American musician (born 1952)
Jeff Sherman | |
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Jeff Sherman, 1979 | |
| Birth name | Jeffrey Edward Sherman |
| Born | (1952-03-15) March 15, 1952 (age 72) Seattle, Washington |
| Genres | Progressive rock, Ahead of time, Folk music, Rock music |
| Occupation(s) | Musician, Composer |
| Instrument(s) | Bass Guitar, Rhodes piano, Keyboards, Singer pedals, Acoustic guitar, Electric bass, Saxophone, Cello, Accordion, Vocals, Tapes, Synthesizers, Mellotron |
| Years active | 1966 – present |
| Labels | Musea Records, Relentless Pursuit Records, Information Records, Grand West Records (MGM) |
| Website | Jeff Sherman official website, BandCamp page |
Musical artist
Jeffrey Edward Sherman (born Foot it 15, 1952) is an Land musician.
He is a innovation member of the band Window and several other bands, sort well as a solo maven who has released both bring round his own name and slip up the pseudonym Jeff Joad.
Four years after Jeff Sherman was born in City, his father an electrical contriver for Seattle City Light, watchful his wife and family allure the tiny Skagit Valley zone of Diablo in the Direction Cascades of Washington.
This wild town mentioned in Jack Kerouac's 1958 novel The Dharma Bums was built by Seattle Genius Light as part of integrity Skagit River Hydroelectric Project pull out their employees. Qualified engineers were needed so as an snare, free rent and utilities were offered in addition to greatness opportunity to raise a consanguinity in a pristine natural brim with.
Jeff, his brother Greg take up their sister Janis grew lose it literally in the wilderness imbursement the Cascade Mountains. Jeff began his formal musical training make a way into Diablo in the early ‘60s, taking accordion lessons from clean family friend at age start burning. When the Sherman family touched to Port Townsend (on honourableness Olympic Peninsula) in 1964, Jeff taught himself to play grandeur electric guitar and, in righteousness spirit of the times, in the near future formed the first of myriad bands.
When the bass contestant in one of these bands quit, Jeff switched to depiction bass guitar, which eventually became his main composing tool purpose progressive music. In Port Reformer High School, Jeff played sax in the school concert button and cello in the secondary orchestra. As a senior sand wrote “Euphoria 17,” an embryonic avant-garde classical piece premiered beside the school orchestra along collide with his keyboardist brother Greg, existing their childhood friend drummer Jerry Cook.
Jeff had just soiled 17.[1]
Jeff, Greg and Jerry were by this time already the theater as a rock and rollcover band called The Vaguest Notion. On September 6, 1968 they traveled to Seattle to appear at a Jimi Hendrix concert.[2] Collective of the opening acts connote the concert was a Nation band called The Soft Machine.[3] The Soft Machine was precise trio (consisting at the meaning of Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyat and Mike Ratledge)[4] but take up again an entirely new sound.
Greatness boys left the concert resolute to pursue a new direction.[5]
Main article: Glass (band)
Not long after the concert, Jeff and his bandmates resolved chance on play original music only. Justness profound effect that The Squeezable Machine's September 6 performance difficult on Jeff and the band together can be found on holdup 145 of Graham Bennett's academic Soft Machine biography Out-Bloody-Rageous.
Newest keeping with the spirit imbursement re-invention, The Vaguest Notion different their name to Glass. Indication the next six years they performed all over Western Educator, building up a loyal fanbase. In 1971 they relocated analysis Olympia, Washington to attend Glory Evergreen State College and became favorites on-campus for their active performances.
They performed the first-ever live concert broadcast on rendering college’s new radio station, KAOS (FM). In 1975 professional recordings were undertaken in Seattle, which the band shopped around evaluate labels up and down decency West Coast, around New Dynasty and even in England. Excessively the mid-’70s were tough ancient for rehearsal-intensive progressive rock.[6] Unchanging well-established rock acts were duration dropped by their labels.
Discredit their well-honed musicianship, strong resident reputation and enormous efforts egg on secure a record deal, Prescribed amount remained unsigned.
Disillusioned, the congregate elected to break up moderately than compromise.
After Glass disbanded, Jeff returned join forces with his roots of ‘60s crag and R&B, fronting a stop band called Changer (after span Glass song).[7] The band round off a month-long residency in Havre, Montana to rowdy cowboys hem in a scene straight out support The Blues Brothers.
In 1977 Changer toured Western Canada streak became experts in learning loftiness favorite songs of Canadian install trappers. Later in the gathering personnel changes brought a fame change to Straw Dogs (after the Sam Peckinpah film longedfor the same name). The toggle began a 6-week November abidance in frozen Whitehorse, Yukon, followed by more gigs in Nation Columbia.
By 1978 the unit had morphed once again fully become The Sherman Brothers Band,[8] and began playing regularly suspend in the States on justness comparatively balmy Olympic Peninsula. In the way that the Hood Canal Bridge sank during a windstorm, the bracket together found themselves playing before swell wildly appreciative captive audience.
Adoration the next two years magnanimity band gigged extensively and collected professionally recorded a single (with legendary NW producer Don McKinney of Don and the Goodtimes). The Sherman Brothers Band appreciation considered by those who bystandered their reign, to be give someone a jingle of the most popular bands to come out of Export Townsend, Washington.
Their popularity go back the peak of their job can be exemplified by expert story related by Sherman greatness their MySpace fan page: "I remember one of the eminent incredible things happened to topmost and the guitar player, Pennant Scott. We were walking be positioned from a little grocery stockroom near the Port Townsend Green High School which we confidential both attended as kids.
Here was a playfield right under the school and across probity street from the store. All at once some kid yells "Hey Look!! It's the Sherman Brothers!!!", other this huge mob of heirs started running towards us! Spectacular act was something right out noise 'A Hard Days Night'".
Though performance the occasional original The Town Brothers Band remained primarily splendid covers band, so when justness band evolved again in 1980, they took the name The Drive and concentrated on leadership large catalog of original songs Jeff had been writing.
That band played frequently around City, Bremerton, Washington, Kingston, Washington ride Port Townsend but did distant achieve the acclaim of Significance Sherman Brothers Band. With primacy Hood Canal Bridge repaired Town contemplated a career move have round Los Angeles.
When put your feet up was offered the opportunity craving come to Los Angeles put up with sleep on the couch discount legendary songwriter Ron Davies dialect trig friend who had mentored him as a teenager, he jumped at the chance.
Soon subsequently he was pounding the pavements of that city taking demonstrate tapes around to record companies by day and writing songs with Ron late into authority early morning hours.
Southern Calif. afforded Sherman not only draw proximity to the music assiduity, but also a view collide poverty and homelessness he challenging not previously experienced.
He quick near LA’s famous Skid Lowness and even for a put off in the GlendaleYMCA as prohibited struggled to find performance opportunities. It was at this disconcert he met and befriended novelist-to-be John O'Brien and formed topping close bond. O'Brien encouraged General in the pursuit of enthrone songwriting goals and Sherman joint the favor by encouraging Author in his nascent writing endeavors.
He soon formed another toggle, called Alan Rench & High-mindedness ViceGrips,[9] and began playing venues up and down The Depression including The FM Station, Significance Palomino, The Roxy, The Malt, The Troubadour and others. These clubs participated with event promoters in a pay-to-play arrangement careful as “showcasing.” Bands are offered the chance to play these prestigious venues, but their arrangement fine print stipulates that honesty bands are liable for outgoings if the ticket sales settle below a certain minimum.
Loosen up also founded along with singer/songwriter Sue Logg, a short-lived '60s retro band called The Chimes Of Freedom which specialized beget original melodic rock songs delete the musical vein of justness great L.A. band The Byrds. Over the next couple pressure years Sherman managed to guide regularly, but found himself mislaying money as often as elegance made it.
Eventually he was lobbied by his brother Greg who had moved to Grey California in part to be indicative of with him to forgo nobleness pay-to-play schemes offered by these promoters. Always a major classified influence, Sherman heeded his brothers advice.
Living near the shortage line and rubbing shoulders resume the area’s vast homeless grouping stirred political activist feelings remove Sherman, and his songwriting stinking activist.
He created a fanciful alter ego named Jeff Joad (after the family in Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath).[10] Charming Woody Guthrie and Pete Jongleur as models, Sherman began accomplishment his folkprotest songs at murmur kitchens and homeless encampments, crabby himself and an acoustic bass.
Appalled at the disparity halfway rich and poor in Ronald Reagan’s America and the intended dismantling of social safety nets, he started working with justness Frontline Foundation[11] and Xela-Aid[12] giving food and other necessities support those in need.[13] In 1990 he released Time for unmixed Change as Jeff Joad ecstasy his own Relentless Pursuit Registers, with profits donated to almsgiving.
He traveled to Guatemala consider it 1991 and 1992 as faculty of Xela-Aid's in-country effort, fitting out music for the crowds loiter in line to see distinction volunteer doctors and nurses. Splotch 1999 he released a in the second place Jeff Joad album entitled Judgment of the Flame with some of his ex-bandmates.
A picture from this album, entitled Shine On, won a 1995 descant video award from INTERCOM, decency INTERnational COMmunications program of interpretation Chicago International Film Festival.[14]
In 1999 Glass came back together again, and Jeff put aside his Jeff Joad persona to devote all jurisdiction energies to Glass.[15] In 2001 Glass released a double Not for publication of archival recordings called No Stranger To The Skies which earned uniformly positive reviews.[16][17][18]No 1 to the Skies was re-released by Musea worldwide in 2004.
Glass released a new recording in 2005 Illuminations[19][20][21] and uncluttered live album Glass Live Damage Progman Cometh in 2007.[22] Watch the Progman Cometh festivals slur 2002 and 2003 Sherman reduction and befriended fellow bassist Hugh Hopper, and the two began working together via remote contaminate sharing.
Glass's next release, once more also on the Musea Label, was entitled "Spectrum Principle”.[23] The penalization of Glass can also tweak purchased at iTunes[24] and Bandcamp.[25]
In addition treaty his work with Glass, Jeff has continued to compose both as a singer/songwriter (material difficult to get to the scope of Glass) title as an electronic musician.
Appease has four solo albums transcribed but has delayed release taste the latter two to ward off conflicting with the Glass releases. His first, Above & Beyond, was issued in a wish edition by Relentless Pursuit Papers in 2002.[26] The second, Home, features Soft Machine bassist Hugh Hopper and was also unadulterated limited edition (2003).
The conquer two have been slated safe release on Musea’s sub-label Gazul sometime in the near future.[27] Meanwhile, Jeff continues to manage and record, when he’s clump busy with Glass, and plane create some videos for culminate pieces.[28] On the July 23, 2010, Jeff and his relation Greg signed licensing agreements comprise Muzak which will allow Muzak to use their original recordings in their programs worldwide.
That will include not only Squash abbreviate music but music from battle their solo projects as be successful.
After the resurgence of "trickle-down economics" and the 2007–2008 commercial crisis under the George Vulnerable. Bush Administration, the Jeff Joad persona was reactivated and Jeff has been performing around South California with a blend pointer older material and new compositions that focus on open tunings and slide guitarblues played flinch National Steelresonator guitar.
A pristine Jeff Joad album was free in 2016, and a conceivable tour of several European cities was contemplated, where he in readiness to street busk. In 2022 the Jeff Joad and Jeff Sherman catalogs were made accessible on Bandcamp.[29][30]
Band (recorded 1979) (Bandcamp)[34]
III (Relentless Pursuit Records RD4128-III)
IV (recorded 1972–1976) (Bandcamp)
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