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We asked Chris to write a list of his major Gurus of music.
This was expanded to include his hero(in)es from other art forms. His current full list is on the right. We're working to find groovy links to each. We'll try to feature an artist from time ti time.
 

This month's hero(in)e link is...

The list so far, and in no particular order...

Music

jazz
Arild Andersen
Charles Lloyd
Tony Scott
Bobo Stenson
Bosko Petrovic
Alexey Kozlov Arsenal
Leon Thomas
Steve Kuhn
Rainer Bruninghaus
Jiri Stivin
Palle Mikkelborg
Terje Rypdal
Markus Stockhausen
Simon Stockhausen
Paul Winter
Azimuth
Greetje Bijma

singer songwriters
John Sebastian
David Crosby /CPR
Jesse Colin Young
Buffy Sainte-Marie
Richie Havens
Country Joe McDonald
James Lee Stanley
Peter Tork
Cory Sipper
Peter, Paul & Mary
Linda Waterfall

popular songwriters
Teddy Randazzo
Barry Mann/Cynthia Weill
Goffin/King
Jimmy Webb
Tony Hatch/Jackie Trent


Indian Classical
Shobha Gurtu
Lakshmi Shankar
Kishori Amonkar

World Fusion
Jai Uttal
Ila Arun
Sakari Kukko /Piirpauke
Okay Temiz
Alan Stivell
Dhafer Youssef
Diaouled Ar Menez
Gwerz
Uschi Laar
Azopa

Classical/New Music/Electronic
Terry Riley
Alexander Scriabin
Edward Artemiev
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Arne Nordheim
Vidna Obmana
Lydia Kavina
Terje Rypdal
Toru Takemitsu
Wendy Carlos
Robert Rich
Singer Pur
La Venexiana
Barbara Buchholz
Gyorgy Ligeti


Latin Fusion
Flora Purim
Carlos Santana/ Santana
Jose Neto
Fourth World
Ithamara Koorax
Malo
Azteca
El Chicano
Dom Um Romao
Marcos Valle

Rock/Pop
Brian Wilson /The Beach Boys
The Flower Kings
Paul Kantner /Jefferson Starship
Laika & the Cosmonauts
The Gentle People
John Phillips/Mamas & The Papas
Jan Akkerman
Arthur Brown
The Association
Spanky & Our Gang
Timi Yuro
Messer Chups
Chris Dedrick &
The Free Design
Arling & Cameron
Ronni Le Tekro
Petula Clark
Lorraine Bowen Experience


Blues
Screamin' Jay Hawkins

Soul Music
Barry White
Lisa Stansfield
The 5th Dimension
Little Anthony & the Imperials
The Chi-Lites
The Delfonics
The Dramatics
The Dells
Jon Lucien
The Royalettes

Early Music
Kalenda Maya
Carlo Gesualdo

Writers
Charles L. Harness
Clifford Simak
R.A. Lafferty
Zenna Henderson
Michael Kurland
Michael Bulgakov
Jorge Luis Borges
Stanislaw Lem
Aloys & Boris Strugatsky
Cordwainer Smith
Frederik Pohl
John Brunner
Ron Goulart
Lisa Mason
John Sladek
Robert Charles Wilson
A Bertram Chandler
John Kessel
Jack McDevitt
Ian McDonald
Karel Capek
George O. Smith
George Alec Effinger
Bruce Sterling
John Varley
Edward Gorey
Ray Bradbury
Charles Sheffield
Richard Wilson
James H. Schmitz


Film Directors
Andrei Tarkovsky
Frank Capra
Woody Allen
Busby Berkeley
Neil Simon
Preston Sturges

Painters
Dorothea Tanning
Leonora Carrigton
Remedios Varo
Mark Rothko
Bridgit Riley
Betty Conway
James McNeill Whistler

Movie Stars
Frances Drake
Carmen Miranda
Jessie Matthews
Will Hay
Eddie Cantor
Warner Oland
Vampira
Alistair Sim
Edward Everitt Horton
Patrick McGoohan
Peter Lorre
George Sanders
Jean Arthur
Jack Hulbert
Frederick March
James Stewert
William Powell


Richie Havens
Richie Havens has a new album out - "Nobody Left To Crown". I got the chance to see him and his trio at the Rhythm Festival alst month - still great - such amazing charisma and still singing about this crazy world and still strumming like crazy about Freedom
. Seei9ng him live is the best - he generates a kind of energy and warm glow in an audience. He's also one of the nicest guys ion the business and always spends about an hopur with fans after shows to chat and sign things etc. Get the new album and her Richie tell it like it is.

Richie Havens new CD - Nobody Left To Crown

Moonstruck is also an album of music in which there is theremin as oppsed to "a theremin album". This, and her willingness to collaborate with others make for an album with variety, but also there is a cohesive sound to the whole album. I got my copy of Mooonstruck at the very efficient jpc.de CD store. Strongly recommended.

RH& CC
I was lucky enough to meet RH when I opened for him in Leicester. I met him again at the Rhythm Festival in August this year.

buy via these links and CC gets (a little) money

some videos featuring Richie Havens

 



Christo's Retentive List Corner - no particular order
CCs fave albums of 2008
Tape - Rideau
Ferenc Snetberger / Markus Stockhausen - Streams
Markus Stockhausen et al - Electric Treasures
Singer Pur - Memento
Ketil Bjornstad / Terje Rypdal - Live in Leipzig
Barbara Buchholz - Moonstruck

harmony groups
The Free Design
5th Dimension
Mamas & the Papas
Beach Boys
Chi-Lites
Jefferson Starship
Peter Paul & Mary
Little Anthony & the Imperials
The Dramatics
Novi Singers
Spanky & Our Gang
Singer Pur

live gigs - how many times seen
Jefferson Starship - 8
Karlheinz Stockhausen - 5
Terje Rypdal - 4
Richie Havens - 4
Peter Tork - 4
Alan Stivell - 3
The Flower Kings - 3
Shobha Gurtu - 3
Markus Stockhausen - 3
Arild Andersen - 2
Terry Riley - 2
John Sebastian - 2
La Venexiana - 2
Brian Wilson - 2

drums/percussion
OkayTemiz
Jon Christensen
Airto Moreira
Zoltan Czorsz - TFK
Prairie Prince
Paulo Vinaccia
Audun Klieve
Arto Tuncboyacian
Ismael Sane - Piirpauke
Trilok Gurtu
electronics/synthesizers
Barbara Buchholz
Lydia Kavina
Simon Stockhausen
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Vidna Obmana
Robert Rich
Bernard Xolotl
Eduard Artemiev
Al Gromer Khan
A. Produce
Wendy Carlos

brass
Palle Mikkelborg
Marcus Stockhausen
Kenny Wheeler
Manfred Schoof
Mark Isham
Nils Petter Molvaer
Torbjorn Sunde
Don Cherry
Luis Gasca
Ergun Senlendirici

bassists
Arild Andersen
Palle Danielson
Nils H Orsted Pedersen
Anders Jormin
Miroslav Vitous
Eberhard Weber
Jonas Reingold - TFK
Bjorn Kjellemyr
Pete Sears - JS
Gary Brown - 4thWorld

vox female
Lisa Stansfield
Kishori Amonkar
Marylin McCoo - 5D
Ila Arun
Buffy Sainte-Marie 
Flora Purim
Mama Cass Elliott
Ithamara Koorax
Grace Slick - JS
MaryTravers- PPM
Darby Gould - JS
Diana Mangano - JS
Aina Kemanis

vox male
Leon Thomas
Richie Havens
Billy Davis Jnr - 5D
Roine Stolt - TFK
David Crosby
Little Anthony
Barry White
Alan Stivell
Jesse Colin Young
Screamin' Jay Hawkins
Carl Wilson
classical composers
Alexander Scriabin
Terje Rypdal
Toru Takemitsu
Arne Nordheim
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Carlo Gesualdo
Terry Riley
Palle Mikkelborg
JS Bach
Paul Giger
pianists (not keyboards)
Terry Riley
Rainer Bruninghaus
Bobo Stenson
Alexander Scriabin
Steve Kuhn
Mike Nock
John Taylor
Jon Balke
Richie Beirach
Esbjorn Svensson
guitarists
Terje Rypdal
Jose Neto
Roine Stolt
Jan Akkerman
Carlos Santana
Frode Alnaes
Slick Aguilar
Jeff Pevar
John McLaughlin
Mikko Lankinen
John Abercrombie
Ed Wynne
reed/wind players
Alexei Kozlov
Jiri Stivin
Sakari Kukko
Tony Scott
Charles Lloyd
Simon Stockhausen
Paul Winter
Tore Bronberg
Charlie Mariano
John Surman
love & peace & outer space