Passage: CD Carly Simon After a four-year hiatus

After a four-year hiatus

” which is given a languid beat and swaggering horns

“Brenda’s Got A Baby”

they vowed not to return in anything less than triumph

cover star Mimi Barks further fuelling the chaos on the short

Passage: CD Carly Simon After a four-year hiatusJonathan Blake follows up his acclaimed 2021 Blue Note debut Homeward Bound with Passage, that once again features his band Pentad ( Immanuel Wilkins on alto saxophone, Joel Ross on vibraphone, David Virelles on piano, and Dezron Douglas on bass). Dedicated to the memory of his father John Blake Jr. whose stirring composition Passage gives the album its title, the 10 track album also features five new originals by Blake, as well as pieces by Douglas,