The Merriam-Webster Dictionary defines fellowship as "community of interest, activity, feeling, or experience," which seems to state well what Brian Blade & The Fellowship Band have been doing, ...

The Fellowship Band has changed personnel just a smidge over the years, in the pivotal guitar chair. (An early iteration of the group also featured pedal steel.) Kings Highway has Blade on drums, ...

It's been eight years since drummer Brian Blade released the outstanding Perceptual (Blue Note, 2000), his last release with his Fellowship band. While much has changed, from the first notes of Season ...

Brian Blade's band makes jazz-inflected, gospel-rooted music suffused with a glowing consonance. Brian Blade's Fellowship Band introduced a magnetic new musical synthesis on its self-titled 1998 debut ...

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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 ...

This weekend’s Sugar Bowl Country Kickoff at the Caesars Superdome and Mexican American band Fuerza Regida's stop at the Smoothie King Center were both canceled. But you’ve still got plenty of other ...

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 ...

One of the world's best jazz drummers is also a singer-songwriter, session man for Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell and the son of a preacher man. It's... He's widely acknowledged as one of the best jazz ...

Prolific drummer Brian Blade leads his enduring Fellowship Band on the newly released Kings Highway. Kings Highway was recorded at Fantasy Studios in 2018, during a productive stretch when Blade and ...