John Blair (Nov. 8, 1943 — June 3, 2006) was an American violinist and guitarist from Toledo, Ohio, who released the 1971 album Mystical Soul on New York small-press A&R. After five years of session work for assorted jazz, soul, and pop artists (Alice Coltrane, Bobby Womack, Charles Earland, Hall & Oates), he made the […]
Odyssey is a jazz-funk album by American keyboardist/composer Charles Earland, released in 1976 on Mercury. Notable players on the album include guitarist John Abercrombie, trumpeter Randy Brecker, drummer Norman Connors, and violinists Michał Urbaniak and John Blair. The album was the first of four on Mercury for Earland, who had just wrapped a six-year, 10-album stint […]
