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A special musical stable from the east coast of America is forming at the decades-old Blue Note label. Key figures include vibraphonist Joel Ross and saxophonist Immanuel Wilkins with their Blue Note albums full of complex and modern, but never inaccessible post-bop. They now appear as sidemen on the Blue Note debut of Johnathan Blake. This drummer from Philadelphia already has a long track record… and has played with Maria Schneider, the Mingus Big Band, Dr. Lonnie Smith and Q-Tip, among others. On Homeward Bound he offers prominent roles to Ross, Wilkins and keyboardist David Virelles. Blake leads this prominent group in a supple, driving and playful way and knows how to hold on to the groove without emphasizing it, but by playing around it. This dominant approach makes Homeward Bound a real drummer's album, in good traditions of Blue Note drummers like Art Blakey and Elvin Jones. (MR)more
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