Ran Blake - Cocktails At Dusk: A Noir Tribute To Chris Connor (2014) Lossless

Cocktails at dusk ... the album title says it all: this is about a very certain mood of relaxation, excitement and melancholy, a mood that can be found in the eponymous film noir thrillers of, the black series. A champion of this sentiment was also the singer died in 2009, Chris Connor. Although it was never as famous as her colleagues Ella and Sarah, but applies to jazz fans, and last but not least musicians as one of the very, very big. With her goosebumps voice she coined the sound of cool jazz. Become a fan and friend Chis Connors was also pianist Ran Blake, her with the album cocktails at Dusk: A Noir is now Tribute To Chris Connor a musical monument and entrains all listeners with his piano playing in the era of elegant femme fatales and dry martinis. Blake is a commuter between jazz and new classical music since the early 60s and one of the most interesting, unusual jazz pianist. On "Cocktails at Dusk" his solo piano alone holds the power, only here and there supported by singer and saxophonist Ricky Ford Laika Fatien.