Bounce (Terence Blanchard album)

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Bounce
Studio album by Terence Blanchard
Released	August 5, 2003
Recorded	February 16, 2003 – February 19, 2003
Genre	Jazz, Post-Bop
Label	Blue Note
Producer	Terence Blanchard, Michael Cuscuna
Professional reviews
All Music Guide link Billboard (Positive) link MSN link Jazz Review (Positive) link
Terence Blanchard chronology
25th Hour (2003) Bounce (2003) Flow (2005)

Bounce is a 2003 jazz album by Terence Blanchard, released through Blue Note.

Contents 1 Background 2 Performers 3 Track listing 4 Billboard Chart 5 Footnotes

[edit] Background

Bounce is the Blue Note recording debut of trumpter and composer Terence Blanchard. The album is a mix of the sounds of Africa, Brazil, and America with the styles of swing, hard bop, free form, groove, and early 70's fusion. The Grammy Award winner Terence Blanchard is the musician who in the 1980s played the trumpet for bands led by jazz luminaries Lionel Hampton and Art Blakey. Blanchard also wrote music scores for films such as Spike Lee's Jungle Fever (1991), Clockers (1995), 4 Little Girls (1997), 25th Hour (2003), and the highly acclaimed Malcolm X (1992).

Stylistically, Bounce covers a lot of territory. From Blanchard’s light funk reworking of the Wayne Shorter staple, “Footprints” to the free-style of “Fred Brown” to the African-flavoured “Azania”, which features vocals by African guitarist Lionel Loueke, to the straight-ahead finale, “Bounce/Let’s Go Off”. Blanchard handles most of the writing, but also gives Aaron Parks, Eric Harland and bassist Brandon Owens some compositional space. Parks’ “On the Verge” is a take-no-prisoner’s blowing tune, in contrast to the dramatic ballad, Blanchard’s “Passionate Courage”.^[1]

[edit] Performers

Recorded at Avatar Studios, New York, New York in February 2003.

• Terence Blanchard (trumpet)
• Lionel Loueke (vocals, guitar)
• Brice Winston (soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone)
• Aaron Parks (piano)
• Robert Glasper, piano, organ
• Brandon Owens (bass)
• Eric Harland (drums)

[edit] Track listing

Track	Song Title	Composer	Time
1.	On The Verge	Aaron Parks	8:43
2.	Passionate Courage	Blanchard	6:32
3.	Fred Brown	Blanchard	7:42
4.	Nocturna	Ivan Lins, Vitor Martins	7:33
5.	Azania	Blanchard	6:04
6.	Footprints	Wayne Shorter	7:31
7.	Transform	Eric Harland	9:00
8.	Innocence	Brandon Owens	7:23
9.	Bounce/Let's Go Off	Blanchard, D. Harrison	7:06

[edit] Billboard Chart

Billboard Chart[2]
Year	Category	Weeks on Chart	Peak Position
2003	Top Jazz Album	5	13

[edit] Footnotes