Flow (Terence Blanchard album)

Flow

Studio album by Terence Blanchard

Released

June 7, 2005

Recorded

December 11–14, 2004
Jim Henson Studios, Los Angeles

Genre

Jazz, Post-Bop

Label

Blue Note
Blue Note 78273

Producer

Herbie Hancock

Terence Blanchard chronology

Bounce
(2003)

Flow
(2005)

A Tale of God's Will (A Requiem for Katrina)
(2007)

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
Allmusic	^[1]
The Guardian	^[2]
Billboard	(Positive)^[3]
Jazz Review	(Positive)^[4]
The Washington Post	(Positive)^[5]

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.^[6]

Background

This disc, one of only a few projects that ten-time Grammy winner Herbie Hancock has produced for other artists,^[7] 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."^[8] 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.

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 Kasi Lemmons' film Eve's Bayou.

Terence Blanchard (trumpet)
Aaron Parks (keyboards)
Brice Winston (tenor and soprano saxophones)
Derrick Hodge (bass)
Lionel Loueke (guitar/vocals)
Kendrick Scott (drums)
Herbie Hancock (piano on "Benny’s Tune," "The Source")
Gretchen Parlato (vocals on "Over There," "Child’s Play")

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

Billboard Chart

Year	Category	Weeks on Chart	Peak Position
Billboard Chart^[9]
2005	Top Jazz Album	5	10

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