New Ran Blake Release

Tompkins Square Records is offering new music from Ran Blake.

Ran Blake Releases New Album ‘Driftwoods’ on January 27, 2009

Ran Blake is an iconoclast. Since his 1961 collaboration with Jeanne Lee on RCA, Ran Blake has released 35 albums on such labels as ESP, Soul Note, Arista and hatOLOGY. His 2006 album on the Tompkins Square label, ‘All That Is Tied’, received 4 stars in Downbeat and earned top honors in the 2007 Penguin Guide to Jazz. Penguin’s editor Brian Morton and Wire Magazine hailed the record as a “masterpiece.”

For his new solo piano outing, ‘Driftwoods’, Ran salutes his favorite singers, interpreting songs popularized by Billie Holiday, Mahalia Jackson, Hank Williams, Nat King Cole and more.

To celebrate the release, Ran will play a rare live solo piano performance on Eric Jackson’s ‘Eric in the Evening’ program on WGBH on March 18th, airing locally on 89.7FM Boston and streaming globally via wgbh.org.

For more on Ran Blake, visit http://www.ranblake.com