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Cindy Blackman
Another Lifetime
Genres: Jazz, Pop

Track Listings (11) - Disc #1
1. Vashkar
2. Where
3. Beyond Games
4. Vashkar Reprise
5. 40 Years Of Innovation
6. The Game Theory
7. Vashkar -- The Alternate Dimension Theory
8. Love Song
9. And Heaven Welcomed A King
10. There Comes A Time
11. Wildlife

CD Details

All Artists: Cindy Blackman
Title: Another Lifetime
Members Wishing: 2
Total Copies: 0
Label: Four Quarters Ent
Original Release Date: 1/1/2010
Re-Release Date: 2/23/2010
Genres: Jazz, Pop
Style:
Number of Discs: 1
SwapaCD Credits: 1
UPC: 822545182023

Synopsis

Album Description

Cindy Blackman has been touted as "one of the hottest drummers in the business" by the Star Gazette and is regarded as one of the top drummers in the world. She is a solid, dependable drummer who can easily move from straight-ahead jazz to rock to funk and back again. She's upheld the backbeat and created texture for a veritable "Who's Who" in jazz and rock music, including a decade and a half as the drummer and backbone of the Lenny Kravitz Band. Cindy Blackman's album "Another Lifetime" is a tribute to her mentor Tony Williams, one of the greatest drummers of all time. The album features some of the most exciting tracks from the electic recordings of Tony Williams Lifetime, a band which featured some of the seminal and most influential jazz and rock musicians of the era. And no one else is better qualified to spearhead and perpetuate the music of Tony Williams than Cindy Blackman. Befriended by Williams as a young drummer on the New York scene, Cindy Blackman was prepared to absorb his torrential energy after being mentored by master drummers Art Blakey and Alan Dawson. Blackman's style of playing, influenced by Williams and Blakey, combines an aggressive attack and faultless technique. With fire and finesse, she provides an opportunity to hear one of the true disciples of Tony Williams, perhaps the greatest drummer of his lifetime or any other. Helping Cindy on this album is an all-star line-up featuring: Mike Stern (guitar), Doug Carne (organ), Vernon Reid (guitar), Patrice Rushen (keyboards), Benny Reitveld (bass), Joe Lovano (tenor saxophone) and others.

CD Reviews

The Best Tribute To Tony You' ll Hear In Your 'Lifetime'...

4-Legged Defender | ATL. GA. | 05/15/2010

(5 out of 5 stars)

"There's a new generation of drummers who don't 'get' Tony Williams' approach to playing - they have no sense of musicality, dynamics, don't serve the music 'cause they're too busy trying to impress, can't 'shade' or underscore a tune, can't fracture or subdivide meters, or embellish fills that sound like the musical equivalents of fractal geometry. Tony did all this and so much more - AND he was a composer of considerable strength, cited as so by Gil Evans, Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock. And no one, no one ever fingerfu#*ed a ride cymbal like he did - listen to Wayne Shorter`s 'Footprints' w/ Miles Quintet as proof.

This profound homage to Tony by Cindy Blackman is as close to the original Lifetime vibe as you're apt to ever hear, and it's all due to her uncanny ability to channel his approach, feel, chops and originality into his music. She even goes out of her way to make the drumkit sound like his did in '69/70, including the boomy bass drum sound before studio engineers learned how to mike drums properly. There are times while listening you'd swear you're hearing outtakes from 'Emergency' and 'Turn It Over' - if that's not a compliment, I don't know what is.

The other musicians are also playing in Lifetime's style - though not as intense as McLaughlin was back then, Mike Stern is 'in similar space', and Benny Rietveld`s bass playing clones Jack Bruce`s sound from that period. Doug Carne is very good, but no one can replicate Larry Young`s Coltrane-type approach to the B-3 organ.

Cindy also wrote several great tribute songs for Tony, '40 Years Of Innovation' and 'And Heaven Welcomed A King', bringing a tear to my eye. Her love for her mentor is truly touching and inspiring. Vernon Reid does great axework on 'Wildlife', which he also did on his last solo CD (seek it out, it's worth owning), and Cindy sings on a short take of 'There Comes A Time'.

An amazing player of remarkable depth, this cd is a must. Long live the legacy of the incomparable Tony Williams, and "thank you" Cindy for the great heartfelt cd homage to the master.

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