Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 126. Chapters: Jean-Luc Godard, Steve Reich, Arvo Pärt, Keith Jarrett, Dave Liebman, Bill Frisell, Lester Bowie, Pat Metheny, Chick Corea, Tomasz Stanko, Bill Connors, Dave Holland, Flora Purim, Jack DeJohnette, Art Ensemble of Chicago, Savina Yannatou, Tamia, Carla Bley, Anthony Braxton, Pat Metheny Group, Return to Forever, Egberto Gismonti, Ketil Bjørnstad, Gianluigi Trovesi, Meredith Monk, Charlie Haden, Gary Burton, Don Cherry, Charles Lloyd, Jan Garbarek, ECM Records, Svante Henryson, L. Shankar, Just Music, Peter Erskine, Kim Kashkashian, Paul Bley, Rabih Abou-Khalil, Paul Motian, John Abercrombie, Dewey Redman, Gavin Bryars, Kenny Wheeler, Eberhard Weber, John Surman, Enrico Rava, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Steve Tibbetts, Marion Brown, Oregon, Terje Rypdal, John Taylor, Steve Kuhn, David Darling, Ralph Towner, Julian Priester, James Newton, Joe Maneri, Frances-Marie Uitti, Péter Eötvös, Heiner Goebbels, Collin Walcott, John Clark, Steve Swallow, Marilyn Crispell, Till Fellner, Charlie Mariano, Christoph Poppen, Nils Petter Molvær, Hilliard Ensemble, Barre Phillips, Michael Cain, Anouar Brahem, Stanley Cowell, John Potter, Bennie Maupin, Pierre Favre, Richie Beirach, Arild Andersen, Gary Peacock, Susanne Abbuehl, Elmo Tiisvald, Edward Vesala, Mike Nock, Stefano Bollani, Art Lande, Nik Bärtsch, Stephan Micus, Eivind Aarset, Tõnu Kaljuste, Marc Johnson, Trio Mediæval, Bobo Stenson, Italian Instabile Orchestra, Manfred Schoof, Christy Doran, Michael Galasso, Sidsel Endresen, Circle, Mikhail Alperin, Karen Mantler, Rainer Brüninghaus, Jon Christensen, Codona, Paul Giger, Old and New Dreams, Bengt Berger, Azimuth, Camerata Bern, Gateway, Fly. Excerpt: Stephen Michael "Steve" Reich ( ; born October 3, 1936) is an American composer who pioneered the style of minimalist music. His innovations include using tape loops to create phasing patterns (examples are his early compositions, "It's Gonna Rain" and "Come Out"), and the use of simple, audible processes to explore musical concepts (for instance, "Pendulum Music" and "Four Organs"). These compositions, marked by their use of repetitive figures, slow harmonic rhythm and canons, have significantly influenced contemporary music, especially in the US. Reich's work took on a darker character in the 1980s with the introduction of historical themes as well as themes from his Jewish heritage, notably the Grammy Award-winning Different Trains. Reich's style of composition influenced many other composers and musical groups. Reich has been described by The Guardian as one of "a handful of living composers who can legitimately claim to have altered the direction of musical history", and the critic Kyle Gann has said Reich "may...be considered, by general acclamation, America's greatest living composer." On January 25, 2007, Reich was named the 2007 recipient of the Polar Music Prize, together with jazz saxophonist Sonny Rollins. On April 20, 2009, Reich was awarded the 2009 Pulitzer Prize for Music for his Double Sextet. Reich was born in New York City to the Broadway lyricist June Sillman. When he was one year old, his parents divorced, and Reich divided his time between New York and California. He was given piano lessons as a child and describes growing up with the "middle-class favorites", having no exposure to music written before 1750 or after 1900. At the age of 14 he began to study music in earnest, after hearing music from the Baroque period and earlier, as well as...
