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Arizona Dranes : Forgotten Mother Of The Gospel Beat

September 6, 2012

San Francisco-based label Tompkins Square has released the book+CD/eBook,'He Is My Story : The Sanctified Soul of Arizona Dranes'. A singer sits at the piano and loses all inhibitions while in complete control of the instrument: Little Richard, Ray Charles, Jerry Lee Lewis. Although church singer Arizona Dranes doesn't come close to the stature of those ...

News: Performance / Tour

Calvin Keys Celebrates His 70th Birthday

February 4, 2012

Guitarist Calvin Keys will celebrate his 70th birthday on February 6th, 2012. To mark the occasion, Calvin will play a special birthday show Feb 6th, 7-11pm, at 57th St. Gallery, 5701 Telegraph Ave., Oakland CA. Tickets are $20 at the door. Keys' very first album,'Shawn-Neeq, originally released in 1971 on Black Jazz, has just been reissued ...

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Calvin Keys "Shawn-Neeq" Reissued on 180g Vinyl

January 9, 2012

Calvin Keys' debut Shawn-Neeq will be reissued on 180g vinyl LP tomorrow, Jan 10, on Tompkins Square. The LP is now available for purchase at tompkinssquare.com Originally released on the influential label Black Jazz in 1971, guitarist Calvin Keys' debut is a stone classic waiting to be re-discovered. The funky, deep grooves and Calvin's singular guitar ...

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Mama, I'll Be Long Gone: The Complete Recordings of Amede Ardoin, 1929-1934

By Amede Ardoin

Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2011

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Ran Blake Releases First-Ever Live Album

May 17, 2011

In a career spanning six decades, pianist/composer, writer and educator Ran Blake has released 36 albums for such labels as ESP, RCA, Arista and hatOLOGY. His 2006 album for Tompkins Square, All That Is Tied, earned 4 stars in Downbeat and top honors in the Penguin Jazz Guide 2007. Driftwoods, released in 2009, was Ran's salute ...

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

May 14, 2011

"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 ...

Song of the Day

One Step Des Chameaux

March 20, 2011

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

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Amede Ardoin - The Father of Cajun & Zydeco

March 3, 2011

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

By Various Artists

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

by C. Michael Bailey
January 24, 2010

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 ...