Artist: Dan Siegel: mp3 download Genre(s): Jazz Rock New Age Dan Siegel's discography: Departure Year: 2006 Tracks: 11 Inside Out Year: 2004 Tracks: 10 Along the Way: The Best of Dan Siegel Year: 2000 Tracks: 18 Clairvoyance Year: 1998 Tracks: 10 Hemispheres Year: 1995 Tracks: 10 The Getaway Year: 1993 Tracks: 10 Short Stories Year: 1992 Tracks: 9 Late One Night Year: 1989 Tracks: 10 On The Edge Year: 1985 Tracks: 8 Another Time, Another Place Year: 1984 Tracks: 8 Reflections Year: 1983 Tracks: 8 Nite Ride Year: 1980 Tracks: 8 Smooth jazz keyboardist Dan Siegel has been serving to condition the literary genre since his recording debut in 1980. Born in Seattle and raised in Eugene, OR, Siegel started taking pianoforte lessons at age 8 and was fronting a stone dance band at 12. After attending the Berklee College of Music in Boston, he received a degree in composition from the University of Oregon and began transcription his possess works. Soon thenceforth, well-known independent idle words label Inner City Records signed the young keyboardist, releasing 1980's Nite Ride, which featured guitarist Lee Ritenour. Siegel's second album for Inner City, 1981's The Hot Spot, was more than successful and spent ten dollar bill weeks in the Top Ten of Billboard's jazz chart. In 1983, he touched to Los Angeles to pursue film and television organization work, as easily as a more than active recording career. Spending half of the decennary composing TV and photographic film slews as well as releasing several albums of varying involvement, he sign with Epic in 1986 and began moving aside from the unwell malarkey fusion scene and into the grownup present-day jazz well-grounded that he had been toying with all along. Highlights of this geological era include 1994's worldbeat-influenced Hemispheres and the urban-flavored ESP, released in 1998. Siegel spent the nineties transcription for a miscellany of labels, on the job with some of the larger names in smooth jazz (Weedy James, Larry Carlton, John Patitucci), and leading the hard boP jazz group Birds of a Feather. In 2000, Legacy Recordings released a superlative hits compilation called On the Way: The Best of Dan Siegel. |