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Cindy Blackman: Changing Jazz

by Bill Leikam
December 25, 2008

Cindy Blackman The Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society Half Moon Bay, California December 7, 2008

Jazz has been in cycles of change almost from its inception, and I see another of those changes happening now. Jazz drummer Cindy Blackman's recent performance at the Bach is a prime example of this change. Some writers refer to her style as post-bop but that's too nebulous a term to distinguish it from other modern jazz forms. ...

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Album Review

Cindy Blackman: Music For The New Millennium

by Troy Collins
February 11, 2008

Drummer Cindy Blackman's solo output has been sporadic since touring and recording with retro-rocker Lenny Kravitz for the past fifteen years. Recorded in 2005 with her regular working quartet, Music For The New Millennium is a double disc collection of inspired post-bop that heralds her return as a session leader. A persuasive reminder of her technical prowess, it reveals a stylistic allegiance to past masters while keeping an eye to the future.

Blackman is heavily influenced by the ...

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Album Review

Cindy Blackman: Music For The New Millennium

by Mark F. Turner
January 28, 2008

A fierce and dynamic performer, Cindy Blackman is one of the top female drummers around, well-known for her years with cult rock icon Lenny Kravitz. A far cry from gigs for thousands of screaming fans, her muse is rooted in jazz, where she is an equally intrepid craftsperson having released a number of noteworthy, if lesser-known titles including High Note's In The Now (1998) with Ravi Coltrane, Jacky Terrasson and Ron Carter, and Someday (2001) with her current band--saxophonist J.D. ...

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Album Review

Cindy Blackman: Someday

by AAJ Staff
August 1, 2001

While one would not guess so by the soft lines of her face, Cindy Blackman has now been on the modern jazz scene for nearly twenty years. She has compiled an impressive resume along the way: Jackie Mclean, Joe Henderson, Don Pullen, Hugh Masekela, Pharaoh Sanders, Sam Rivers, Cassandra Wilson, Ravi Coltrane and Bill Laswell. Of course she probably has gained the most notoriety for her stint with Rock Superstar Lenny Kravitz, which Jazz fans will either politely (or impolitely) ...

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Album Review

Cindy Blackman: A Lil

by Jim Santella
April 1, 2000

Drummer Cindy Blackman propels her hard bop ensembles the way Art Blakey did. With a compilation taken from her four Muse recordings (1987-1995), 32 Jazz has found an appropriate way to demonstrate her tasteful leadership while revealing Blackman’s crisp and powerful drum work. That she studied classical percussion at the University of Hartford is evident in her reliable articulation. Furthermore, studies at the Berklee College of Music in Boston seem to have contributed to the variety she exhibits throughout her ...

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