94-552: Satch is a nickname for the following people: Joe Satriani (born 1956), instrumental rock guitarist Anand Satyanand (born 1944), Governor-General of New Zealand Satchel Paige (1906–1982), African-American baseball player Louis Armstrong (1901–1971), American jazz trumpeter and singer See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Satch All pages with titles containing Satch Satchel (disambiguation) [REDACTED] List of people with
188-680: A copyright infringement suit against Coldplay in the United States District Court for the Central District of California . Satriani's suit claims that the band's song " Viva la Vida " includes "substantial original portions" of the Satriani song "If I Could Fly" from his 2004 album, Is There Love in Space? The Coldplay song in question received two Grammy Awards . Coldplay denied the allegation. The case
282-458: A Palmer Speaker Simulator. He has released a Class-A 5-watt tube amp called the "Mini Colossal". In 2009, Satriani split from Peavey and returned to using Marshall amps. Live, he has been using a Marshall JVM410JS since 2009. His effects pedals include the Vox wah , Dunlop Cry Baby wah, RMC Wizard wah, DigiTech Whammy , BK Butler Tube Driver, Boss DS-1 , Boss CH-1, Boss CE-2, Boss DD-2 and
376-471: A San Francisco-based band called Squares, which he formed with his brother-in-law Neil Sheehan in the late 1970s. He was later invited to join the Greg Kihn Band , who were on the downside of their career, but whose generosity helped Satriani pay off the overwhelming credit card debt from recording his first album, Not of This Earth , released in 1986. The same year, he also sang backing vocals on
470-694: A car chase sequence in the Don Johnson -starring show Nash Bridges . In 1992, Satriani released The Extremist , his most commercially successful album to date. The album was certified Gold in the United States and peaked at number 22 on the Billboard 200 . Radio stations across the US picked up "Summer Song", which got a major boost when Sony used it in a major commercial campaign for their Discman portable CD players. "Cryin'", " Friends ", and
564-681: A concert tour intended to include a rotating trio of guitarists. The original lineup featured Satriani, Steve Vai, and Eric Johnson . The G3 tour has continued periodically since its inaugural version, with Satriani the only permanent member. Other guitarists who have performed in G3 include Yngwie Malmsteen , John Petrucci , Kenny Wayne Shepherd , Robert Fripp , Andy Timmons , Uli Jon Roth , Michael Schenker , Adrian Legg , Paul Gilbert , Steve Morse , and Steve Lukather . In 1998, Satriani recorded and released Crystal Planet , followed by Engines of Creation , one of his more experimental works featuring
658-667: A consequence of his mother being affected by the 1918–19 flu pandemic during pregnancy. A bout of measles when aged six may have exacerbated his condition, and by the age of nine or ten he was totally blind as a result of glaucoma . He initially went to standard state schools, but attended the Illinois School for the Blind in Jacksonville for a decade from around 1928. During his school days he played several instruments, including saxophones, trumpet, guitar, and drums. At
752-872: A heart attack at home in Jamaica, New York . In Ind's view, Tristano "was always so gentle, so charming and so quietly spoken that his directness could be unnerving." This directness was noted by others, including bassist Chubby Jackson , who commented that Tristano had almost no tact and would not worry about being rude or making others feel incompetent. Some of his students described Tristano as domineering, but others indicated that this impression came from his demanding discipline in training and attitude to music. Writer Barry Ulanov commented in 1946 that Tristano "was not content merely to feel something, ... he had to explore ideas, to experience them, to think them through carefully, thoroughly, logically until he could fully grasp them and then hold on to them." Tristano criticized
846-606: A label other than Epic Records or its parent company, Sony Music . In late 2022, Satriani announced a continuation of his G3 touring project, under the title G4 Experience V6.0 , which is set to take place on January 3–7, 2023. The event will be led by Satriani, together with Peter Frampton —among his final performances before retirement, Steve Lukather , and Steve Morse , and will include workshops and jam sessions by Alex Skolnick , Andy James , Cory Wong , Eric Gales , John 5 , Mateus Asato , and Nili Brosh . In early 2024, Satriani, Steve Vai, and Eric Johnson embarked on
940-634: A limited-run "Reunion" tour of the original G3 lineup. Subsequently, Satriani and Vai continued touring as a double bill. After more than fifty years of professional and personal friendship, the pair wrote and recorded their first single together, "The Sea of Emotion, Pt.1", which was released on March 29, 2024. In May 2008, Satriani joined hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot , composed of former Van Halen members Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony , and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer, Chad Smith . The band features Hagar on vocals, Satriani on guitar, Anthony on bass, and Smith on drums. Their eponymous debut album
1034-473: A musician. Some describe his playing as cold and suggest that his innovations had little impact; others state that he was a bridge between bebop and later, freer forms of jazz, and assert that he is less appreciated than he should be because commentators found him hard to categorize and because he chose not to commercialize. Tristano was born in Chicago on March 19, 1919. His mother, Rose Tristano (née Malano),
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#17327722147221128-531: A new one in Hollis, Queens . Some of his core students moved to California after Tristano's base was relocated. This, coupled with a separation from his wife in the same year due to his infidelity, meant that he was physically more isolated from the New York music scene. He gave fewer concerts than earlier, but in 1958 he had the first of what were sometimes lengthy engagements at New York's Half Note Club , after
1222-494: A number of National Hockey League and Major League Soccer teams, including the Minnesota Wild (NHL), New York Islanders (NHL), and New England Revolution (MLS). The song is also used in the 2K Sports hockey video game NHL 2k10 . "Redshift Riders", another song from Super Colossal , is "...based on the idea that in the future, when people can travel throughout space, they will theoretically take advantage of
1316-436: A short time earlier, has a deep blues feeling – a style not usually associated with Tristano. For "Line Up" and "East 32nd", Tristano's "use of chromatic harmony ... secures him a position of a pioneer in expanding the harmonic vocabulary of jazz improvisation", in biographer Eunmi Shim's words. By the mid-1950s Tristano focused his energies more on music education. In 1956 he had to leave his Manhattan studio; he established
1410-425: A signature amp that Marshall scheduled for release in 2011. They replaced the reverb with noise gates that eliminate lag when switching channels. The clean channel was replaced by the clean channel of a 6100 LM model, which Satriani likes as an option to use distortion pedals with. The orange overdrive channel and the modern red overdrive channel have been better matched with each other as Satriani claims to prefer
1504-432: A standard Boss DD-3 (used together to emulate reverb effects), Boss BF-3, Boss OC-2, Barber Burn Drive Unit, Fulltone Deja Vibe, Fulltone Ultimate Octave, and Electro-Harmonix POG (Polyphonic Octave Generator), the latter being featured prominently on the title cut to his 2006 Super Colossal . He has collaborated with Vox on a range of signature-effect stompboxes . These include the "Satchurator" and "Ice 9" distortions,
1598-442: A student's learning were having a concept of (principally diatonic ) scales as music and a basis for harmony. One of the teaching tools often used by Tristano, including for scales, was the metronome . The student set the metronome at or near its slowest setting initially, and gradually increased its speed, allowing a sense of time to develop, along with confidence in placing each note. Tristano encouraged his students to learn
1692-413: A successful solo music career, starting in the mid-1980s. He is a 15-time Grammy Award nominee and has sold over ten million albums, making him the bestselling instrumental rock guitarist of all time. In 1988, Satriani was recruited by Mick Jagger as lead guitarist for his first solo tour. Satriani briefly toured with Deep Purple , joining shortly after another departure of Ritchie Blackmore from
1786-452: A thousand", tied to some of them going on to employ what they learned in their own playing and pedagogy, illustrate his influence. Tristano's teaching also affected the art of painter Robert Ryman , who had music lessons with the pianist: Ryman's "technique not only parallels music in general but shares the principles of kinesthetic and multisensorial attention to detail that characterized the teaching of Lennie Tristano." Shim suggested that
1880-543: A wide variety of guitar amps , with Marshalls being his main amplifier (notably the limited-edition blue-colored 6100 LM model) up until 2001, and his Peavey signature series amps, the Peavey JSX, up until his time with Chickenfoot. The JSX began life as a prototype Peavey XXX and developed into the Joe Satriani signature Peavey model. However, Satriani still used distortion pedals with the clean channel rather than
1974-540: Is a fixed-bridge guitar with no tremolo system. The guitar he was most associated with during the 1990s was a chrome-finished guitar nicknamed "Chrome Boy". This instrument can be seen on the Live in San Francisco DVD. However, the guitar used for most of the concert was in fact a lookalike nicknamed "Pearly", which featured Seymour Duncan Pearly Gates pickups. Satriani uses a number of other JS models, such as
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#17327722147222068-518: Is a reference to Star Trek , which features a cybernetic race known as the Borg . His albums and songs often have otherworldly titles, such as Not of this Earth , Crystal Planet , Is There Love in Space? , and Engines of Creation . On the album Super Colossal , the song titled "Crowd Chant" was originally called "Party on the Enterprise". It would have featured sampled sounds from
2162-605: Is also adept at other speed-related techniques such as rapid alternate picking and sweep picking . Satriani was influenced by Jimi Hendrix and by English rock guitarists such as Brian May , Eric Clapton , Jimmy Page , Ritchie Blackmore , and Jeff Beck . He was also influenced by jazz fusion guitarist Allan Holdsworth . Satriani endorses Ibanez 's JS Series guitars and the Marshall JVM410HJS amplifier. Both lines were designed specifically for him as signature products. The Ibanez JS1 (the original JS model)
2256-447: Is considered a highly technical guitarist, and has been referred to as a top guitar virtuoso . He has mastered many playing techniques on electric guitar, including legato , two-handed tapping and arpeggio tapping, volume swells , harmonics , and extreme whammy bar effects. During fast passages, Satriani favors a legato technique (achieved primarily through hammer-ons and pull-offs ) that yields smooth and flowing runs. He
2350-507: Is different from Wikidata All set index articles Joe Satriani Joseph Satriani (born July 15, 1956) is an American rock guitarist, composer, and songwriter. Early in his career he worked as a guitar instructor, with many of his former students achieving fame, including Steve Vai , Larry LaLonde , Rick Hunolt, Kirk Hammett , Andy Timmons , Charlie Hunter , Kevin Cadogan , and Alex Skolnick . Satriani went on to have
2444-499: Is regarded as one of the first to teach jazz, particularly improvisation, in a structured way. He taught musicians irrespective of their instrument and structured lessons to meet the needs of each individual. Lessons were typically 15–20 minutes in length. He did not teach the reading of music or the characteristics of different styles of jazz, instead challenging students in ways that would allow them to find and express their own musical feelings, or style. Foundational elements for
2538-536: The Starship Enterprise from Star Trek . But as Satriani explained in a podcast , legal issues regarding the samples could not be resolved, and he was unable to get permission to use them. He then removed the sounds from the song and called it "Crowd Chant". Its ending theme was inspired by composer Gabriel Fauré 's " Pavane in F-sharp minor, Op. 50 ". The song is used as goal celebration music for
2632-759: The electronica genre. Two shows at the Fillmore West in San Francisco were recorded in December 2000 and released as Live in San Francisco , a two-disc live album and DVD. Satriani released Strange Beautiful Music in 2002 and Is There Love in Space? in 2004. In May 2005, the musician toured India for the first time, playing concerts in Delhi , Kolkata , and Mumbai . In 2006, he recorded and released Super Colossal and Satriani Live! , another two-disc live album and DVD recorded May 3, 2006, at
2726-556: The "Time Machine" delay, and the "Big Bad Wah". Satriani's 2000 guitar rig has been documented in detail. Satriani's work frequently makes references to various science fiction stories and ideas. " Surfing with the Alien ", "Back to Shalla-Bal ", and "The Power Cosmic 2000" refer to the comic book character Silver Surfer , while "Ice 9" refers to the secret government ice weapon in Kurt Vonnegut 's Cat's Cradle . "Borg Sex"
2820-466: The 1960s[.] Grove Music commented on some aspects of Tristano's style that were different from most modern jazz: "Rather than the irregular accents of bop, Tristano preferred an even rhythmic background against which to concentrate on line and focus his complex changes of time signature. Typically, his solos consisted of extraordinarily long, angular strings of almost even quavers provided with subtle rhythmic deviations and abrasive polytonal effects. He
2914-416: The 1970s. Tristano and his wife formally divorced in 1962. Their son, Steve, who was born in 1952, met his father only once after their initial 1956 separation. Tristano married again in the early 1960s. His second wife was Carol Miller, one of his students. They had a son, Bud, and two daughters, Tania and Carol. The couple divorced in 1964, and Tristano later lost a custody battle with his ex-wife over
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3008-467: The 1986 debut album by Crowded House . In 2003, he played lead guitar on The Yardbirds 's release Birdland . In 2006, he made appearances on tracks for Deep Purple vocalist Ian Gillan 's solo CD/DVD dual disc, Gillan's Inn . On Dream Theater 's 2007 album, Systematic Chaos , Satriani contributed spoken lyrics to the song " Repentance ". He also contributed a guitar solo to Jordan Rudess ' 2004 solo release, Rhythm of Time . He composed much of
3102-846: The Alien to celebrate the 20th anniversary of its publication. This was a two-disc set that includes a remastered album and a DVD of a never-before-seen live show filmed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in 1988. Satriani's next album, Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock , was released on April 1, 2008. On May 29, 2008, Satriani revealed that he was joining hard rock supergroup Chickenfoot , composed of former Van Halen members Sammy Hagar and Michael Anthony , and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith. They released their debut, self-titled album on June 5, 2009. A second album, titled Chickenfoot III , followed on September 27, 2011. On December 4, 2008, he filed
3196-944: The Bay Area Music Awards, the "Bammies" were expanded and renamed in 1998 to honor music across California. Satriani has the fourth-most Grammy Award nominations (15, after Brian McKnight , Snoop Dogg , and Zubin Mehta ) of any artist without winning. See further artists . Lennie Tristano Leonard Joseph Tristano (March 19, 1919 – November 18, 1978) was an American jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and teacher of jazz improvisation. Tristano studied for bachelor's and master's degrees in music in Chicago before moving to New York City in 1946. He played with leading bebop musicians and formed his own small bands, which soon displayed some of his early interests – contrapuntal interaction of instruments, harmonic flexibility, and rhythmic complexity. His quintet in 1949 recorded
3290-609: The Famous Door. Tristano's second album for Atlantic was recorded in 1961 and released the following year. The New Tristano , as was stressed on the album cover, consisted entirely of piano solos and no overdubbing or tape-speed manipulation was employed. The tracks contain left-hand bass lines that provide structure to each performance as well as counterpoint for the right-hand playing; block chords, unclear harmonies and contrasting rhythms also appear. Other solo piano recordings that Tristano made in 1961 were not released until
3384-628: The Grove in Anaheim, California . In 2006, Satriani signed on as an official supporter of Little Kids Rock , a nonprofit organization that provides free musical instruments and instruction to children in underserved public schools throughout the US. The artist has personally delivered instruments to children in the program through a charity raffle for the organization, and like Steve Vai, sits on its board of directors as an honorary member. On August 7, 2007, Epic/Legacy Recordings re-released Surfing with
3478-464: The JS double neck model, JS700 (primary axe on his self-titled CD, seen on the 1995 Joe Satriani tour, which features a fixed bridge, P-90 pickups, and a matching mahogany body and neck), JS6/JS6000 (natural body), JS1 (the original JS model), JS2000 (fixed-bridge model), a variety of JS100s, JS1000s and JS1200s with custom paint work, and a large number of prototype JSs. All double-locking bridges have been
3572-476: The age of eleven he had his first gigs, playing clarinet in a brothel. Tristano studied for a bachelor's degree in music in performance at the American Conservatory of Music in Chicago from 1938 until 1941, and stayed for another two years for further studies, although he left before completing his master's degree. One of his aunts assisted Tristano by taking notes for him at university. In
3666-570: The band in November 1993. He has worked with a range of guitarists during the G3 tour , which he founded in 1995. Satriani has been the guitarist for the supergroup Chickenfoot since joining the band in 2008. Satriani was born in Westbury, New York to a family of Italian descent. His paternal grandparents were from Piacenza and Bobbio , while his maternal grandparents were from Bari . He
3760-671: The bridge and neck positions from 2005 to the present). He has more recently introduced the Satch Track single-coil pickup that he used in his humbucker/single coil-equipped signature Ibanez guitars. He has since replaced the Satch Track with the Sustainiac. The JS line of guitars is Satriani's signature line, with the JS1000, JS1200, JS2400, JSBDG, and JS20th using Ibanez's original Edge double-locking tremolo bridge. The JS100 and JS120s both use Ibanez's Edge 3 tremolo bridge. The JS1600
3854-683: The built-in overdrive channels. He has used other amplifiers over the years in the studio, such as the Peavey 5150 (used to record the song " Crystal Planet "), Cornford, and the Mesa/Boogie Mark IIC+ (used to record the song " Flying in a Blue Dream "), among others. He later switched to the Marshall JVM series, having used a modified JVM 410H in his Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards tour in 2010 and with Chickenfoot in 2010 and 2011. These modified JVM Marshall amps were prototypes for
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3948-688: The children. In 1964 the pianist reformed his quintet with Konitz and Marsh for a two-month engagement at the Half Note and performances at the Coq D'Or in Toronto. The quartet, missing Konitz, played the Cellar Club in Toronto two years later. Tristano played on occasion at the Half Note Club until the mid-1960s, and toured Europe in 1965. His European tour was mainly as a solo pianist, and
4042-468: The commercialization of jazz and what he perceived to be the requirement to abandon the artistic part of playing in order to earn a living from performing. Later commentators have suggested that these complaints ignored the freedom that he was given by Atlantic and blamed others for what in many cases were the outcomes of his own career decisions. Saxophonists Parker and Lester Young were important influences on Tristano's development. Another major figure
4136-413: The common under-appreciation of Tristano is attributable in part to his style being unusual and too difficult for jazz commentators to categorize. Ind also believed that Tristano's reputation became less than was deserved – "He stuck with his convictions and would not commercialize. His dedication, plus the lack of general appreciation by many jazz critics, led inevitably to his being sidelined." Tristano
4230-466: The core of Tristano's long-standing quintet/sextet, although the saxophonist did on occasion play with Tristano again. Tristano's 1953 recording "Descent into the Maelstrom" was another innovation. It was a musical portrayal of Edgar Allan Poe 's story of the same title , and was an improvised solo piano piece that used multitracking and had no preconceived harmonic structure, being based instead on
4324-404: The cosmological redshift effect so they can be swung around large planetary objects and get across [the] universe a lot faster than normal", according to Satriani. On the album Professor Satchafunkilus and the Musterion of Rock , the song "I Just Wanna Rock" is about a giant robot on the run who happens to stumble upon a rock concert. Originated by the now-defunct magazine BAM in 1977 as
4418-433: The development of motifs. Its atonality anticipated the much later work of pianists such as Cecil Taylor and Borah Bergman . In the following year Tristano's sextet played at the first Newport Jazz Festival . This may have been his only jazz festival appearance – he considered them to be too commercial. Marsh left the band in the summer of 1955. Tristano recorded his first album for Atlantic Records in 1955; he
4512-905: The early 1940s Tristano played tenor saxophone and piano for a variety of engagements, including in a rumba band. He began giving private music lessons at around the same time, including to saxophonist Lee Konitz . From 1943 Tristano also taught at the Axel Christensen School of Popular Music. He first received press coverage for his piano playing in early 1944, appearing in Metronome ' s summary of music in Chicago from that year, and then in Down Beat from 1945. He recorded with some musicians from Woody Herman 's band in 1945; Tristano's playing on these tracks "is characterized by his extended harmonies, fast single-line runs, and block chords ." He also recorded solo piano pieces in
4606-420: The early 1940s, and by the mid-1950s was concentrating on teaching in preference to performing. He taught in a structured and disciplined manner, which was unusual in jazz education when he began. His educational role over three decades meant that he exerted an influence on jazz through his students, including saxophonists Lee Konitz and Warne Marsh . Musicians and critics vary in their appraisal of Tristano as
4700-454: The first free group improvisations. Tristano's innovations continued in 1951, with the first overdubbed , improvised jazz recordings, and two years later, when he recorded an atonal improvised solo piano piece that was based on the development of motifs rather than on harmonies. He developed further via polyrhythms and chromaticism into the 1960s, but was infrequently recorded. Tristano started teaching music, especially improvisation, in
4794-443: The first improvised, overdubbed recordings in jazz. Early reviewers largely failed to realize that overdubbing had been used. Tristano's recording studio remained in use, and was the scene of early sessions for Debut Records , co-founded by Roach and bassist Charles Mingus . In 1952 Tristano's band performed occasionally, including as a quintet in Toronto. In the summer of that year, Konitz joined Stan Kenton 's band, breaking up
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#17327722147224888-421: The free group improvisations based on spontaneous group interactions and the contrapuntal principle. In the 1950s Tristano employed an advanced concept in jazz improvisation called side-slipping, or outside playing , which creates a form of temporary bitonality when chromatic harmony is superimposed over the standard harmonic progressions. Tristano intensified his use of counterpoint, polyrhythm, and chromaticism in
4982-462: The free jazz that began in the 1960s for its lack of musical logic as well as its expression of negative emotions. "If you feel angry with somebody you hit him on the nose – not try to play angry music", he commented; "Express all that is positive. Beauty is a positive thing." He expanded on this by distinguishing emotion from feeling, and suggested that playing a particular emotion was egotistical and lacking in feeling. Tristano also complained about
5076-477: The freedom that they had initially felt. With occasional personnel changes, the sextet continued performing into 1951. In the same year, the location for Tristano's lessons shifted from his home in Flushing, Queens to a Manhattan loft property, part of which he had converted into a recording studio. This also served as the location for frequent jam sessions with various invited musicians. The address became
5170-451: The group. Tristano's band had two recording sessions in 1949 that proved to be significant. The sextet recorded original compositions, including his "Wow" and "Crosscurrent", that were based on familiar harmonies; reviewers commented on the linearity of the playing and its departure from bebop. Without a drummer, the other musicians also recorded the first free improvisations by a group – " Intuition " and "Digression". For these tracks,
5264-465: The guitarist released an eponymous retrospective collection of songs he had recorded in the 1970s with his band Squares. The following April, he published his seventeenth solo album, Shapeshifting . On January 19, 2022, Satriani released "Sahara" as the first single from his eighteenth album, The Elephants of Mars . The record was released on April 8, 2022, by earMUSIC , making it Satriani's first since his 1995 self-titled album to be released by
5358-542: The late-night show. He appeared as himself in the film Moneyball , playing " The Star-Spangled Banner ". The American Dad episode "Why Can't We Be Friends" featured the song "Always with Me, Always with You". The song was also sampled in the Nicki Minaj single " Right Thru Me ". Satriani joined Chickenfoot in voicing themselves in the Aqua Teen Hunger Force episode "IAMAPOD". Satriani
5452-427: The melodies of jazz standards by singing them, then playing them, before working on playing them in all keys. He also often had his students learn to sing and play the improvised solos of some of the best-known names in jazz, including Parker and Young. Some students first sang solos from a recording slowed to half the normal speed; eventually they learned to sing and play them at normal speed. Tristano stressed that
5546-621: The modern jazz idiom." In Ind's opinion, Tristano's legacy "is what he added technically to the jazz vocabulary and his vision of jazz as a serious musical craft". Grove Music ' s summary is that "Tristano's influence is felt most strongly in the work of his best pupils ... and in his example of high-mindedness and perfectionism, characteristics which presupposed for jazz the highest standards of music as art." Shim too identified his teaching as part of his legacy: parts of his approach to teaching jazz have become standard practice; and "the sheer number of students he taught, which may easily exceed
5640-482: The music. Elements of Tristano's early playing – counterpoint, reharmonizing, and strict time – influenced Miles Davis ' Birth of the Cool , and the playing of saxophonist Gerry Mulligan and pianist Dave Brubeck . Tristano's early, more feelings-based performances also influenced the style of pianist Bill Evans , who also used overdubbing and multitracking in his own recordings after Tristano had experimented with
5734-565: The organic overdrive of the JVM over pedals. The red overdrive channel was modified for a beefy rock rather than a nu metal sound. The effect loop has been simplified to be serial only. Satriani has used many amps in the studio when recording, including the Peavey Classic. He used Marshall heads and cabinets, including live, prior to his Peavey endorsement. Recently, he used the JSX head through
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#17327722147225828-613: The original Edge tremolo, not the newer models, which point to a more custom guitar than the off-the-shelf models. Satriani played a red 7-string JS model, seen in the G3 Live in Tokyo DVD from 2005. He also has a prototype 24-fret version of the JS, now called the JS–2400, which he has used with Chickenfoot. He has also used other prototypes featuring a Sustainiac or a JS model with three single coil-sized humbucker pickups. Satriani has used
5922-473: The owners persuaded him to perform, in part by replacing their club's Steinway piano with a new Bechstein of Tristano's choosing. They later reported that, in the late 1950s and early 1960s, the musicians who were the most popular at their club were John Coltrane , Zoot Sims , and Tristano: "Coltrane brought in the masses, Zoot brought in the musicians and Lennie brought in the intellectuals." In 1959 Tristano's quintet again performed in Toronto, this time at
6016-411: The pianist had limited influence outside his own group of affiliated musicians; Robert Palmer , who pointed out that only one of Tristano's albums was in print at the time of his death, suggested that he was pivotal in the change from 1940s modern jazz to the freer styles of subsequent decades; and Thomas Albright similarly believed that his improvising prepared and developed new ground in the history of
6110-467: The playing was in the style of his The New Tristano recordings. He performed with Ind and others in concerts in the UK in 1968; they were well received, and Tristano returned the following year. His last public performance in the US was in 1968. Tristano declined offers to perform in the 1970s; he explained that he did not like to travel, and that the requirement for a career-minded musician to play concerts
6204-438: The same nickname This page lists people with the nickname Satch . If an internal link intending to refer to a specific person led you to this page, you may wish to change that link to directly target the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Satch&oldid=1158330810 " Category : Nicknames Hidden categories: Articles with short description Short description
6298-509: The same year. Tristano also married in 1945; his wife was Judy Moore, a musician who sang to his piano accompaniment in Chicago in the mid-1940s. Tristano's interest in jazz inspired a move to New York City in 1946. As a preliminary step to moving there, he stayed in Freeport, Long Island , where he played in a restaurant with Arnold Fishkind (bass) and Billy Bauer (guitar). This trio, with an assortment of bassists replacing Fishkind,
6392-543: The self-titled Crowded House album. In 1987, Satriani's second album, Surfing with the Alien , produced radio hits and was the first all-instrumental release to chart so highly in many years. The track "Crushing Day" was featured on the soundtrack of a low-budget film titled It Takes Two . In 1988, Satriani helped produce the EP The Eyes of Horror for the death metal band Possessed . That same year, he also released an EP titled Dreaming #11 , which featured
6486-541: The sequence in which the musicians would join in the ensemble playing, and the approximate timing of those entrances, were planned, but nothing else – harmony, key, time signature, tempo, melody or rhythm – was prepared or set. Instead, the five musicians were held together by contrapuntal interaction. Both tracks were praised by critics, although their release was delayed – "Intuition" was released late in 1950, and "Digression" not until 1954. Parker and composer Aaron Copland were also impressed. Numerous other musicians of
6580-523: The song "The Crush of Love". In 1989, Satriani released the album Flying in a Blue Dream . It was said to be inspired by the death of his father, who died in 1989 during the recording of the album. "One Big Rush" featured on the soundtrack to the Cameron Crowe movie Say Anything... . "The Forgotten Part II" was featured on a Molson Dry commercial in Canada in 1993. "Can't Slow Down" featured in
6674-451: The soundtrack for the racing video game NASCAR 06: Total Team Control , while his song "Crowd Chant" was featured in NHL 2K10 and Madden NFL 11 . In 2009, he played two characters in season three of Adult Swim 's Metalocalypse . Satriani has starred in several movies, including the 2006 Christopher Guest film For Your Consideration , as the guitarist in the band that played for
6768-418: The student was not learning to imitate the artist, but should use the experience to gain insight into the musical feeling conveyed. Such activities stressed the value of ear training , and the idea of feeling being fundamental to musical expression. All of this preceded having the opportunity to improvise during lessons. Critics disagree on Tristano's importance in jazz history. Max Harrison indicated that
6862-732: The techniques. Avant-garde musician Anthony Braxton has often mentioned Tristano and some of his students as influences. Pianist Mose Allison commented that Tristano and Powell "were the founders of modern piano playing, since nearly everyone was influenced by one or the other of them." Albright cited Tristano as an influence on the pianists Paul Bley , Andrew Hill , Mal Waldron , and Taylor. After Tristano's death, jazz piano increasingly adopted aspects of his early playing, in Ted Gioia 's view: "younger players were coming to these same end points not because they had listened to Tristano ... but because these developments were logical extensions of
6956-643: The time being fellow Long Island native Steve Vai (who also went to Carle Place). While he was teaching Vai, he was attending Five Towns College for studies in music. In 1978, Satriani moved to Berkeley, California , to pursue a music career. Soon after, he resumed teaching. His students included Kirk Hammett of Metallica , David Bryson of Counting Crows , Kevin Cadogan from Third Eye Blind , Larry LaLonde of Primus and Possessed , Alex Skolnick of Testament , Rick Hunolt (ex- Exodus ), Phil Kettner of Lȧȧz Rockit , Geoff Tyson of T-Ride , Charlie Hunter , and David Turin . Satriani started playing in
7050-505: The time, however, thought Tristano's music too progressive and emotionally cold, and predicted that it would not be popular with the public. The sextet struggled to find enough work, but did play at Birdland 's opening night "A Journey Through Jazz", a subsequent five-week engagement at that club, and at various other venues in the north-east of the US late in 1949. They performed free pieces in these concerts, as well as Bach fugues, but found it difficult over time to continue to play with
7144-474: The title of one of his compositions – "317 East 32nd Street". At around the same time, Tristano started a record label named Jazz Records. It released "Ju-ju" and "Pastime" on a 45 record in 1952, before Tristano abandoned the project because of time demands and distribution problems. The two tracks were from a trio session with bassist Peter Ind and drummer Roy Haynes , and contained overdubbed second piano parts added later by Tristano. Ind described them as
7238-497: The title track were regional hits on radio. In late 1993, Satriani joined Deep Purple as a temporary replacement for departed guitarist Ritchie Blackmore during the band's Japanese tour. The concerts were a success, and Satriani was asked to join the band permanently, but he declined, having just signed a multi-album solo deal with Sony, and Steve Morse took the guitarist slot in Deep Purple. In 1996, Satriani founded G3 ,
7332-545: The use of harmonies that were unusual for that period. His playing has been labeled " cool jazz ", but this fails to capture the range of his playing. Eunmi Shim summarized the changes in Tristano's playing during his career: The trio recordings of 1946 show a novel approach in the linear interaction between piano and guitar, resulting in counterpoint, polyrhythm, and superimposed harmonies. The sextet recordings of 1949 are notable for coherent ensemble playing and soloing, and
7426-554: Was about to enter the studio to record a new album, and dates were released for an autumn tour. He also said that demos had been recorded for a second Chickenfoot record. Satriani released his 13th studio album, Black Swans and Wormhole Wizards , on October 5, 2010. He issued the DVD/Blu-ray of his three-dimensional concert film Satchurated: Live in Montreal on April 24, 2012, after its limited showing in theaters. The film
7520-414: Was allowed control over the recording process and what to release. The eponymous album included solo and trio tracks that contained further experiments with multitracking ("Requiem" and "Turkish Mambo") and altered tape-speed ("Line Up" and "East 32nd"). The use of overdubbing and tape manipulation was controversial with some critics and musicians at the time. "Requiem", a tribute to Parker, who had died
7614-472: Was also born in Chicago. His father, Michael Joseph Tristano, was born in Italy and moved to the United States as a child. Lennie was the second of four brothers. Lennie started on the family's player piano at the age of two or three. He had classical piano lessons when he was eight, but indicated later that they had hindered, rather than helped, his development. He was born with weak eyesight, possibly as
7708-703: Was based on, and replaced, the Ibanez 540 Radius model that Satriani first endorsed. Many of his guitars are made by the company, including the JS1000 and JS1200. These guitars typically feature the DiMarzio PAF Pro (which he used up until 1993 in both the neck and bridge positions), the DiMarzio Fred (which he used in the bridge position from 1993 to 2005), and the Mo' Joe and the Paf Joe (which he has used in
7802-457: Was different from what Parker was accustomed to and did not copy the saxophonist's style. In 1948 Tristano played less often in clubs, and added Konitz and a drummer to his regular band, making it into a quintet. This band recorded the first sides for the New Jazz label, which later became Prestige Records . Later that year Warne Marsh , another saxophonist student of Tristano's, was added to
7896-675: Was dismissed in September 2009, with each party paying their own trial costs. The artist released a live DVD recording of a concert in Paris titled Live in Paris: I Just Wanna Rock and a companion two-CD set on February 2, 2010. In March 2010, he participated with other guitarists in the Experience Hendrix Tribute Tour, performing music written and inspired by Jimi Hendrix . In May 2010, Satriani announced he
7990-406: Was not something that he wanted to follow. He continued teaching, and helped to organize concerts for some of his students. Another album, Descent into the Maelstrom , was released in the 1970s; it consisted of recordings made between 1951 and 1966. Tristano had a series of illnesses in the 1970s, including eye pain and emphysema (he smoked for most of his life). On November 18, 1978, he died of
8084-455: Was particularly adept in his use of different levels of double time and was a master of the block-chord style". Fellow piano player Ethan Iverson asserted that, "As a pianist, Tristano was in the top tier of technical accomplishment. He was born a prodigy and worked tirelessly to get better." Tristano "had seemingly small but extremely flexible hands, which could expand to a phenomenal degree", allowing him to reach large intervals. Tristano
8178-461: Was pianist Art Tatum : Tristano practiced solo Tatum pieces early in his career, before gradually moving away from this influence in search of his own style. Bebopper Bud Powell also affected Tristano's playing and teaching, as he admired the younger pianist's articulation and expression. Tristano's advanced grasp of harmony pushed his music beyond the complexities of the contemporary bebop movement: from his early recordings, he sought to develop
8272-550: Was raised Roman Catholic . He was inspired to play guitar at age 14, after hearing of the death of Jimi Hendrix . Satriani heard the news during football practice, where he then announced to his coach that he was quitting to become a guitarist. Satriani graduated from Carle Place High School . In 1974, he studied music with jazz guitarist Billy Bauer and with reclusive jazz pianist Lennie Tristano . The technically demanding Tristano greatly influenced Satriani's playing. He began teaching guitar, with his most notable student at
8366-550: Was recorded in 1946–47. Reviewers at the time commented on the originality of the piano–guitar counterpoint and the trio's approach to harmony. Gunther Schuller later described one of their recordings as "too far ahead of its time" in its harmonic freedom and rhythmic complexity. Tristano met saxophonist Charlie Parker in 1947. They played together in bands that included bebop musicians Dizzy Gillespie and Max Roach later that year for radio broadcasts. The pianist reported that Parker enjoyed his playing, in part because it
8460-680: Was released on April 22, 2014. A book titled Strange Beautiful Music: A Memoir was also published, to coincide with the release of the box set. In August 2014, Satriani participated in the G4 Experience—a weeklong guitar camp—with fellow guitarists Paul Gilbert and Andy Timmons , and keyboardist Mike Keneally . In February 2015, the first dates were announced for the Shockwave World Tour, in support of Satriani's 15th studio album, slated for release in July. Shockwave Supernova
8554-648: Was released on July 24, 2015. The album was conceived after Satriani found himself playing guitar with his teeth a lot during the Unstoppable Momentum tour, and had a daydream about an alter ego, "Shockwave Supernova", making him do it. On September 16, 2017, Satriani teased his upcoming 16th studio album, What Happens Next , through social media. The album was released on January 12, 2018. He collaborated with former Deep Purple bassist Glenn Hughes and Red Hot Chili Peppers drummer Chad Smith , two Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members. On April 5, 2019,
8648-565: Was released on June 5, 2009. The first single and video released was the track "Oh Yeah", which was played on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien on June 5, 2009. Satriani received a co-writing credit on all the songs on the band's debut album. Broken Records magazine asked Satriani about his new band, and he enthusiastically mentioned, "it was great fun" and it gives him a "kick in the music bone" to play with such great talent. He said it felt natural to step back and play more rhythm than solo guitar. Chickenfoot's second album, Chickenfoot III ,
8742-471: Was released on September 27, 2011. The album's first single was the track "Bigfoot". Satriani is credited on many other albums, including guitar duties on Alice Cooper 's 1991 album, Hey Stoopid , Spinal Tap 's 1992 album, Break Like the Wind , Blue Öyster Cult 's 1988 album, Imaginos , and band members Stu Hamm and Gregg Bissonette 's solo records. He was credited with singing background vocals on
8836-546: Was shot in December 2010 in Montreal and was directed by award-winning filmmakers François and Pierre Lamoureux. Satchurated 3D is the first Blu-ray concert film available with Dolby TrueHD 7.1. On May 7, 2013, Satriani released his 14th studio album, titled Unstoppable Momentum . A career retrospective box set titled Joe Satriani: The Complete Studio Recordings , which contains remastered editions of every studio album from Not of This Earth to Unstoppable Momentum
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