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Right Before Your Very Ears

Label: Clean Feed Records
Released: 2006
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.

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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 ...

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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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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 ...