It's no coincidence that Terence Blanchard's new album Choices arrives at a moment when the nation is in the midst of a roiling debate over how to reform the health-care system.
That's not to say the trumpeter and film composer offers an opinion on whether we should adopt a “public option" for health insurance. But his latest release for Concord Music is very concerned with notions of national dialogue, and questions about how we make decisions as a people.
At its best, jazz embodies a form of radical democracy with every participant shaping the music's flow in real time. On this recording, however, Blanchard wanted to explore democratic ideas in theme as well as in form.
That's not to say the trumpeter and film composer offers an opinion on whether we should adopt a “public option" for health insurance. But his latest release for Concord Music is very concerned with notions of national dialogue, and questions about how we make decisions as a people.
At its best, jazz embodies a form of radical democracy with every participant shaping the music's flow in real time. On this recording, however, Blanchard wanted to explore democratic ideas in theme as well as in form.
