Arcane

Arcane Blast is a fast-paced, action-packed roguelike brimming with sorcery. Master the seven elements, combine them to achieve powerful reactions and face swarms of enemies to help feline Mage Adrian find his way home from a time dungeon.

Cindy Blackman's debut as a leader finds the talented drummer showing a great deal of confidence and holding her own with her illustrious sidemen: trumpeter Wallace Roney, either altoist Kenny Garrett or (on two songs) tenor saxophonist Joe Henderson, pianist Larry Willis, and Buster Williams or Clarence Seay on bass. The music (which includes an unaccompanied drum solo by Blackman on "Incindyary") is modern hard bop, and all of the musicians play up to par in their concise solos; Blackman, Willis, Williams and Henderson ("Teeter Totter") provided all of the songs. A strong start to Cindy Blackman's productive recording career.