The Program

Performing with:

MELVIN BUTLER, tenor sax

MYRON WALDEN, alto sax/bass clarinet

JEFF PARKER guitar

CHRIS THOMAS, bass 

Program to be announced from stage

The Artist

The multi-talented Brian Blade is widely respected in the jazz world as drummer/composer/leader of Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band, with whom he has released three albums.  He is also known as the drummer for many legends of the music world, including Daniel Lanois, Joni Mitchell, Bob Dylan, Wayne Shorter, Seal, Bill Frisell and Emmylou Harris, and as part of the Wayne Shorter Quartet with Danilo Perez and John Patitucci. 

Brian Blade was born in Shreveport, Louisiana and attended college in New Orleans, where he absorbed the influences of Ellis Marsalis, David Lee, Jr. Bill Huntington, Mike Pellera, George French, Germaine Bazzle, Steve Masakowski and John Mahoney.  He has recorded four albums for Verve Records, the latest of which ‑ Mama Rosa ‑ is his first as a singer, guitarist, and songwriter.

For more information on Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band, visit the artist's website.