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Dan Blake: Da Fé

by Mike Jurkovic
April 17, 2021

It's comforting to know that saxophonist Dan Blake hasn't taken Thoreau's inconvenient truth that “most men lead lives of quiet desperation" to heart. Instead, as his Da Fé (translated: of faith) and his apprenticeships with Anthony Braxton} and {{Julian Lage prove succinctly, Blake intends to bring the music, and the consciousness of our fragility within it, ...

Cry of the East

March 29, 2021

Album: Da Fé
By Dan Blake
Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2021
Duration: 7:19

Dan Blake: Da Fé

by Mark Corroto
March 2, 2021

Saxophonist-composer Dan Blake's Da Fé ("of faith"), a meditation on our world in crisis, may have taken, as a starting point, the lyrics to Lou Reed's “Busload Of Faith" from the über-cynical New York (Sire, 1989) recording, “You can depend on cruelty / crudity of thought and sound / You can depend on the worst always ...

Quintrepid

By Quintrepid

Label: Unseen Rain Records
Released: 2020
Track listing: Seeing Through The Ground; February Thaw; All Are; Get Well; Madras; Because It Sees You.

Guitarist Jack DeSalvo: While We Sleep & Quintrepid on Unseen Rain

by Mark Sullivan
November 4, 2020

Guitarist/composer Jack DeSalvo has had a long, diverse career emphasizing fusion and free playing. His most visible gig was with Ronald Shannon Jackson's Decoding Society, but since co-founding the record label Unseen Rain Records he has played on or produced a wide variety of music. For example, his duet album Soldani Dieci Anni (Unseen Rain Records, ...

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Dan Blake: The Digging

by Neri Pollastri
April 3, 2017

Album interessante per trasversalità stilistica e uno spirito di ricerca che emerge fin dal titolo, questo The Digging è opera del sassofonista Dan Blake, accompagnato in trio senza pianoforte dal contrabbassista Dmitry Ishenko, con il quale ha una lunga collaborazione, e dall'ottima batterista Eric Harland. Blake è autore di tutte le composizioni e vi ...

The Digging

By Dan Blake

Label: Sunnyside Records
Released: 2016

Dan Blake: The Digging

by Budd Kopman
July 31, 2016

Saxophonist Dan Blake is one of those musicians who are always on a quest to expand their musical horizons, to assimilate into his music any and all of his life experiences, musical or not. As both a player and a composer, Blake demonstrates an intensity coupled with a very fertile and searching mind. Aside from his ...

Alex Weiss: Fighter Planes & Praying Mantis

by Eyal Hareuveni
April 18, 2014

Saxophonist Alex Ward's musical journey so far reflects his restful musical personality. He studied music in Boston, then relocated to San Francisco where he studied with Roberto DeHaven, the minister and musician of Saint John's Orthodox Church, better known as the John Coltrane Church. In the Bay Area he collaborated with innovative improvisers as saxophonist Glenn ...