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Shadowfax (band)
Shadowfax was a new-age/electronic musical group formed in Chicago in the early 1970s and best known for their albums '' Shadowfax'' and ''Folksongs for a Nuclear Village''. In 1989, they won the Grammy for Best New Age Performance for ''Folksongs for a Nuclear Village''. In 1993, they were nominated for the Grammy for '' Esperanto''. The group formed in 1972 and disbanded after 1995 when Lyricon player and leader Chuck Greenberg died of a heart attack. Having lost their signature sound, Shadowfax's members went on to other projects. The group took its name from Gandalf the Grey's horse Shadowfax in J. R. R. Tolkien's ''The Lord of the Rings''. Members * Chuck Greenberg – lyricon, saxophone, flute (1974-1995) * Armen Chakmakian – keyboards (1990-1995) * David Lewis – keyboards (1984-1990) * G. E. Stinson – guitars (1974-1990) * Charlie Bisharat – electric violin (1986-1990) * Phil Maggini – double bass, bass guitar, vocals (1974-1995) * Stuart Nevitt – drum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chamber Jazz
Chamber jazz is a genre of jazz involving small, acoustic-based ensembles where group interplay is important. It is influenced aesthetically by the small ensembles of chamber music in musical neoclassicism and is often influenced by classical forms of Western music as well as non-Western music or culture. That stated, in many cases the influence is traditional Celtic music, Central European folk music, or Latin American music instead. American bassist John Kirby (1908-1952) is arguably the first chamber jazz musician with a sextet he led in the 1930s and '40s. However, many other early exponents originated in Europe so significant neoclassical composers of Europe, like Igor Stravinsky, are important. The German ECM Records also played a role in it beginning in the late 1960s. It is also noted for using instruments not normally associated with jazz. For example, chamber jazz will make use of the oboe, mandolin, cymbalum, or the tabla. The non-Western influences or instrum ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lyricon
The Lyricon is an electronic wind instrument, the first wind controller to be constructed. Invented by Bill Bernardi (and co-engineered by Roger Noble and with the late Lyricon performer Chuck GreenbergIngham (1998) p.184), filed for patent on October 5, 1971, by Computone Inc., patented under #US3767833 October 23, 1973 and then manufactured by Computone Inc. in Massachusetts in the early 1970s. The first lyricon was completed in 1974 with Tom Scott being the first customer for the instrument. The Lyricon was available in two designs, the first being somewhat silver and resembling a soprano saxophone and the latter, black and resembling an alto clarinet. Using a form of additive synthesis, the player was allowed to change between types of overtones with a key switchable between fundamentals of G, Bb, C, Eb, and F (allowing the instrument to be used to play transposed parts written for saxophones, trumpets, etc.) and an octave range that could be switched between low, medium, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Music Groups From Illinois
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1995 Disestablishments In Illinois
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1972 Establishments In Illinois
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Magic Theater
''Magic Theater'' is the tenth studio album by new-age/jazz group Shadowfax. Track listing # "Imaginary Islands" ( Chuck Greenberg) – 4:23 # "Hey! Your Hat's On Backwards" (Stuart Nevitt) – 4:52 # "Secret Gathering" (Armen Chakmakian) – 5:06 # "Ebony Wind" (Greenberg) – 4:38 # "Castaneda's Boogie" (Phil Maggini) – 5:54 # "Baker's Dozen" (Greenberg) – 4:46 # "Night Passage" (Chakmakian) – 3:44 # "Remembrance" (Maggini) – 3:53 # "How Much Does Zimbabwe?" (Nevitt) – 4:54 # "The Spirit Door" (Maggini) – 6:24 Personnel * Armen Chakmakian Armen John Chakmakian (Western Armenian: Արմէն Չագմագեան; Eastern hy, Արմեն Չաքմաքյան) born (February 11, 1966) in Glendale, California) is an Armenian-American musician, composer, recording artist, and producer. Form ... – keyboards, piano, synthesizer * Chuck Greenberg – alto flute, Lyricon, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, woodwind * Phil Maggini – bass, upright bass, flute, fretl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Odd Get Even
''The Odd Get Even'' is the eighth studio album by new-age/jazz group Shadowfax. Track listing # "Oasis" ( David Lewis) – 5:07 # "One Winter Morning" ( Chuck Greenberg) – 4:10 # "1001 Nights" (Charles Bisharat) – 4:25 # "A Pause in the Rain" (Greenberg) – 3:53 # "Her Dress Hangs There" (Stuart Nevitt, G. E. Stinson) – 5:12 # "Changing of the Guard" (Bisharat) – 3:32 # "Boomerang" (Lewis) – 4:15 # "The Odd Get Even" (Nevitt, Stinson) – 3:32 # "Sujata" (Stinson) – 5:23 # "One Heart" (Phil Maggini) – 4:13 Personnel * Charles Bisharat – electric MIDI violin, viola, Oberheim Matrix-1000, Kawai K1R, Yamaha TX-81Z * David Lewis – synclavier, Kawai K1 II, Kawai K1 R, Kawai K5, Roland Super Jupiter, Roland D-50, Roland D-550, Roland Axis, Yamaha TX802, Yamaha TX7, Yamaha DX7, E-mu Emax, Ensoniq VFX, grand piano, synthesizers * Stuart Nevitt – drums, cymbals, ewe drums, Ensoniq EPS, DrumKAT programming; om chimes, Bushman rattles, Virginia rain shaker, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Too Far To Whisper
''Too Far To Whisper'' is the fifth studio album by new-age group Shadowfax, the fourth and final for Windham Hill Records. Track listing # "Too Far To Whisper" (G. E. Stinson) – 4:36 # "What Goes Around" (Stinson) – 4:29 # "China Blue" (Phil Maggini) – 4:11 # "The Orangutan Gang (Strikes Back)" ( David C. Lewis) – 3:53 # "Road To Hanna" (Charlie Bisharat) – 4:08 # "Streetnoise" (Greenberg) – 4:17 # "Slim Limbs Akimbo" (Stuart Nevitt) – 4:03 # "Tsunami" (Lewis) – 4:40 # "Maceo" (Maggini) – 4:01 # "Ritual" (Greenberg, Maggini, Stinson) – 4:00 Personnel * Chuck Greenberg – ocarina, soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, wood flute, Lyricon * Charlie Bisharat: violin, electric violin * Phil Maggini: Electric bass, vocals * Stuart Nevitt: percussion, drums, gong, marimbas, timbales, xylophone, balafon, vibes, octoban * G. E. Stinson: guitar, vocals, tamboura, mbira * David C. Lewis: synthesizer, piano, keyboards, Moog synthesizer Additional per ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dreams Of Children
''The Dreams of Children'' is the fourth studio album by new-age group Shadowfax, the third for Windham Hill Records. Track listing # "Another Country" ( Chuck Greenberg) – 4:20 # "Snowline" (Greenberg) – 4:30 # "The Big Song" ( David C. Lewis, G. E. Stinson) – 4:00 # "The Dreams of Children" (Greenberg) – 4:50 # "Word from the Village" (Stinson) – 4:40 # "Kindred Spirits" (Stinson) – 4:15 # "Shaman Song" (Phil Maggini) – 5:20 # "Above the Wailing Wall" (Stinson) – 4:50 Personnel *G. E. Stinson – 6- and 12-string guitar, effects vocals * Chuck Greenberg – Lyricon, tenor saxophone, soprano saxophone, stone flute *Phil Maggini – bass *Stuart Nevitt – drums, percussion, boobams *Jamii Szmadzinski – violin, baritone violin * David C. Lewis – Yamaha DX7, Memorymoog, Steinway grand piano Additional personnel *Morris Dollison – vocal on 5, guitar on 1 *Michael Spiro – bàtá drums on 1, crotales on 1 2, caxixi on 1, bells on 2, chimes on 2 *Hara Lambi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadowdance (Shadowfax Album)
''Shadowdance'' is the third studio album by new-age group Shadowfax, the second for Windham Hill Records. Track listing # "New Electric India" (G. E. Stinson) – 5:12 # "Watercourse Way" ( Chuck Greenberg, Stinson) – 5:06 # "Ghost Bird" (Stinson) – 5:04 # "Shadowdance" (Greenberg) – 5:20 # "Brown Rice/Karmapa Chenno" (Don Cherry) – 4:18 # "Distant Voices" (Stinson, Greenberg) – 3:46 # "A Song for My Brother" (Stinson) – 9:04 Personnel *G. E. Stinson – 6- and 12-string guitar, vocal on 5 * Chuck Greenberg – Lyricon, tenor saxophone, flute *Phil Maggini – bass *Stuart Nevitt – drums, percussion, vibraphone *Jared Stewart – piano synthesizers *Jamii Szmadzinski – violin, baritone violin, alto psaltry Additional personnel *Emil Richards – gamelan gongs on 4, bass flapamba on 4, metal and bamboo angklung on 4, wood block, marimba on 4, Chinese water cymbals on 1, kangjeera on 1, percussion conductor on 4 *Michael Spiro – conga on 5, shekere on 5, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Watercourse Way
''Watercourse Way'' is the debut album by Chicago progressive rock/ new-age band Shadowfax, released in 1976 on Passport Records (and subsequently re-released by Windham Hill in 1985).ShadowfaxWatercourse Way ''allmusic.com'' Track listing #"The Shape of a Word" ( G. E. Stinson) – 7:29 #"Linear Dance" (Stinson) – 5:51 #"Petite Aubade" ( Chuck Greenberg, Stinson) – 5:59 #"Book of Hours" ( Doug Maluchnik) – 6:37 #"Watercourse Way" (Greenberg, Stinson) – 6:04 #"Song for My Brother" (Stinson) – 9:41 Personnel ;Shadowfax * G. E. Stinson – 12-string acoustic guitar, classical guitar, electric guitar, sitar, vocals * Chuck Greenberg – Lyricon, soprano saxophone, flute, oboe, recorder, bass clarinet *Doug Maluchnik – piano, synthesizer, harpsichord *Phil Maggini – double bass The double bass (), also known simply as the bass () (or by other names), is the largest and lowest-pitched bowed (or plucked) string instrument in the modern symphony orchestra (excl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jerry Goodman
Jerry Goodman (born March 16, 1949) is an American violinist who played electric violin with The Flock and the jazz fusion ensemble Mahavishnu Orchestra. Career Jerry Goodman was born on March 16, 1949, in Chicago, Illinois. His parents were both members of the string section of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, and his uncle was the noted composer and jazz pianisMarty Rubenstein Jerry was trained in a conservatory before he began his musical career as The Flock's roadie and subsequently as a violinist. After his 1971 appearance on John McLaughlin's album ''My Goal's Beyond'', he became a member of McLaughlin's original Mahavishnu Orchestra lineup until the band broke up in 1973, and was viewed as a soloist of equal virtuosity to McLaughlin, keyboardist Jan Hammer and drummer Billy Cobham. In 1974, after Mahavishnu, Goodman released the album ''Like Children'' with Mahavishnu keyboard alumnus Jan Hammer. Starting in 1985 he recorded three solo albums for Private Music -- ''On ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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