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Drift

Label: Intuition
Released: 2002
Track listing: Drift; Mean As A Swan; Toque; The Creep; Lady Red; Teo Walks; Duty Free Suite; Dry Socket; Afro Blake; Maria; Residence.

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Michael Blake opts for a simple quartet aesthetic on this aptly named release. The lineup is a Jazz Composers Collective who’s who: Ben Allison on bass, Frank Kimbrough on piano, Mike Mazor on drums. Some of the tunes will be familiar to those who’ve heard Blake at the Collective’s New York concert series over the last ...

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Michael Blake: Drift

by AAJ Staff
February 1, 2002

Blake is an improvising saxophonist who, because of his personal interests and the label he’s on, is often mistakenly relegated to the Worldbeat sections. To be honest, this disc only grabbed me halfway through, but when it did, it grabbed hard, and has sustained repeated listening. The title cut, “Drift,” is echoed à la old ECM, ...

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Strange City

By The Herbie Nichols Project

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2001
Track listing: Moments Magical; Enrapture; Delights; Blue Shout; Strange City; Karna Kangi; The Happenings; Change Of Season; Some Wandering Bushmen; Shuffle Montgomery.

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Michael Blake: Drift

by Glenn Astarita
April 1, 2001

Following up his stunning and hauntingly beautiful 1997 solo release, Kingdom of Champra - saxophonist/composer Michael Blake enlists fellow “Jazz Composers Collective” performers along with modern jazz saxophonist Briggan Krauss and others for this equally impressive production simply titled, Drift. Here, the New York City-based artist once again demonstrates his melodic compositional gifts to coincide with ...

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Redemption

By Michael Blake

Label: Intuition
Released: 2000
Track listing: Johnny Hornet; Sixth Sense; Jar Of Hair; Cilantro; God Don't Never Change; Dear EAR; Been a Son; Redemption; Breeze Valley; Shine A Light.

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