Owen Howard - Time Cycles (2005)

New York-based Canadian drummer Owen Howard appears often as a side player with artists such as Tom Harrell, Kenny Werner, Joe Lovano, John Abercrombie, Michael Formanek and Dick Oates. He has toured across Canada, Europe and the United States with many groups including Sheila Jordan, Mick Goodrick, Nils Wogram, Andy Middleton and Jay Clayton, and with his own bands which have included such players as Chris Potter, Brad Shepik, Seamus Blake, Larry Grenadier, Phil Grenadier and Drew Gress. Time Cycles is his fourth album, the second one on Fresh Sound New Talent after Days Before and After, a successful collaboration with reed player Andrew Rathbun.

Howards drumming is solid and at the same time unpredictable.
- Florence Wetzel, All About Jazz