Epistrophy (Ran Blake album) explained
Epistrophy |
Type: | Album |
Artist: | Ran Blake |
Cover: | Epistrophy (Ran Blake album).jpg |
Released: | 1991 |
Recorded: | April 19 & 20, 1991 |
Genre: | Jazz |
Length: | 54:20 |
Label: | Soul Note |
Producer: | Giovanni Bonandrini |
Chronology: | Ran Blake |
Prev Title: | That Certain Feeling |
Prev Year: | 1991 |
Next Title: | Roundabout |
Next Year: | 1994 |
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.[1]
Reception
The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 3 stars stating "Ran Blake's re-interpretations of 12 Thelonious Monk songs and four standards that Monk enjoyed playing are quite different than everyone else's".[2]
Track listing
All compositions by Thelonious Monk except as indicated
- "Epistrophy" (Kenny Clarke, Monk) - 3:08
- "Thelonious" - 5:18
- "April in Paris" (Vernon Duke, E. Y. Harburg) - 3:06
- "Off Minor" - 1:39
- "Criss-Cross" - 2:18
- "Reflections" - 3:43
- "Epistrophy" (Clarke, Monk) - 3:36
- "'Round Midnight" - 5:50
- "Hornin' In" - 0:56
- "Just a Gigolo" (Julius Brammer, Leonello Casucci) - 3:10
- "Nice Work If You Can Get It (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin) - 3:46
- "Ruby, My Dear" - 2:59
- "Monk's Mood" - 5:12
- "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes" (Otto Harbach, Jerome Kern) - 2:47
- "Eronel" - 2:27
- "Misterioso" - 3:08
- "Epistrophy" (Clarke, Monk) - 1:17
- Recorded at Barigozzi Studio in Milano, Italy on April 19 & 20, 1991
Personnel
Notes and References
- http://jazzrealities.blogspot.com/2010/01/soulnote-label-discography-compiled-by.html Soul Note discography
- Yanow, S. Allmusic Review accessed July 14, 2011