Geoff Muldaur

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Geoff Muldaur: Private Astronomy

Read "Private Astronomy" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 18, 2003

It is certainly not by accident that the Universal Classics Group is the label imprint on Geoff Private Astronomy—A Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke. The rarely heard piano compositions of Bix Beiderbecke are majestically transformed into American chamber music by the loving touch and musical panache of another American original, Geoff Muldaur. For release during the Bix Beiderbecke Centenary, Mr. Muldaur’s recording of Leon “Bix" Beiderbecke compositions, and compositions associated with the coronetist, can not so much be ...

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Album Review

Geoff Muldaur: Beautiful Isle of Somewhere

by C. Michael Bailey
May 4, 2003

For most people, Geoff Muldaur is famous for being the former husband of Maria Muldaur and for playing in Paul Butterfield’s Better Days. But that short changes the multi-instrumentalist. Muldaur took the 1990s off to pursue business interests that included winning an Emmy Award for Television and movie soundtracks. Beautiful Isle of Somewhere is his third recording since returning to the music scene in 1998 after a decade in the corporate would. What the listener holds here is Geoff Muldaur ...