Bob Stagner (born July 13, 1957) is an American

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and

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who has worked with a wide range of artists in every discipline, from Blueground Undergrass to Derek Bailey and

Howard Finster Howard Finster (December 2, 1916 – October 22, 2001) was an American artist and Baptist minister from Georgia. He claimed to be inspired by God to spread the gospel through the design of his swampy land into Paradise Garden, a folk art scu ...

. Stagner was born in

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, Tennessee. Stagner and

Dennis Palmer Dennis or Denis is a first or last name from the Greco-Roman name Dionysius, via one of the Christian saints named Dionysius. The name came from Dionysus, the Greek god of ecstatic states, particularly those produced by wine, which is sometime ...

co-founded the

free improvisation Free improvisation or free music is improvised music without any general rules, instead following the intuition of its performers. The term can refer to both a technique—employed by any musician in any genre—and as a recognizable genre of ...

duo the

Shaking Ray Levis The Shaking Ray Levis is an ongoing collaboration of musicians with a common interest in free improvisation. The project was conceived and led by the Chattanooga, Tennessee-based team of Dennis Palmer and Bob Stagner. They use storytelling, synthe ...

and the Shaking Ray Levi Society, an arts education organization that supports emerging artists in performance, art and film. Stagner also works with The Rhythmic Arts Project, founded by drummer Eddie Tuduri.

Selected discography and credits

* ''Boss Witch'', Dennis Palmer, Bob Stagner, J.D. Parran,

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, Davey Williams, Frank Pahl, Mary Richards; Shaking Ray Records, 1992 * ''False Prophets or Dang Good Guessers''; Shaking Ray Levis (Stagner, Palmer);

Incus Records Incus Records is a British record company and record label, label founded by Derek Bailey (guitarist), Derek Bailey, Tony Oxley, Evan Parker and Michael Walters that specializes in free jazz and free improvisation, improvised music. The first ...

, 1992 * ''Live at Lamar's'', Derek Bailey, Dennis Palmer, Bob Stagner; Shaking Ray Records, 1999 * ''Mayor of the Tennessee River''

David Greenberger David Greenberger (born June 26, 1954) is an American artist, writer and radio commentator best known for his ''Duplex Planet'' series of zines, comic books, CDs, and spoken word performances and radio plays. From 1996 to 2009, he was a frequent ...

, Frank Pahl, Kenny Palmer, Dennis Palmer, Bob Stagner; PelPel Recordings, 2003 * ''He Who is Blessed'', Bob Stagner, executive producer
Tutto Buono
2005 * ''A.S.A.P. Wings'',

Killick Erik Hinds Killick Hinds (born 1972) of Athens, Georgia is a composer and performer of a wide range of music. He plays quartertone electric guitar, as well as Big Red harp guitar and the h'arpeggione, an 18-stringed upright acoustic instrument with sympathe ...

, Dennis Palmer, Bob Stagner; Shaking Ray Records, 2007

External links

Bio
* Allmusic.com Biobr>"Mind on Heaven"
Shaking Ray Levis (Palmer, Stagner) and

, 1997
''Blood on the pulpit'' sample (requires free registration)
''The Mayor of the Tennessee River'', 2003
''Heard Out''
review of Derek Bailey, Dennis Palmer and Bob Stagner at Tonic, April 12, 2003
End credits
Dennis Palmer & Bob Stagner - from the soundtrack t
''Anti-Arktikos''
- an animated film by Judith Mogul, 2006
''Southern improv at its finest''
review,

Creative Loafing (Atlanta) Creative Loafing is an Atlanta-based publisher of an arts and culture news and events newspaper/magazine. The company historically published a weekly publication that once had a 160,000 weekly circulation. While Creative Loafing is no longer p ...

, May 2006
''Rhythmic arts project provides methods of healing''
article,

Chattanooga Times Free Press The ''Chattanooga Times Free Press'' is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is distributed in the metropolitan Chattanooga region of southeastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia. It is one of Tennessee's majo ...

, October 12, 2006
''The Memphis Indie Film Festival: Best in Show?''
review,

Memphis Commercial Appeal ''The Commercial Appeal'' (also known as the ''Memphis Commercial Appeal'') is a daily newspaper of Memphis, Tennessee, and its surrounding metropolitan area. It is owned by the Gannett Company; its former owner, the E. W. Scripps Company, also ...

, October 11, 2006
''Insects & Bacon Legs'' sample
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