Ran Blake

4 STARS DOWNBEAT MAGAZINE (August 2007)

Ran makes music for all parts of a man: for the “guts”, like they used to say, and for the head, which is for thinking with, and for taking a beating from a billy-club. It’s because Ran Blake also, and specially, makes music for the head, that every word counts, every word he puts to his music. He hits [the piano] like a wildman.

RAN BLAKE, solo piano

Boston, MA, August 20, 1976

TRACKS:

01. Thursday
02. Aftermath
03. Three Personalities : Votichenko, Cadillac Joe, Amelia
04. East Wind
05. How 'Bout That
06. Jim Crow
07. Arline
08. Blues For Wheatleigh
09. Silver Fox
10. Jinxey's
11. 0How 'Bout That - Take 3
12. 0Field Cry
13. Wende