Ran Blake
Separated by 35 years, new releases from Blake–Eade and Goodrick–Hersch illuminate jazz at its most intimate—where interpretation, history, and shared sensibility converge.
Pianist Ran Blake’s performance was like a long dreamscape of personal reflection and meditation.
Here are some recommendations of concerts with hybrid works coming to the Boston area in the months ahead.
This album offers a Baedeker of pianist Ran Blake’s cinematic effects, the mis-en-scene for a narrative musical imagination unlike any other.
Ran Blake was in fine form at the festivities as were the New England Conservatory faculty and student participants.
The throughline of “Town and Country” is folk — austere, hardscrabble.
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.
It’s a worthy effort –- and, as a listener, how many times will you have the chance for real adventure inside a concert hall?
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.
Jazz Reviews and Appreciations: Sheila Jordan at 95 and Ran Blake at 88
It is something of a miracle that we can still hear Sheila Jordan and Ran Blake in live performance, and those experiences should be treasured by their audiences because those opportunities are so precious.
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