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Ran Blake Remembers Jeanne Lee With Special Guest Ricky Ford at Regattabar

Courtesy of Molly Collins | Posted on February 1, 2019

Where

Regattabar
One Bennett Street
Cambridge, MA
Map
617-395-7757

Ran Blake Remembers Jeanne Lee With Special Guest Ricky Ford at Regattabar

When

Wed, April 3, 2019
7:30 pm

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Musicians

Ran Blake
piano

About

In a career that spans five decades, pianist/composer/educator RAN BLAKE has created a unique niche in improvised music as an artist and educator. With a characteristic mix of spontaneous solos, modern classical tonalities, the great American blues and gospel traditions, and themes from classic Film Noir, Blake's singular sound has earned a dedicated following all over the world. His dual musical legacy includes nearly 50 albums on some of the world's finest jazz labels, as well almost 50 years as a groundbreaking educator at Boston's New England Conservatory.

A recent Italian reviewer, Vincenzo Roggero, sums up Ran's merging of traditions and unique noir piano style: "Blake combines Max Roach with Edith Piaf, Duke Ellington with Stevie Wonder, Nino Rota with Yiddish music. All lit by his unique style influenced by the blues as the gospel, classical as jazz, but inimitable in combining these elements through touches almost imperceptible, silences full density, sparse but decisive cluster, lines dangerously poised between tonality and dissonance. It is music played on whispers, rather than shouts, but no less intense or penetrating." ...

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