Home » Search Center » Results: Michael Blake
Results for "Michael Blake"
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.
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.
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 ...
Michael Blake: Blake Tartare
by Michael McCaw
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.), ...
Buzz
By Ben Allison
Label: Palmetto Records
Released: 2004
Track listing: Respiration; Buzz; Green Al; Mauritania; Erato; R&B Fantasy; Across the Universe.
Michael Blake: Blake Tartare
by Sean Patrick Fitzell
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 ...
Michael Blake
by AAJ Staff
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, ...
