Cindy Blackman Santana on Drums!

I was shopping for used records the other day and took home a few great LPs by the late Ralph Peterson Jr. that he recorded for Blue Note back in the 80s. I was reminded that a lot of great jazz music that was released in the 1980s on record, cassette and eventually on CD isn't currently available for streaming and lot of it has consequently gone under the radar.

Later, after going down a bit of a 1980s "Young Lions" rabbit hole on YouTube (or maybe it was a lions den?) one evening, I discovered this music that Cindy Blackman Santana also recorded and released in the 80s/early 90s:

 

I gotta say that these albums were a pleasant surprise and I think the playing and writing is fantastic and sounds fresh as ever. I am going to make a point of checking out more music from this time (around 40 years ago!)

Questlove recently interviewed Cindy for his series Questlove Supreme:

 

A here's a couple great pieces of her in action: