Ran Blake - Something To Live For

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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

	Ran Blake p, *1935 US piano, written by, album by
	Guillermo Gregorio cl, as, *1941 AR clarinet, written by
	David "Knife" Fabris g, eg, b, guitar, written by
	Jester 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

Composers

Guillermo Gregorio

Ran Blake

Traditional

Billy Strayhorn

Duke Ellington

Cole Porter

Barney Bigard

Irving Mills

Charles Mingus

Al Green

Dizzy Gillespie

Frank Paparelli

David "Knife" Fabris

Abbey Lincoln

Konrad Elfers

Album Tracks

No	Title	Artist	Composer	Duration
1	Elijah Rock 1	Ran Blake	Traditional	1:49
2	Something To Live For	Ran Blake	Billy Strayhorn, Duke Ellington	3:36
3	Get Out Of Town	Ran Blake	Cole Porter	4:39
4	Enigma Suite: Part 1	Ran Blake		1:12
5	Memphis	Ran Blake		6:00
6	Vilna	Ran Blake		3:24
7	Enigma Suite: Part 2	Ran Blake		1:16
8	Mood Indigo	Ran Blake	Barney Bigard, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills	2:25
9	Eclipse	Ran Blake	Charles Mingus	3:04
10	Elijah Rock 2	Ran Blake	Traditional	1:20
11	Enigma Suite: Part 3	Ran Blake		1:50
12	Judy	Ran Blake	Al Green	5:18
13	A Night In Tunisia	Ran Blake	Dizzy Gillespie, Frank Paparelli	2:29
14	Enigma Suite: Part 4	Ran Blake		0:46
15	Nightcrawler	Ran Blake	David "Knife" Fabris	2:23
16	Throw It Away	Ran Blake	Abbey Lincoln	3:06
17	Impresario Of Death	Ran Blake		3:45
18	Doktor Mabuse	Ran Blake	Konrad Elfers	2:32
19	Ghosts Of Cimetière De Père Lachaise	Ran Blake		0:41

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