G. E. Stinson
Gregg E. Stinson ( born August 1949 in Kingfisher, Oklahoma) is an American guitarist in the areas of Creative Jazz and the New Age and electronic music.
Stinson began his musical career under the influence of blues musicians like Bo Diddley and Muddy Waters. He worked in Chicago, inter alia, with blues musicians such as Cash McCall and Hound Dog Taylor and eventually received a scholarship for composition with William Russo at Columbia College. Stinson then experimented in the fields of blues, jazz and other genres before it in 1974 with Chuck Greenberg founded the band Shadowfax, with the he recorded six albums. Their album Folksongs for a Nuclear Village was awarded the 1989 Grammy Award for Best New Age Album.
After the recordings for The Odd Get Even (1989 ) he left the band and worked in the music scene of Los Angeles in his musical experiments, such as the frequency manipulation. In 1990, he founded the GE Stinson Group, with which he first album on the avant-garde label Ninewinds grossed ( The Same Without You, 1993). In addition, he worked on projects with the Wayne Peet Trio (Fully Engulfed ), participated in Adam Rudolph's opera The Dreamer and played on the album Right of Violet with Alex Cline and Jeff Gauthier. He worked with the collective improvisation Unique Cheerful Events and played guitar duets with Nels Cline. In 1996 he recorded an album with his band A Thousand Other Names on, he also worked for dance productions and worked on some film scores with.
Stinson also worked with Gregg Bendian, Steuart Liebig, as well as in various projects with Californian bands like 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)
Swell
- Richard Cook, Brian Morton: The Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings. 8th Edition. Penguin, London, 2006, ISBN 0-141-02327-9.