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POTSDAM – The last Community Performance Series concert of the season will feature jazz masters Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band on Saturday, April 14, at Hosmer Hall at 7:30 p.m. Blade has …
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POTSDAM – The last Community Performance Series concert of the season will feature jazz masters Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band on Saturday, April 14, at Hosmer Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Blade has recorded and performed with the likes of Wayne Shorter, Bob Dylan, Joni Mitchell, Daniel Lanois, Marianne Faithfull, Norah Jones, Billy Childs, Joshua Redman, Bill Frisell, Emmylou Harris and Kenny Garrett, and is widely respected in the jazz world as the drummer, composer and leader of Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band.
Blade is always searching for the balance that gives a song a personal story with an outward reaching resonance.
"Revealing more of ourselves is always daunting," says Blade, "but I feel like I need to keep challenging myself and peeling away layers to get to the core of who I am and what I have to offer."
Blade and musician friend Jon Cowherd formed the Fellowship Band in 1998. Besides Blade, the current band lineup includes Chris Thomas, Myron Walden, Kurt Rosenwinkel and Melvin Butler.
The Fellowship Band exemplifies the development of a singular sound and vision formed from multiple points of view, meant to lift the spirit and bring joy to the listener, said a press release from the performance series. This joy is what The Fellowship Band hopes to share with the audience, said the press release.
In the last 20 years, Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band have released several albums on the Blue Note/Universal label – “Fellowship” in 1998, “Perceptual” in 2000, “Season of Changes” in 2008, and the Grammy-nominated “Landmarks” in 2014. The group’s fifth album, “Body and Shadow,” was released in 2017 on Blue Note.
For more information about the band, and Blade’s work, log on to http://www.brianblade.com/.
For more about the Community Performance series visit http://cpspotsdam.org.
Tickets prices for the show are: adults $30, $25, and $20; seniors, faculty and staff $27, $22 and $17; and students $16, $12 and $8. Purchase tickets at the CPS box office (315-267-2277), online at cpspotsdam.org, or at Brick and Mortar Music, 15 Market St., Potsdam.
