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| Background information | |
| Born | September 23, 1942 |
| Origin | Greenwich Village, New York |
| Genre(s) | Jazz Jazz-rock |
| Instrument(s) | Flute |
| Years active | 1963- present |
Jeremy Steig, (September 23, 1942), the son of New Yorker cartoonist William Steig, is notable as one of the few jazz flutists playing flute exclusively, as opposed to doubling from other woodwinds. Events 1122 - Concordat of Worms. 1459 - Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Greenwich Village (ˌgrɛnɪtʃ ˈvɪlɪdʒ often simply called the Village, is a largely residential area on the west side of downtown (southern Manhattan New York ( is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions of the United States and is the nation's third most populous A music genre is a categorical and typological construct that identifies musical sounds as belonging to a particular category and type of music that can be distinguished from other Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States Fusion or more specifically jazz fusion or jazz rock, is a Musical genre that merges Jazz with elements of other styles of music particularly A musical instrument is a device constructed or modified for the purpose of making Music. The flute is a Musical instrument of the Woodwind family Unlike other woodwind instruments a flute is a Reedless wind instrument that produces its Events 1122 - Concordat of Worms. 1459 - Battle of Blore Heath, the first major battle of the English Year 1942 ( MCMXLII) was a Common year starting on Thursday (the link will display the full 1942 calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The New Yorker is an American Magazine that publishes reportage commentary criticism essays fiction satire cartoons and poetry William Steig (November 14 1907 – October 3 2003 was a prolific American Cartoonist, sculptor and later in life an author of popular Children's literature Jazz is an American Musical art form which originated in the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States The flute is a Musical instrument of the Woodwind family Unlike other woodwind instruments a flute is a Reedless wind instrument that produces its Types of woodwind instruments See also List of woodwind instruments Single-reed instruments use a reed, which is a thin cut
Life and career
At age 19 Steig was involved in a motorcycle accident which left him paralyzed on one side. MotorCycle is the title of a 1993 album by Rock band Daniel Amos, released on BAI Records. For some years afterward, he played the flute with the help of a special mouthpiece.
After a start in mainstream jazz, with albums with Bill Evans and Denny Zeitlin, Steig became an early force in the jazz-rock fusion experiments of the late 1960s and early 70s, including with the short lived band Jeremy and the Satyrs. William John Evans (better known as Bill Evans) ( August 16, 1929 &ndash September 15, 1980) was one of the most famous and influential Denny Zeitlin is a jazz pianist born in Chicago Illinois on April 10, 1938. Fusion or more specifically jazz fusion or jazz rock, is a Musical genre that merges Jazz with elements of other styles of music particularly The 1960s decade refers to the years from the beginning of 1960 to the end of 1969 This article is about the Decade 1970-1979 For the Year 1970 see 1970. . His album Energy, later re-released with additional material, under different titles, featured keyboard player Jan Hammer and bassist Eddie Gomez, and was recorded at Electric Lady Studios under the hand of sometime Jimi Hendrix engineer Eddie Kramer. A keyboard instrument is any musical instrument played using a Musical keyboard. Jan Hammer (jan hamɘ (born 17 April 1948, in Prague, then Czechoslovakia, today part of the Czech Republic) is a The electric bass guitar (also called electric bass, or simply bass; ˈbeɪs as in "base" is a Stringed instrument played primarily with the Edgar "Eddie" Gomez (born October 4, 1944) is a Puerto Rican Jazz Double bassist born in Santurce Puerto Rico Electric Lady Studios, at 52 West 8th Street in New York City 's Greenwich Village, is a Recording studio originally built by Jimi Hendrix and James Marshall Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix) (November 27 1942 – September 18 1970 was an American Guitarist, Singer and Songwriter
Steig addressed the tonal color restrictions of the instrument by the use of "modern" acoustic techniques (voice multiphonics and overtones similar to Rahsaan Roland Kirk, key percussion) electronic effects, and by using the entire battery of flute-family instruments, from piccolo to bass flute (including the obscure Sousa-era alto piccolo), often over-dubbed and multi-tracked together. Acoustics is the interdisciplinary science that deals with the study of Sound, Ultrasound and Infrasound (all mechanical waves in gases liquids and solids Rahsaan Roland Kirk ( August 7, 1936 - December 5, 1977) was an American Jazz Multi-instrumentalist, playing The piccolo is a small Flute. Like the flute the piccolo is normally pitched in the key of C one octave above the concert flute (making it effectively a sopranino The bass flute is the bass member of the Flute family It is in the key of C pitched one octave below the Concert flute.
His song Howlin' For Judy from his 1970 album "Legwork" is the source of the main sample in the 1994 Beastie Boys' single "Sure Shot". " Sure Shot " is a single from the Beastie Boys ' 1994 album Ill Communication.
Selected recordings
- Energy (1971) re-released wholly or partially on CD, with different combinations of extra tracks, as Fusion and Something Else
- Firefly (1977) CTI Records
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