Michael Gregory is back! The massive guitar and vocal talent who has played and recorded with some of the most influential musicians of our time, including Mick Jagger, Carlos Santana, Walter Becker and Steve Winwood, has burst back onto
the music [+]Michael Gregory is back! The massive guitar and vocal talent who has played and recorded with some of the most influential musicians of our time, including Mick Jagger, Carlos Santana, Walter Becker and Steve Winwood, has burst back onto
the music scene with a brilliant new CD Towards the Sun.
Towards the Sun takes the listener on a beautiful and evocative emotional journey through the mind of a talented and spiritual artist.
Michael is a master songwriter and has the ability to sculpt into lyrical poetry a variety of human emotions that most people feel but are rarely able to express. Michael's alluring vocals with his unsurpassed guitar virtuosity blend into an entirely satisfying experience with the kind of musical depth that keeps you coming back to hear more.
Born Michael Gregory Jackson in New Haven, Connecticut in 1953, Michael began to play guitar at the age of seven. In his teens he often performed his own material during solo gigs and band appearances. Among Michael's early influences were Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Son House, Joni Mitchell and Igor Stravinsky. His father exposed him to Wes Montgomery, Mahalia Jackson, Les Paul, Mary Ford, and early George Benson, and Michael's musical destiny began to take shape.
Progressive improvised music composer and trumpeter, Wadada Leo Smith, influenced Gregory to look beyond the boundaries of rock, folk and mainstream jazz, and soon Michael was playing avant-garde music with Smith and such other notables as pianist Anthony Davis, saxophonists David Murray and Oliver Lake. During this period, Gregory notes, "I learned that it was ok to try different things, to experiment. If I had a song that was going this way, it was all right to make it go in another direction or to add diverse elements. I've allowed myself to be creatively and stylistically liberated." Gregory produced a series of stand out jazz recordings, including "Clarity, Circle, Triangle, Square", "Karmonic Suite", "Gifts" and "Heart and Center". Rolling Stone magazine raved, "By the time (Gregory) was twenty-one he was already one of the most original jazz guitarists to emerge since the Sixties."
As had David Bowie and others before him, Michael changed his name in 1982, to Michael Gregory, to avoid confusion with
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