Blindheim started playing the piano as a teenager, when he rudely awakened to Bud Powell and Horace Silver.
Over the years, he kept in touch with the jazz community and playing at times with touring musicians as well as with his own trio.
It received rave reviews[weasel words] in the international press,[1] presenting compositions of some key jazz pianists from 1950–1960.
Blindheim is influenced by some of the key jazz pianists from 1950–1960 like Thelonious Monk, Bud Powell, Horace Silver, Bobby Timmons, Randy Weston, Ray Bryant, Vic Feldman, Sonny Clark and Jan Johansson.
Blindheim's latest album Piano Pals (2014) with bassist Bjørn Alterhaug and drummer Eyvind Olsen Wahlen, where he finds inspiration in The Golden Age of Modern Jazz, the 1950s and the 1960s.