| Genres: |
Jazz
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| Descriptive "tags": |
jazz • saxophone • free jazz • instrumental • sax
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| Decades Active: |
1990s
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2000s
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Biography
19 May 1964, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. An eclectic tenor and soprano saxophonist, Blake has worked with many artists in jazz, rock and contemporary pop, including bass player Ben Allison, whom he met when he became a member of Allison’s Jazz Composers Collective. The New York-based Blake has also played in Allison’s Medicine Wheel. Among other musicians and groups with whom Blake has been associated are saxophonist John Lurie’s Lounge Lizards, an association that helped bring Blake worldwide recognition, multi-instrumentalist Peck Almond, slide trumpeter Steven Bernstein, trumpeter Ron Horton, pianist Frank Kimbrough’s Herbie Nichols Project, bass player Tim Luntzel, guitarist Tony Scherr, and drummers Matt Wilson and Kenny Wollesen, as well as with the Kate Fenner/Chris Brown Band and Tricky. In the early 00s, Blake formed several bands, sometimes working concurrently with them to present different aspects of his musical...
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