Flow (Terence Blanchard album)

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Flow
Studio album by Terence Blanchard
Released June 7, 2005
Recorded December 11, 2004 – December 14, 2004
Genre Jazz, Post-Bop
Label Blue Note
Producer Herbie Hancock
Professional reviews
Terence Blanchard chronology
Bounce
(2003)		 Flow
(2005)		 A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina)
(2007)

Flow is a 2005 jazz album by Grammy winning trumpeter Terence Blanchard, released through Blue Note, and was nominated for a Grammy Award "Best Jazz Instrumental Album" in 2005.[1]

Contents

[edit] Background

This disc, one of only a few projects that ten-time Grammy winner Herbie Hancock has produced for other artists,[2] is imbued with a dark-hued melancholy that really comes to the fore on a pair of elegant, shape-shifting ballads -- "Benny's Tune," featuring Hancock on piano, and "Over There."[3] Several pieces, Blanchard returning to his African roots thanks to a spirited "Wadagbe" and "Harvesting Dance." Lionel Loueke, a native of Benin, starred on his composition "Wadagbe," which he led off by tapping his guitar's hollow body like a percussion instrument. Then he added a West African chant as his melody, with his voice doubled via microphone effects. The title composition "Flow," split into three tracks spread across the album, opens with a low, hungry groove driven by the group's most recent additions (bassist Derrick Hodge and drummer Kendrick Scott) and offers variations on the theme for "Part II" and "Part III." This album Flow is an eclectic acoustic-electric hybrid, a nimble, uncompromising fusion of world music and mainstream jazz that suggests the shape of the genre to come.

[edit] Performers

For four days in mid-December 2004, the trumpeter worked with his sextet at the Jim Henson Studios in Hollywood, California. Tracking the sessions at Henson was engineer Don Murray, who has a relationship with Blanchard dating back to 1995, when the trumpeter scored Lemmons' film Eve's Bayou.

[edit] Track listing

Track Song Title Composer Time
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

[edit] Billboard Chart

Billboard Chart[4]
Year Category Weeks on Chart Peak Position
2005 Top Jazz Album 5 10

[edit] Footnotes

  1. ^ Grammy Award search engine
  2. ^ Record Release "Flows" from Blue Note
  3. ^ Terence Blanchard Teams Up With Herbie Hancock
  4. ^ Billboard chart history

[edit] References