Roger Blank

Roger Blank (born December 19, 1938 in New York ) is an American jazz musician ( drums , percussion ).

Live and act

Blank played in Sun Ra Arkestra from 1964 , a. a. heard on the records Other Plane of There and The Heliocentric Worlds of Sun Ra . Furthermore he worked during this time a. a. also with Archie Shepp , Walt Dickerson , Pharoah Sanders , Ed Blackwell and Albert Ayler , in the early 1970s also with Earl Cross , the Jazz Composer's Orchestra and the Melodic Art Tentet (including Charles Brackeen , Ahmed Abdullah , William Parker and Ronnie Boykins ), also in the Andrew Hill trio with Richard Davis ( Nefertiti 1976), with Frank Foster and Jimmy Lyons ( Push Pull , HatHut Records , 1979). The last recordings were made in 1992 in the Azanyah formation . In the field of jazz he was involved in 21 recording sessions between 1964 and 1992. In later years, Blank lived with his family in the Brooklyn neighborhood of Williamsburg , where he also taught.

Discographic notes

• Walt Dickerson Quartet: Impressions of a Patch of Blue ( MGM Records , 1965)
• Cecil Taylor / Charles Tolliver / Grachan Moncur III / Archie Shepp: The New Breed ( Impulse! Records , 1961–65, ed. 1978)
• Pharoah Sanders: Tawhid (Impulse! Records, 1967)
• Leroy Jenkins & the Jazz Composer's Orchestra: For Players Only (JCOA, 1974)
• Melodic Art-Tet ( NoBusiness Records 1974, ed. 2013)

Web links

• Roger Blank at Allmusic (English)
• Roger Blank at Discogs (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Tom Lord : The Jazz Discography (online, accessed November 29, 2014)
2. ↑ Archived copy ( memento of the original dated December 6, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.