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Ran Blake

Jazz Album Review: Ran Blake’s “Looking Glass” — Music from an Idiosyncratic Guru

This album offers a Baedeker of pianist Ran Blake’s cinematic effects, the mis-en-scene for a narrative musical imagination unlike any other.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Jon Garelick, looking glass, Ran Blake

Jazz Concert Review: Portrait of Composer/Pianist Ran Blake — Celebrating 85 Years

Ran Blake was in fine form at the festivities as were the New England Conservatory faculty and student participants.

By: Steve Feeney Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: New England Conservatory, Ran Blake

Jazz CD Review: Dominique Eade and Ran Blake’s Personal Vision of Americana on “Town and Country”

The throughline of “Town and Country” is folk — austere, hardscrabble.

By: Jon Garelick Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Dominique Eade, Folk, Jazz, Ran Blake, Town and Country

Music Perspective / Preview: The Contemporary Improvisation at the New England Conservatory – “Where the Borders Disappear”

The Conservatory’s Contemporary Improvisation program is one of the best things we have in New England music, and if you’ve lived for any length of time in the Boston area without attending one of its concerts, you’ve missed an important experience.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Music, Preview Tagged: Contemporary Improvisation, Eden MacAdam-Some, Hankus Netsky, New England Conservatory, Ran Blake, Third Stream Department

Jazz Preview / Commentary: The Alla Elana Cohen – Ran Blake Project

It’s a worthy effort –- and, as a listener, how many times will you have the chance for real adventure inside a concert hall?

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Alla Cohen, An Evening of Counterpoint, Ran Blake

Jazz CD Review: The Dominique Eade Quartet at Scullers & Ran Blake / Dominique Eade CD, “Whirlpool”

Dominique Eade’s two greatest gifts are her clarity of musical thought and her courage as an improviser. She does not try to be a cabaret-style interpreter or a ring-a-ding-ding swinger.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Dominique Eade, Jazz Project, Ran Blake, Schullers, Whirlpool

Coming Attractions: Jazz Week Special Edition

By J. R. Carroll Coming Attractions in Jazz for April 2010 unfortunately was washed away by the Waters of March (“It’s the mud, it’s the mud”), but we couldn’t let this year’s Jazz Week slip by without highlighting a few of the numerous events taking place in the Boston metro area from Friday, April 23, […]

By: J. R. Carroll Filed Under: Coming Attractions, Film, Jazz, Music Tagged: Boston Public Library, Bruce Gertz, Charlie Banacos, Danny Harrington, Dominique Eade, Duke Ellington, Florencia Gonzalez, George Mesterhazy, Gunther Schuller, Hal Miller, Jazz Week, JazzBoston, Joe Lovano, Judi Silvano, Ken Schaphorst, Lena Horne, Lennie's on the Turnpike, Makanda, Mark Harvey, New England Conservatory, Oliver Lake, Paula West, Ran Blake, Rebecca Parris, Regent Theatre, Richard Vacca

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