Walter Blanding Jr. (August 14, 1971-) is a Jazz Saxophonist and clarinetist from a prominent New York Jazz family. He trained at both LaGuardia High School and The New School. He joined The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra in the mid 1990s and later served as the Jazz Ambassador in Shanghai, China for The JLCO from 2018 to 2020. He took a sabbatical from The JLCO in 2022 to become the newest member of the Michigan State University Jazz Studies faculty.
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