Let's Meet Alex Blake

Alex Blake at Jazz Standard, NY, 2007
photo: Dmitry Scherbi
source: Alex Blake, Jazz Standard, March 2007
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Says Marcia Bujold, if you like jazz, check this guy Alex Blake out. He is incredible! I've never heard anyone play a bass like that! Not just plucking strings, but also using the strings as percussion and as a strumming instrument. He gets some dramatic sounds. He often tours with Randy Weston, who is also amazing. She just saw him at Snug Harbor.

Charlie Parker Festival, NY, 2008
(video by almalibro)

Here is another amazing video: Randy Weston and Alex Blake pay tribute to friend and fellow musician Freddie Hubbard who past in December 2008. The Memorial was held in Harlem's historic Abyssinian Baptist Church.

(video by bivmvideo)

(Musica Nova)

(New York, New York)

(Marcia Bujold)