"John Lewis (pianist) John Aaron Lewis (May 3, 1920 – March 29, 2001) was an American jazz pianist, composer and arranger, best known as the founder and musical director of the Modern Jazz Quartet. John Lewis was born in La Grange, Illinois, and after his parents' divorce moved with his mother, a trained singer, to Albuquerque, New Mexico when he was two months old. She died from peritonitis when he was four and he was raised by his grandmother and great-grandmother. He began learning classical music and piano at the age of seven. His family was musical and had a"
"yet to be certified by ""Guinness World Records"". Lewis was born in London, England. He began playing violin as an eight-year-old, having fallen in love with the sound of the first record he had heard; Paganini Caprices, played by Ruggiero Ricci. At 12 years old, Lewis led the National Children's Orchestra of Great Britain. Lewis studied at the Purcell School and the Guildhall School of Music, London, and graduated from the Berne Conservatoire, Switzerland. His professional career as a concert soloist began with the Bern Symphony Orchestra, before he joined the Heidelberg Chamber Orchestra. Lewis created the electronic music group"
"Lyon & Healy Lyon & Healy is an American musical instrument manufacturer based in Chicago, Illinois. Today best known for concert harps, the company's Chicago headquarters and manufacturing facility contains a showroom and concert hall. George W. Lyon and Patrick J. Healy began the company in 1864 as a sheet music shop. By the end of the 19th century, they manufactured a wide range of musical instruments—including not only harps, but guitars, mandolins, banjos, ukuleles and various brass and percussion instruments. Today, Lyon & Healy harps are widely played by professional musicians, since they are one of the few makers"
"Don Lewis (electronic engineer) Don Lewis is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and electronic engineer who created an instrument Live Electronic Orchestra (LEO) which integrated multiple instruments under a controller system predating MIDI controller by 10 years and TR-808. Don Lewis grew up in Dayton, Ohio, in the 1940s and 50s. Lewis has stated that his interest in music began as a child after watching an organist perform at his church. Lewis later majored in Electronics Engineering at the former Tuskegee Institute. While there, he also sang with the Tuskegee Chorus and played music at rallies led by Dr. Martin Luther King,"
"Artists. Lewis earned the title ""The Boy with the Lute,"" being perhaps the only country singer to use this instrument, which is actually a custom 6-string guitar-lute. Lewis's lute is very similar to a standard acoustic guitar, but not without some tonal differences. Lewis is probably the only artist in country music who plays a lute at live performances and in the recording studio. Lewis was inducted to the Atlanta Country Music Hall Of Fame on November 29, 2014. Lewis became a member of the Grand Ole Opry and continues to perform and record new material. Lewis's recent studio albums"
"music and the arts: Young Expressions, a mentorship program for student artists around Pleasanton, California, and Say ""Yes"" to Music!, wherein Lewis performs at school assemblies. Lewis is most famous for having created an early integrated sound controller for analog synthesizers, which he named Live Electronic Orchestra (LEO), 10 years prior to MIDI. Lewis designed LEO in 1974 and completed it in 1977 by linking various synthesizers to work together in live performance, limited at the time to mostly studio production. As of 2018, LEO is housed in NAMM's Museum of Making Music located in Carlsbad, California. The various instruments"
"Noah Lewis Noah Lewis (September 3, 1891 – February 7, 1961) was an American jug band and country blues musician, generally known for playing the harmonica. Lewis was born in Henning, Tennessee, and learned to play the harmonica as a child. He moved to Memphis, Tennessee, in his early teens, where he met Gus Cannon in 1907. By that time he was already a respected original stylist on the harmonica, noted for his liquid tone and breath control, which allowed him to generate enormous volume from the instrument. By then he was also noted for his ability to play two"
"Meade Lux Lewis Anderson Meade Lewis (September 4, 1905 – June 7, 1964), known as Meade Lux Lewis, was an American pianist and composer, noted for his playing in the boogie-woogie style. His best-known work, ""Honky Tonk Train Blues"", has been recorded by many artists. Lewis was born in Chicago, though some sources state Louisville, Kentucky, on September 4, 1905 (September 3 and 13 have also been cited as his date of birth in various sources). In his youth he was influenced by the pianist Jimmy Yancey. His father, a guitarist who made two recordings of his own, introduced Meade"
"Vel Lewis Vel Lewis (legal name is Velbert Lewis, Jr.) is an American contemporary jazz musician born on November 30, 1954 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His primary instrument of choice is the Hammond organ; however he also plays piano, synthesizer keyboards, drums, and electric bass guitar. He began his music career in 1965 as a 1st soprano vocalist with the Philadelphia All-Boys Choir under the direction of Dr. Carlton J. Lake. He attended Settlement Music School for vocal/piano training. He also began studies on concert flute. In 1966, he switched from flute to organ, and advanced to 1st soprano soloist in"
"The Jazztet and John Lewis The Jazztet and John Lewis is an album by the Jazztet, led by trumpeter Art Farmer and saxophonist Benny Golson and featuring performances composed and arranged by John Lewis. It was recorded in late 1960 and early 1961 and originally released on the Argo label. John Lewis wrote all of the compositions. The first, ""Bel"", was written for this recording and is an ""affirmative blues with altered chord changes and a slightly [Thelonious] Monkish line"". ""Milano"" is a ballad with ""an arrangement that rotates the lead among the three horns"". ""Django"" had been recorded by"
"Pete ""Guitar"" Lewis Pete ""Guitar"" Lewis (probably July 11, 1913 – September 25, 1970) was an American rhythm and blues guitarist and occasional harmonica player, best known as a session musician and performer with Johnny Otis in the late 1940s and 1950s. Though details of his life are uncertain, researchers Bob Eagle and Eric LeBlanc state that he was born Carl Lewis in Oklahoma City. Influenced in his guitar playing by T-Bone Walker, he was discovered by Johnny Otis performing in an amateur hour event at the Barrelhouse Club in Los Angeles in 1947. He was recruited to Otis' band,"
"Ballad of Don Lewis: The Untold Story of a Synthesizer Pioneer"", set to be released in 2018. Lewis has resided in Pleasanton, California, for 35 years. He lives with his wife, Julie. He has five adult children. In 2016, Lewis won the 2016 Alameda County Arts Leadership award. He also won the 2016 Tri-Valley Heroes Arts and Culture award. Don Lewis (electronic engineer) Don Lewis is a vocalist, multi-instrumentalist, and electronic engineer who created an instrument Live Electronic Orchestra (LEO) which integrated multiple instruments under a controller system predating MIDI controller by 10 years and TR-808. Don Lewis grew up"
"had a Top 30 hit with it in 1976. Lewis was mentioned in Chapter 81 of author Kurt Vonnegut's novel ""Cat's Cradle"". Lewis is also mentioned in Ross Macdonald's novel ""The Moving Target"" and in Keith Richards's autobiography ""Life"". Meade Lux Lewis Anderson Meade Lewis (September 4, 1905 – June 7, 1964), known as Meade Lux Lewis, was an American pianist and composer, noted for his playing in the boogie-woogie style. His best-known work, ""Honky Tonk Train Blues"", has been recorded by many artists. Lewis was born in Chicago, though some sources state Louisville, Kentucky, on September 4, 1905 (September"
"Since the MJQ was no longer his primary career, Lewis had time to form and play in a sextet called the John Lewis Group. A few years later, in 1985, Lewis collaborated with Gary Giddins and Roberta Swann to form the American Jazz Orchestra. Additionally, he continued to teach jazz piano to aspiring jazz students, which he had done throughout his career. His teaching style involved making sure the student was fluent in ""three basic forms: the blues, a ballad, and a piece that moves"". He continued teaching late into his life. In 1989, Lewis was awarded an Honorary Doctorate"
"Josh has played professionally in the Seattle area since 2001 and is a Band Leader for the Josh Rawlings Trio, a member of The Teaching, a member of Seattle’s powerhouse Rock/Jazz group Industrial Revelation, (a band who recently played Teatro Manzoni in Milan, Italy to a crowd of over 800 fans), as well as a recording artist for Macklemore and Ryan Lewis. Josh was interviewed in 2017 about his career and relationship with Ryan Lewis on the Seattle Jazz Radio website, KEXP.org. Josh Rawlings Joshua Robert Rawlings (born December 10, 1982 in St. Croix Falls, Wisconsin) is an American pianist,"
"Son Lewis Son Lewis (born Andrew Lewis, December 11, 1951, Paterson, New Jersey) is an American blues singer and guitarist. He was nicknamed ""Son"" or ""Sonny"" by his family, to differentiate him from his father, Andrew Lewis Sr. He is the son of former soldier and businessman Andrew Lewis Sr. (whose photo is used on Lewis' ""Dignified"" CD cover) and his wife, Frances Frano. He has one sister, Michele. Although not coming from a musical family, he was influenced by his cousin Carl Lewis, who exposed him to Delta and Chicago blues at a very young age. Lewis started playing"
"Louisiana. Lewis was an eccentric character. He drove a Ford Model T which he had custom painted in bright multicolored polka-dots. He played the piano without using either of his middle fingers; these he kept extended straight while playing (in the manner of the rude gesture known as ""Shooting the Bird""). He was influenced by the piano stylings of Tony Jackson and Jelly Roll Morton, and became the premier pianist in Storyville after those two older musicians left town. Steve Lewis (musician) Steve Lewis (March 19, 1896 - c 1941?) was a jazz pianist and composer. Lewis was born in"
"Yank Rachell (mandolin), in 1930. His songs ""New, New Minglewood Blues"", ""Viola Lee Blues"", and ""Big Railroad Blues"" were in the repertoire of the Grateful Dead. Lewis died in poverty, of gangrene brought on by frostbite, in Ripley, Tennessee, in 1961. He is buried in a cemetery near Nutbush, Tennessee. Noah Lewis Noah Lewis (September 3, 1891 – February 7, 1961) was an American jug band and country blues musician, generally known for playing the harmonica. Lewis was born in Henning, Tennessee, and learned to play the harmonica as a child. He moved to Memphis, Tennessee, in his early teens,"
"Jerry Lee Lewis Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and pianist, often known by his nickname, The Killer. He has been described as ""rock & roll's first great wild man."" A pioneer of rock and roll and rockabilly music, Lewis made his first recordings in 1956 at Sun Records in Memphis. ""Crazy Arms"" sold 300,000 copies in the South, but it was his 1957 hit ""Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On"" that shot Lewis to fame worldwide. He followed this with ""Great Balls of Fire"", ""Breathless"" and ""High School Confidential"". However, Lewis's rock and roll"
"William Lewis & Son Co. William Lewis & Son was a distinguished Chicago-based music store that specialized in violins and bows. The firm was founded in 1874. In 1995, the company was purchased by Selmer, and has since become a division of Conn-Selmer, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Steinway Musical Instruments. Established in 1874, the firm endured for over 80 years, and among other things, amassed an important collection of fine orchestral string instruments from the violin family, which included those of Antonio Stradivarius, Giuseppe Guarneri, Domenico Montagnana, Sanctus Serafin, Lorenzo Storioni, Rugeri, Joannes Baptista Guadagnini, Nicolas Lupot, J."
"age 4 or 5. His preferred method of hunting deer is with a compound or recurve bow, and he occasionally utilizes a muzzleloader. On November 4, 2006, Lewis performed at his old high school in Longmeadow, Massachusetts and gave all the proceeds to the music department to fund the department's expenses to buy new equipment and supplies. Lewis' main focus, however, is the non-profit organization It Takes a Community, where he and his wife have started to reopen their daughters' elementary school in Worthington, Massachusetts. sduhvcf Aaron Lewis Aaron Lewis (born April 13, 1972) is an American singer, songwriter and"
"Anthony Braxton With Anthony Davis With Steve Lacy With David Murray With Gil Evans With Globe Unity Orchestra With ICP Orchestra With Muhal Richard Abrams With Richard Teitelbaum With Roscoe Mitchell With Steve Lacy With others Solo and chamber music Electronics Installations Interactive computer music Music Theatre Creative orchestra Graphic and instructional scores George Lewis (trombonist) George Emanuel Lewis (born July 14, 1952) is an American composer, electronic performer, installation artist, trombone player, and scholar in the fields of improvisation and experimental music. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971"
"Eric Lewis (pianist) Eric Robert Lewis (born May 13, 1973), popularly known as ELEW, is an American jazz pianist who has found cross-over success playing rock and pop music. He is known for his unconventional and physical playing style, which eschews a piano bench and includes reaching inside the piano lid to pull at the strings directly, as well as the creation that he calls ""Rockjazz"", a genre that ""takes the improvisational aspect of jazz and 'threads it through the eye of the needle of rock.'"" Lewis began his career as a jazz purist, playing as a sideman for jazz"
"the Modern Jazz Quartet, are dissimilar in many ways, the marriage is a successful one"". ""All compositions by John Lewis"" The Jazztet and John Lewis The Jazztet and John Lewis is an album by the Jazztet, led by trumpeter Art Farmer and saxophonist Benny Golson and featuring performances composed and arranged by John Lewis. It was recorded in late 1960 and early 1961 and originally released on the Argo label. John Lewis wrote all of the compositions. The first, ""Bel"", was written for this recording and is an ""affirmative blues with altered chord changes and a slightly [Thelonious] Monkish line""."
"J. Reilly Lewis John Reilly Lewis (September 15, 1944 – June 9, 2016) was an American choral conductor who founded the Washington Bach Consort and was the music director of the Cathedral Choral Society. As a keyboard artist he specialised in baroque music, particularly the music of J. S. Bach. Born in 1944 in Vallejo, California, he received his bachelor's degree from the Oberlin College Conservatory of Music and his master's and doctoral degrees from The Juilliard School. A Fulbright Fellowship enabled him to spend a year in Germany doing specialized study in conducting, organ and harpsichord at the Hochschule"
"George Lewis (trombonist) George Emanuel Lewis (born July 14, 1952) is an American composer, electronic performer, installation artist, trombone player, and scholar in the fields of improvisation and experimental music. He has been a member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM) since 1971 and is a pioneer of computer music. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Lewis graduated from Yale University in 1974 with a degree in philosophy. In the 1980s, he succeeded Rhys Chatham as the music director of The Kitchen. Since 2004, he has served as Edward H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University"
"musical prodigy. In 1850, his parents brought him to America, settling in Bellevue, Ohio. He soon joined a musical troupe known as the Continental Vocalists. During trips to New York City, Lewis took lessons with Theodore Thomas, who later became the founding musical director of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. Lewis married Elizabeth Gibbs (1838–1912). One of Lewis' business partners, Platt P. Gibbs, was Elizabeth's brother. General references Inline citations William Lewis & Son Co. William Lewis & Son was a distinguished Chicago-based music store that specialized in violins and bows. The firm was founded in 1874. In 1995, the company"
"teaching certificate (choral, band, orchestra, general music) (2009) and master of music degree in orchestral conducting (2010) from the Pennsylvania State University. While at Penn State, Lewis conducted the Penn State Sinfonietta, the largest music ensemble in the school of music, the Penn State Cello Choir and the Penn State Philharmonic. He also taught courses in cello pedagogy, chamber music and repertoire, and performed in the School of Music's official string quartet and managed the music library. Lewis currently studies conducting and cello performance as a doctor of music arts degree candidate at the Catholic University of America's Benjamin T."
"of Rock"", ""What a Heck of a Mess"" (1966), ""Lincoln Limousine"" (1966), ""Alvin"" (1970), ""Wall Around Heaven"" from the 1972 album ""Who's Gonna Play This Old Piano?"", ""Rockin' Jerry Lee"" (1980, the B side of ""Honky Tonk Stuff"", from the album ""When Two Worlds Collide""), ""Pilot Baby"" (1983), and ""Crown Victoria Custom '51"" (1995), released as a Sire 45 single B side. Jerry Lee Lewis Jerry Lee Lewis (born September 29, 1935) is an American singer-songwriter, musician, and pianist, often known by his nickname, The Killer. He has been described as ""rock & roll's first great wild man."" A pioneer"
"Capion Larsen. The name of George Lewis appears in the Bob Dylan song ""High Water"" from the album """"Love and Theft"""". Jazz author and critic Gary Giddins has described Lewis as ""an affecting musician with a fat-boned sound but limited technique"". He married Emma Zeno and they had four children together: Mildred Zeno-Major, Joseph Zeno, William (bill) Zeno and George (Baby George) Zeno. Later George and Emma divorced. George Lewis (clarinetist) George Lewis (born Joseph Louis Francois Zenon, July 13, 1900 – December 31, 1968) was an American jazz clarinetist who achieved his greatest fame and influence in the later"
"graduated from the Yale School of Music (MM) and San Francisco Conservatory of Music (BM). He studied composition with Andrew Imbrie, Jacob Druckman, Nicholas Maw, and Morton Subotnick, and studied guitar with Alirio Diaz and Carlos Barbosa-Lima, and conducting with Arthur Weisberg. Peter Lewis is also the son of the artist, Clayton Lewis. Peter Scott Lewis Peter Scott Lewis (born August 31, 1953 in San Rafael, California) is an American composer of contemporary classical music. Lewis's works have been commissioned and/or performed by the Rotterdam Philharmonic; Chamber Symphony of Princeton; Berkeley Symphony; Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center; Alexander, Orion,"
"Henry Lewis (musician) Henry Jay Lewis (October 16, 1932 – January 26, 1996) was an African-American double-bassist and orchestral conductor. At age 16, he joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic, becoming the first African-American instrumentalist in a major symphony orchestra and, later, the first African-American symphony orchestra conductor in the United States. Originally from Los Angeles, California, Lewis attended The University of Southern California and at age 16, joined the Los Angeles Philharmonic, becoming the first black instrumentalist in a major symphony orchestra. After six years as a double-bassist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra, he played double-bass with and conducted"
"their list of the 100 Greatest Artists of All Time. Lewis is the last surviving member of Sun Records' Million Dollar Quartet and the ""Class of '55"" album, which also included Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Roy Orbison and Elvis Presley. Lewis was born in 1935 to the poor farming family of Elmo and Mamie Lewis in Ferriday, Concordia Parish, in eastern Louisiana. In his youth, he began playing piano with two of his cousins, Mickey Gilley (later a popular country music singer) and Jimmy Swaggart (later a popular television evangelist). His parents mortgaged their farm to buy him a piano."