Ron Blake & Ron Blake SCRATCH Band - SCRATCH Band (2025)

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Artist:
Title: SCRATCH Band
Year Of Release: 2025
Label: 7tēn33 Productions
Genre: Jazz
Quality: Mp3 320 kbps / FLAC (tracks)
Total Time: 56:35
Total Size: 130 / 300 MB

Tracklist:

1. Bassman (6:13)
2. Body and Soul (8:00)
3. Another Level (6:42)
4. Lift Every Voice And Sing (6:35)
5. Grace Ann (5:51)
6. Appointment (8:17)
7. Song For Maya (4:55)
8. La Conga de Juana (4:06)
9. April's Fool (5:58)

The term "scratch band" refers to a tradition of folk music, Ron Blake explains in his album notes, "performed by storytellers and groove makers in the community I grew up with in the Virgin Islands." The music here isn't reflective of the genre of scratch bands, called quelbe, but "the intention when putting the album together ... is. Groove and other elements of music--melody, harmony, & space, imagined without pretense."

Ron Blake - Baritone Saxophone
Reuben Rogers - Bass
John Hadfield - Percussion