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Ran Blake Releases First-Ever Live Album
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Fate Is Only Once
Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2008
Track listing: Baby Let Me Lay It On You/That'll Neever Happen No More; Blues For Zone VII; Dark Town Strutter's Ball; R.R. Bill & Co.; Rev's Rag; Sugar Babe, Your Papa Cares For You; National Ragtime Stomp; Rondo To Death; Monte's Blues; Dorian Sonata; St. Louis Trickle; Fate Is Only Once.
