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Fred Anderson: Timeless - Live At The Velvet Lounge
ByHamid Drake, who seems to be everyone's favorite drummer these days, peppers and pushes with snappy rim shots and polyrhythmic fills, also revealing his penchant for attacking the kit from a percussionist's angle. On these extended workouts, the trio exposes its force with hypnotically engineered Latin grooves, African rhythms and expansive ostinatos. In addition, Anderson sets himself apart from many of his peers, navigating the avant-garde with melodic phrasings which serve as improvisational forays.
Complete with shifting modalities and Herculean deliberations, this album easily looms as a top pick for 2006. Here, Anderson's musical persona intimates a soulful edge, complementing a mode of attack that could only have been directed towards a higher entity! Zealously recommended.
Track Listing
Flashback; Ode To Tip; By Many Names; Timeless.
Personnel
Fred Anderson
saxophoneFred Anderson: tenor sax; Harrison Bankhead: bass; Hamid Drake: drums, percussion.
Album information
Title: Timeless - Live At The Velvet Lounge | Year Released: 2006 | Record Label: Delmark Records
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