Ran Blake: Ghosts

With his long face and full beard, the pianist Ran Blake has the look of an Old Testament prophet. The darkness audible in so much of his music and a six-decade-long fascination with film noir suggest something more than a passing familiarity with the devil. Blake has been a passionate moviegoer since his Springfield boyhood. Again and again, his music has paid tribute to the movies.  There may or may not be anyone alive who knows more about old movies of the noirish sort. There is definitely no one who loves them more, let alone who’s as gifted a composer and pianist.

                                — Mark Feeney writes on the arts for The Boston Globe.