Drummer and bandleader, he has has established himself as a flexible and expressive collaborator in a variety of contemporary ja
zz settings, with strong roots in mainstream bop idioms; his 2000 album, perceptual, is arguably some of the brightest and freshest post-bop fusion to emerge in decades:
<span>I'm pretty sure that B. </span><span>Neoclassical c</span>omposers were not attempting to recreate or imitate past styles, but to incorporate past styles into a contemporary idiom.