After various commercials and industrials, Blaise was cast in his first feature film, Yukie (aka Solitude Point), in 1998, playing the grandson of Bo Svenson and Mitsuko Baisho.

Blaise appeared in several more commercials before he was cast in his next feature film, All Over the Guy (2001), where he played a young Tom (Richard Ruccolo), and later in Drillbit Taylor (2008).

Upon graduation, he collaborated with the Museum of Making Music—a division of the NAMM Foundation—on its exhibition "The Sound of Sax: How the Saxophone Won America's Soul".

[1] He also performed with the Green and Rebelution on their "Peace of Mind" tour in 2012 and played saxophone on Sly Stone's 2014 singles "One More Hit" and "Role Model".

[2] Garza has been performing with Violent Femmes since 2004 and is featured on their 2015 EP Happy New Year, on bass saxophone and piano,[3][better source needed] as well as the albums We Can Do Anything (2016), playing contrabass, bass and baritone saxophone,[4][better source needed] and 2 Mics & the Truth: Unplugged and Unhinged in America (2019), on baritone sax, cabasa and vocals.