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Ran Blake Celebrates New CD with Concert at Cobi's Place (NYC)

"Imagine the world's most profound cocktail pianistwistful, yet utterly unsappy and given to quiet storms of weirdnessand you'll get a good idea of Ran Blake's sound. Tonight the 76-year-old stops by an off-the-beaten-path midtown venue to celebrate a new disc, Grey DecemberLive in Rome, and to honor the late, great Abbey Lincoln." Time Out New York ...
One Step Des Chameaux

Album: Mama, I'll Be Long Gone: The Complete Recordings of Amede Ardoin, 1929-1934
By Amede Ardoin
Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2011
Duration: 2:51
Amede Ardoin - The Father of Cajun & Zydeco

Tompkins Square label has released Mama, I'll Be Long Gone: The Complete Recordings of Amede Ardoin, 1929-1934. The father of Cajun and Zydeco is celebrated for the first time with his complete 34 recordings all in one deluxe 2-CD package. Rare Afro-Creole rhythms are heard alongside blues and breakdowns in this exquisitely remastered and produced volume, ...
Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007

Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2010
Track listing:
Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007

by C. Michael Bailey
Various Artists Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007 Tompkins Square Records 2009 Then I said, I will not make mention of him, nor speak any more in his name. But his word was in mine heart as a burning fire ...
Driftwoods

By Ran Blake
Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2009
Track listing: Driftwood; Dancing in the Dark 2; Dancing in the Dark 1; Lost Highway; Unforgettable; Cancao do Sol; No More; I Loves You, Porgy; Strange Fruit; Pawnbroker; There's Been a Change; Portrait; I'm Going to Tell God; You Are My Sunshine.
Ran Blake: Driftwoods

by AAJ Italy Staff
Unico originale erede di Thelonius Monk, Ran Blake ne ha raccolto lo spirito e sviluppato il mondo espressivo, distanziandosi da quei colleghi che ne hanno reinterpretato i brani cercando un'improbabile connessione. Anche se esistono varie differenze col pianista di Rocky Mount (soprattutto il legame con la tradizione classica europea e la condivisione dell'estetica Third Stream) Blake ...
Ran Blake: Driftwoods

by Henry Smith
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 ...
People Take Warning! Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs, 1913-1938

Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2008
Track listing: CD1: Titanic Blues: Hi Henry Brown & Charlie Jordan; Wreck of the old 97: Skillet Lickers; Bill Wilson: Birmingham Jug Band; The Crash of the Akron: Bob Miller; The Fate of the Talmadge Osborne: Ernest Stoneman: El Mole Rachmim: Cantor Joseph Rosenblatt; The Wreck of the Virginian: Alfred Reed; Fate of Will Rogers and Wiley Post: Bill Cox; Down Wit the Old Canoe: Dixon Brothers; Wreck of Number 52: Cliff Carlisle; Kassie Jones Part 1: Furry Lewis; Kassie Jones Part 2: furry Lewis; The Brave Engineer: Carver Boys; The Sinking of the Titanic: Richard "Rabbit"