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Ran Blake, the Glossary

Ran Blake (born April 20, 1935) is an American pianist, composer, and educator.^[1]

82 relations: A Memory of Vienna, All That Is Tied, AllMusic, Anthony Braxton, Atlantic Records, Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society, Bard College, Béla Bartók, Black Saint/Soul Note, Brandeis University, Breakthru (Ran Blake album), Christine Correa, CIMP, Claude Debussy, Clean Feed Records, Clifford Jordan, Colin Larkin, Dizzy Gillespie, Dominique Eade, Don Byron, Driftwoods, Duke Dreams, Duke Ellington, Enrico Rava, Epistrophy (Ran Blake album), ESP-Disk, Frank London, George Duvivier, Gospel music, Grayson Hugh, Guggenheim Fellowship, Guinness World Records, Gunther Schuller, Hat Hut Records, Horo Records, Houston Person, Improvisations (Ran Blake & Jaki Byard album), Improvising Artists, Impulse! Records, Inner Circle Music, Jaki Byard, Jazz, Jeanne Lee, John Lewis (pianist), John Medeski, Laura (1945 song), Lenox, Massachusetts, MacArthur Fellows Program, Mapleshade Records, Mary Lou Williams, ... Expand index (32 more) »
Avant-garde jazz pianists
ESP-Disk artists
Ilk Records artists
Novus Records artists
Third stream pianists

A Memory of Vienna

A Memory of Vienna is an album by pianist Ran Blake and saxophonist Anthony Braxton performing jazz standards recorded in 1988 and released on the hatOLOGY label in 1997.

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All That Is Tied is a solo album by pianist Ran Blake which was recorded in 2005 to mark the 40th anniversary of his first solo recording Ran Blake Plays Solo Piano and his 70th birthday and was released on the Tompkins Square label in 2006.

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AllMusic

AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database.

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Anthony Braxton

Anthony Braxton (born June 4, 1945) is an American experimental composer, educator, music theorist, improviser and multi-instrumentalist who is best known for playing saxophones, particularly the alto. Ran Blake and Anthony Braxton are American male jazz pianists, MacArthur Fellows and music & Arts artists.

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Atlantic Records

Atlantic Recording Corporation (simply known as Atlantic Records) is an American record label founded in October 1947 by Ahmet Ertegun and Herb Abramson.

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Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society

The Bach Dancing & Dynamite Society is an oceanfront non-profit music venue located at the Douglas Beach House in Half Moon Bay, California.

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Bard College

Bard College is a private liberal arts college in the hamlet of Annandale-on-Hudson, in the town of Red Hook, in New York State.

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Béla Bartók

Béla Viktor János Bartók (25 March 1881 – 26 September 1945) was a Hungarian composer, pianist and ethnomusicologist.

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Black Saint/Soul Note

Black Saint and Soul Note are two affiliated Italian independent record labels.

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Brandeis University

Brandeis University is a private research university in Waltham, Massachusetts.

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Breakthru (Ran Blake album)

Breakthru is an album of solo piano performances by the American jazz pianist Ran Blake recorded in 1975 and released on the Improvising Artists label.

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Christine Correa

Christine Isobel Correa (born July 8, 1955) is an American jazz singer of Indian origin. Ran Blake and Christine Correa are music & Arts artists.

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CIMP

Creative Improvised Music Projects, usually abbreviated CIMP or C.I.M.P., is an American jazz record company and label.

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Claude Debussy

(Achille) Claude Debussy (|group.

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Clean Feed Records

Clean Feed Records is a jazz record label founded in Lisbon, Portugal, in 2001.

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Clifford Jordan

Clifford Laconia Jordan (September 2, 1931 – March 27, 1993) was an American jazz tenor saxophone player.

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Colin Larkin

Colin Larkin (born 1949) is a British music writer.

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Dizzy Gillespie

John Birks "Dizzy" Gillespie (October 21, 1917 – January 6, 1993) was an American jazz trumpeter, bandleader, composer, educator and singer.

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Dominique Eade

Dominique Frances Eade (June 16, 1958) is an American jazz singer and composer.

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Don Byron

Donald Byron (born November 8, 1958) is an American composer and multi-instrumentalist.

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Driftwoods

Driftwoods is a solo album by pianist Ran Blake recorded in 2008 and released on the Tompkins Square label in 2009.

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Duke Dreams

Duke Dreams (subtitled The Legacy of Strayhorn-Ellington) is an album of solo piano performances of material written by or associated with Duke Ellington by the American jazz pianist Ran Blake recorded in 1981 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.

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Duke Ellington

Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington (April 29, 1899 – May 24, 1974) was an American jazz pianist, composer, and leader of his eponymous jazz orchestra from 1923 through the rest of his life. Ran Blake and Duke Ellington are American jazz pianists, American male jazz pianists and music & Arts artists.

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Enrico Rava

Enrico Rava (born 20 August 1939), is an Italian jazz trumpeter. Ran Blake and Enrico Rava are Black Saint/Soul Note artists.

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Epistrophy (Ran Blake album)

Epistrophy is an album of solo piano performances of material written by, or associated with, Thelonious Monk by the American jazz pianist Ran Blake recorded in 1991 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.

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ESP-Disk

ESP-Disk is a New York–based record company and label founded in 1963 by lawyer Bernard Stollman.

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Frank London

Frank London (born 1958 in New York) is an American klezmer trumpeter who also plays jazz and world music.

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George Duvivier

George Duvivier (August 17, 1920 – July 11, 1985) was an American jazz double-bassist.

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Gospel music

Gospel music is a genre of Christian Music that spreads the word of God and a cornerstone of Christian media.

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Grayson Hugh

Grayson Hugh (born October 30, 1960) is an American singer-songwriter, pianist, Hammond B3 organ player and composer.

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Guggenheim Fellowship

Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim.

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Guinness World Records

Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.

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Gunther Schuller

Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician. Ran Blake and Gunther Schuller are MacArthur Fellows and new England Conservatory faculty.

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Hat Hut Records

Hathut Records is a Swiss record company and label founded by Werner Xavier Uehlinger in 1974 that specializes in jazz and classical music.

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Horo Records

Horo Records was an Italian jazz record label, operated by Aldo Sinesio.

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Houston Person

Houston Person (born November 10, 1934) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist and record producer.

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Improvisations (Ran Blake & Jaki Byard album)

Improvisations is an album of piano duets by the American jazz pianists Ran Blake and Jaki Byard, recorded in 1981 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.

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Improvising Artists

Improvising Artists Inc. known as IAI is a production company created by jazz pianist, Paul Bley, and video artist, Carol Goss, in 1974 for the purpose of recording improvised music and video art.

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Impulse! Records

Impulse! Records (occasionally styled as "¡mpulse! Records" and "¡!") is an American jazz record label established by Creed Taylor in 1960. Ran Blake and Impulse! Records are Impulse! Records artists.

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Inner Circle Music

Inner Circle Music is an American jazz record label founded by Greg Osby in 2007.

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Jaki Byard

John Arthur "Jaki" Byard (June 15, 1922 – February 11, 1999) was an American jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer, and arranger. Ran Blake and Jaki Byard are American jazz pianists, American male jazz pianists, jazz musicians from Massachusetts, new England Conservatory faculty and Post-bop pianists.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues, ragtime, European harmony and African rhythmic rituals.

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Jeanne Lee

Jeanne Lee (January 29, 1939 – October 25, 2000) was an American jazz singer, poet and composer. Ran Blake and Jeanne Lee are Bard College alumni.

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John Lewis (pianist)

John Aaron Lewis (May 3, 1920 – March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the founder and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Ran Blake and John Lewis (pianist) are American jazz pianists, American male jazz pianists and Third stream pianists.

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John Medeski

Anthony John Medeski (born June 28, 1965) is an American jazz keyboard player and composer. Ran Blake and John Medeski are American jazz pianists, American male jazz pianists and avant-garde jazz pianists.

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Laura (1945 song)

"Laura" is a 1945 popular song.

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Lenox, Massachusetts

Lenox is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States.

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MacArthur Fellows Program

The MacArthur Fellows Program, also known as the MacArthur Fellowship and colloquially called the "Genius Grant", is a prize awarded annually by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation to typically between 20 and 30 individuals working in any field who have shown "extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction" and are citizens or residents of the United States. Ran Blake and MacArthur Fellows Program are MacArthur Fellows.

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Mapleshade Records

Mapleshade Records is an American jazz record company and independent record label founded by Pierre Sprey in Upper Marlboro, Maryland, United States, in 1990.

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Mary Lou Williams

Mary Lou Williams (born Mary Elfrieda Scruggs; May 8, 1910 – May 28, 1981) was an American jazz pianist, arranger, and composer. Ran Blake and Mary Lou Williams are American jazz pianists.

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Masters from Different Worlds

Masters from Different Worlds is an album by saxophonist Clifford Jordan and pianist Ran Blake with trombonist Julian Priester which was recorded in 1989 and released on the Mapleshade label in 1994.

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Matthew Shipp

Matthew Shipp (born December 7, 1960) is an American avant-garde jazz pianist, composer, and bandleader. Ran Blake and Matthew Shipp are American male jazz pianists, avant-garde jazz pianists and Post-bop pianists.

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Milestone Records

Milestone Records is an American jazz record company and label founded in 1966 by Orrin Keepnews and Dick Katz in New York City.

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New England Conservatory of Music

The New England Conservatory of Music (NEC) is a private music school in Boston, Massachusetts.

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NoBusiness Records

NoBusiness Records is an independent record label, based in Vilnius, Lithuania.

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Novus Records

Novus Records (later Arista Novus and RCA Novus) was an American jazz record label run by Steve Backer. Ran Blake and Novus Records are Novus Records artists.

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Oscar Peterson

Oscar Emmanuel Peterson (August 15, 1925 – December 23, 2007) was a Canadian jazz pianist and composer.

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Painted Rhythms: The Compleat Ran Blake, Volume 1

Painted Rhythms: The Compleat Ran Blake, Volume 1 is a solo piano album by Ran Blake.

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Painted Rhythms: The Compleat Ran Blake, Volume 2

Painted Rhythms: The Compleat Ran Blake, Volume 2 is a solo piano album by Ran Blake.

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Ran Blake Plays Solo Piano

Ran Blake Plays Solo Piano is a solo piano album by Ran Blake.

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RCA

The RCA Corporation was a major American electronics company, which was founded in 1919 as the Radio Corporation of America.

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RCA Records

RCA Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Real Book

The Real Book is a musicians' fake book – a compilation of lead sheets for jazz standards.

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Ricky Ford

Ricky Ford (born March 4, 1954) is an American jazz tenor saxophonist. Ran Blake and Ricky Ford are jazz musicians from Massachusetts.

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Robert Siodmak

Robert Siodmak (8 August 1900 – 10 March 1973) was a German film director who also worked in the United States.

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Short Life of Barbara Monk

Short Life of Barbara Monk is an album by the American jazz pianist Ran Blake featuring saxophonist Ricky Ford recorded in 1986 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.

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Springfield, Massachusetts

Springfield is the most populous city in and the seat of Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States.

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Steve Lacy (saxophonist)

Steve Lacy (born Steven Norman Lackritz; July 23, 1934 – June 4, 2004) was an American jazz saxophonist and composer recognized as one of the important players of soprano saxophone. Ran Blake and Steve Lacy (saxophonist) are ESP-Disk artists, MacArthur Fellows, Novus Records artists and Sunnyside Records artists.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_Blake

, Masters from Different Worlds, Matthew Shipp, Milestone Records, New England Conservatory of Music, NoBusiness Records, Novus Records, Oscar Peterson, Painted Rhythms: The Compleat Ran Blake, Volume 1, Painted Rhythms: The Compleat Ran Blake, Volume 2, Ran Blake Plays Solo Piano, RCA, RCA Records, Real Book, Ricky Ford, Robert Siodmak, Short Life of Barbara Monk, Springfield, Massachusetts, Steve Lacy (saxophonist), Suffield Gothic, Suffield, Connecticut, Sunnyside Records, The Blue Potato and Other Outrages..., The Encyclopedia of Popular Music, The Newest Sound Around, The Spiral Staircase (1946 film), Third stream, Tiziano Tononi, Tompkins Square Records, Unmarked Van: A Tribute to Sarah Vaughan, Wende (album), William Russo (musician), Yitzhak Yedid.

Ran Blake, the Glossary

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See also

Avant-garde jazz pianists

ESP-Disk artists

Ilk Records artists

Novus Records artists

Third stream pianists

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