Walter Blanding

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Walter Blanding, Jr. (born August 14, 1971 in Cleveland ) is an American jazz musician ( tenor and soprano saxophone , clarinet ).

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Blanding, who grew up in a family of musicians, began playing the saxophone at the age of six. In 1981 he moved with his parents to New York, where he received lessons from Barry Harris . In the late 1980s, he was performing regularly with his parents at the Village Gate . He attended LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and the Performing Arts to continue his studies at the New School for Social Research. Blanding then spent four years in Israel, where he performed with his band, but also with musicians such as Louis Hayes and Eric Reed .

His debut album, Tough Young Tenors , was critically rated as one of the best jazz albums of 1991. Since then he has worked with musicians as diverse as Cab Calloway , Wynton Marsalis , Marcus Roberts , Illinois Jacquet and Roy Hargrove . Since 1998 he has been a member of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra ; he is also a member of Vincent Gardner's band . Ryan Kisor , Farid Barron , Rodney Whitaker and Rodney Green are involved in his album The Olive Tree (CrissCross 1999) . He can also be heard on albums by Wycliffe Gordon and Odean Pope .

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  1. ↑ His grandmother was the church music director in her Baptist church and taught at the Cleveland Institute of Music , where his parents, both professional musicians, were trained. See portrait
  2. ↑ Newsweek magazine reported on him in 1998 as a "Jazz Ambassador to Israel".
  3. ↑ Saxophonist Walter Blanding - With the Future Jazz Head All-Stars ( Memento from August 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ Meeting (JazzTimes)
personal data
SURNAME Blanding, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician (saxophone, clarinet)
DATE OF BIRTH August 14, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Cleveland