Dan Blankinship

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Daniel "Dan" Blankinship (* around 1980 in Richmond (Virginia) ) is an American jazz musician ( trumpet ) of modern jazz .

Live and act

Blankinship learned the trumpet at the age of eleven, after taking piano lessons and singing in the children's choir. He completed his training as a musician at the Interlochen Center for the Arts, Tanglewood Institute ( Boston University ), Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore and at The New School , where he obtained his Bachelor of Arts in 1999. He then studied at the Aaron Copland School of Music ( Queens College ), where he received his Master of Arts.

From the early 2000s Blankinship worked in the American jazz scene; from 2001 he was a member of the jazz collective The Flail . He also belonged to formations in the New York area such as the Fat Cat Big Band , Alexi David's Mingus Brass Octet, Lapis Luna, Blue Vipers of Brooklyn, the Gregorio Uribe Big Band, Michael Arenella and his Dreamland Orchestra and the Shrine Big Band. In 2018 he played in the Jack Glottman Quartet. Recordings were made from 2004 with The Flail as well as with Gasper Bertoncelj and The Swingers of Jazz. He has taught at various music education institutions such as Through Music, Bronx Lab School, Bronx Charter School for the Arts and at the Litchfield Jazz Festival Summer Music School.

Discographic notes

  • The Flail: Nver Fear (KNT, 2004), with Stephan Moutot (sop, ts), Brian Marsella (p), Reid Taylor (kb), Matt Zebroski (dr)
  • The Flail: Live at Smalls (SmallsLIVE, 2010), dto.
  • Gasper Bertoncelj and The Swingers of Jazz: Gasper's Back in Town (Arabesque, 2011)
  • The Flail: Not Dead ... Yet (Red Palace Records, 2017)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A b Dan Blankinship. Smalls, January 28, 2019, accessed January 28, 2019 .
  2. ↑ Tom Lord The Jazz Discography (online, accessed January 28, 2019)
personal data
SURNAME Blankinship, Dan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Blankinship, Daniel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (trumpet)
DATE OF BIRTH around 1980
PLACE OF BIRTH Richmond, Virginia