Wende (album)

The album of solo piano performances by Ran Blake was recorded in Boston in 1976.^[1] All of the pieces are Blake compositions.^[2]

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[1]
DownBeat	[2]

Wende was released by Owl Records.^[1] It was later issued on CD in the early 1990s,^[1] and then reissued by Sunnyside Records on March 13, 2007.^[3]

The AllMusic reviewer concluded that "Wende is a beautifully tender album, full of memory, longing, sadness, and joy, by a pianist whose middle name should be 'Ghost'."^[1] DownBeat wrote that "Blake is practically a minimalist, distilling ideas to their essence and whispering truths some other pianists would shout."^[2]