David Bazan Blanco 1/8/20 Recording: January 1956 in New

Recording: January 1956 in New York City by Tom Dowd and February 1956 at Rudy Van Gelder Studio in Hackensack

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otherwise available only as on out of print Blue Note CD

" But his playing can be truly electrifying and Melvin Taylor & the Slack Band is recommended for anyone

Gang Starr: Guru (rap vocals)

David Bazan Blanco 1/8/20 Recording: January 1956 in NewDavid Bazan has never had the answers. His first two solo records, 2009s Curse Your Branches and 2011s Strange Negotiations lived inside questions. Questions of politics, of relationships, of addiction, and of God. For anyone looking to art to remove doubt, Bazan is not that refuge. With a catalogue that orbits the darkest corners of the human experience, his songs are the tiny pinprick of light, the first breath coming up for air, the rest stop on a