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Soaring Through A Dream
''Soaring Through a Dream'' is an album by jazz guitarist Al Di Meola that was released in 1985. Track listing #"Capoeira" (Al Di Meola, Airto Moreira) – 9:21 #"Traces (Of A Tear)" (Di Meola) – 9:00 #"Broken Heart" (Di Meola) – 5:00 #"July" (Di Meola) – 5:25 #"Marina" (Di Meola, Moreira) – 4:45 #"Soaring Through A Dream" (Di Meola, Moreira) – 12:26 Personnel * Al Di Meola – acoustic and synclavier guitars * Phil Markowitz – keyboards * Chip Jackson – bass guitar * Danny Gottlieb – drums * Airto Moreira Airto Guimorvan Moreira (born August 5, 1941) is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. He is married to jazz singer Flora Purim, and their daughter Diana Moreira is also a singer. Coming to prominence in the late 1960s as a member of the ... – percussion, vocals Chart performance References 1985 albums Al Di Meola albums Manhattan Records albums {{1980s-jazz-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al Di Meola
Albert Laurence Di Meola (born July 22, 1954) is an American guitarist. Known for his works in jazz fusion and world music, he began his career as a guitarist of the group Return to Forever in 1974. Between the 1970s and 1980s, albums such as ''Elegant Gypsy'' and '' Friday Night in San Francisco'' earned him both critical and commercial success. Early life Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, into an Italian family with roots in Cerreto Sannita, a small town northeast of Benevento, Di Meola grew up in Bergenfield, where he attended Bergenfield High School. He has been a resident of Old Tappan, New Jersey. When he was eight years old, he was inspired by Elvis Presley and the Ventures to start playing guitar. His teacher directed him toward jazz standards. He cites as influences jazz guitarists George Benson and Kenny Burrell and bluegrass and country guitarists Clarence White and Doc Watson. Career He attended Berklee College of Music in 1971. At nineteen, he was hired by Chick ... [...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] |
Manhattan Records
Manhattan Records is an American record label, owned by Universal Music Group and operates as a branch of Capitol Music Group. Company history Manhattan Records was formed in 1984 by Bruce Lundvall and was later renamed EMI Manhattan Records after absorbing the EMI America Records imprint. EMI Manhattan was used to reissue back catalogue titles from Capitol Records and other EMI-owned labels such as United Artists Records and Liberty Records. It also distributed new albums from Gamble and Huff's Philadelphia International Records during the later half of the 1980s, after a 15-year stint with CBS Records. The deal gave EMI distribution rights to PIR's back catalog from 1976 onward (CBS, later Sony Music, would retain the rights to PIR's catalog up to 1975 and later acquire the rest in 2007). Artists signed to EMI Manhattan included Kenny Rogers, Richard Marx, Natalie Cole, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Queensrÿche, and Thomas Dolby. In 1989, EMI Manhattan was dissolved and absorbed int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scenario (album)
''Scenario'' is an album by jazz guitarist Al Di Meola that was released in 1983. Musicians include keyboardist Jan Hammer, bassist Tony Levin and drummers Bill Bruford and Phil Collins. Track listing # "Mata Hari" (Al Di Meola) – 6.04 # "African Night" (Di Meola, Jan Hammer) – 4.51 # "Island Dreamer" (Hammer) – 4.06 # "Scenario" (Di Meola) – 3.56 # "Sequencer" (Hammer) – 4.06 # "Cachaca" (Di Meola) – 5.34 # "Hypnotic Conviction" (Di Meola, Hammer) – 3.51 # "Calliope" (Di Meola) – 4.19 # "Scoundrel" (Di Meola, Hammer) – 3.44 Jan Hammer would re-use the drum sample that figures prominently in "Sequencer" in his better-known theme for the TV series Miami Vice, which first aired two years after the release of this album. Personnel * Al Di Meola – guitars * Jan Hammer – keyboards, Fairlight CMI programming * Tony Levin – stick bass * Bill Bruford – Simmons electronic drums * Phil Collins Philip David Charles Collins (born 30 January 1951) is an E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cielo E Terra
Cielo (Spanish and Italian for "heaven" or "sky"), El Cielo (in Spanish) or Il Cielo (in Italian) may refer to: Art, entertainment, and media * ''Cielo'' (film), a 2017 Chile-Canadian documentary film * Cielo (TV channel), an Italian television channel Music * ''Cielo'' (album), a 2003 album by Benny Ibarra * ''Cielo'', 1960 song by Jenny Luna * ''El Cielo'' (album), an album by Dredg * El Cielo (band), a rock band from Argentina Companies and organizations * Cielo (company), a distributor and manufacturer of frozen yogurt * Cielo (supercomputer), at Los Alamos National Laboratory * Cielo (water), a brand of bottled water * Cielo S.A., a Brazilian credit card operator Vehicles * Chery Cielo, Chinese compact car * Daewoo Cielo, a Korean compact car Other uses * César Cielo (born 1987), Brazilian freestyle swimmer * El Cielo Biosphere Reserve, in Tamaulipas state, Mexico See also * Scielo SciELO (Scientific Electronic Library Online) is a bibliographic database, digital l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Allmusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Acoustic Guitar
An acoustic guitar is a musical instrument in the string family. When a string is plucked its vibration is transmitted from the bridge, resonating throughout the top of the guitar. It is also transmitted to the side and back of the instrument, resonating through the air in the body, and producing sound from the sound hole. The original, general term for this stringed instrument is ''guitar'', and the retronym 'acoustic guitar' distinguishes it from an electric guitar, which relies on electronic amplification. Typically, a guitar's body is a sound box, of which the top side serves as a sound board that enhances the vibration sounds of the strings. In standard tuning the guitar's six strings are tuned (low to high) E2 A2 D3 G3 B3 E4. Guitar strings may be plucked individually with a pick (plectrum) or fingertip, or strummed to play chords. Plucking a string causes it to vibrate at a fundamental pitch determined by the string's length, mass, and tension. (Overtones are also pres ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Synclavier
The Synclavier is an early digital synthesizer, polyphonic digital sampling system, and music workstation manufactured by New England Digital Corporation of Norwich, Vermont. It was produced in various forms from the late 1970s into the early 1990s. The instrument has been used by prominent musicians. History The original design and development of the Synclavier prototype occurred at Dartmouth College with the collaboration of Jon Appleton, Professor of Digital Electronics, Sydney A. Alonso, and Cameron Jones, a software programmer and student at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering. Synclavier I First released in 1977–78, it proved to be highly influential among both electronic music composers and music producers, including Mike Thorne, an early adopter from the commercial world, due to its versatility, its cutting-edge technology, and distinctive sounds. The early Synclavier I used FM synthesis, re-licensed from Yamaha, and was sold mostly to universities. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Markowitz
Phil Markowitz (born September 6, 1952 in Brooklyn, New York) is a jazz pianist and educator. Discography As leader * ''Sno' Peas'' (Ken Music, 1991) * ''In the Woods'' (Passsage, 1996) * ''Taxi Ride'' (Passsage, 1998) * ''Catalysis'' (Sunnyside, 2008) * ''Perpetuity'' (Dot Time, 2014) As sideman With Chet Baker * ''Love For Sale: Live At The Rising Sun Celebrity Club'' (Justin Time, 1978) * ''Broken Wing'' (Sonopresse, 1979) * ''Live at Chateauvalion, 1978'' (France's Concert, 1989) * ''Live at Fat Tuesday's'' (Fresh Sound, 1991) * ''Stella by Starlight'' (Bandstand, 1992) With Michael Davis * ''Sidewalk Café'' (Voss, 1989) * ''Midnight Crossing'' (Lipstick, 1994) * ''Absolute Trombone'' (Hip Bone, 1997) * ''Brass Nation'' (Hip Bone, 2000) * ''New Brass'' (Hip Bone, 2002) * ''Trumpets Eleven'' (Hip Bone, 2003) * ''Absolute Trombone II'' (Hip Bone, 2007) With Dave Liebman * ''Turn It Around'' (Owl, 1992) * ''Looking for the Light'' (CCB, 1992) * ''Miles Away'' (Owl, 1995) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chip Jackson
Chip Jackson is an American jazz double bass player. , The Kennedy Center. He has played in trios with and . Discography With *'''' (Manhattan, 1985) With |
Danny Gottlieb
Daniel Richard Gottlieb (born April 18, 1953) is an American drummer. He was a founding member of the Pat Metheny Group and was co-founder of Elements with Mark Egan. Biography Gottlieb was born in New York City on April 18, 1953. He took lessons from Mel Lewis and Joe Morello and graduated from the University of Miami in 1975. Morello was his lifelong teacher, beginning in 1968 and through the late 1990s. He became a member of the Gary Burton Quartet in 1976 with Pat Metheny. He was one of the original members of The Pat Metheny Group from 1977 to 1983. Bassist Mark Egan was also in Metheny's first group. Egan and Gottlieb formed the band Elements. In 1982, Gottlieb toured with Flora Purim and Airto Moreira. Gottlieb played with singer Michael Franks in 1983, and the following year toured with trumpeter Randy Brecker and saxophonist Stan Getz. He was, for a short time in 1984, a member of the Mahavishnu Orchestra led by guitarist John McLaughlin. He was also part of the band ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Airto Moreira
Airto Guimorvan Moreira (born August 5, 1941) is a Brazilian jazz drummer and percussionist. He is married to jazz singer Flora Purim, and their daughter Diana Moreira is also a singer. Coming to prominence in the late 1960s as a member of the Brazilian ensemble Quarteto Novo, he moved to the United States and worked in jazz fusion with Miles Davis and Return to Forever. Biography Airto Moreira was born in Itaiópolis, Brazil, into a family of folk healers, and raised in Curitiba and São Paulo. Showing an extraordinary talent for music at a young age, he became a professional musician at age 13, noticed first as a member of the samba jazz pioneers Sambalanço Trio and for his landmark recording with Hermeto Pascoal in Quarteto Novo in 1967. Shortly after, he followed his wife Flora Purim to the United States. After moving to the US, Moreira studied with Moacir Santos in Los Angeles. He then moved to New York where he began playing regularly with jazz musicians, including th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
