HISTORY
In 2005, Terence Blanchard created his Grammy-nominated album, Flow.
This album was Blanchard’s rambunctiously heated answer to those unenlightened few who doubted this chill master of the urbane film score could get down. Indeed, Flow not only showcased Blanchard’s prodigious instrumental and composing skills; it revealed him to be both a shrewd judge of talent and a bandleader of Milesian dimension and magnitude.
Moreover, Blanchard insinuates that flow is an attitude, a method of finding joy, and a method to fight against a distressing riptide of hopelessness and despair.
“What makes people happy and glad to be alive?”
MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI, author of Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
“Everyone experiences flow from time to time... Both sense of time and emotional problems seem to disappear, and there is an exhilarating feeling of transcendence. All of these optimal experiences add up to mastery, or better yet, a sense of participation in life, thus the meaning of life.” // MIHALY CSIKSZENTMIHALYI
Blanchard distilled Mihaly’s thesis into compositions imbued with the flow of life, as the musicians evaporated all sense of time and space.
“Blanchard successfully mixes bop, hints of funk, and a dash of African instrumentations and melody...experience a great direction for jazz.” // ALL ABOUT JAZZ
“Blanchard thrills and delights listeners with a vibrant new recording, Flow.” // EBONY MAGAZINE.