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Ron Blake: No Mistaking His Identity
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Holding down the bari chair at Saturday Night Live, performing with musicians like Christian McBride, and teaching at Julliard have saxophonist Ron Blake at full capacity. These time constraints left little time for him to focus on his own music, but fortunately he enlisted the help of his long time-friend guitarist Bobby Broom and has recently released Mistaken Identity, his first recording under his own name in fifteen years. In this episode of LINER NOTES Ron talks about the journey that has taken him from the Virgin Islands to NYC and from classical saxophonist to jazz saxophonist. This episode features music from Ron Blake's Mistaken Identity (7tēn33 Productions)Comments
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