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Like A River
''Like a River'' (1993) is the ninth studio album (10th overall) from the jazz group Yellowjackets, and their fifth studio album (sixth overall) for GRP Records. The album was nominated for "Best Contemporary Jazz Recording" Grammy Award.The album reached a peak position of number three on ''Billboard'' Top Contemporary Jazz Albums chart. The tracks "My Old School" and "Dewey (for Miles)" are frequently included in Yellowjackets' set lists, the former being included in their live album "Twenty Five." The album is dedicated to the memory of Jeff Porcaro, who had died in 1992. Track listing Personnel Yellowjackets * Russell Ferrante – acoustic piano, synthesizers * Jimmy Haslip – 6-string bass, Tobias semi-hollow body electric bass, vocals * Will Kennedy – drums * Bob Mintzer – soprano saxophone, tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, EWI Guest Musicians * Steve Croes – Synclavier * Naná Vasconcelos – percussion, vocals * Judd Miller – EWI programming * Tim Hagen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellowjackets (band)
Yellowjackets is an American jazz fusion band founded in 1977 in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. History In 1977, guitarist Robben Ford, for his first solo album, recruited keyboardist Russell Ferrante, electric bassist Jimmy Haslip and drummer Ricky Lawson. They decided to continue as a group and were signed to Warner Bros. Records by producer Tommy LiPuma, who chose the name "Yellowjackets" from a list of potential group names the band had compiled. In 1984, the band's second album, ''Mirage a Trois'', was nominated for a Grammy Awards, Grammy Award for Best Fusion Performance. Ford played on only half this album, and after he departed the group, saxophonist Marc Russo was hired in his place. The next album, ''Shades (Yellowjackets album), Shades'', reached No. 4 on the ''Billboard (magazine), Billboard'' magazine jazz album chart, while the single "And You Know That" won a Grammy for Best R&B Instrumental Performance. Lawson left and was replaced by Will Kennedy in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Mintzer
Robert Alan Mintzer (born January 27, 1953) is an American jazz saxophonist, composer, arranger, and big band leader. Early life Mintzer was born and raised in a Jewish family in New Rochelle, New York, on January 27, 1953. He attended the Interlochen Arts Academy, Michigan from 1969 to 1970, then was at the Hartt School of Music, Hartford, Connecticut for two years, before attending the Manhattan School of Music from 1972 to 1974. Later life and career Early in his career, Mintzer played in various big bands, including those led by Buddy Rich (1975–77), Thad Jones and Mel Lewis (1977–79), and Sam Jones (1978–80). While with Rich, he began writing big band music, and has since composed and arranged hundreds of pieces. In 2008, Mintzer and his family moved to Los Angeles, where he joined the faculty of the University of Southern California. He is a member of the Grammy award-winning Yellowjackets and holds the Buzz McCoy endowed chair of jazz studies at the University ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yellowjackets Albums
A yellowjacket is a black-and-yellow vespid wasp. Yellowjacket(s) or Yellow Jacket(s) may also refer to: Places * Yellow Jacket, Colorado, an unincorporated town * Yellow Jacket, Florida, an unincorporated area in Dixie County, Florida Arts, entertainment, and media Fictional characters * Yellowjacket (Charlton Comics), the secret identity of Vince Harley, crime writer * Yellowjacket (Marvel Comics) ** Yellowjacket (Rita DeMara), a supervillainess and later superheroine, and member of the Masters of Evil and Guardians of the Galaxy ** Darren Cross, the first villain fought by the second Ant-Man, Scott Lang ** Hank Pym, a founding member of the Avengers Music * Yellowjackets (band), an American jazz fusion quartet * "Yellowjacket", a 2021 song by Spiritbox from ''Eternal Blue (album), Eternal Blue'' Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media * Yellow Jacket (newspaper), ''Yellow Jacket'' (newspaper), the student newspaper for Waynesburg University * Yellowjackets (TV series), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Albums
This is a summary of significant events in music in 1993. Specific locations * 1993 in British music * 1993 in Norwegian music * 1993 in South Korean music Specific genres * 1993 in country music * 1993 in heavy metal music * 1993 in hip hop music * 1993 in Latin music * 1993 in jazz Events January–February *January 8 – The U.S. Postal Service issues an Elvis Presley stamp. The design was voted on in February 1992. *January 9 – The Bodyguard: Original Soundtrack Album becomes the first album in history, since the Nielsen SoundScan introduced a computerized sales monitoring system in May 1992, to sell over 1 million copies in one week in the US. *January 12 – Cream reunites for a performance at their Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Los Angeles, USA. Other inductees include Creedence Clearwater Revival, Ruth Brown, The Doors, Van Morrison, and Sly & The Family Stone. *January 13 – Bobby Brown is arrested in Augusta, Georgia, USA for simulating ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mick Guzauski
Nathan "Mick" Guzauski is an American multi-platinum mixing engineer and sound engineer. He has nine Grammy Awards and eleven nominations. His work spans a wide range of styles, including jazz, R&B, Latin, rock, pop, easy listening, funk and hip hop. The first Spanish-speaking artist Mick worked with was the Spanish singer "Mónica Naranjo" in 1996 on her multi platinum album "Palabra de Mujer" produced by Cristóbal Sansano . He won a 2002 Latin Grammy for Thalía's " Arrasando", four 2004 Latin Grammys for Alejandro Sanz's " No Es Lo Mismo" (including Best Engineered Album), and the 2006 Grammy Award for Best Engineered Album, Non-Classical, for Eric Clapton's " Back Home." As of 2001, he had mixed 27 # 1 singles. He also won multiple awards for the engineering and mixing of the Daft Punk album Random Access Memories. Biography While living in Rochester, New York, Guzauski began his engineer career during the 1960s. In the 1970s, Guzauski was hired by Chuck Mangione. Through ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naná Vasconcelos
Juvenal de Holanda Vasconcelos, known as Naná Vasconcelos (2 August 1944 – 9 March 2016), was a Brazilian percussionist, vocalist and berimbau player, notable for his work as a solo artist on over two dozen albums, and as a backing musician with Pat Metheny, Don Cherry, Jan Garbarek, Egberto Gismonti, Gato Barbieri, and Milton Nascimento. Life and career Vasconcelos was born in Recife, Brazil. Beginning from 1967 he joined many artists' works as a percussionist. Among his many collaborations, he contributed to four Jon Hassell albums from 1976 to 1980 (including '' Possible Musics'' by Brian Eno and Hassell), and later to several Pat Metheny Group works and Jan Garbarek concerts from early 1980s to early 1990s. In 1984 he appeared on the Pierre Favre album ''Singing Drums'' along with Paul Motian. He also appears on Arild Andersen's album ''If You Look Far Enough'' with Ralph Towner. He formed a group named Codona with Don Cherry and Collin Walcott, which released three ... [...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. Used by many notable musicians, the Synclavier was inducted into the TECnology Hall of Fame, an honor given to "products and innovations that have had an enduring impact on the development of audio technology," in 2004. 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, Note: This magazine article itself lacks sources, and as a result, lacks verifiability. it proved to be highly influential among both electronic music composers and music p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Electronic Wind Instrument
EWI (from electronic wind instrument, ) is a type of wind controller, an electronic musical instrument invented by Nyle Steiner. The EWI has been used by many artists across many different genres. History The EWI was invented by Nyle Steiner, his second electronic wind instrument design. Steiner originally brought to market a brass style fingering analogue wind synthesizer instrument known as the EVI in the 1970s. Steiner then went on to develop the EWI which had a unique fingering system closer to the woodwind style. These instrument designs first working models appeared in the 1970s, with the EWI appearing commercially during the early 1980s. Operation EWI models can control external synthesizers or other MIDI instruments, either simultaneously or instead of the synthesizers that come with the instrument. Earlier EWIs require the external box unit, while the discontinued (as of 2019) EWI4000s and still currently available EWI5000 have built-in MIDI outputs. The EWI SOLO, rele ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bass Clarinet
The bass clarinet is a musical instrument of the clarinet family. Like the more common Soprano clarinet, soprano B clarinet, it is usually pitched in B (meaning it is a transposing instrument on which a written C sounds as B), but it plays notes an octave below the soprano B clarinet. Bass clarinets in other keys, notably C and A, also exist, but are very rare (in contrast to the regular A clarinet, which is quite common in classical music). Bass clarinets regularly perform in orchestras, concert band, wind ensembles and concert bands, and occasionally in marching bands, and play an occasional solo role in contemporary music and jazz in particular. Someone who plays a bass clarinet is called a bass clarinettist or a bass clarinetist. Description Most modern bass clarinets are straight-bodied, with a small upturned silver-colored metal bell and curved metal neck. Early examples varied in shape, some having a doubled body making them look similar to bassoons. The bass clarinet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
6-string Bass
An extended-range bass is an electric bass guitar with a wider frequency range than a standard-tuned four-string bass guitar. Terminology One way that a bass can be considered ''extended-range'' is to use a mechanical detuner, a special tuning machine (head) that includes a mechanical lever to allow for instant re-tuning during the live performance. When the player toggles the lever, the pitch of the string drops by a pre-set interval. A common use of detuners is to drop the low E to a low D. Detuners are more rarely used on other strings. An exception to this is Michael Manring, who plays a bass equipped with a mechanical detuner on every string, especially useful for enabling access to a wider range number of string harmonics. Another way to get an extended range is to add strings. The most common type of bass guitar with more than four strings is the five-string bass. Five-string basses often have a low-B string, extending the instrument's lower range. Less commonly, five ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jimmy Haslip
James Robert Haslip (born December 31, 1951) is an American bass guitarist who was a founding member of the jazz fusion group the Yellowjackets, which he left in 2012. He was also an early user of the five-string electric bass. Early life and career Born in the Bronx to Puerto Rican immigrants, Spanish was Haslip's first language and he learned to speak English in kindergarten. His father, James Joseph (Jaime) Haslip (1915–1999) served in the United States Customs Service, beginning as a Merchant Marine until moving to patrolman and eventually deputy commissioner, marrying Jimmy's mother Virginia (Viera) Haslip (1912–2009) in 1937. Haslip moved to Huntington, New York when he was four years old. At age seven, he began playing drums and then moved onto other instruments such as trumpet and tuba until playing bass at age 15. Although he took music lessons and went to a private music school, he considers himself self-taught. He has said that he went to a local music sho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Conway Studios
Conway may refer to: Places United States * Conway, Arkansas * Conway County, Arkansas * Lake Conway, Arkansas * Conway, Florida * Conway, Iowa * Conway, Kansas * Conway, Louisiana * Conway, Massachusetts * Conway, Michigan * Conway Township, Michigan * Conway, Missouri * Conway, New Hampshire, a New England town ** Conway (CDP), New Hampshire, village in the town * Conway, North Dakota * Conway, North Carolina * Conway, Pennsylvania * Conway, South Carolina * Conway River (Virginia) * Conway, Washington Elsewhere * Conway, Queensland, a locality in the Whitsunday Region, Queensland, Australia * Conway River (New Zealand) * Conway, Wales, now spelt Conwy, a town with a castle in North Wales * River Conway, Wales, similarly respelt River Conwy Ships * HMS ''Conway'' (school ship) * HMS ''Conway'' (1832), a 26-gun sixth rate launched in 1832 * USS ''Conway'' (DD-70) or USS ''Craven'' (DD-70), a Caldwell class destroyer launched in 1918 * USS ''Conway'' (DD-507 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
