Jazz Articles about David Blake

About David Blake

Album Review

David Blake Quartet: Radio Casual

Read "Radio Casual" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
August 5, 2026

To gain a clear picture of the sort of high-caliber straight-ahead jazz Canadian-born, Brooklyn-based guitarist David Blake's quartet has to offer on Radio Casual, go directly to “Nut Bread," the second track, bypassing the more offbeat, effects-enhanced opener, “Jonas with a View" (the “Jonas" presumably a reference to the group's drummer, Jonas Esser). There is one other outlier, the shadowy “Dew Sweeper," but as Blake wrote and arranged every number, he quite obviously charted every course, plain-speaking or otherwise.

Album Review

David Blake: Fun House

Read "Fun House" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
October 31, 2022

David Blake and his teammates are definitely having a good time on Fun House, the Vancouver, Canada-based guitarist's third recording as leader, as their energy and enthusiasm flow through the speakers. This is Blake's first album in a setting other than a trio, as he shares the front line here with trumpeter Thad Bailey-Mai and has added a second trumpet, Brad Turner, to complement bassist Conrad Good and drummer Bernie Arai. Blake wrote all but two of ...