Earl Klugh

Earl Klugh (pronounced " Kluh " ), ( born September 16, 1954 in Detroit, Michigan ) is an American jazz - pop crossover guitarist ( Smooth Jazz ).

Biography

Klugh grew up in Detroit and found to play guitar when he saw with 13 years on television Chet Atkins in the Perry Como Show, a formative in his own words, musical impression. He played with fifteen years with jazz musicians like Yusef Lateef, who invited him into Baker 's Keyboard Lounge in Detroit at a jam session and 16 of 1968 made ​​him participate in his album Suite; besides, he was playing with George Shearing.

Klugh played since 1973 in the band of George Benson and belonged in 1974 for two months to Chick Corea band Return to Forever, which also influenced him in his own words. His incurred since the mid- 1970s albums in the light fusion genre made ​​millions of copies; so Klugh was seven times nominated for a Grammy. His debut album Earl Klugh released in 1976, when he had a contract with Blue Note Records. Several solo albums followed. Also known as Blue Note Records was acquired in 1979 by Capitol Records, he stayed with this label (for example, with Dream Come True in 1980, with his first album, which reached gold status - Crazy for You, 1981), but switched in 1984 to Warner Brothers where in the same year his successful album soda Fountain Shuffle appeared. For One on One ( Tappan Zee Records, 1979) with keyboardist Bob James in 1981 he received a Grammy ( " Best Pop Instrumental Performance "). With James was followed in 1982 and 1991 Two of a Kind Album Cool. He also took with George Benson Collaboration (1987 ), in the 1970s, he worked at Benson's Body Talk albums and White Rabbit (1971 ) with and took with Chet Atkins on (on Klugh album Magic in Your Eyes, 1978). Klugh also worked as a composer for film music, as with Hubert Laws 1980 for the movie How to Beat the High Cost of Living. In 1977, he worked at McCoy Tyner album Inner Voices, the 1987 soundtrack album Siesta by Marcus Miller and Miles Davis.

From the early 1990s he played with en Trio ( Ralphe Armstrong on bass, Gene Dunlap as a drummer ). In the 2000s, he toured the world, including a 2005 sponsored by the U.S. State Department tour for the tsunami victims in South Asia and for HIV victims, along with George Duke, Stanley Clarke, Ravi Coltrane and Al Jarreau. After a long break followed in 2005 by his solo album Naked Guitar ( Koch).

In his play, the diverse mix of influences Motown sound of his native Detroit ( as The Funk Brothers), Sergio Mendez, The Beatles, Burt Bacharach, to Brazilian music, which he mixes his own catchy style. Earl Klugh playing acoustic guitar. He sees himself less as a jazz musician: "There is an element of jazz in my music, but of basically it's pop".

Discography

  • Earl Klugh ( EMI America / Blue Note, 1976)
  • Living Inside Your Love (EMI / Manhattan, 1976)
  • Finger Paintings ( EMI / Manhattan, 1977)
  • Magic in Your Eyes ( EMI Records, 1978)
  • One on One ( Tappan Zee Records, 1979) ( with Bob James )
  • Heart String ( Capitol Records, 1979/2000 )
  • Dream Come True ( EMI / Manhattan, 1980/1993 )
  • Late Night Guitar ( Capitol Records, 1980)
  • Late Night Guitar, Volume 2 (1980 )
  • Crazy for You (EMI / Manhattan, 1981)
  • How to Beat the High Cost of Living ( Soundtrack, 1982)
  • Two of a kind ( Blue Note, 1982) ( with Bob James )
  • Low Ride ( Capitol Records, 1983)
  • Wishful Thinking ( Capitol Records, 1984)
  • Marvin And Tieg (Soundtrack, 1984)
  • Night Songs ( Capitol Records, 1985)
  • Soda Fountain Shuffle ( Warner Bros. Records, 1985)
  • Just Between Friends (Soundtrack, EMI America, 1985)
  • Collaboration ( Warner, 1987) ( with George Benson )
  • Life Stories ( Warner Bros. Records, 1987)
  • Whispers and Promises ( Warner Bros. Records, 1989)
  • Solo Guitar ( Warner Bros. Records, 1989)
  • The Earl Klugh Trio Volume 1 ( Warner Bros. Records, 1991)
  • Midnight in San Juan ( Warner Bros. Records, 1991)
  • The Best of Earl Klugh ( Capitol Records, 1991)
  • The Best of Earl Klugh, Volume 2 ( Capitol Records )
  • Cool ( Warner Bros., 1992) ( with Bob James )
  • Trio Volume 2 ( Warner Bros. Records, 1993)
  • Ballads ( Capitol Records, 1993)
  • Move ( Warner Bros. Records, 1994)
  • Sudden Burst of Energy ( Warner Bros. Records, 1996)
  • The Journey ( Warner Bros. Records, 1997)
  • The Best of Earl Klugh ( Warner Bros. Records, 1998)
  • Peculiar situation ( Windham Hill Records, 1999)
  • The Essential Earl Klugh ( Capitol Records, 2003)
  • Naked Guitar ( Koch Entertainment, 2005)
  • Music for Lovers ( Best of ) ( Capitol Records, 2006)
  • The Spice of Life ( Koch Entertainment, 2008)
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