Gordon+Withers | ja
Pianist Gordon Webster has performed with Wycliffe Gordon, Grant Green Jr., Tim Hagans, Donny McCaslin, Ingrid Jensen, Chris Parker, Steve LaSpina, Jim Rotondi, Adam Nussbaum, Ron McClure, Chris Potter, Joel Frahm, and Jim Black among others. His playing has been showcased in numerous New York City venues including the Blue Note, The Iridium, Sweet Rhythm, The Cutting Room, Cleopatra's Needle, Makor, 92nd Street Y, Mannahatta Lounge, Kavehaz, Triad Theater, Smalls, Cafe Vivaldi, The Bar Next Door, St. Nick's Pub, Night and Day, and Dizzy's Club Coca-Cola.
Webster graduated from the Manhattan School of Music Masters Degree in jazz studies program...
ビル・ウィザース（Bill Withers, 1938年7月4日-）はアメリカウェストバージニア州出身のシンガーソングライター/歌手。1960年代末から'80年代中期頃に活動。
13歳の時に父を亡くす。17歳の時にアメリカ海軍へ加入。1967年にロサンジェルスに移るまでの9年間在籍。ロサンジェルスにいる間はフォード・モーターで働く。
1971年にSussex Recordsより"Ain't No Sunshine"（邦題:消えゆく太陽, Just As I Am収録）で音楽シーンにデビュー。以後も"Lean on Me"、"Use Me"、"Lovely Day"、"Grandmother's Hands"等のヒット曲を出す。ジャズ・サックス奏者のグローヴァー・ワシントン・ジュニアの"Just the Two of Us"（邦題:クリスタルの恋人達）にもフィーチュアされ、AORの人気作となる。
1985年発表のWatching You, Watching Meを最後にアルバムを発表していない。
また彼は吃り（吃音症）を持っており、「深刻な問題だった」という。
アルバム
1971: Just As I Am
1972: Still Bill
1974: +Justments
1975: Making Music, Making Friends
1976: Naked & Warm
1977: Menagerie
1978: 'Bout Love
1985: Watching You, Watching Me
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Mick Gordon (born 9 July 1985) is an Australian composer and sound designer whose compositions aim to transcend the perceptual boundary between music and its context. Mick’s work considers the role of music as a translation of the world in which it exists rather than a simple accompaniment. Through creativity, interpretation and collaboration he develops a meaningful exchange between the visual world and music culminating in the authorship of a unified original work of art.
Mick utilises a broad range of modern musical sound design and traditional composition techniques in order to be unconstrained by any singular genre. His music...
Ricky Ian Gordon was born on May 15, 1956 in Oceanside, NY and raised on Long Island. After studying composition at Carnegie Mellon University, he settled in New York City, where he quickly emerged as a leading writer of vocal music that spans art song, opera, and musical theater. Mr. Gordon’s songs have been performed and or recorded by such internationally renowned singers as Renee Fleming, Dawn Upshaw, Audra MacDonald, Kristin Chenoweth, the late Lorraine Hunt Lieberson, Frederica Von Stade, Andrea Marcovicci, Harolyn Blackwell, and Betty Buckley, among many others.
Recent productions of his work include:
2007: The Grapes of...
Speedy Japanese thrash. .
