Howard Wales
Encyclopedia
Howard Wales is an American keyboardist
and sometime collaborator of Jerry Garcia
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He was a session player for numerous musical acts, including James Brown and the Four Tops
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Keyboardist
A keyboardist is a musician who plays keyboard instruments. Until the early 1960s musicians who played keyboards were generally classified as either pianists or organists. Since the mid-1960s, a plethora of new musical instruments with keyboards have come into common usage, requiring a more...
and sometime collaborator of Jerry Garcia
Jerry Garcia
Jerome John "Jerry" Garcia was an American musician best known for his lead guitar work, singing and songwriting with the band the Grateful Dead...
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He was a session player for numerous musical acts, including James Brown and the Four Tops
Four Tops
The Four Tops are an American vocal quartet, whose repertoire has included doo-wop, jazz, soul music, R&B, disco, adult contemporary, hard rock, and showtunes...
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Selected discography
- A.B. Skhy – A.B. Skhy (1969)
- Music of El Topo – Shades of Joy (1970)
- American BeautyAmerican Beauty (album)American Beauty is the fifth album by the Grateful Dead. It was recorded between August and September 1970 and originally released in November 1970 by Warner Bros. Records...
– Grateful DeadGrateful DeadThe Grateful Dead was an American rock band formed in 1965 in the San Francisco Bay Area. The band was known for its unique and eclectic style, which fused elements of rock, folk, bluegrass, blues, reggae, country, improvisational jazz, psychedelia, and space rock, and for live performances of long...
(1970) - Hooteroll?Hooteroll?Hooteroll? is a jazz-rock fusion album by Howard Wales and Jerry Garcia.Prior to making Hooteroll?, Wales and Garcia had played together at Monday night jam sessions at The Matrix in San Francisco...
– Howard Wales and Jerry Garcia (1971) - Rendezvous With The Sun – Howard Wales (1976)
- Side Trips, Volume OneSide Trips, Volume OneSide Trips, Volume One is a jazz-rock fusion album by Howard Wales and Jerry Garcia. It was recorded live at the Matrix in San Francisco in 1970, and released in 1998.-Monday night jam sessions at the Matrix:...
– Howard Wales and Jerry Garcia (1998) - The Monk in the Mansion – Howard Wales (2000)
- Complex Simplex – Howard Wales (2001)
- Between Two Worlds – Howard Wales (2006)
- Life Is A Trip – Howard Wales (2010)