Chuck Loeb is a guitarist who performs various styles of music, particularly jazz. Chuck was born on 12 July, 1955 in Nyack, New York.

Chuck Loeb's solo jazz projects have been commercially successful due to his contemporary smooth jazz style. More than a jazz guitar player he is a complete musician.

Chuck Loeb started playing guitar when he was eleven years old. After the influence of jazz, Loeb traveled to Philadelphia to study with jazz guru ‘Dennis Sandole’ along with his local teachers Richie Hart and Hy White. He was recommended by Dennis Sandole to study with one of the great jazz guitarist Jim Hall in New York City. He learnt music at the Berklee College of Music in Boston for two years.

Chuck Loeb - Jazz Guitarist

Loeb freelanced with drummer Chico Hamilton, flutist Hubert Laws, Bandleader Ray Barreto and Joe Farrell along with others in New York. He continued learning music with extreme determination practicing up to eight hours a day. Loeb joined Jazz luminary Stan Get’z band in 1979. The show proved to be an essential experience for him, both personally and musically. Chuck Loeb as the member of Getz’s group, and the composer of much of the band’s records he had an opportunity of traveling around the globe and performing at many of the festivals, concert halls and jazz clubs. Later he became the musical director of the group.

Chuck Loeb worked for two years with Getz band and then resettled in New York. He started his career as a studio musician and logged thousands of studio recording, composing and producing soundtracks, albums and jingles.

Chuck Loeb joined the group ‘Steps-Ahead’ with Peter Erskine, Michael Brecker, Victor Bailey and Michael Maineri and returning to the stage of jazz world.

Loeb was part of the ‘Petite Blonde’ a live jazz collaboration album. The group features Victor Bailey on bass, Mitch Forman on keybords, Bill Evans on Saxophonist and Dennise Chambers on drums. Loeb’s compositions have been recorded by many pop and jazz artists; he has played with Dave Samuels, Gary Burton and many others.

His first solo album ‘My Shinning Hour’ was released on Jazz City, a Japanese Label in 1988. Loeb released ‘Magic Fingers’ on DMP, an audiophile label a year later. He switched to Shanachie, world music label in 1996 and released the album ‘The Music Inside’. ‘Moon, the Stars, & the Setting Sun’ in 1998, ‘Listen’ in 1999, ‘In a Heartbeat’ in 2001, ‘All There’ in 2002.

CHUCK LOEB DISCOGRAPHY:

Some of his albums include:

• Ebop
• In A Heartbeat
• Presence
• Listen
• All There Is
• When I'm With You
• The Moon, The Stars, And the Setting Sun
• The Music Inside
• The Love Song Collection
• My Shining Hour
• Lifecolors
• Balance
• Mediterranean
• Memory Lane
• Magic Fingers
• Simple Things
  

Chuck Berry is an American songwriter, guitarist and singer born on October 18, 1926 in St. Louis, Missouri.

Chuck Berry was a third child in a family of six. His father, Henry was a deacon of the Antioch Baptist Church, his Mother, Martha, was a schoolteacher. He grew up in ‘The Ville’ an area which is in the north of St. Louis and where the Blacks could own property. He studied in ‘Summer High School’, the first Black high school west of the Mississippi. He learnt guitar and rudiments of the instruments on a four-string tenor guitar from his class teacher Ira Harris, a local jazz guitarist. He changed to six-string guitar by 1950s.

Chuck Berry

Before he could graduate in 1944, on a joy ride to Kansas City with his friends Berry was arrested for armed robbery and was sentenced to 10 years in the Intermediate Reformatory for Young Men at Algoa, near Jefferson, Missouri. He was released on his 21st birthday in 1947.

Chuck Berry married Themetta Suggs a year later and began a series of jobs between 1948 and 1955. He began his career as a musician after a series of jobs like a janitor at the Fisher Body auto assembly plant; he was trained to be a hairdresser at the Poro School, assisted his father as a carpenter and freelanced as a photographer.

Chuck Berry played for the album ‘Hail! Hail! Rock ‘N’ Roll’ for the film of the same name directed by ‘Taylor Hackford’ in 1987.

Chuck Berry is one of the leaders and powerful figure of rock n roll music. He is the first musician to be inducted into the ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’ museum on its opening in 1986. According to ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’s website, ‘While no individual can be said to have invented rock and roll, Chuck Berry is the closest of any single figure to being the one who put all the essential pieces together. Out of 500 songs that shaped Rock and Roll in the ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’ museum includes Chuck Berry’s three songs ‘Johnny B. Goode’, ‘Rock and Roll Music’ and Maybellene’.

In 1984, Berry received ‘Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award’.

Chuck Berry received ‘Kennedy Center Honors’ in a group of artists with Angela Lansbury, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Clint Eastwood and Placido Domingo in 2000.

Rolling Stone a magazine devoted to music, popular culture and politics ranked Chuck Berry ‘Number 5’ in the list of immortals: The Fisrt Fifty in 2004, he was ranked ‘Number 6’ under ‘Rolling Stone’s 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time’ in 2003.

Chuck Berry’s ‘The Great Twenty-Eight’ album released in 1982 was a greatest hit and was ranked 21 on ‘Rolling Stone’ magazine’s list of ‘The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time’ in 2003.

Chuck Berry’s six songs ‘Johnny B. Goode’ ranked 7, ‘Maybellene’ ranked 18, ‘Roll Over Beethoven’ ranked 97, ‘Rock and Roll Music’ ranked 128, ‘Sweet Little Sixteen’ ranked 272 and ‘Brown Eyed Handsome Man’ ranked 374 in Rolling Stone’s ‘The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time’ list in 2004.

Chuck Berry currently performs one hour every Wednesday of each month at a restaurant and bar ‘Blueberry Hill’ located in the Delmar Loop, a suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. It was recently announced that Berry would play in the Virgin Mobile Music Festival 2008 in Baltimore, MD.

CHUCK BERRY DISCOGRAPHY:

"Maybellene" in 1955
“Wee Wee Hours” 
“Thirty Days’ in 1955
“No Money Down” in 1955
“Roll Over Beethoven” in 1956
“Too Much Monkey Business” in 1956
“Brown Eyed Handsome Man” 
“You Can’t Catch Me” in 1956
“School Days” in 1957
“Oh Baby Doll” in 1957
“Rock and Roll Music” in 1957
“Sweet Little Sixteen” in 1958
“Johnny B. Goode” in 1958
“Beautiful Delilah” in 1958
“Carol” in 1958
“Sweet Little Rock and Roller” in 1958
“Jo Jo Gunne” in 1958
"Merry Christmas Baby” in 1958
“Run Rudolph Run” in 1958
“Anthony Boy” in 1959
“Almost Grown” in 1959
“Little Queenie” in 1959
“Back in the U.S.A” in 1959
“Memphis, Tennessee” in 1959
“Broken Arrow” in 1959
“Too Pooped To Pop (Casey)” in 1960
“Let it Rock” in 1960
“Bye Bye Johnny” in 1960
“I Got To Find My Baby” in 1960
"Jaguar and Thunderbird” in 1960
“I’m Talking About You” in 1961
“Come On” in 1961
“Go Go Go” in 1961
"iploma For Two” in 1963
“Nadine (Is It You?)” in 1964
“No Particular Place To Go” in 1964
“You Never Can Tell” in 1964
“Little Marie” in 1964
“Promised Land” in 1964
“Dear Dad” in 1965
“It Wasn’t Me” in 1965
“Ramona Say Yes” in 1966
“Laugh and Cry” in 1967
“Back to Memphis” in 1967
“Feelin’ It” in 1967
“Louie to Frisco” in 1968
“Good Looking Woman” in 1969
“Tulane” in 1970
“My Ding-A-Ling” in 1972
“Reelin’ and Rockin” in 1972
“Bio” in 1973
“Shake, Rattle and Roll” in 1975
“California” in 1979

Chuck Hammer is a composer and an American guitarist born in New York City.

Chuck Hammer introduced ‘Guitarchitecture’ in 1977 to extend the guitars sonic vocabulary. His Guitarchitecture involves expanding the guitars vocabulary by altering its temporal context and characteristics. This sustainer completely changed the temporal properties of guitar like: discrete vibrato techniques, breaking down the chords to it basic elements and recording each element separately, textual event layering and reshaping timbres.

Chuck Hammer - Guitarchitecture

Chuck Hammer is known for seminal guitar-synth with David Bowie, Guitarchitecture and Lou Reed. He toured with Lou Reed’s band from 1979 to 1980. During this tour he played in the albums ‘The Bells’ in 1979 and ‘Growing Up in Public’ in 1980 using guitar-synth technology.  At the same time he developed an approach to composing and recording known as ‘Guitarchitechure’ and made a shady appearance as a record producer in the movie ‘One Trick Pony’ with the musician Paul  Simon.

Chuck Hammer recorded guitar-synth tracks using guitar synthesizer ‘Roland GR-500’ for the album ‘Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)’ in September 1980 for David Bowie, which included the songs ‘Ashes to Ashes’, ‘Up the Hill Backwards’ and ‘Teenage Wildlife’. 

Chuck Hammer began composing film soundtracks in 1983 with an early digital synthesizer ‘Synclavier’. Chuck recorded ‘Glacial Guitars’ with the series of Guitarchitechure pieces which included string controlled sampling and cello timbres in 1985 and with a series of solo audio pieces he recorded ‘Cathedral Guitars’ in 1986.

Chuck Hammer composed ‘The Seasons’ with the choreographer David Gordon for the Next Wave Festival in November 1986. ‘The Seasons’ was premiered at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Chuck planned AVA Studios in New York City with a multi media production facility which focused on making television and film music in 1989.

Chuck Hammer composed soundtracks for non fiction documentaries between 1994 and 2004 by collaborating with ‘National Geographic’, ‘New York Times’, ‘A&E Network’ and ‘Discovery Communications’. He composed soundtrack for the movie ‘Crazy Eights’ in 2006 and ‘The Wreck’ in 2007.

Some of his albums include:

• ‘Growing Up in Public’ in 1980
• ’Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)’ in 1980
• ‘Escape Artist’ and ‘Rock in 1980
• Roll Diary: 1967-1980’ in 1980
• ‘Showstopper’ in 1982
• ‘City Lights’ in 1985
• ‘Someday’ in 1986
• ‘Between Thought and Expression: The Lou reed Anthology’ in 1992
• ‘No Gravity’ in 1994
• ‘Perfect Day’ in 1999
• ‘The Collection’ in 2005

 Some of his Guitarchitecture recordings include:\

• Glacial Guitars
• Cathedral Guitars (solo Acoustica 1)
• Avignon Crosses (solo Acoustica 2)
• Moonless Night
• Shelter Curve
• Arctic Circles
  

Christy Doran is a jazz guitarist born in Dublin, Ireland and lived in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Christy Doran is the founding member of the electric jazz band ‘OM’ with bassist Bobbi Burri, saxophonist Urs Leimgruber and drummer Fredy Study in 1970s. This band released the album ‘Kirikuki’ in 1975, ‘Rautionaha’ in 1976, ‘OM with Dom um Ramao’ in 1977 and ‘Cerberus’ in 1980. He also worked on a tribute project of ‘Jim Hendrix’ along with Fredy Studer in 1990s.

Christy Doran - Jazz guitarist

Christy Doran has played with a number of avant-garde and free jazz musicians such as Robert Dick, Han Bennink, John Wolf Brennan, Carla Bley, Herb Robertson, Louis Sclavis, Marty Ehrlich, Albert Mangelsdorff, Marilyn Mazur and Jamaaladeen Tacuma.

Christy Doran founded the band ‘New Bag’ in 1997 and the group’s first recording was ‘Confusing the Spirit’ in 1999s. Christy Doran’s second recording the ‘Black Box’ of New Bag presents six pieces and also adds Muthuswamy Balasubramaniam’s mridangam to the mix.

Christy Doran currently performs with his band ‘New Bag’.

Christy Doran’s solo albums include: ‘Harsh Romantics’ in 1984, ‘The Returning Dream Of The Leaving Ship’ in 1986, ‘Phoenix’ in 1990 and ‘What a Band’ in 1991.

Christy Doran’s album ‘Half A Lifetime’ in 1979 with Studer, ‘Red Twist & Tuned Arrow’ in 1986 with keyboardist Stephan Wittwer and Studer, ‘Henceforward’ in 1988 with the pianist John Wolf Brennan.

CHRISTY DORAN DISCOGRAPHY:

• Henceforward (1988)
• Christy Doran's Phoenix (1989)
• Corporate Art (1991)
• What a Band (1991)
• Music for Two Basses, Electric Guitar and Drums (1991)
• Shaman (2000)
• Black Box (2002)
• Heaven Is Back in the Streets (2003)
• Triangulation (2004)
• Perspectives (2005)
• Jimi (2005)
• La Fourmi (2005)
• Red Twist & Tuned Arrow (2006)
• Now's the Time (2006)