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Ran Blake
American jazz pianist and composer
Springfield, United States • b. 1935-04-20
Ran Blake is credited on 90 releases across 36 albums tracked on Gatefold, active 1962–2025 — the collector-built map of who actually made the music.
90
Pressings credited
36
Albums
7
Decades active
10
In collections
Biography
Ran Blake (born April 20, 1935) is an American pianist, composer, and educator. He is known for his unique style that combines blues, gospel, classical, and film noir influences into an innovative and dark jazz sound. His career spans over 40 recording credits on jazz albums along with more than 40 years of teaching jazz at the New England Conservatory of Music, where he started the Department of Third Stream (now called the Department of Contemporary Musical Arts) with Gunther Schuller.
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Credited work
90 releases · 36 albums · active 1962–2025
- Performance · 182
- Other credits · 20
Studios: RCA Studio A · New England Conservatory's Jordan Hall · Bell Sound Studios · C.I. Recording Studios
Discography
Records they worked on — most-collected first.
Frequent collaborators
- Chris Connor
- Patty Waters
- François Jeanneau
- Jeanne Lee
- Enrico Rava
- Ran Blake Quartet
- Dave Brubeck
- Clifford Jordan
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