AdminDec 8, 202011 minRan’s Reflections (2014)Nedelka Prescod, Gunther Schuller, and the conference at BU of African American Music in World Culture: Art as Refuge and Strength in the...
AdminDec 8, 20202 minProgram Notes: The Marriage of Dance and Music in honor of the late Dr. Julia Sutton (10/22/14)Dr. Julia SuttonThe performance of The Short Life of Barbara Monk is being dedicated tonight to the Monk family and Dr. Julia Sutton. My...
AdminDec 8, 20202 minRemembering Ornette Coleman (2015)I’ll never forget the summer of 1957 at the Lenox School of Jazz when Percy Heath played a few tracks of Ornette Coleman’s first record...
AdminDec 8, 20205 minMemories of Mary Lou Williams (2018)7/10/18 by Ran Blake (editing by Gardiner Hartmann) I must have met Mary Lou Williams in 1952 or 1953. My parents had gone with me to...