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Hamid Drake & Michael Zerang: For Ed Blackwell

Read "For Ed Blackwell" reviewed by Mark Corroto

by Mark Corroto
February 11, 2016

This forty-two minute continuous recording of drummers Hamid Drake and Michael Zerang was released on the occasion of the 25th anniversary performance of their Winter Solstice Concerts in December 2015. The percussionists' tradition of welcoming the return of the sun to the northern hemisphere every December 21st by making music predawn only to be illuminated by the sun rise. This session happens to be the second day of percussion duets recorded by the pair in 1995. The first ...