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Ran Blake
American jazz pianist and composer
Since 1935
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Ran Blake (born April 20, 1935) is an American pianist, composer, and educator. He is known for his unique style that combines blues, gospel, classical, and film noir influences into an innovative and dark jazz sound. His career spans over 40 recording credits on jazz albums along with more than 40 years of teaching jazz at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he started the Department of Third Stream (now called the Department of Contemporary Musical Arts) with Gunther Schuller.
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Ran Blake (né le 20 avril 1935 à Springfield (Massachusetts)) est un pianiste et compositeur américain.
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Discography
Albums
- 1962 The Newest Sound Around
- 1965 Ran Blake Plays Solo Piano
- 1981 Duke Dreams "The Legacy Of Strayhorn-Ellington"
- 1982 Improvisations
- 1984 Suffield Gothic
- 1991 That Certain Feeling
- 1992 Epistrophy
- 1992 You Stepped Out of a Cloud
- 1994 Masters From Different Worlds
- 1994 Round About (Songs and Piano Solos with Christine Correa & Ran Blake)
- 1995 Free Standards
- 1997 A Memory Of Vienna
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- 1999 Something to Live For
- 2000 Horace Is Blue: A Silver Noir
- 2001 Sonic Temples
- 2006 All That Is Tied
- 2007 Wende
- 2009 Driftwoods
- 2010 Camera Obscura
- 2012 Aurora
- 2014 Lettuce Prey
- 2014 Cocktails at Dusk - A Noir Tribute to Chris Connor
- 2015 Chabrol Noir
- 2019 The Newest Sound You Never Heard
- 2020 Breakthru
- 2020 Gray Moon
- 2021 Looking Glass
- 2026 Voices
- Unmarked Van: A Tribute to Sarah Vaughn
