Michael Blake's Tiddy Boom
One-time Lounge Lizard (and Talent Deserving Wider Recognition) Blake returns with a project inspired by two titans of the tenor sax—Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young—and music that manages to honor each man’s distinctive sound while channeling both. Blake and his bandmates (pianist Frank Kimbrough, bassist Ben Allison, drummer Rudy Royston) have reached that point in their careers where they're sounding like old souls themselves: relaxed, adept, sure-footed, nothing left to prove. The album Tiddy Boom was the RJA's top pick of 2014. The music is pure joy. "Blake’s tenor burbles and barks out references to past masters while remaining firmly planted in the present." —James Hale, DownBeat
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