Four – 2012
Terence Blanchard
The trumpeter and his hard bop quintet play an uptempo “Four”
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Terence Blanchard has been a major trumpeter ever since he succeeded Wynton Marsalis with Art Blakey’s Jazz Messengers in the mid-1980s.
Blanchard has also developed through the years as a film composer, bandleader, educator, and an all-round inspiration for many others.
In 2012, his regular quintet was comprised of tenor-saxophonist Brice Winston, pianist Fabien Almazan, bassist Derrick Hodge, and drummer Kendrick Scott.
With his group, the trumpeter performs the standard “Four,” a song that Blanchard has never gotten around to recording.
The uptempo rendition has a heated Winston solo, Blanchard starting his fiery improvisation unaccompanied, and the pianist taking the song through several moods.
-Scott Yanow
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