From the Boston Globe Fall preview by Jon Garelick:
“The sage of Boston’s contemporary improv scene, pianist and
New England Conservatory professor Ran Blake, is at his best in duo performances with singers (his latest CD, “Streaming,” with vocalist Christine Correa, is due Oct. 12). Here he’s joined by another of his regular partners, singer
Sara Serpa, who since her days as Blake’s student, has established herself as an adventurous vocal improviser in her own bands. Expect standards, music from and inspired by Blake’s beloved film noir, and maybe some of Lisbon native Serpa’s Portuguese fado. Oct 3. $25. Regattabar, Cambridge.
617-395-7757.
www.regattabarjazz.com“
“..a fresh and riveting presence on the vocal-jazz landscape..”
” Serpa possesses a preternatural cool, injecting weightless sophistication and melodic grace into everything she touches.”
– Peter Margasak,Chicago Reader
“An artist shy and out of the spotlight with brilliant ideas, innovative obliquely, brilliantly unconventional.”
– Vincenzo Roggero
$25/ general and $20/student
* Make sure to buy ahead of time because that’s the busy season when students are back!
