The Blue Potato and Other Outrages...
The Blue Potato and Other Outrages... | ||||
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Studio album by Ran Blake | ||||
Released | 1969 | |||
Recorded | April 9 & 10, 1969 Stereo Sound Studios, New York City | |||
Genre | Jazz | |||
Length | 39:14 | |||
Label | Milestone MSP 9021 | |||
Producer | Orrin Keepnews | |||
Ran Blake chronology | ||||
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The Blue Potato and Other Outrages... is an album of solo piano performances by the American jazz pianist Ran Blake recorded in 1969 and released on the Milestone label.[1]
Reception
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Source | Rating |
AllMusic | [2] |
Scott Yanow in his review for AllMusic stated, "A very emotional improviser (whose unexpected explosions of sound sometimes punctuate otherwise introspective performances), Blake is a true original. This Milestone LP, only his third recording in eight years, shows Ran Blake really finding unusual things to say on a variety of standards... On this solo piano date, Blake makes political (if nonverbal) statements on many of these pieces, improvising off of the titles rather than the chord changes".[2]
Track listing
All compositions by Ran Blake except as indicated
- "God Bless the Child" (Billie Holiday, Arthur Herzog, Jr.) - 3:47
- "Three Seeds (A Suite): Regis Debray/Che Guevara/Malcolm X" - 7:27
- "The Blue Potato" - 2:36
- "All or Nothing at All" (Arthur Altman, Jack Lawrence) - 4:25
- "Fables of Faubus" (Charles Mingus) - 3:27
- "Chicago" (Fred Fisher) - 3:45
- "Never On Sunday" (Manos Hadjidakis) - 2:49
- "Soul On Ice" - 3:08
- "Vradiazi" - 3:17
- "Garvey`s Ghost" - 2:16
- "Bella Ciao" - 2:27
- "Stars Fell on Alabama" (Frank Perkins, Mitchell Parish) - 2:18
Personnel
References
- ^ Ran Blake discography accessed February 11, 2015
- ^ a b Yanow, Scott. Ran Blake: The Blue Potato and Other Outrages – Review at AllMusic
- v
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- The Newest Sound Around (with Jeanne Lee, 1961)
- Ran Blake Plays Solo Piano (1965)
- The Blue Potato and Other Outrages... (1969)
- Breakthru (1975)
- Wende (1976)
- Improvisations (with Jaki Byard, 1981)
- Duke Dreams (1981)
- Suffield Gothic (1983)
- Painted Rhythms: The Compleat Ran Blake, Volume 1 (1985)
- Painted Rhythms: The Compleat Ran Blake, Volume 2 (1985)
- Short Life of Barbara Monk (1986)
- A Memory of Vienna (with Anthony Braxton, 1988)
- Masters from Different Worlds (with Clifford Jordan and Julian Priester, 1989)
- Epistrophy (1991)
- Unmarked Van: A Tribute to Sarah Vaughan (1994)
- All That Is Tied (2005)
- Driftwoods (2008)