Seamus Blake Quartet

A gifted saxophonist, Seamus Blake is a forward-thinking improviser with a distinctive approach to modern creative jazz and swinging post-bop. Emerging in the '90s, he came to wide acclaim after winning the 2002 Thelonious Monk Jazz Award. An in-demand performer, Blake is a longtime member of the Mingus Big Band, as well as the Criss Cross label group Opus 5, and has worked with such similarly inclined artists as Alex Sipiagin, Victor Lewis, John Scofield, and more. As a leader, he has also released a handful of his own adventurous acoustic jazz albums, including 1997's Four T...