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Bringing in jazz icon Herbie Hancock to produce Flow was surely a cunning move on Terence Blanchard’s part. The ace trumpeter obviously wanted to veer away from his tried-and-true neo-bop sound, and the visionary Hancock guided him in a bracing new direction. Fear not, there’s still plenty of sterling improvising from Blanchard as well as his inspired band mates: saxophonist Brice Winston, pianist Aaron Parks, and guitarist Lionel Louke. But the sonic environment that surrounds them has a more spacious, spacey, and mysterious sound. It’s deliciously dreamy and definitely funky in spots, and altogether engaging, even when the music glides rather than charges. Yet by the time the album reaches its nearly 12-minute climax, “Harvesting Dance,” a gripping dramatic edge has taken over. Flow is aptly named; it takes you on a mutating musical voyage unlike any other Blanchard has ever offered. By trusting in an older veteran like Hancock, the younger leader has taken a step up on jazz’s future. William Pearl, Barnes & Noble

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