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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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Ran Blake: Driftwoods

Read "Driftwoods" reviewed by AAJ Italy Staff

by AAJ Italy Staff
May 25, 2009

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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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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People Take Warning! Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs, 1913-1938

By Various Artists

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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Fate Is Only Once

By Harry Taussig

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.

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Cinema Châtelet, July 2006

By Ran Blake

Label: Tompkins Square
Released: 2008

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Harry Taussig: Fate Is Only Once

Read "Fate Is Only Once" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert
December 14, 2008

As far as records go, Harry Taussig's Fate Is Only Once is about as rare as they come. Recorded in 1965 as a short-run private pressing, this is Taussig's only full-length recording, which has not been previously re-released. Thus Fate Is Only Once has been a long sought after collectible for folk guitar enthusiasts, most of ...

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Various Artists: People Take Warning! Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs, 1913-1938

Read "People Take Warning! Murder Ballads and Disaster Songs, 1913-1938" reviewed by David Rickert

by David Rickert
February 20, 2008

Ever since the Titanic sunk we have been fascinated by this disaster, memorializing it in several books, television shows, and movies. But long before Leonardo DiCaprio was born, the earliest pioneers of records were cutting musical eulogies to the passengers of the ship. These balladeers were the tabloid writers of the day, often stretching the truth ...

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