There was a dry but fascinating group of talks and performances held at Boston University Friday March 28. The papers deserve more...

THE PENGUIN JAZZ GUIDE: THE HISTORY OF THE MUSIC IN THE 1001 BEST ALBUMS by Brian Morton and Richard Cook (Penguin Books, 2010) The...

This is a book review that I wrote this summer, but never published it due to all of the unexpected deaths of my friends and...

Nedelka Prescod, Gunther Schuller, and the conference at BU of African American Music in World Culture: Art as Refuge and Strength in the...

Dr. Julia SuttonThe performance of The Short Life of Barbara Monk is being dedicated tonight to the Monk family and Dr. Julia Sutton. My...

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...

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...

Many times there’s just not enough space to publish everything you’d like to say about a recording, especially a re-issue. Here are ...

Third Stream and the Importance of the Ear A position paper in Narrative Form by Ran Blake Third Stream and the Importance of the Ear,...

The audio tracks below accompany Ran Blake’s book, Primacy of the Ear. Primacy of The Ear Audio The audio tracks below accompany Ran...

2018, Remembering Aretha Franklin Aretha Franklin, here are my thoughts… many are personal, and sifting through my memories on the...