GE Stinson

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Gregg E. Stinson (born August 1949 in Kingfisher , Oklahoma ) is an American guitarist in the fields of creative jazz as well as new age and electronic music .

Stinson began his musical career under the influence of blues musicians like Bo Diddley or Muddy Waters . He worked in Chicago a . a. with blues musicians like Cash McCall and Hound Dog Taylor and eventually received a fellowship to compose with William Russo at Columbia College . Stinson then experimented in the areas of blues, jazz and other genres before forming the band Shadowfax with Chuck Greenberg in 1974 , with which he recorded six albums. Their album Folksongs for a Nuclear Village was awarded the Grammy Award in 1989 for best New Age album.

After the recordings for The Odd Get Even (1989) he left the band and worked in the Los Angeles music scene on his musical experiments, such as frequency manipulation. In 1990 he founded the GE Stinson Group , with which he recorded a first album on the avant-garde label Nine Winds ( The Same Without You , 1993). He also worked on projects with the Wayne Peet Trio ( Fully Engulfed ), worked on Adam Rudolph's opera The Dreamer and played on the album Right of Violet with Alex Cline and Jeff Gauthier . He worked with the improvisation collective Unique Cheerful Events and played guitar duets with Nels Cline . In 1996 he recorded an album with his formation A Thousand Other Names , he also worked for dance productions and worked on some film scores .

Stinson also worked with Gregg Bendian , Steuart Liebig and in various projects with Californian bands such as Napalm Quartet , Splinter Group , Stinkbug , Metalworkers .

Discography

  • The Same Without You (Nine Winds. 1992)
  • Thousand Other Names (Bird Cage, 1996)
  • Vapor (Ecstatic Peace, 1999)
  • Gregg Bendian, Jeff Gauthier, Steuart Liebig, GE Stinson - Bone Structure ( Cryptogramophone , 2003)

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SURNAME Stinson, GE
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stinson, Gregg E.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American jazz musician
DATE OF BIRTH August 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Kingfisher , Oklahoma , USA