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Lola Danza: Free To Sing Free

by AAJ Staff
February 25, 2009

Free jazz has wound its way through many permutations since arriving in the early '60s. An important custodian of its new directions is vocalist and composer Lola Danza, of Brooklyn. Danza is a graduate of Berklee College of Music, Boston, and stayed in Boston for a few years after graduating, developing her ...

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Article: Album Review

Ran Blake: Driftwoods

Read "Driftwoods" reviewed by Henry Smith

by Henry Smith
January 22, 2009

Ever since pianist Ran Blake released his debut recordings on The Newest Sound Around (RCA, 1962) with vocalist Jeanne Lee, he has been a leading voice in the original interpretation of classic standards. With the solo outing Driftwoods, Blake dedicates an entire album to the interpretation of songs popularized by his favorite singers, a list which ...

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Cinema Châtelet, July 2006

By Ran Blake

Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2008

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Ran Blake Releases "Driftwoods" January 27th

December 29, 2008

Ran Blake is an iconoclast. Since his 1961 collaboration with Jeanne Lee on RCA, Ran Blake has released 35 albums on such labels as ESP, Soul Note, Arista and hatOLOGY. His 2006 album on the Tompkins Square label, All That Is Tied, received 4 stars in Downbeat and earned top honors in the 2007 Penguin Guide ...

News: Performance / Tour

After All These Years, Jazz Giant Plans Hometown Gig

August 27, 2008

Unless you're a musician or jazz geek, you've probably never heard of Ran Blake. But the 73-year-old pianist has more than 30 albums to his name and has played countless concerts from New York to Greece. Tomorrow he's playing in a place that's completely new and completely familiar to him: Blake's performance at the Vernissage restaurant ...

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Indian Winter

By Ran Blake

Label: Soul Note
Released: 2007
Track listing: 01. Spiral Staircase(Blake/Webb); 02. You've Changed (Fisher); 03. Duality (Lai/Hampton); 04. Streetcar Named Desire (North); 05. You And I (Wonder); 06. Merci Bon Dieu (Casseus); 07. Homage to Alfred Hitchcock (Blake); 08. Georgia (Carmichael); 09. When Marlon Meets Bird (Stevens/Hefti); 10. Incident At Atocha (Blue Potato); 11. Madrid (Blake); 12. Certi Angoli Segreti (Rava); 13. Indian Winter (Blake); 14. Say a Little Prayer For You (Bacharach); 15. Speak Low (Weill); 16. Sadness (Coleman); 17. Baby Me Mine (Temperton); 18. Marqueson's Chicken (Zappa); 19. You've Changed (Fisher); 20. Mood Indigo (Ellington/Bigard/Mills); 21. All Or Nothing At All (Lawrence/Altman); 22. Hallelujah, I Love Her So (Charles); 23. Brazil (Barroso).

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Third Stream Re-Compositions

By Ran Blake

Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2007

Article: Album Review

Ran Blake - David Fabbris: Indian Winter

by AAJ Italy Staff
February 27, 2007

Ventitre frammenti sonori, ventitre fotogrammi, non solo per la provenienza cinematografica di molti dei titoli presenti in Indian Winter, ma soprattutto per la capacità di evocare con poche pennellate di note, immagini e sensazioni di grande impatto emotivo. Il pianismo di Ran Blake è difficilmente etichettabile, rispettoso della tradizione, con riusciti omaggi, tra gli altri, a ...

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