Alex Blake

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Jazz bassist (born 1951)

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nameAlex Blake
imageAlex Blake photo 2.jpg
captionBlake performing with Randy Weston, Billy Harper and Neil Clarke at the Jazz Standard, March 2007
birth_nameAlejandro Blake Fearon Jr.
birth_date
genreJazz
occupationMusician
instrumentDouble bass, bass guitar
associated_actsSun Ra
website
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Alex Blake (born Alejandro Blake Fearon Jr., December 21, 1951) is a jazz bass player.

Biography

Blake was born in 1951 in Panama and moved to the United States at the age of seven, growing up in Brooklyn, New York. He began his career with Sun Ra's band Arkestra. Blake became one of the major proponents of the fusion movement in the late 1970s through his writing and performances with Lenny White and Billy Cobham.

A live performance compilation was released by Bubble Core Records in 2000 titled Now Is the Time: Live at the Knitting Factory. The album featured Blake's own quintet, which included Pharoah Sanders, Victor Jones, John Hicks and Neil Clarke (percussion).

In addition to leading his own group, Blake also performed and recorded with Randy Weston, as well as other musicians.

Discography

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As leader

As sideman

With Billy Cobham

With The Manhattan Transfer

With Pharoah Sanders

With Sun Ra

  • It's After the End of the World (MPS/BASF, 1971)
  • My Brother the Wind Vol II (El Saturn, 1971)
  • Newport Jazz Festival the Electric Circus (Transparency, 2009)
  • Live in London (Transparency, 2010)
  • Live at the Red Garter (Transparency, 2013)
  • In the Orbit of Ra (Strut/Art Yard, 2014)
  • The Intergalactic Thing (Roaratorio, 2016)

With Kazumi Watanabe

  • Lonesome Cat (Denon, 1978)
  • Village in Bubbles (Better Days, 1978)
  • The Best Performance (Better Days, 1982)

With Randy Weston

  • African Sunrise (Antilles, 1992)
  • Saga (Verve/Gitanes, 1995)
  • Khepera (Verve, 1998)
  • The Spirits of Our Ancestors (Verve, 1992)
  • Spirit! The Power of Music (Gitanes, 2000)
  • Live in St. Lucia (Image, 2003)
  • Zep Tepi (Random Chance, 2006)
  • The Storyteller (Motema, 2010)

With others

References

References

  1. "Randy Weston Sidemen Alex Blake".
  2. Taylor, Ken. "Alex Blake Biography".

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