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Michael Hedges

Born: December 31, 1953

Michael Hedges (1953–1997) was an American composer, guitarist, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist. He is best-known for his innovative acoustic guitar/harp guitar compositions and high-energy live performances.

From 1973–1997 Hedges developed revolutionary techniques on the acoustic steel-string guitar that are widely used by guitarists today. Although he was a recording artist on the new age label Windham Hill, his music defies categorization.

Born in Sacramento on New Year’s Eve in 1953, Hedges soon moved with his family to Enid, Oklahoma where he grew up. He came to love music at an early age and took lessons in cello, clarinet, and piano. In sixth grade, Elvis and the Beatles inspired him to picked up the guitar. He played in rock bands throughout his adolescence, sometimes while wearing a white Pete Townshend-style jumpsuit. The guitar became his primary focus, but his interests expanded to other instruments along the way.

Wonder

By Tobin Mueller

Label: ArtsForge
Released: 2019
Track listing: When the Future Comes; Let the Rumpus Begin; Rebellion Is a Lullaby (To the Boy Inside); Rock the Baby; Escaping the Fray Zone; Speak Truth to Power; The Long Sleep ; Dare to Sing; Ascent of Awe; Gethsemane Revisited I Won't Leave You; I Won't Leave You (Instrumental); Before There Were Gods (feat. Michael Hedges) ; Pandora's Box; Puzzle City (feat. Anton Mueller, Bob Piper & Scott Rockenfield); Lilith's Lament; Was There Once A Time; Chaos Is a Ladder; Dreams (Awake to Me) ; Out of Toyland; What Thou Lovest Well; Merlin's Awakening; Let Yourself Dream; Lady of the Lake; Pull Me Home; What I Was Thinking While You Were Talking; Loolay Lullaby; God Bless America.

Frank Zappa's Jazz Legacy Refuses to Die, Part 2

by Ludovico Granvassu
December 26, 2018

This week we continue the retrospective dedicated to Frank Zappa's complex relationship with jazz, through a mix of the jazzier compositions performed by Zappa himself and countless tributes to his music paid by jazz musicians. As Frank Zappa loved to say, quoting Edgard Varèse, “the present day composer refuses to die" and the ...

Festival International de Jazz de Montréal 2018: Part 1

by John Kelman
July 5, 2018

Part 1 | Part 22018 Festival International de Jazz de Montréal, Various Venues, Montréal, Canada June 29-July 3, 2018 Every return to Montréal for the city's annual Festival International de Jazz de Montréal is much-anticipated. Closing off six square blocks in the downtown core is rare enough; but, over ...

Pat Martino: In the Moment

by Victor L. Schermer
November 2, 2021

In memory of Pat Martino who passed on November 1, 2021. This article was first published at All About Jazz on January 12, 2018. Legendary guitarist Pat Martino is devoted to living in the Here and Now! -coincidentally the title of his autobiography (DaCapo, 2011). Taking each moment as it is and adding full ...

Bjorn Meyer: Provenance

by Geno Thackara
November 11, 2017

From the fact that his best-known role consisted of a decade in Nik Bartsch's Ronin (not to ignore his other style-bending collaborations either), it's already clear that Bjorn Meyer isn't interested in what a bass or bassist is normally supposed to do. In keeping with that attitude, his solo debut puts his low-end string work to ...

Audio Fidelity To Release Guitar Innovator Michael Hedges "Aerial Boundries" On Limited Edition 180gm Vinyl

May 4, 2015

Camarillo, CA – Marshall Blonstein's Audio Fidelity will be releasing guitar innovator Michael Hedges critically acclaimed album Aerial Boundaries on limited edition 180gm vinyl! Aerial Boundaries is unquestionably one of the most groundbreaking albums in acoustic guitar history. This is the record that presented Michael Hedges to the world as the ultimate acoustic guitar visionary, stretching ...

Ozella Music: Nordic Beauty and Beyond

by Jakob Baekgaard
October 1, 2012

It is always tempting to explain one story in the light of another, and in the case of guitarist and composer Dagobert Böhm's Ozella Music label, it is inevitable to be reminded of Windham Hill, the record company started by the guitarist William Ackerman in 1976. Like Windham Hill, Ozella started out as one-man project run ...

Ben Tyree: Thoughtform Variations

by Mark F. Turner
June 20, 2012

In stark contrast to the psychedelic funk rock of re: Vision (2010, Sonic Architectures), Brooklyn-based guitarist Ben Tyree eschews pyrotechnic effects and performs literally naked on his solo acoustic debut, Thoughtform Variations, showing enough imagination and finger-picking stylizations to satisfy both six-string enthusiasts and casual listeners. These original pieces were conceived eight years ...

Ewan Dobson: Ewan Dobson III

by C. Michael Bailey
March 24, 2012

Guitarist Ewan Dobson did not so much emerge from the house that Leo Kottke, John Fahey and Peter Lang built as construct his own wing and take command of it. Somewhere in that house, close to the Dobson wing, the spirit of Michael Hedges lurks, speaking from his portrait, encouraging the walls to be more percussive ...