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Renown Jazz Drummer Brian Blade Comes to The Columbus

A recording session and performance from Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band will launch the new Eyeland Studios

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Jazz lovers rejoice – one of modern jazz’s most revered and defining drummers, Brian Blade, and his Fellowship Band are coming to the historic Columbus Theatre for a landmark recording session and performance on August 21. The theatre’s new Eyeland Studios, a professional recording studio owned and operated by the renowned Providence band The Low Anthem, will host the event, along with Brian Webb, as part of their launch this year. The recording will be released on celebrated jazz label Blue Note Records

LA Weekly has called Brian Blade “a fiery drummer whose textual, hyper-dynamic approach redefined jazz drumming for a new generation.” Blade grew up in Shreveport, Louisiana, and later moved to New Orleans, playing with many of the jazz scene’s greats, like Steve Masakowski, George French and Harold Battiste. He rose to prominence as a sideman and formed The Fellowship Band in 1997 with pianist Jon Cowherd, bassist Chris Thomas, saxophonists Myron Walden and Melvin Butler and more.

This recording session and performance will mark the launch of Eyeland Studios, which will open for professional recording sessions in September. The day after the performance, on Saturday, August 22, there will be a Q&A session with Brian moderated by local jazz icon Eric Jackson. Jackson has hosted his own signature show on 89.7 WGBH, Eric in the Evening, for over 30 years and has conducted over 3,000 interviews with artists from all eras, including legends like Wynton Marsalis, Dizzy Gillespie and Ornette Coleman. 

The seeds for this special event were laid down when Daniel Lanois (producer for U2, Bob Dylan, Emmylou Harris and more) came to play the Columbus last year, and Brian Blade was his drummer. Jeff Prystowsky of The Low Anthem shares more, “Brian's Fellowship Band is one of the most innovative and creative and exciting jazz bands in the world. I am thrilled that he chose us – Columbus Theatre, Eyeland Studio, Low Anthem, Providence – to make his next record, and excited for the possibilities of Providence becoming a town where great records are made.” 

Columbus Theatre
270 Broadway, Providence.
621-9660

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