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News: Performance / Tour

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

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

"Imagine the world's most profound cocktail pianist—wistful, yet utterly unsappy and given to quiet storms of weirdness—and 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 December—Live in Rome, and to honor the late, great Abbey Lincoln." —Time Out New York ...

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News: Recording

Amede Ardoin - The Father of Cajun & Zydeco

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, ...

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Article: Extended Analysis

Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007

Read "Fire In My Bones: Raw, Rare & Otherworldly African-American Gospel 1944-2007" reviewed 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 ...

Album

Driftwoods

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.

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Article: Album Review

Ran Blake: Driftwoods

Read "Driftwoods" reviewed 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 ...

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Article: Album Review

Ran Blake: Driftwoods

Read "Driftwoods" reviewed 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 ...

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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"


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