{"id":1056,"date":"2022-07-11T21:07:39","date_gmt":"2022-07-11T21:07:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smokesessionsrecords.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=1056"},"modified":"2022-08-28T20:23:03","modified_gmt":"2022-08-28T20:23:03","slug":"reflections","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/smokesessionsrecords.com\/shop\/albums\/reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Approaching 80 years of age is occasion enough for anyone to take a moment and look back on a life well lived. For legendary drummer <strong>Al Foster<\/strong>, those eight decades have been more memorable than most, filled with exhilarating sounds and encounters with some of the music\u2019s most iconic legends. On <strong><em>Reflections<\/em><\/strong>, Foster revisits the work of several of those peers alongside an inspiring quintet of all-stars: trumpeter <strong>Nicholas Payton<\/strong>, saxophonist <strong>Chris Potter<\/strong>, pianist <strong>Kevin Hays<\/strong>, and bassist <strong>Vicente Archer<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Throughout the session he propels this supremely talented unit through fresh, vital treatments of well-known and less-traveled numbers by iconic legends Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Sonny Rollins, and McCoy Tyner, all of whom regarded Foster as their first-call drummer for long portions of his celebrated career \u2013 at times competing for his services. Band members Payton, Potter, and Hays each contribute a tune apiece, while Foster penned three well-wrought songs, including two homages to Thelonious Monk that bookend the program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s hard to overstate Foster\u2019s contribution to the musical production of the aforementioned giants over his 60 years as a professional. But, as much as Foster likes to wax nostalgic about the past, it\u2019s also evident on every note of this 68-minute gem that he\u2019s fully committed to living in the moment and playing in the here and now. This follow-up to his well-received 2019 Smoke Sessions debut, <em>Inspirations &amp; Dedications<\/em>, is Foster\u2019s fifth leader recording and, as even the notoriously self-critical drummer surprisingly says, \u201cIt is my best record yet.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Approaching 80 years of age is occasion enough for anyone to take a moment and look back on a life well lived. 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