John Blair II

COMPOSER at POLAR BLAIR PRODUCTIONS, LLC
Actor, Music Composer, Musician and Producer

New York City, New York

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About John

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Multi-faceted musician John Blair has written music for a variety of projects. Including but not limited to: Opera, Jazz Orchestra, String Quartet, Wind Symphony and many other chamberesque permutations and contingents.

In film, he has served as a composer, orchestrator, actor and Executive producer, for such productions as Should’ve Kissed (playing piano on screen and learning and arranging a song the day of the shoot ) Red Ice, You're Not You., Red Goodnight, Swordfish and most recently The 13th Man .php

Several of John's works have been performed at the Jazz Composers’ Symposium - University of Southern Florida (COSMIC RESIDUE), Anthology Film Archive- NYC (Should've Kissed score), Clowes Memorial Hall Indianapolis, IN (Ellington tribute),and the International Clarinet Symposium for John Bruce Yeh co-principal of the Chicago Symphony (Adagio for Clarinet).

His work in film has included writing and performing music for Should’ve Kissed (directed by award winning indie director, Jinoh Park) and music performed by Ethel String Quartet for the innovative BMI Film Composers’ Workshop. As part of the TriBeCa Film Festival, John scored live to picture utilizing a scene from The Coen Brothers’ “True Grit” at Apple Theater SoHo where he delivered a weekly Film Score Technology presentation for 7 years for Apple and TriBeCa Film Festival.

Ron Ubel, (who recorded well over 20 sides for Concord records) particularly noted the standard like quality of John’s Jazz Ballad, ADOÑA , and the freshness of his uptempo hard bop compositions Peri-Normal both recorded at Soundtrek studios in KC,MO with Jazz Master Bobby Watson sitting in on alto sax ...

With performance credits on piano and trombone, John has appeared on stage at the Lionel Hampton Jazz Festival, as well as the Indianapolis, North Texas, and Kemah Jazz Festivals. Other credits include the Wortham Center (Houston), The Blue Room (Kansas City, MO), Clowes Memorial Hall (Indianapolis), as well as New York’s Slipper Room, Brooklyn Lyceum, and Rockwood Music Hall.

John has performed withJazz luminaries Bill Watrous, Al Grey, Bobby Watson, Sir John Dankworth, and Dennis Dotson to name but a few. For jazz vocalist Kevin Mahogany, Dr. Blair provided a vocal feature for Kevin’s tribute to Johnny Hartman. Maestro Mahogany commisioned a vocal feature of the exquisite and rarefied Strayhorn gem My Little Brown Book for Jazz Orchestra.

Other titles include: "Wings Over Iberia", "Honor Guard" and "Texas Troubadours" .

Unique traits: I am an enthusiastic egalitarian entropy expert excelling in exemplifying eternal entropic ethics. I studied rock climbing with the inventor of the Ewbank grading system, John Ewbank. Produced some of his music... he was also a musician (opened for Bob Dylan In Australia) when he wasn't busy climbing in the Blue Mountains. In my spare time, I vociferously volunteer at the Ministry of Arguments. I currently operate a mobile ministry where I conveniently bring the argument to you.

Gender:
Male

Height:
7' 11"

Body type:
Athletic

Hair:
Short

Hair color:
Brown

Eyes:
Green

Ethnicity:
Other