Rising Star Jazz Artist of the Year in the 2002 DownBeat critics poll, Michael Blake has been a resident of New York for almost 20 years - but he grew up in Vancouver, and on a visit to his hometown in 2005 he organized two gigs with somewhat younger players from the jazz and creative music scene, most of whom he had not played with before. The upshot is this all-Canadian sextet featuring classical/new music/Latin percussionist Sal Ferreras and several of Canada's most acclaimed and forward-looking jazz musicians improvising on Michael's wide-ranging compositions (there are also two highly expressionistic improv duets between Michael and Chris Gestrin).

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