Pre-Order: Joost Lijbaart * Sunflower - Love Letters [New LP] 3/2/10 Brian Blade on drums

Brian Blade on drums

Incendiary

Ready for Battle

dismantling familiar tunes and rebuilding them on the fly

Things that don’t make sense at first often make sense later

Pre-Order: Joost Lijbaart * Sunflower - Love Letters [New LP] 3/2/10 Brian Blade on drumsWith Love Letters, drummer and composer Joost Lijbaart has created perhaps the most personal album of his career, an album on which he let's go of many of his musical certainties. After 35 years in jazz, improvisation and world music, Lijbaart asked himself a simple yet confronting question: what remains when technique, virtuosity and musical complexity are stripped away? What happens when the only intention is to play honestly? The answer was rhythm,