“a genius on the guitar” - The Los Angeles Times


 
Guitarist Blake Aaron has taken the Contemporary Jazz world by storm, earning a total of NINE #1 Billboard Singles, being awarded Mediabase #1 Artist of the Year, Billboard #2 Artist of the Year, and SmoothJazz.com #1 Song of the Year! Plus, eight #1 Billboard Singles as a producer, and two #1 Billboard Singles as a featured artist, including the #1 Billboard Song of the Year for 2022. The latest single, “Dare to Fly” was #1 on all 3 industry charts including Billboard, Mediabase, and Smooth Jazz Network, and “Let’s Get Lost” spent 3 weeks straight in Spring 2025 at #1 on Billboard.

Blake’s songs, “Fall for You” and “The Way You Sway” have each been streamed over 7 million times, and “Encantadora” has received 5 million streams.

Following in the footsteps of the smash album Color and Passion, which had three #1 Billboard singles and one #1 Song of the Year on the Radiowave charts for the year 2019, Blake Aaron’s album release, Love and Rhythm rockets out of the gate with another four #1 singles, “She’s the One,” “Feels So Right,” “The Way You Sway,” and “Dreamland.” Aaron is also a Billboard #1 producer with his funky, silky-smooth “Fall for You,” “The Way You Sway,” “Let’s Get Lost,” and “Dare to Fly” as well as producing Billboard #1 songs for other artists.

“Aaron’s guitar playing is stellar” - The Jazz World

Named “a genius on the guitar” by the Los Angeles Times, “Aaron’s guitar playing is stellar” by The Jazz World, ”Take your pick-he’s a good picker!" by Jazz Weekly, “...one of the greatest treasures as a guitarist,” by Najee, and "a guitar player's guitarist" by Critical Blast, Blake Aaron launched his career as an L.A. studio musician/sideman and has recorded and/ or performed with artists such as Philip Bailey (Earth Wind and Fire), Sheila E., Frank Stallone, The Alan Parsons Project, Bobby Womack and Carlos Santana (Womack-Save the Children), The Gap Band, Lakeside, Dynasty, Little Anthony, Ronnie Laws, Keiko Matsui, Najee, Warren Hill, Bill Champlin (Chicago), Ellis Hall (Tower of Power) and many others.


A first call TV & Film Session Guitarist, Aaron has worked for a laundry list of television shows such as 15 years with Fox’s “MAD TV,” Steven Seagal's “Half Past Dead 2,” “Super Dave Osborne”, “The Next Best Thing” (ABC), “The Mother Love Show,” (FOX) and “The Ben Stiller Show” (FOX).

In the fall of 2021, Blake Aaron became a music professor at the prestigious, Cal Baptist University.