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Unmarked Van: A Tribute to Sarah Vaughan

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Released
  
1994

Artist
  
Ran Blake

Label
  
Soul Note

Length
  
67:39

Release date
  
1994

Genre
  
Jazz

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Recorded
  
December 14, 15 and 17, 1994

Unmarked Van (1994)
  
A Memory of Vienna (1997)

Similar
  
Ran Blake albums, Jazz albums

Unmarked Van (Subtitled A Tribute to Sarah Vaughan) is an album of material associated with Sarah Vaughan by the American jazz pianist Ran Blake recorded in 1994 and released on the Italian Soul Note label.

Contents

Reception

The Allmusic review by Scott Yanow awarded the album 4 stars stating "This is certainly an off-the-wall tribute... This moody and melancholy yet strangely celebratory set will stay in one's memory long after the CD has been played".

Track listing

All compositions by Ran Blake except as indicated
  1. "Sarah" 3:02
  2. "My Reverie" (Larry Clinton) - 3:45
  3. "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" (Traditional) - 2:57
  4. "Tenderly" [Take 1] (Walter Gross, Jack Lawrence) - 3:01
  5. "Make Yourself Comfortable" (Bob Merrill) - 2:23
  6. "Tenderly" [Take 2] (Gross, Lawrence) - 1:51
  7. "Solitary Sunday" - 3:02
  8. "My Man's Gone Now" (George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, DuBose Heyward) - 3:54
  9. "Old Devil Moon" (E. Y. Harburg, Burton Lane) - 2:45
  10. "A Portrait of Roy Haynes" - 2:34
  11. "Whatever Lola Wants" (Richard Adler, Jerry Ross) - 2:27
  12. "Wallflower Waltz" (Jack Segal, Marvin Fisher) - 2:19
  13. "Tenderly" [Take 3] (Gross, Lawrence) - 3:10
  14. "April" [Take 1] (Manny Kellem) - 2:38
  15. "April" [Take 2] (Kellem) - 2:36
  16. "Call Me" (Tony Hatch) - 2:16
  17. "Moonlight on the Ganges" (Chester Wallace, Sherman Myers) - 3:09
  18. "The Girl from Ipanema" (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Vinicius de Moraes, Norman Gimbel) - 3:56
  19. "Stompin' at the Savoy" (Edgar Sampson) - 3:38
  20. "A Little Tear" (Eumir Deodato) - 2:57
  21. "Septembre" - 2:53
  22. "The Unmarked Van" - 4:20
  23. "Tenderly" [Take 4] (Gross, Lawrence) - 3:00
  • Recorded at Murec Studio in Milano, Italy on December 14, 15 and 17, 1994

    • Personnel

  • Ran Blake – piano
  • Tiziano Tononi - drums

    • Songs

    1Sarah3:02
    2My Reverie3:45
    3Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child2:58

    References

    Unmarked Van: A Tribute to Sarah Vaughan Wikipedia
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