Artist: Terence Blanchard
Title Of Album: Flow
Year Of Release: 2005
Label: Blue Note Records
Genre: Jazz, Post-Bop
Quality: FLAC (TRACKS+AUDIOCHECKER LOG)/MP3
Bitrate: lossless / 320 kbps
Total Time: 73:26 min
Total Size: 476 mb / 177 mb (+5% rec.)

Tracklist

1 Flow, Pt. 1 Blanchard, Hodge 5:29
2 Wadagbe (Intro) Loueke 4:14
3 Wadagbe Loueke 10:26
4 Benny's Tune Loueke 7:43
5 Wandering Wonder Blanchard 5:46
6 Flow, Pt. 2 Blanchard, Hodge 3:37
7 The Source Scott 8:01
8 Over There Hodge 7:32
9 Child's Play Winston 6:11
10 Flow, Pt. 3 Blanchard, Hodge 2:45
11 Harvesting Dance Parks 11:42



Quite simply Blanchards best album and one of the best of the year so far.This recording sees Blanchard moving into altogether different territory from his hard bop days with the jazz messengers.Added to the standard acoustic lineup is the use of the synth effects to create a different backdrop for the musicians to perform.This isn't high tech stuff but just enough give the album a completely origional sound.Blanchard is in customary good form and so is tenor sax man brice Winston and Lionel Loeke puts his voice to great effect on the lengthy track "Wadagbe" with some Afro style chants.The compositions are fresh and origional,the musicians are all on top form and the electronic effects give the whole thing a fusion'ish feel.

Flow is trumpet player Terence Blanchard's second album for Blue Note. Over the years Blue Note's recorded some of the best trumpeters the world has ever known; from Miles Davis and Lee Morgan to Freddie Hubbard and Don Cherry. Terence Blanchard manages to successfully draw on the label's rich history, moving with ease from a ballad like "Over There" to the organic build and insistent propulsion of the album's longest track, "Harvesting Dance." He embraces melodic precision, but always in accord with a resonant emotional foundation. Producer Herbie Hancock is a perfect fit for this project, bridging the traditional realms of post-bop and modernist inclinations. --David Greenberger