THE MUSICAL GENIUS
OF
J A N
H A M M E R
MAHAVISHNU ORCHESTRA
JEFF BECK
JAN HAMMER GROUP
CARLOS SANTANA
" M I A M I V I C E T H E M E "
EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW
Jan Hammer's musical
career is as firmly rooted in the fundamentals of classical, jazz and rock as
it is committed to the future of electronics, synthesized sound, the
possibilities of interactive media, television, film and animation. His walls are lined with Grammy awards and
gold and platinum plaques from around the world. His name is found on scores of recordings
spanning the 1970s to the '90s -- solo albums, collaborations with the
Mahavishnu Orchestra, Jeff Beck, Al Di Meola, Mick Jagger, Carlos Santana,
Stanley Clarke, Neal Schon, Elvin Jones and many others.
Jan has composed and
produced soundtracks for a long list of motion pictures, the music for 90
episodes of Miami Vice (which spun-off four soundtrack albums and its worldwide
#1 hit theme song), 20 episodes of the popular British television series Chancer,
and the music for BEYOND the Mind's Eye, one of the all-time best-selling music
videos in Billboard chart history.
Jan's solo career began
with The First Seven Days (1975), produced and recorded at Red Gate Studio in
his upstate New York farmhouse. Over the next decade Jan produced and performed
on nearly 20 albums with his own bands (the Jan Hammer Group, and later
Hammer), and such musicians as Jeff Beck, Al Di Meola, and Neal Schon (of Journey),
among others. With Beck, Jan wrote, produced and performed on several tracks
for the guitar legend’s platinum Wired album after which the two set out on a
massive 8 month, 117 date tour that yielded the gold album Jeff Beck with the
Jan Hammer Group Live.
In 1981 and 1983
Jan teamed up with Neal Schon on the albums Untold Passion and Here To Stay
and, still in 1983, Jan also joined Beck, Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker
and others for a series of benefit concerts for Ronnie Lane's ARMS (Action
Research into Multiple Sclerosis). Into
1984, Jan played on Mick Jagger's She's The Boss and Jeff Beck's Flash -- which
included Jan's Grammy-winning song "Escape."
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In 1985, "Miami Vice
Theme" (MCA Records) hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 Singles chart
and, in so doing, became the first and only original version of an instrumental
theme for television to reach this pinnacle of success.
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