Paul has over 500 verified album credits on Allmusic.com. He has also worked in national radio and television audio, surround sound design for film, and dialog recording/replacement work for feature films and episodic television, including "Enemy of the State" (Will Smith), "The Chamber" (Gene Hackman), and others.
Before becoming a full time audio engineer in the mid 1970's, Blakemore was a professional musician in the Austin, TX, scene. He studied applied percussion at the University of Texas, Austin, and recording techniques at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY. He has taught college level recording courses at the Cleveland Institute of Music, SUNY Fredonia, University of Colorado Denver, and University of Miami. He has been speaker for the Audio Engineering Society convention in New York, and also the Full Sail recording school in Orlando,FL. Blakemore has resided in Cleveland, OH, since 2000.
He is currently staff mastering engineer for Concord Bicycle Music, the largest independent music company in North America with main offices in Beverly Hills, CA, which is comprised of 30 active and catalog record labels plus music publishing. He does both new release mastering and catalog album remastering and audio restoration for record labels including Concord Jazz, Concord Records, Fantasy, Loma Vista, Original Jazz Classics (Pablo, Riverside and Milestone), Prestige, Razor & Tie, Rounder, Sugar Hill, Stax, Telarc, Vanguard, VeeJay, and Wind Up Records.