Don't Blame Me (album)

Don't Blame Me
Studio album by Marc Ribot
Released November 21, 1995
Recorded 1994–1995
Genre Avant-garde jazz
Length 47:30
Label DIW
Producer Marc Ribot
Marc Ribot chronology
The Book of Heads
(1995)		 Don't Blame Me
(1995)		 Shoe String Symphonettes
(1997)

Don't Blame Me is a 1995 solo guitar album Marc Ribot and released on the Japanese DIW label. It features several interpretations of jazz standards, showtunes, and modern jazz compositions as well as three improvisations by Ribot.

Reception

Professional ratings
Review scores
SourceRating
Allmusic[1]

The Allmusic review by Brian Beatty awarded the album 3 stars stating "Though probably a must-have for completists and ardent fans of New York City's downtown avant-garde, Don't Blame Me isn't the place for the uninitiated to begin".[1] Writing in The Village Voice, Gary Giddins said "Ribot suggested a new potential in his playing. Don't Blame Me delivers on it. Here is a disc that consists chiefly of standards, and actually mines them for something beyond their usual glibness of theme and variations. Ribot maintains a respect for their songfulness that shuns wanton irony. He plays them as though the lead sheets were painted over a long wall in oversize notes, each note to be tested and accepted or rejected before moving on to the next".[2]

Track listing

  1. "I'm in the Mood for Love" (Dorothy Fields, Jimmy McHugh) – 2:50
  2. "Noise 1" (Marc Ribot) – 2:22
  3. "Don't Blame Me" (Fields, McHugh) – 5:51
  4. "Ghosts" (Albert Ayler) – 4:54
  5. "Spigot" (Ribot) – 4:10
  6. "Body and Soul" (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman, Robert Sour, Frank Eyton) – 3:04
  7. "Bouncin' Around" (Gus Deloof) – 3:18
  8. "Solitude" (Eddie DeLange, Duke Ellington, Irving Mills) – 4:35
  9. "Dinah" (Harry Akst, Sam M. Lewis, Joe Young) – 3:09
  10. "Song for Ché" (Charlie Haden) – 4:44
  11. "These Foolish Things" (Harry Link, Holt Marvell, Jack Strachey) – 2:20
  12. "Noise 2" (Ribot) – 2:06
  13. "Ol' Man River" (Oscar Hammerstein II, Jerome Kern) – 4:11

Personnel

References

  1. 1 2 Beatty, B. Allmusic Review accessed August 4, 2011.
  2. ↑ Giddins, G., Monk with Frets, The Village Voice, May 14, 1996
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