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| 1. | My Funny Valentine
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| 2. | Call to the Ancestors (1st Interlude)
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| 3. | Someday My Prince Will Come
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| 4. | Walkin'
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| 5. | Heaven Sent
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| 6. | Call to the Ancestors (2nd Interlude)
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| 7. | Eternal Justice
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| 8. | Peebow's Vibe
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| 9. | Glass Slippers
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| 10. | Paradise Island
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| 11. | Call to the Ancestors (Main Theme)
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Jazz / Hard Bop
Cindy Blackman - Drums
J.D. Allen - Tenor Saxophone; Carlton Holmes - piano; George Mitchell - bass
Cindy Blackman has been touted as "one of the hottest drummers in the business", by the Star-Gazzette and hailed as one of the top drummers in the world. She's upheld the backbeat and created texture for a varitable "Who's Who" in jazz: Jackie McLean, Joe Henderson, Don Pullen, Hugh Masekela, Pharaoh Sanders, Sam Rivers, Cassandra Wilson, Angela Bofill, Bill Laswell, Buckethead...and the list goes on. This, her third recording for HighNote, finds her playing at its richest and most well-integrated. As the highly conscious drummer for rocker Lenny Kravitz, Cindy has developed a loyal following which transcends the jazz boundaries. Lenny is actually having Cindy and her jazz colleagues open for him on his personal appearances so Cindy's jazz persona will definitely be in the limelight. With her colleagues J.D. Allen, Carlton Holmes and George Mitchell, Cindy offers a program of standards and originals bound together into one work of art with a leitmotiv of interludes composed especially for the album.
Cindy Blackman has led a long series of mostly acoustic jazz dates for the Muse and High Note labels. This particular set features her working group of 2000, a quartet with tenor saxophonist J.D. Allen, keyboardist Carlton Holmes, and bassist George Mitchell. Most intriguing are inventive reworkings of such veteran standards as "My Funny Valentine" (which is given a mildly disturbing mood), "Someday My Prince Will Come" (which is no-nonsense rather than being sweetly sentimental), and "Walkin'," which is taken much slower than usual. Together this trio of songs is a tribute of sorts to Miles Davis. The other pieces are group originals, including five by the drummer/leader (two of which are brief drum solos). These are post-bop explorations, often rather dark in mood and giving all four musicians opportunities to set the direction and to interact with each other. The result is an album of high-quality modern jazz. ~ Scott Yanow, All Music Guide
Cindy Blackman
Active Decades: '80s, '90s and '00s
Born: Nov 18, 1959 in Yellow Springs, OH
Genre: Jazz
Styles: Hard Bop
An accomplished, yet not flamboyant or showy drummer, Cindy Blackman has become a well-respected drummer and occasional bandleader in a short time. Both her mother and grandmother were classical musicians and her uncle a vibist. Blackman began playing drums as a child and studied classical percussion at the University of Hartford and Berklee. Alan Dawson and Lennie Nelson were two of her instructors. Blackman moved to New York in the early '80s, and played with Freddie Hubbard and Sam Rivers. She became Jackie McLean's regular drummer in 1987, and began recording as a leader that year for Muse. Blackman was a big attraction at jam sessions organized at the Blue Note by Ted Curson, and played with Don Pullen's trio in 1990 at several festivals. She has a few sessions available on CD.
---Ron Wynn, All Music Guide |
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