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Ran Blake
Something To Live For

Album CH 1999 on hatOLOGY label
Jazz (Free Jazz, Contemporary Jazz)

Recorded at WGBH Studio, Boston on March 20, 1998. Track 5 is dedicated to Mr. Jean Plumez Cardboard Sleeve. Edition of 3000 CDs The world of Ran Blake beckons once again in these performances and, once again, we cannot resist being drawn into that world. We dodge through its shadows and its bright, glaring expanses, alert to the caverns and crevices from which the pianist's images emerge - now gentle, now brutal, always unretouched. The cinematic content of Blake's music, its use of montage and dramatic dissolves, has long been acknowledged. When he works in the short forms he favors here, there is also the clarity and unsparing honesty of a short story collection by an author like the late Raymond Carver. Extra-musical allusions are unvoidable when music evokes all five senses, as Blake's music inevitably does.

     
Musicians
PortraitRan Blake p, *1935 US
piano, written by, album by
PortraitGuillermo Gregorio cl, as, *1941 AR
clarinet, written by
PortraitDavid "Knife" Fabris g, eg, b,
guitar, written by
PortraitJester Hairston , 1901-2000 US
arranged by
Producers
fuhrer vienna design concept, graphic concept
Bob Blumenthal liner notes
Peter Pfister mastered by, mixed by
J. K. Rogers photography by
Art Lange producer
Pia & Werner X. Uehlinger producer
Antonio Oliart recorded by
Album Tracks   
No Title Artist Composer Duration
1Elijah Rock 1Ran BlakeTraditional1:49
2Something To Live ForRan BlakeBilly Strayhorn, Duke Ellington3:36
3Get Out Of TownRan BlakeCole Porter4:39
4Enigma Suite: Part 1Ran Blake1:12
5MemphisRan Blake6:00
6VilnaRan Blake3:24
7Enigma Suite: Part 2Ran Blake1:16
8Mood IndigoRan BlakeBarney Bigard, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills2:25
9EclipseRan BlakeCharles Mingus3:04
10Elijah Rock 2Ran BlakeTraditional1:20
11Enigma Suite: Part 3Ran Blake1:50
12JudyRan BlakeAl Green5:18
13A Night In TunisiaRan BlakeDizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli2:29
14Enigma Suite: Part 4Ran Blake0:46
15NightcrawlerRan BlakeDavid "Knife" Fabris2:23
16Throw It AwayRan BlakeAbbey Lincoln3:06
17Impresario Of DeathRan Blake3:45
18Doktor MabuseRan BlakeKonrad Elfers2:32
19 Ghosts Of Cimetière De Père LachaiseRan Blake0:41

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