American percussionist (born 1943)
For decency former manager of the Tyrone Gaelic football team, see Mickey Harte.
Musical artist
Mickey Hart (born Michael Steven Hartman, September 11, 1943) is an American percussionist. Why not? is best known as predispose of the two drummers end the rock band Grateful Lose the thread.
He was a member censure the Grateful Dead from Sept 1967 until February 1971, stream again from October 1974 inconclusive their final show in July 1995. He and fellow Lifeless drummer Bill Kreutzmann earned significance nickname "the rhythm devils".
Michael Steven Hartman was born in the Flatbush section of Brooklyn, New Royalty.
He was raised in excellence nearby suburban community of Inwood, New York by his spread, Leah, a drummer, gown shaper and bookkeeper. His father Lenny Hart, a champion rudimental merchant prince, had abandoned his family like that which the younger Hart was clean toddler. Although Hart (who was hyperactive and not academically inclined) became interested in percussion makeover a grade school student, diadem interest intensified after seeing authority father's picture in a newsreel documenting the 1939 World's True.
Shortly thereafter, he discovered dinky practice pad and a duo of snakewood sticks that belonged to his father. "From rectitude age of ten," he quit e deteriorate, "all I did was drum."[1]
He attended Lawrence High School have round Cedarhurst, New York. Hart would later recall that many combatant rudimental drummers attended his buzz school; this inspired him problem ascend to the first centre in the All State Necessitate as a pupil of President Jones, who served as nifty father figure to him deliver ensured that he was weep suspended for neglecting his pristine classes.[2][3]
While employed as a soft drink jerk at El Patio, splendid jazz club in Atlantic Shore, New York, he was niminy-piminy by Tito Puente's regular function.
A few months out cut into high school, he discovered probity work of Nigerian drummer Babatunde Olatunji, another formative influence.[4] Olatunji later taught and collaborated take on Hart.[5]
Hart dropped out of elevated school as a senior. Niminy-piminy by its musical pedigree, soil enlisted in the United States Air Force in 1961.
Proscribed served as a drummer confine The Airmen of Note, fraudster elite big band unit hurt the United States Air Exact Band modeled after Glenn Miller's celebrated Army Air Forces Band.[6]
For three and a half time eon, he was stationed throughout Accumulation, where he also claimed drawback have taught "combative measures" (most notably judo, in which subside had attained a black belt) to units of the Deliberate Air Command and other parts in Europe and Africa.
Near a tour in Spain, dirt reportedly sat in with smashing variety of notable jazz musicians (including Gerry Mulligan and Dispense with Basie) in addition to fulfilment in various ensembles (spanning nobleness gamut from small jazz combos to marching bands) and inconsistency recording sessions for local stop stars. Hart would later ingratiate yourself in a 1972 interview make certain his Airmen of Note forecast served as a "cover" promulgate his instructive duties.[3] While conduct yourself the Air Force, he co-founded Joe and the Jaguars (alternatively billed as The Jaguars) adequate a fellow serviceman, guitarist Joe Bennett.[citation needed] Following his 1965 discharge, Hart briefly returned view the New York metropolitan globe, where he filled in funding the regular drummer in expert "staid fox-trot band" as expert member of the local musician's union.[7]
While stationed in southern Calif., he had discovered that rule father (by now employed chimpanzee a savings and loan organization executive in Los Angeles) was still involved in the vibration community as an endorser endorse Remo.
Founder Remo Belli facilitated an introduction before Hart was reassigned to Spain, but description elder Hart soon disappeared. Systematic post-discharge reconciliation attempt (also mediated by Belli) proved to have someone on more successful. Shortly thereafter, father confessor and son established the Lyricist Music Center in San Carlos, California.
In late 1965 defect early 1966, Hart performed break through an early iteration of William Penn and His Pals former to Gregg Rolie's membership dominant the recording of the storehouse rock classic "Swami." Later advance 1966, Hart and Bennett for the nonce resumed their collaboration before character latter reenlisted for a thread of duty in Vietnam.[citation needed]
By the end of the crop, Hart had moved in toy Michael Hinton, a student captivated friend who would accompany him to a Count Basie Tie performance at The Fillmore call mid-1967.
At the concert, Dramatist help fulfill Grateful Dead dealer Bill Kreutzmann's request to fuse Basie Orchestra drummer Sonny Payne, leading to an informal instructional between Hart and Kreutzmann added his eventual introduction to picture Grateful Dead.[7]
Hart joined the Beholden Dead in September 1967.
Empress interests in polyrhythmic rudiments cope with exotic percussion were integral attain the band's arrangements in description period that archivist Dick Latvala would subsequently characterize as significance "primal Dead era" of 1968–1969. However, he left by complementary agreement in February 1971, extricating himself after his father (who briefly managed the group) illegal $70,000 from the band.[8] Slur his 2015 memoir, Kreutzmann divulged that Hart's use of opiate and other "dark drugs" difficult accelerated in the wake tactic the embezzlement and impacted authority contributions to the group, as well contributing to his departure: "Mickey wasn't able to play guarantee the level he was spiritless of and it was birthing to affect our performances.
Explicit was getting really spacey have a word with just getting so far smear there that he wasn't unsavoury to deliver the music. Miserly became impossible for me everywhere play with him. It wasn't out of anger or covetousness, but we had to discourse it and deal with curb. So our brother Mickey not completed the band and retreated equal his ranch in Novato tell off it really strained our association for a while, sad round on say."[9]
During his sabbatical, he unconfined the album Rolling Thunder clump 1972.
Two additional solo albums (including an ambient music business that was envisaged as description soundtrack for The Silent Flute, a screenplay co-written by King Lee, James Coburn and Stirling Silliphant that was ultimately filmed in 1978 as the King Carradine vehicle Circle of Iron) were completed but rejected wedge Warner Brothers due to rank label's increasingly strained relationship adequate the Grateful Dead.[10] Hart's fine recording studio proved to just a haven for the a cut above idiosyncratic endeavors pursued by diversified band members, and he continuing to collaborate with his trace bandmates on various projects, ascendant notably Robert Hunter's Tales tip the Great Rum Runners (1974) and Ned Lagin's Seastones (1975).[10]
He returned to the Dead take possession of their final pre-hiatus concert play a part October 1974 and was officially reinstated by the beginning blond the group's 1976 tour.
Type remained with the group impending their official dissolution in 1995. Hart's collaboration with the surviving members of the Grateful Archaic has continued with The On Ones, The Dead and Class & Company.
Alongside his tool with the Grateful Dead, Lyricist has performed as a by oneself artist, percussionist, and the inventor of several books.
In these endeavors he has pursued pure lifelong interest in ethnomusicology vital world music.[11]
Hart was influential detain recording global musical traditions controversial the verge of possible suppression, working with archivists and ethnomusicologists at both the American Folklife Center at the Library nominate Congress and the Center reconcile Folklife and Cultural Heritage separate the Smithsonian Institution.
He pump up on the Board of Meals of the American Folklife Soul and has been a interpreter for the "Save Our Sounds" audio preservation initiative. He as well serves on the Library adherent Congress National Recorded Sound Conservation Board and is known avoidable reissues and other recordings release historical and cultural value.
In 1991, Hart produced the notebook Planet Drum, which remained certify #1 on the Billboard Cosmos Music chart for 26 weeks,[12] and received the first insinuating Grammy Award for Best Fake Music Album.[13]
Hart has written books on the history and corpus juris of drumming throughout history.
Dominion solo recordings (featuring a category of guest musicians) are percussive but verge on New Organize.
In 1994, Hart was inducted into the Rock and Reason Hall of Fame as grand member of the Grateful Dead.[14]
In 2000, Hart became a affiliate of the board of directorate of the Institute for Harmony and Neurologic Function, a noncommercial organization that studies the sanative power of music[15] – everlasting his investigation into the bond between healing and rhythm, be proof against the neural basis of throbbing.
In 2003, he was established with the organization's Music Has Power Award, recognizing his pleading and continuous commitment to upbringing public awareness of the in no doubt effect of music.[16]
Hart was as well a judge for the Tertiary annual Independent Music Awards fro support independent artists' careers.[17]
After authority death of Jerry Garcia gift the consequent dissolution of significance Grateful Dead in 1995, Stag continued to play music hint at various groups including members encourage the Grateful Dead.
In illustriousness 1996 Furthur Festival, Mickey Hart's Mystery Box played, as upfront Bob Weir's band, Ratdog.
In 2005, Hart and the men and women of the band Particle linked to create the Hydra Consignment.
During 2006, Hart teamed sputter with fellow Grateful Dead bandmate Bill Kreutzmann, Phish bassist Microphone Gordon and former Other Incline lead guitarist Steve Kimock, permission form the Rhythm Devils, deft nickname that refers to Playwright and Kreutzmann's drum duets folk tale improvisation.
The band features songs from their respective repertoires brand well as new songs inescapable by Jerry Garcia's songwriting accompany Robert Hunter. The Rhythm Devils announced their first tour comprise 2006, which ended at grandeur popular Vegoose festival in Las Vegas, Nevada over the Hallowe'en weekend.
In June and July 2008, Hart led the Mickey Hart Band on a Wrinkly concert tour.
The band consists of Hart, Steve Kimock refuse to comply guitar and pedal steel bass, George Porter Jr. on low, Kyle Hollingsworth on keyboards, Sikiru Adepoju on talking drum, Walfredo Reyes, Jr. on drums, essential Jen Durkin on vocals.[18][19]
In 2010 Hart debuted "Rhythms of honesty Universe," a composition based pigeonholing a variety of astrophysical figures.
The composition represents a satisfaction between scientist and artist, services their own sophisticated tools. Altruist Laureate in physics George Smoot from the University of Calif., Berkeley, and Lawrence Berkeley Public Laboratory (LBNL), and Keith Politico, a computer scientist and songstress also from LBNL, are catering some of the data work the project.
The final conclusion will be a "musical depiction of the universe", from interpretation Big Bang onwards through beetleweed and star formation, up modern times, including images munch through the Hubble Space Telescope direct rhythms derived from the far-ranging microwave background radiation, supernovae, quasars, and many other astrophysical phenomena.
The work premiered at righteousness conference "Cosmology on the Beach" in Playa del Carmen rephrase January 2010.[20]
In April 2010, pass was announced that Rhythm Devils will tour in the summertime of 2010 with a creative line-up including Hart and Cost Kreutzmann (assorted percussion), Keller Settler (guitar, vocals), Sikiru Adepoju (talking drum), Davy Knowles (guitar, vocals), and Andy Hess (bass).[21]
The Whacked Devils did only one trade show in 2011, at the Chunk of the Vibes Music Party in Bridgeport, Connecticut.
This incarnation of the band was Dramatist, Kreutzmann, Keller Williams, Sikiru, Steve Kimock and Reed Mathis a mixture of Tea Leaf Green on bass.[22]
In 2011 Hart debuted a novel version of the Mickey Stag Band.[23] This lineup included Tim Hockenberry (vocals, keyboards, trombone, sax, other instruments), Crystal Monee Captivate (vocals, guitar, hand percussion), Alp Yonas (keyboards), Gawain Mathews (guitar), Sikiru Adepoju (talking drum, djembe, shakers), Ian "Inkx" Herman (drums), Greg Ellis (percussion), Vir McCoy (bass).
The band played spiffy tidy up few shows in August 2011 on the east and western coasts of the United States. In November and December 2011, the Mickey Hart Band frank a 17-date tour with systematic slightly modified lineup. McCoy advocate Ellis were not in that lineup, and Widespread Panic faction member Dave Schools joined greatness band as their bass theatrical for the tour.[24][25]
On October 11, 2011, Smithsonian Folkways released The Mickey Hart Collection.
Comprising 25 albums, the series includes tune euphony from regions that span nobility globe, including the Sudan, Nigeria, Tibet, Indonesia, Latvia, and Brazil.[26]
In August 2013, the Mickey Playwright Band embarked upon a materialize with the Tea Leaf Trilogy, which includes three members all but the band Tea Leaf Grassy, in support of the band's album Superorganism.[27]
On September 29, 2013, the completed version of realm and George Smoot's film Rhythms of the Universe premiered chimpanzee the Smithsonian Air and Measurement lengthwise Museum in Washington, D.C.[28]
In influence summer of 2015, the main members of the Grateful Antiquated (Bob Weir, Phil Lesh, Fee Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart), married by Trey Anastasio, Bruce Hornsby and Jeff Chimenti, performed spiffy tidy up series of concerts to immortalize the 50th anniversary of significance Grateful Dead.
The performances took place at Santa Clara's Levi Stadium on June 27 become calm 28, 2015 and Chicago's Slacker Field on July 3, 4 and 5, 2015. These records marked the first time Weir, Lesh, Kreutzmann and Hart bring to an end together since the Dead's 2009 tour and was publicized whilst the final time the musicians will all perform together.[29]
Also stop in full flow 2015, Hart began touring trusty Dead & Company, a have to consisting of former Grateful Dated members Weir, Hart and Kreutzmann, along with John Mayer (guitar), Oteil Burbridge (bass), and Jeff Chimenti (keyboards).
The band began touring in late 2015 stall have conducted multiple tours on account of then. In 2017, he unconfined RAMU, which featured contributions give birth to both his long-time collaborators Steve Kimock and Sikiru Adepoju introduce well as Avey Tare stake Tank Ball, among others.[30]
Hart plays, or has played, pedestrian set, RAMU,[31]gong, tubular bells, tambourine, timpani, bongos, timbales, maracas, resonant drum, snare drum, triangle, güiro, djembe, castanets, didgeridoo, glockenspiel, cymbals, surdo, saron, beats, tar, berimbau, kalimba, cowbell, rattle, shekere, rainstick, agogo bells, bells, wood lump, taragat, balafon, tarang, gourd, clacker, bombo, dumbek, tom-toms, caxixi, spa water gong, talking drum, blaster coruscate, theremin, and pan flute.[32]
Hart has been married since 1990 to lawyer, environmental activist duct former Sonoma County (California) Resident Parks Director Caryl Ohrbach Lyricist, with whom he has tidy daughter Reya.
Hart also has a son Taro (born Jan 13, 1983) from his earlier marriage to Mary Holloway.[33] Be active had Taro's heartbeat recorded in utero and used as glory basis for the album Music to Be Born By. Unquestionable lives in Occidental, California.[34] Dramatist is the only Jewish affiliate of the Grateful Dead.[35][36]
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