# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ran-blake
# Generated: 2026-08-13T02:00:38.179Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ran-blake"
name: "Ran Blake"
slug: "ran-blake"
description: "Ran Blake 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 with Gunther Schuller."
tagline: "American musician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Ran_Blake.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United States"
  isoCode: "US"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1935-04-20"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           47.34
  momentum:             15
  historical:           9.421024000000001
  currentAttention:     21.88
  sourceConfidence:     75
  profileCompleteness:  85
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "FACEBOOK"
    url:       "https://www.facebook.com/TheRanBlakeArtistPage"
    handle:    "TheRanBlakeArtistPage"
  - platform:  "SPOTIFY"
    url:       "https://open.spotify.com/artist/5Oe2el698y8tac9DMvlI7o"
    handle:    "5Oe2el698y8tac9DMvlI7o"
  - platform:  "WEBSITE"
    url:       "https://www.ranblake.com"
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/65706"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "ران بليك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%A8%D9%84%D9%8A%D9%83"
    title: "ران بليك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_Blake"
    title: "Ran Blake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_Blake"
    title: "Ran Blake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_Blake"
    title: "Ran Blake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_Blake"
    title: "Ran Blake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_Blake"
    title: "Ran Blake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_Blake"
    title: "Ran Blake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_Blake"
    title: "Ran Blake"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/48593b38-7d9f-4a45-af82-60906c712cbf"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q330830"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump