Blog: There Stands the Glass

Jeanne Lee and Ran Blake- You Go To My Head (MP3) In his world-weary liner notes to an out of print 1989 release by pianist Ran Blake and vocalist Jeanne Lee , Alain Gerber suggests that jazz may become "a eulogy of itself." Twenty years later, that appears to be exactly where jazz finds itself. I caught sixteen-year-old Grace Kelly at the Blue Room last night. The kid impressed. That said, her singing and playing lack the emotional depth that can only be [...]