The official home page for Numavox Records and Kerry Livgren - with Warren Ham, Jamie and Chris Kearney, Bleu Adams, Jabberwockie, AD and Michael Gleason.
Founded in 1994 by Kerry Livgren, Numavox records started as the primary label for his composition and recording projects following his work with Kansas. After moving from Atlanta Georgia back to his childhood home of Topeka, Kansas, Kerry followed the label formation with the construction of a new recording facility.
Numavox's studio occupies a large barn on Livgren's farm. While the outside may look like other buildings in the area, hay is the last thing you'll find inside. Featuring a spacious live room, vocal booth and cavernous control room, the studio provides a focal point for Kerry's own musical work, as well as his work with other artists.
The Numavox catalog includes work from Kerry and other artists, and related projects are distributed through Numavox. In this way, the label serves not only a role for its artists, but as a nexus for others who work with them. Combining work with his label, his music, outside projects and other artists, Numavox records and its studio are always busy—sometimes almost too busy for Kerry, who also balances his farm, study and family life in one environment.
This past year saw the release of The Best of Kerry Livgren, celebrating two decades since his first solo album. A contemporary retrospective, the CD highlighted his diverse songwriting and composition, both past and current. Proto-KAW, an album of Kerry's songs performed by Kansas II (the band which preceeded the familiar Kansas), was released later in 2002 by Cuneiform records, to wide acclaim. The sequel, an album of newly recorded songs by the original members, was released in April of 2004 on Inside Out records ...
John Bruce Wallace is a composer, improvisational guitarist, and painter. He has performed concerts in Russia and Lithuania as well as in the United States. Mr.Wallace has shared performance billings with: Tim Hodgkinson, Evan Ziporyn, John King, Vladimir Tarasov, ZGA, Enver Izmailov, Burham Ocal and Jazz Band Arkhangel'sk, to name a few. His recordings have received radio and Internet airplay across the United States, Canada, and Europe. His performances and recordings have been reviewed in leading foreign and domestic trade journals and publications. His paintings have been exhibited in New York, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Washington, DC, as well as other exhibitions across the United States. His computer images have been exhibited on line at the MetaCreations (formerly MetaTools) Users' Gallery web site. He has published a monograph in philosophy on solipsism. His production company, Jace W. Ball Creative Enterprises, serves as an outlet for his music and painting endeavors, as well as graphic arts and record production. He is currently employed as the Information and Marketing Coordinator of a Washington, DC law firm.
Official web site of the Odeum Guitar
Duo, a classical guitar duo performing new transcriptions of works by composers such as Beethoven,
Rimsky-Korsakov, Vivaldi, Chopin, Torelli, Schumann, and Boccherini ...
Guitarplayers: Robert Wetzel and Fred Benedetti.
Robert Wetzel born of Dutch, Indonesian, and Chinese lineage, began serious study of the classical guitar at age fifteen with Darryl Saffer at Southern Methodist University. While still in his teens, he was a performer in the guitar master classes of Christopher Parkening, Oscar Ghiglia, the guitar duo of Ako Ito and Henri Dorigny, Robert Guthrie, and Pepe Romero.
In 1972, he began private studies with Angel Romero that continued for several years ...
Fred Benedetti was born in Sasebo, Japan and began playing the guitar at age 9. In 1986 he was one of 12 guitarists chosen worldwide to perform in the Master Class of Andrés Segovia at USC where Guitarra Magazine wrote, "...Fred Benedetti amazed the audience with his performance of the (Bach) Chaconne..." He has also been a performer for the master classes of Pepe Romero, Christopher Parkening, Federico Moreno-Torroba, George Sakellariou, and David Grimes. Fred has performed in the United States, England, Germany, the Czech Republic, Canada, Taiwan and Mexico and locally with the San Diego Symphony, the San Diego Opera, the Starlight Opera, the American Ballet Company, the Old Globe Theatre, Luciano Pavarotti, and jazz artist Dave Brubeck ...
Nefertiti recordingartist, composer, arranger, jazz/classical guitarist, producer, CULEA™ Productions studio owner and swordmaster Emiel van Egdom with 5 worldwide distributed CD's to his name. Newest releases: Clues (with Belgian Artist/Painter Jan Bosschaert Hybrid Groove, w/Brian Bromberg, Bob Militello, Sheppard, Joel Taylor, Eric Gale Bill Cantos.
Eric Mantel is internationally recognized guitarist / musician who's been featured in Guitar Player and Guitar World magazines, among many other publications. Eric has 5 solos CDs under his belt and has shared the stage with many FAMOUS GUITAR PLAYERS: Allan Holdsworth, Danny Gatton, Robben Ford, Stu Hamm (Joe Satriani), Vinnie Moore, John Campbell, Scott Henderson, Michael Angelo, etc. Eric owns and operates the Midwest’s premier guitar instruction service, close to 4,000 students taught since 1979. Eric also TOURs, does guitar clinics, is a RECORDING ARTIST and has a series of guitar instructional DVDs coming out in 2006! Eric is accomplished singer / songwriter / composer. Imagaine Todd Rundgen and the Beatles meets Eric Johnson, Allan Holdsworth, Steve Morse, Albert Lee, Segovia, Hendrix, so on and so on. Eric's music is very electic!