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More Like Us
Label: Stunt Records/Sundance Music
Released: 2006
Track listing: Hush; The Meadows; Happy Old Yoy; To Whom This May Concern; Something in the Water;
Maria; Africa Used to Be Home; Interlude With Soren; Paddy Pie Face; Johnny Too Bad.
Michael Blake: More Like Us
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
More Like Us is the second release from saxophonist Michael Blake's Blake Tartare, with three Danish wunderkinds: keyboardist Soren Kjaergaard, bassist Jonas Westergaard and drummer Kresten Osgood. As the title suggests, the group has developed cohesion, easily maneuvering the circuitous compositions on the disc. The subtle opening of “The Meadows shifts after Blake's ...
Michael Blake's Blake Tartare
by AAJ Italy Staff
Avezzano - Castello Orsini - 13.11.2006 Non ci soffermiamo troppo ad illustrare il talentuoso sassofonista di Montreal residente a New York, Michael Blake, ormai ospite fisso ad Avezzano nelle rassegne annuali organizzate dall'Associazione culturale Jazz On. Torna quest'anno dunque per la quinta volta riproponendo il gruppo di esordio, i Blake Tartare, formato con tre ragazzi tra ...
Michael Blake's Blake Tartare
by AAJ Italy Staff
Padova Porsche Jazz Festival [recensione dei concerti di Ornette Coleman e Dave Holland] Caffe' Pedrocchi - 25.11.2006 Chi conosce anche solo in parte l’opera di Michael Blake sa che il sassofonista e compositore canadese gioca le sue carte migliori nella varietà espressiva e nell’esuberanza lirica che ne connotano l’identità. Ogni idea, anche la più sofisticata che ...
Michael Blake's Blake Tartare: More Like Us
by Michael McCaw
Blake Tartare More Like Us Stunt Records 2006 Listen Includes full performance of “Something In The Water" Michael Blake has long been on the cusp of being more-well known among jazz fans, but like his former employer John Lurie, often seems to be looking in. Regularly recording on ...
Michael Blake Trio: Right Before Your Very Ears
by Germein Linares
The opening tune and the manic, anguished cover aside, there's nothing to fear on Michael Blake's Right Before Your Very Ears. The album's contents are delightful, creative adventures in jazz, with saxophonist Blake, bassist Ben Allison and drummer Jeff Ballard conjuring the strength and imagination of a much larger outfit. Most of Right Before Your Very ...
Right Before Your Very Ears
Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2005
Track listing: Run for Cover; Funhouse; Mt. Harissa; Right Before Your Very Ears; Flip; Fly With the Wind;
San Francisco Holiday; All of This is Yours; Careless Love.
Blake Tartare
Label: Stunt Records/Sundance Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Flipper; Lemmy Caution; A Messy Business; Cuban Sandwich; Feast; Languidity; Meditation
(For A Pair Of Wirecutters); A Hole Is To Dig; Neil's Toy Train.
Michael Blake: Right Before Your Very Ears
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
The shrill opening blast of tenor saxophone, like a wailing-woman mourner, announces that Right Before Your Very Ears is a departure for saxophonist Michael Blake. Visceral and immediate, the emphasis is on the playing, especially Blake's, in the stripped-down sax plus rhythm setting. This is the first document of Blake's working trio with bassist Ben Allison ...
Michael Blake: Right Before Your Very Ears
by Michael McCaw
Opening with an overblown tenor sound that nearly causes your stereo system to clip, Right Before Your Very Ears marks a departure for Michael Blake, especially from his earlier output. Recorded in Brooklyn following a European tour which culminated at Portugal's Coimbra Jazz Festival, the album is comprised entirely of first takes (save for “Fly With ...
