Jerry Goodman

Jerry Goodman (born March 16, 1949) is an American violinist known for playing 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 pianist Marty 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 the Future of Aviation'', ''Ariel,'' and the live album ''It's Alive'' with collaborators including Fred Simon and Jim Hines—and went on tour with his own band, as well as with Shadowfax and The Dixie Dregs. He scored Lily Tomlin's '' The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe'' and is the featured violinist on numerous film soundtracks, including Billy Crystal's '' Mr. Saturday Night'' and Steve Martin's '' Dirty Rotten Scoundrels''. His violin can be heard on more than fifty albums from artists ranging from Toots Thielemans to Hall & Oates to Styx to Jordan Rudess to Choking Ghost to Derek Sherinian. Goodman has appeared on four of Sherinian's solo records—''Inertia'' (2001), '' Black Utopia'' (2003), ''Mythology'' (2004), and '' Blood of the Snake'' (2006)

In 1993, Goodman joined the American instrumental band, The Dixie Dregs, fronted by guitarist Steve Morse. Goodman appeared on one studio recording '' Full Circle'' (1994), and the live album "California Screamin'" (2000). In 1996 Session violist and producer Ray Tischer featured Goodman on the award-winning CD ''Canciones del Sol/Britt Bossa Orchestra'' (band)Ray Tischer violist/producer on Tischer's original instrumental ''Toca del Angel''.

After an absence from the public eye in live concert, he toured in 2004 and 2005 with Gary Husband in his group Gary Husband’s Force Majeure, and appeared on the DVD '' Gary Husband's Force Majeure - Live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall''. Even more recently, he played with the San Diego–based fusion group Hectic Watermelon and with Dream Theater in their album '' Black Clouds & Silver Linings''. Goodman has also been a part of Billy Cobham's Spectrum 40 tour.

Discography

As leader
* 1985 – '' On the Future of Aviation''
* 1986 – ''Ariel''
* 1987 – ''It's Alive''
* 2016 – ''Violin Fantasy''

With The Flock
* 1969 – '' The Flock''
* 1970 – '' Dinosaur Swamps''

With Mahavishnu Orchestra 1971–1974: First incarnation: Jerry Goodman, John McLaughlin, Jan Hammer, Rick Laird, Billy Cobham
* 1971 – ''The Inner Mounting Flame''
* 1973 – '' Birds of Fire''
* 1973 – '' Between Nothingness and Eternity''
* 1980 – ''The Best of Mahavishnu Orchestra''
* 1999 – '' The Lost Trident Sessions''
* 2011 – '' Unreleased Tracks from Between Nothingness & Eternity''

With Jan Hammer
* 1974 – '' Like Children''

With John McLaughlin
* 1971 – '' My Goal's Beyond''
* 1979 – '' Electric Guitarist''

With Dixie Dregs
* 1994 – '' Full Circle''
* 2000 – ''California Screamin

With Howard Levy, Oteil Burbridge, and Steve Smith
* 1999 – '' The Stranger's Hand''

As a guest artist
* 1992 – ''Dave Uhrich'' by Dave Uhrich
* 1994 – ''Fret-no-tized'' by Dave Uhrich
* 1994 – ''El nervio del volcán'' by Caifanes
* 1995 – ''Canciones del Sol'' violinist Ray Tischer's the Britt Bossa Orchestra
* 1996 - ''Friend of the Moon'' (album) Jerry appears on two tracks of San Diego based singer/songwriter, John Katchur's album.
* 1998 – ''Standing 8'' with Choking Ghost
* 1999 – ''Encores, Legends & Paradox, A Tribute To The Music OF ELP'' – Various Artists – (Jerry Goodman, Peter Banks, Igor Khoroshev, John Wetton, Simon Phillips, Robert Berry, Marc Bonilla, Jordan Rudess) Magna Carta – MAX-9026-2
* 1999 – ''Brave New World'' by Styx
* 2001 – '' Amazing Ordinary Things'' by Anne McCue
* 2005 – ''Visions Of An Inner Mounting Apocalypse: A Fusion Guitar Tribute'' - Tone Center – TC 40402
* 2007 – '' School of the Arts'' – School of the Arts (featuring T Lavitz, Steve Morse, Frank Gambale, Dave Weckl, John Patitucci) Goodman contributes violin work on 3 tracks, "No Time Flat" "Like This" and "Dinosaur Dance"
* 2009 –'' Black Clouds & Silver Linings'' by Dream Theater
* 2009 – ''A Tribute To Zbigniew Seifert –'' Jarek Śmietana Band (featuring Mateusz Smoczyński, Didier Lockwood, Krzesimir Dębski, Christian Howes, Mark Feldman, Maciej Strzelczyk, Adam Bałdych, Pierre Blanchard: JSR Records – JSR 0011)
* 2018 – ''Night Manager'' – Strat Andriotis
* 2019 – '' 1000 Hands: Chapter One'' – Jon Anderson
* 2020 – ''Remember Me At Twilight'' – Strat Andriotis
* 2021 – ''Path To Light'' – Denis Krupin

Multimedia

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Sources & external Links

* Mahavishnu Orchestra ''The Inner Mounting Flame'' CD booklet
* Mahavishnu Orchestra '' The Lost Trident Sessions'' CD booklet
* All Music Guide to Jerry Goodman
2010 interview with Jerry Goodman on Prog Sphere

References

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1949 births
Living people
American rock violinists
American male violinists
American jazz violinists
Dixie Dregs members
Mahavishnu Orchestra members
Musicians from Chicago
Private Music artists
Jazz musicians from Illinois
21st-century American violinists
21st-century American male musicians
American male jazz musicians
Shadowfax (band) members
American musicians