Chicago Music Exchange hosted Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band for a CME session on March 14th 2013. Enjoy watching "King's Highway", one of the 3 songs they performed live during their master class.

Blade was born and raised in Shreveport, Louisiana. The first music he experienced was gospel and songs of praise at the Zion Baptist Church where his father, Brady L. Blade, Sr., has been the pastor for fiftytwo years. In elementary school, music appreciation classes were an important part of his development and at age nine, he began playing the violin. Inspired by his older brother, Brady Blade, Jr., who had been the drummer at Zion Baptist Church, Brian shifted his focus to the drums throughout middle and high school.

During high school, while studying with Dorsey Summerfield, Jr., Blade began listening to the music of John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Art Blakey, Thelonious Monk, Elvin Jones, and Joni Mitchell. By the age of eighteen, Brian moved to New Orleans to attend Loyola University. From 1988 through 1993, he studied and played with most of the master musicians living in New Orleans, including Johnny Vidacovich, Ellis Marsalis, Steve Masakowski, Bill Huntington, Mike Pellera, John Mahoney, George French, Germaine Bazzle, David Lee, Jr., Alvin Red Tyler, Tony Dagradi and Harold Battiste.

"King's Highway" Brian Blade and The Fellowship Band

Brian Blade: Drums http://www.brianblade.com/
Jon Cowherd: Piano
Melvin Butler: Tenor Saxophone, Alto Saxophone
Myron Walden: Alto Saxophone, Bass Clarinet
Chris Thomas: Bass

Recorded Audio & Mixing Daniel Escauriza
Mastered by Luke Gilfeather at TheMasteringStudio.com
Live Sound Marc Najjar
Edited and Directed Chris Hershman

Filmed by:
Rob Stern
Neal Bullock
Chris Hershman

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