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Windham Hill Records

Index Windham Hill Records

Windham Hill Records was an independent record label that specialized in instrumental acoustic music. [1]

83 relations: A&M Records, Acoustic music, Alex De Grassi, Ambient music, Andrew York (guitarist), Andy Narell, Angels of Venice, Artists and repertoire, Audiobook, Øystein Sevåg, Barbara Higbie, Bertelsmann Music Group, Classical music, Cliff Eberhardt, Dancing Cat Records, Darol Anger, David Arkenstone, David Cullen (musician), David Torn, Dots Will Echo, Folk music, Fred Simon, George Winston, High Street Records, Iain Matthews, Jazz, Jeff Oster, Jim Brickman, John Doan, John Gorka, Legacy Recordings, Linda Waterfall, Lisa Lynne, Liz Story, Malcolm Dalglish, Mark Isham, Michael Hedges, Michael Manring, Mike Marshall (musician), Montalvo Arts Center, Montreux (band), Music of Hawaii, Music West Records, New-age music, Nightnoise, Palo Alto, California, Patrick O'Hearn, Paul McCandless, Paul Winter, Peter Baumann, ..., Philip Aaberg, Philippe Saisse, PolyGram, Pop music, Private Music, Ray Lynch, Ray Obiedo, RCA Records, Recording Industry Association of America, Robbie Basho, Russel Walder, Samite (musician), San Jose, California, Saratoga, California, Savoy Records, Scott Cossu, Shadowfax (band), Singer-songwriter, Sony Classical Records, Sony Music, Steven Miller (record producer), Subsidiary, The Nylons, Tim Story (composer), Tracy Silverman, Tuck & Patti, Turtle Island Quartet, Valley Entertainment, Vangelis, W. A. Mathieu, William Ackerman, Wim Mertens, Yanni. Expand index (33 more) »

A&M Records

A&M Records was an American record label founded as an independent company by Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss in 1962.

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Acoustic music

Acoustic music is music that solely or primarily uses instruments that produce sound through acoustic means, as opposed to electric or electronic means; typically the phrase refers to that made by acoustic string instruments.

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Alex De Grassi

Alex de Grassi (born February 13, 1952) is an American fingerstyle guitarist.

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Ambient music

Ambient music is a genre of music that puts an emphasis on tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm.

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Andrew York (guitarist)

Andrew York (born 1958) is an American classical guitarist, lutenist and composer.

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Andy Narell

Andy Narell (born March 18, 1954) is a jazz steel drummer.

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Angels of Venice

Angels Of Venice is a harp, cello, flute and vocal group founded by harpist Carol Tatum in 1993.

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Artists and repertoire

Artists and repertoire (A&R) is the division of a record label or music publishing company that is responsible for talent scouting and overseeing the artistic development of recording artists and songwriters.

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Audiobook

An audiobook (or talking book) is a recording of a text being read.

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Øystein Sevåg

Øystein Sevåg (born March 19, 1957) is a Norwegian classical musician.

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Barbara Higbie

Barbara Higbie (born 1958) is a Grammy nominated, Bammy award winning pianist, composer, violinist, singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.

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Bertelsmann Music Group

Bertelsmann Music Group (abbreviated as BMG) was a division of German media company Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on 1 October 2008.

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Classical music

Classical music is art music produced or rooted in the traditions of Western culture, including both liturgical (religious) and secular music.

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Cliff Eberhardt

Cliff Eberhardt (born January 7, 1954 in Berwyn, Pennsylvania) is an American folk singer-songwriter.

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Dancing Cat Records

Dancing Cat Records is a record label founded in 1983 by pianist George Winston to publish both his music and music in the Hawaiian slack-key guitar style.

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Darol Anger

Darol Anger is an American violinist and founding member of The David Grisman Quintet.

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David Arkenstone

David Arkenstone (born July 1, 1952) is an American composer and performer.

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David Cullen (musician)

David Thompson Cullen (born March 19, 1959) is an American guitarist, composer, and arranger of various styles of guitar music, including classical, jazz, and world music.

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David Torn

David M. Torn (born 26 May 1953) is an American guitarist, composer, and producer.

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Dots Will Echo

Dots Will Echo is an indie rock group from Ridgewood, New Jersey.

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Folk music

Folk music includes both traditional music and the genre that evolved from it during the 20th century folk revival.

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Fred Simon

Fred Simon (born Frederick Victor Simon) is an American pianist and composer.

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George Winston

George Winston (born 1949) is an American pianist who was born in Michigan and grew up mainly in Montana (Miles City and Billings), as well as Mississippi and Florida.

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High Street Records

High Street Records was a subsidiary label of Windham Hill Records from about 1990 to 1997.

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Iain Matthews

Iain Matthews (born Iain Matthew McDonald, 16 June 1946) is an English musician and songwriter.

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Jazz

Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in blues and ragtime.

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Jeff Oster

Jeff Oster is an American brass instrument player who has recorded flugelhorn or trumpet with artists such as William Ackerman, founder of Windham Hill Records.

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Jim Brickman

Jim Brickman (born November 20, 1961) is an American songwriter and pianist of pop music, as well as a radio show host.

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John Doan

John Doan (born May 16, 1951) is an American guitarist and composer.

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John Gorka

John Gorka (born July 27, 1958) is a contemporary American folk musician.

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Legacy Recordings

Legacy Recordings is an American record label that is a division of Sony Music.

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Linda Waterfall

Linda Waterfall is an American folk musician and singer-songwriter.

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Lisa Lynne

Lisa Lynne is a Celtic harpist, a composer and new-age recording artist.

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Liz Story

Liz Story (born October 28, 1956) is an American pianist.

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Malcolm Dalglish

Malcolm Dalglish (born August 14, 1952) is an American hammered dulcimer player and builder, composer, and choral director.

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Mark Isham

Mark Ware Isham (born September 7, 1951) is an American musician.

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Michael Hedges

Michael Alden Hedges (December 31, 1953 – December 2, 1997) was an American composer, acoustic guitarist and singer-songwriter.

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Michael Manring

Michael Manring (born June 27, 1960 in AnnapolisTom Mulhern, Bass Heroes: Styles, Stories & Secrets of 30 Great Bass Players: from the Pages of Guitar Player Magazine, Backbeat Books, 1993,, p.26) is an American bass guitarist from the San Francisco Bay Area.

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Mike Marshall (musician)

Mike Marshall (born Michael James Marshall, July 17, 1957 in New Castle, Pennsylvania) is a bluegrass mandolinist who has collaborated with David Grisman and Darol Anger.

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Montalvo Arts Center

The Montalvo Arts Center is a non-profit center for the arts in Saratoga, California, United States.

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Montreux (band)

Montreux was the name of an American fusion band, specializing in the blend of jazz and bluegrass, with jam elements.

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Music of Hawaii

The music of Hawaii includes an array of traditional and popular styles, ranging from native Hawaiian folk music to modern rock and hip hop.

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Music West Records

Music West Records was an independent record company founded by Allan Kaplan on December 1985 in San Rafael, California.

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New-age music

New-age music is a genre of music intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism.

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Nightnoise

Nightnoise was a music ensemble active from 1984 to 1997.

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Palo Alto, California

Palo Alto is a charter city located in the northwest corner of Santa Clara County, California, in the San Francisco Bay Area of the United States.

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Patrick O'Hearn

Patrick O'Hearn (born September 6, 1954) is an American multi-instrumentalist, composer, and recording artist.

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Paul McCandless

Paul Brownlee McCandless Jr. (born March 24, 1947 in Indiana, Pennsylvania) is an American multi-instrumentalist and founding member of the American jazz group Oregon.

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Paul Winter

Paul Winter (born August 31, 1939) is an American saxophonist who founded the Paul Winter Consort.

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Peter Baumann

Peter Baumann (born 29 January 1953) formed the core line-up of the pioneering German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971.

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Philip Aaberg

Philip Aaberg (born April 8, 1949) is an American pianist and composer.

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Philippe Saisse

Philippe Saisse is a French smooth jazz and new-age music multi-instrumentalist, composer, record producer and arranger.

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PolyGram

PolyGram Entertainment is a film and TV production company owned by Universal Music Group.

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Pop music

Pop music is a genre of popular music that originated in its modern form in the United States and United Kingdom during the mid-1950s.

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Private Music

Private Music was an American independent record label founded in 1984 by musician Peter Baumann as a "home for instrumental music".

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Ray Lynch

Raymond "Ray" Lynch (born July 3, 1943) is an American guitarist, lutenist, keyboardist, and composer.

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Ray Obiedo

Ray Obiedo (born January 27, 1952 in Richmond, California) is an American contemporary jazz guitarist.

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RCA Records

RCA Records (formerly legally traded as the RCA Records Label) is an American record label owned by Sony Music, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America.

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Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) is a trade organization that represents the recording industry in the United States.

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Robbie Basho

Robbie Basho (born Daniel R. Robinson, Jr., August 31, 1940 – February 28, 1986) was an American acoustic guitarist, pianist and singer.

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Russel Walder

Russel Walder (born February 9, 1959) is an American jazz oboist and the founder of Nomad Soul Records.

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Samite (musician)

Samite is the stage name for African musician Samite Mulondo.

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San Jose, California

San Jose (Spanish for 'Saint Joseph'), officially the City of San José, is an economic, cultural, and political center of Silicon Valley and the largest city in Northern California.

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Saratoga, California

Saratoga is a city in Santa Clara County, California, United States.

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Savoy Records

Savoy Records is an American record company and label established by Herman Lubinsky in 1942 in Newark, New Jersey.

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Scott Cossu

Scott Cossu is a new-age pianist.

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Shadowfax (band)

Shadowfax was a New Age/electronic musical group formed in Chicago in the early 1970s and best known for their albums Shadowfax and Folksongs for a Nuclear Village.

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Singer-songwriter

Singer-songwriters are musicians who write, compose, and perform their own musical material, including lyrics and melodies.

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Sony Classical Records

Sony Classical Records (also known simply as Sony Classical) is an American record label founded in 1927 as Columbia Masterworks Records, a subsidiary of Columbia Records.

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Sony Music

Sony Music Entertainment (SME) is a Japanese-owned global music conglomerate owned by Sony and incorporated as a general partnership of Sony Music Holdings Inc. through Sony Entertainment Inc., a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America. (in Japanese), Sony Corporation The company was first founded in 1929 as American Record Corporation and renamed Columbia Recording Corporation in 1938, following its acquisition by the Columbia Broadcasting System. In 1966, the company was reorganized to become CBS Records, and Sony Corporation bought the company in 1988, renaming it under its current name in 1991. In 2004, Sony and Bertelsmann established a 50-50 joint venture called Sony BMG Music Entertainment, which transferred the businesses of Sony Music and Bertelsmann Music Group into one entity. However, in 2008, Sony acquired Bertelsmann's stake, and the company reverted to the SME name shortly after; the buyout allowed Sony to acquire all of BMG's labels, including former Columbia Pictures subsidiary Arista Records as well as RCA Records, and led to the dissolution of BMG, which instead relaunched as BMG Rights Management. Sony Music Entertainment is the second largest of the "Big Three" record companies in the world, behind Universal Music Group (UMG) and ahead of Warner Music Group (WMG). Sony's music publishing division is the world's largest music publisher after the acquisition of EMI. It also owns SYCO Entertainment, which operates some of the world's most successful reality TV format including Got Talent and The X Factor.

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Steven Miller (record producer)

Steven Miller (born November 8, 1956 in New Jersey) is an American record producer and executive.

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Subsidiary

A subsidiary, subsidiary company or daughter company"daughter company.

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The Nylons

The Nylons are an a cappella group founded in 1978 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, best known for their covers of pop songs such as The Turtles' "Happy Together", Steam's "Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Him Goodbye", and "The Lion Sleeps Tonight".

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Tim Story (composer)

Tim Story (born 1957) is an American keyboardist, composer, and record producer.

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Tracy Silverman

Tracy Silverman is an American violinist, composer, and producer.

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Tuck & Patti

Tuck & Patti are an American jazz duo, whose members are the married couple guitarist William Charles "Tuck" Andress (born Oct. 28, 1952 in Tulsa, Oklahoma) and singer Patricia "Patti" Cathcart Andress (born October 4, 1949 in San Francisco).

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Turtle Island Quartet

The Turtle Island Quartet is a string quartet that plays hybrids of jazz, classical, and rock music.

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Valley Entertainment

Valley Entertainment is an American independent record label and music distributor based in New York City, United States.

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Vangelis

Evángelos Odysséas Papathanassíou (born 29 March 1943), best known professionally as Vangelis (Βαγγέλης), is a Greek composer of electronic, progressive, ambient, jazz, and orchestral music.

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W. A. Mathieu

William Allaudin Mathieu (born 1937) is a composer, pianist, choir director, music teacher, and author.

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William Ackerman

William Ackerman (born November 16, 1949) is an American guitarist and record producer who founded Windham Hill Records.

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Wim Mertens

Wim Mertens (born 14 May 1953) is a Flemish Belgian composer, countertenor vocalist, pianist, guitarist, and musicologist.

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Yanni

Yiannis Chryssomallis (Γιάννης Χρυσομάλλης, Giannis Chrysomallis; born November 14, 1954), known professionally as Yanni, is a Greek composer, keyboardist, pianist, and music producer who has spent his adult life in the United States.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windham_Hill_Records

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