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Gerald Clayton is the very definition of class. The American pianist and composer has been nominated six times for the Grammy Awards. The logical continuation of his promising career is already well underway: he became Blue Note Artist in 2020 with the release of “Happening: Live at the Village Vanguard”. He returns with “Bells On Sand”, his second album for Blue Note Records. The album explores the impact and abstraction of time through eleven tracks in osmosis with his mentor Charles Lloyd on saxophone, father John Clayton on bass, longtime friend Justin Brown on drums, and new addition MARO on vocals. His elegance and finesse have earned him the chance to play and record with Diana Krall, Ben Wendel, Dianne Reeves and Terence Blanchard. This former student of Billy Childs was also Roy Hargrove's pianist...