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New Direction
Herlin Riley
Label: Mack Avenue Records
Released: 2016
Duration: 1:03:34
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Tracks
New Direction; A Spring Fantasy; The Crossbar; The Big Banana; Shake Off The Dust; Connection To Congo Square; Herlin's Hurdle; Hiccup Smooth; Harlem Shuffle; Tutti Ma.
Personnel
Herlin Riley
drumsAdditional Personnel / Information
Emmet Cohen: piano; Russell Hall: bass; Bruce Harris: trumpet; Godwin Louis: saxophone; Pedrito Martínez: congas; Herlin Riley: drums, vocals; Mark Whitfield: guitar.
Album Description
For all of the hard rhythmic driving intensity of New Direction, Riley is not one of those drummers who needs to blast away to captivate listeners and to remain engaged. In these powerful arrangements, you can discern Riley’s fascination with complex rhythm cycles, where each man’s instrument seemingly functions as a direct extension of the drummer, by layering contrasting metric accents one upon another with varying degrees of intensity, often as a prelude to some vigorous theme and variation by this most melodic of drummers.
