Brian Blade on His Powerful New Musical Diary Recordings

While living in an old mill in Nyack, New York, the skilled jazz drummer Brian Blade, who's been part of the Wayne Shorter Quartet for the last fifteen years and fronted his Fellowship Band for the past close to two decades, started an audio diary of sorts on a four-track cassette recorder with songs he'd written on guitar. The songs were his personal thoughts; about them about his family, relationships, losing and gaining.