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Dark Blue Dream (Steve Weingart Album)
''Dark Blue Dream'' is the second studio album by composer and keyboardist Steve Weingart. Produced by Weingart, the album features guitarist Frank Gambale, bassist Jimmy Earl and drummer Tom Brechtlein. The album was released worldwide in 2006 by Skeewa Music. Track listing # "Night Visitor" (Weingart) – 7:19 # "Tone Poem #9 (I Thought It Was A Dream)" (Weingart) – 1:37 # "3 Til Dawn" (Weingart) – 6:48 # "Soundscape 1" (Weingart) – 2:31 # "Dark Blue Dream" (Weingart) – 7:28 # "Asfew (A Song For Ernie Watts)" (Weingart) – 7:32 # "Unforgotten Path" (Weingart) – 3:24 # "Soundscape 4" (Weingart) – 2:54 # "Pursuit" (Weingart) – 6:20 # "Outside in (part 1)" (Weingart) – 5:58 # "Outside In (part 2)" (Weingart) – 2:11 Personnel * Steve Weingart – Piano, Keyboards, Programing * Frank Gambale - Guitar * Jimmy Earl - Bass * Tom Brechtlein – Drums : with special appearances: * Ernie Watts - Saxophone * Ronnie Gutierrez - Percussion * Renee Jones – Bass and Voc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Weingart
Steve Weingart (born March 1966 in Dayton, Ohio) is a jazz-funk keyboard player based in Los Angeles, California, United States, who has recorded and performed internationally with an array of well known musical artists. Amongst many other well-known musicians, Weingart has performed live and/or recorded with Chaka Khan, Steve Lukather,stevelukather.net - Interviews , , , [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock and roll started to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll. Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity. Some employ groove-based vamps fixed to a single key or a single chord with a simple, repeated melody. Others use elaborate chord progressions, unconventional time signatures, or melodies with counter-melodies. These arrangements, whether simple or complex, typically include improvised sections that can vary in length, much like in other forms of jazz. As with jazz, jazz fusion can employ brass and woodwind instruments such as trumpet and saxophone, but other instruments often substitute for these. A jazz fusion band is less likely to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dialogue (Steve Weingart & Renee Jones Album)
''Dialogue'' is the first studio album by husband and wife duo Steve Weingart & Renee Jones. The album was recorded at Phantom Recordings in Van Nuys, CA. Produced by Steve Weingart and co-produced by Simon Phillips, the album was released worldwide on in 2011 by Skeewa Music. Track listing # "Village" (Weingart) – 5:32 # "Restless" (Weingart) – 4:59 # "Back Down" (Weingart) – 5:37 # "Eethray" (Weingart) – 5:27 # "Lighthouse" (Weingart) – 5:04 # "Busy Day" (Weingart & Jones) – 5:39 # "Empty Chair (for Zawinul)" (Weingart) – 3:05 # "Spider Web" (Weingart) – 5:29 # "Tell Tales" (Weingart & Jones) – 4:59 # "Do Note Move" (Weingart) – 5:45 # "Dialogue" (Weingart & Jones) – 5:25 Personnel * Steve Weingart – Piano, Keyboards, Vocals * Renee Jones – Electric Bass, Vocals * Simon Phillips – Drums * Mike Miller - Electric Guitar, Bouzouki on ''Busy Day'' * Katisse Buckingham - Saxes & Flute * Lenny Castro - Percussion (1, 4, 6, 9, 11) * Michael O'Day - Addit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Gambale
Frank Gambale (; born 22 December 1958) is an Australian jazz fusion guitarist. He has released twenty albums over a period of three decades, and is known for his use of the sweep picking and economy picking techniques. Recording career Solo albums Gambale graduated from the Guitar Institute of Technology in Hollywood with Student of the Year honors and taught there from 1984 to 1986. Groups With the Mark Varney Project, consisting of Allan Holdsworth, Brett Garsed, and Shawn Lane, he recorded two albums, '' Truth in Shredding'' (1990) and ''Centrifugal Funk'' (1991). Beginning in 1987, he spent six years as a member of the Chick Corea Elektric Band, playing with Eric Marienthal, John Patitucci, and Dave Weckl. With Corea's band he recorded five albums and shared two Grammy Award nominations. He spent twelve years as a member of Vital Information, led by Steve Smith. He reunited with the Elektric Band in 2002 and with Corea in 2011 when he joined Return to Forever IV with St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Earl
James Christopher Earl (born 1957) is an American jazz bass guitarist who is a member of the ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'' band. Early life and education In 1957, James Christopher Earl was born in Boston, Massachusetts, to James and Sylvia Earl. He is the second of their four children. Shortly after his birth, the family moved to Saint Paul, Minnesota, and in 1965 to Hyattsville, Maryland, where he attended elementary school and Northwestern High School. Music career Earl began classical guitar lessons at age 10. In 1972, he picked up an electric bass guitar for $15 at the Rose Bowl flea market in Pasadena, California, where his family was living temporarily. In 1973, with his high school classmates Dan Hovey and Rex Wilson, he formed his first band, ''Cosmic Rainbow''. Boston In 1975–76, he attended Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1981, he studied briefly at the New England Conservatory of Music where he sits on the board of visitors. He also studied with Charlie Banacos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernie Watts
Ernest James Watts (born October 23, 1945) is an American jazz and rhythm and blues saxophonist who plays soprano, alto, and tenor saxophone. He has worked with Charlie Haden's Quartet West and toured with the Rolling Stones. On Frank Zappa's album ''The Grand Wazoo'' he played the "Mystery Horn", a straight-necked C melody saxophone. He played the notable saxophone riff on " The One You Love" by Glenn Frey. Biography Watts was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and began playing saxophone at thirteen. After a brief period at West Chester University, he attended the Berklee College of Music on a ''Down Beat'' magazine scholarship. He toured with Buddy Rich in the late-1960s, occupying one of the alto saxophone chairs. He visited Africa on a U.S. State Department tour with Oliver Nelson's group. For twenty years he played alto saxophone with The Tonight Show Band under Doc Severinsen. He was a featured soloist on many of Marvin Gaye's albums on Motown during the 1970s, as well as on m ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warwick (company)
Warwick is a Germany-based bass guitar manufacturer company. Warwick basses were originally a premium brand offering a small range of models built from high quality and exotic tonewoods. The company also produces Bass amplifier, valve and FET amplifiers, speaker cabinets, strings (music), bass guitar strings, and is the division of the Framus trademark. Their headquarters and custom shops are located in Markneukirchen, Shanghai, and Nashville. History Warwick was founded in 1982 in Erlangen, in the German state of Bavaria, by Hans-Peter Wilfer. In 1995 the company moved to Markneukirchen in the Saxon Vogtland to capitalize on the centuries-old tradition of instrument building in the region and to reopen the Framus trademark. In addition, the company has developed an extensive distribution network throughout Germany and Austria to represent and distribute products from musical instruments and equipment companies from Europe and the United States. Company specifics Environmental p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2006 Albums ...
The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2006. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject. For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2006 in music. First quarter January February March Second quarter April May June Third quarter July August September Fourth quarter October November December References {{DEFAULTSORT:2006 albums Albums 2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
