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Cambria Records released a CD of Ed Bland piano music, URBAN COUNTERPOINT, performed by Judith Olson

Little Known deceased composer and friend Ed Bland’s wife, Mary Batten-Bland, recently shared the following with me “Cambria Records released a CD of Ed’s piano music, URBAN COUNTERPOINT, performed by Judith Olson, the pianist with whom Ed had been working for several years. He had planned to record it the summer that he passed away…

Ed Bland – PIECE FOR CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

POLITICS of MUSIC Ed Bland was a composer and dear friend. We had extended conversations about categories of music. Growing up in Chicago, his first heroes were jazz artists such as Duke Ellington and Art Tatum. Ed Bland happened to hear a recording of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring and sought to compose in newer and…