Greg Howard
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Greg Howard is a Chapman Stick
player from Charlottesville, Virginia
. Originally a keyboardist and saxophonist, Greg took up the Stick in 1985. Over the years Greg has performed thousands of shows in Charlottesville and around the world.
He has appeared with Dave Matthews Band
on two albums (Remember Two Things
, 1993, and Before These Crowded Streets
, 1998) and in several Dave Matthews Band concerts. He has also collaborated with Dave Matthews Band saxophonist LeRoi Moore
.
In 1999 Greg formed the Greg Howard Band with Dutch musicians Jan van Olffen, Jan Wolfkamp, and Hubert Heeringa. Their first album, Lift, was released in 2000.
A tireless advocate for the Chapman Stick and music in general, Greg travels often to teach at Stick seminars in North America and Europe. He has also written two method books for the Stick: The Stick Book, Volume One, published by Stick Enterprises in 1997, and The Greg Howard Songbook, published by Stick Enterprises in 2009.
Chapman Stick
The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and has been used on music recordings to play bass lines, melody lines, chords or textures...
player from Charlottesville, Virginia
Charlottesville, Virginia
Charlottesville is an independent city geographically surrounded by but separate from Albemarle County in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States, and named after Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz, the queen consort of King George III of the United Kingdom.The official population estimate for...
. Originally a keyboardist and saxophonist, Greg took up the Stick in 1985. Over the years Greg has performed thousands of shows in Charlottesville and around the world.
He has appeared with Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band
Dave Matthews Band, sometimes shortened to DMB, is a U.S. rock band formed in Charlottesville, Virginia in 1991. The founding members were singer-songwriter and guitarist Dave Matthews, bassist Stefan Lessard, drummer/backing vocalist Carter Beauford and saxophonist LeRoi Moore. Boyd Tinsley was...
on two albums (Remember Two Things
Remember Two Things
Remember Two Things is an album by Dave Matthews Band, released independently on the band's Bama Rags label in 1993. This was the only release where the band was referred to as "The Dave Matthews Band." It was reissued by RCA Records on June 24, 1997 and was certified platinum by the RIAA in 2002...
, 1993, and Before These Crowded Streets
Before These Crowded Streets
Before These Crowded Streets is the third studio album by Dave Matthews Band, released on April 28, 1998. It is the last official album by the group to be produced by longtime producer Steve Lillywhite and their first album recorded at The Plant Recording Studios in Sausalito, California...
, 1998) and in several Dave Matthews Band concerts. He has also collaborated with Dave Matthews Band saxophonist LeRoi Moore
Leroi Moore
LeRoi Holloway Moore was an American saxophonist best known as a founding member of the Dave Matthews Band. Moore often arranged music for the songs written by frontman Dave Matthews...
.
In 1999 Greg formed the Greg Howard Band with Dutch musicians Jan van Olffen, Jan Wolfkamp, and Hubert Heeringa. Their first album, Lift, was released in 2000.
A tireless advocate for the Chapman Stick and music in general, Greg travels often to teach at Stick seminars in North America and Europe. He has also written two method books for the Stick: The Stick Book, Volume One, published by Stick Enterprises in 1997, and The Greg Howard Songbook, published by Stick Enterprises in 2009.
Studio releases
- Sticks and Stones: A Collection of Spontaneous Improvisations, 2001 (cassette 1987)
- Greg's first record. Improvisations with electric guitar virtuoso Tim Reynolds.
- Stick Figures, 1993
- 12 solo Stick compositions, remastered and re-released in 1999.
- Shapes, 1994
- Duets and trios with drums, percussion, guitar, trumpet. Jazz, Beatles, more...
- Code Magenta, 1995
- "Groove Poetry" with vocalist Dawn Thompson and saxophonist LeRoi Moore.
- 2002 remastered version now available.
- Sticks and Stones, Transmigration, 1996
- Tim Reynolds and Greg jam on all sorts of instruments. Remastered in July, 2005.
- Sol, 1997
- Greg leads a group of Charlottesville jazz musicians on these eight Latin and Spanish-influenced instrumentals, with Tim Reynolds, John D'earth, Darell Rose and more...
- Water on the Moon, 1998
- A live solo one-hour Stick improvisation. Remastered 2001.
- Lift, 2000
- The debut CD by the new Greg Howard Band.
- Ether OreEther OreEther Ore is the latest solo album from one of the Chapman Stick frontrunners, Greg Howard. Containing tracks recorded live over a period of several months, it manages to bring Greg's strong sense of improvisation across, into the ears of the listener....
, 2005
- Ether Ore
- Live sonic expeditions on The Chapman Stick.
Chapman Stick
- Rosewood 10-string (1995)
- Standard SE Stickup
- Baritone Melody/Standard Bass tuning
- Paduak 12-string (2000)
- "The Block" pickup
- Matched Reciprocal tuning
Rack
- Lexicon MPX-G2 (Stick melody)
- Rane SP-13 (pre-amp melody, mix all)
- TC Electronics Fireworx (Stick bass)
- Boss VF-1/Boss SE-70 (bass/melody)
- SWR SM-400 (preamp bass, power all)
Pedals
- double switch for Fireworx
- volume pedal for bass side (Fireworx)
- Lexicon MPX-R1
- Shape Shifter(TM) (MIDI pressure pad)
- Boss FC-50 MIDI control for SE-70
- two on/off switches for SE-70
- volume pedal for melody side (SE-70)
- expression pedal for Fireworx
External links
- Official website
- Greg Howard Works Art - KyndMusic August 2005