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Article: Live Review

Michael Blake's Blake Tartare

by AAJ Italy Staff
December 12, 2006

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 ...

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Article: The Jazz Session

Michael Blake's Blake Tartare: More Like Us

by Michael McCaw
November 14, 2006

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Blake Trio: Right Before Your Very Ears

Read "Right Before Your Very Ears" reviewed by Germein Linares

by Germein Linares
March 28, 2006

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 ...

Album

Blake Tartare

By Michael Blake

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.

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Article: Album Review

Michael Blake: Right Before Your Very Ears

Read "Right Before Your Very Ears" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
November 6, 2005

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Blake: Right Before Your Very Ears

Read "Right Before Your Very Ears" reviewed by Michael McCaw

by Michael McCaw
September 12, 2005

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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Michael Blake: Blake Tartare

Read "Blake Tartare" reviewed by Michael McCaw

by Michael McCaw
August 24, 2005

Why Michael Blake has had such a tough go of finding ways to get his music out to the public is an interesting issue, and unfortunately not such an uncommon one. Coming out of John Lurie's Lounge Lizards and consistently involved in the Jazz Composers Collective (along with Ben Allison, Frank Kimbrough, Ted Nash, et al.), ...

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Buzz

By Ben Allison

Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Respiration; Buzz; Green Al; Mauritania; Erato; R&B Fantasy; Across the Universe.

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Article: Album Review

Michael Blake: Blake Tartare

Read "Blake Tartare" reviewed by Sean Patrick Fitzell

by Sean Patrick Fitzell
July 5, 2004

Saxophonist/composer Michael Blake has led an array of unique projects. His latest CD, Blake Tartare, finds him fronting a quartet with young Danish improvisers Soren Kjaergaard on Fender Rhodes and piano, Jonas Westergaard on bass, and Kresten Osgood on drums. The small group pushes Blake’s horn to the forefront, while the sparse arrangements have a fluidity ...

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Article: Profile

Michael Blake

by AAJ Staff
November 29, 2003

Submitted on behalf of Sean Patrick Fitzell With his eyebrows tightly knit, saxophonist Michael Blake played with intensity and assurance, absorbed in the musical moment he created at a recent gig. True to the group's name, Free Association, he led it through the new composition “Conquistador", based on an old Chico Hamilton vamp, ...