Joni Mitchell and Chick Corea. Bob Dylan and Wayne Shorter. Emmylou Harris and Herbie Hancock. Sara McLachlan and Charles Lloyd. These are just some of the artists who have prized four-time Grammy ...

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Thanks to his greatest mentor, Brian Blade has learned to never stop exploring. As he tells KQED Arts over the phone from his home in Shreveport, Louisiana, that man is his father, Brady L. Blade, Sr.

SUAREZ: That's Blade playing with legendary saxophonist Wayne Shorter. But Blade has a very different side, too. For the past 20 years, the Louisiana-born musician and composer has quietly pursued a ...

Two-time Grammy Award-winning drummer Brian Blade is this year's artist-in-residence for the 2024 Detroit Jazz Festival scheduled for Aug. 30 – Sept. 2. “The artist-in-residence position at the ...

Snug Harbor Jazz Bistro announced a very special one-night, two-show engagement with Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band on September 3, 2024. Brian Blade, a Shreveport, Louisiana native, is renowned ...

Here’s an unusual phenomenon: Drummer Brian Blade at rest. "It is sort of a rare occasion, " Blade said from the local hotel where he holed up this week. "I needed to take advantage of this ...

Drummers typically stay behind the scenes in American popular music. You wouldn’t think of them coming out with a singer-songwriter album, or starting a band whose sound is an inventive blend of jazz, ...

The Seacoast is in for a treat when four-time Grammy Award winning drummer and composer Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band visit Portsmouth for four shows (Friday, Aug. 12 at 7 and 9:30 p.m., and ...

Brian Blade took the Highline Ballroom stage on a humid Wednesday night to mark the release of his singer-songwriter album, Mama Rosa (Verve Music Group, 2009). There was relatively little fanfare, ...

Drummer Brian Blade brings his longtime sextet to New Orleans for a pair of concerts at Loyola University on March 8, 2013. (Photo by Loyola University) Brian Blade, the world-bestriding Louisiana ...