The compositions are from the heart and soul of the writer's and the players bring life to them with pieces of their own hearts and souls. This is not the same old bebop variations that you hear from Wynton and his followers. This is new music, that's rather difficult to pigeonhole. It's definitely jazz, though. There is great improvising, there is a great flow within the whole group. They obviously love to play this music, and ... Read More Rating: - MesmerizingThis CD and his first release are well worth getting. (I did not get the second CD yet). I am unfamiliar with the BBF but recently heard a few cuts on the radio. At first you may think you are listing to Pat Methany but after awhile this group is very versitle and pleasently unpredictable. You can listen to the whole CD without being concerned about quality. Thoughts of the Jazz Crusaders and Kenny Garrett come to mind as Brian Blade allows his band great liberty in his long pieces. I say support real ... Read More Rating: - Intoxicatingly deliciousTwo albums in, I've learned to recognise Brian Blade's very unique sound and as soon as I heard the first few bars of the first track on this CD, the first we've heard from him and his Fellowship Band since 2000, a beatific smile spread over my face. Some hoping for some sort of musical radical departure may be disappointed, feeling that this is just more of the same but I'm as happy as a lark with it. As always, Kurt Rosenwinkel's guitar seduced me in from the word go and I was swept away right until the very ... Read More |
