Steve Gray

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BLOW OUT 02:25 Tools
Probe 03:30 Tools
Early Riser 02:30 Tools
FLY ME 02:19 Tools
Mellow Thoughts 01:59 Tools
AUTUMN COLOURS 04:42 Tools
Sequence II - Recordare Jesu Pie 03:30 Tools
low profile 04:51 Tools
mighty atom 02:30 Tools
Pathfinder 02:50 Tools
Snowman`s Stomp (1968-1970) 04:42 Tools
Billowing Sails 02:39 Tools
Tomboy 02:38 Tools
Rocky Reggae 02:40 Tools
Poltergeist 03:34 Tools
Flashing Knives 01:19 Tools
MUSIC IN MOTION 02:42 Tools
Going Places 02:02 Tools
Bionic Coconuts 02:28 Tools
Fireside 02:32 Tools
The Mating Game 02:44 Tools
Antique Stroll 02:44 Tools
Mademoiselle 03:51 Tools
Standing Idle 01:34 Tools
Moonlight Over McAlpines 01:05 Tools
Shuttle Service 00:57 Tools
Eye Catcher (BRG18) 02:22 Tools
theme from the grandfather 00:57 Tools
Runaway 03:44 Tools
Golden Groove 05:35 Tools
Passing Times 03:30 Tools
A Wish List 04:02 Tools
Fairy Tale Princess 02:14 Tools
Beverly Hills 01:05 Tools
Crazy Paving 00:58 Tools
Warm Horn 02:27 Tools
Party Up 01:45 Tools
Luna Sobre Mazaltan 01:45 Tools
Chique 06:20 Tools
Stroller 02:22 Tools
layback 03:42 Tools
Attack 00:50 Tools
New Oleans Funeral 03:30 Tools
Runaway (The Remix) 03:42 Tools
The Tension Mounts 01:09 Tools
Sugar Loaf 03:49 Tools
Eye Catcher 02:24 Tools
In Pursuit 00:07 Tools
Sunshine Drive 00:12 Tools
Resting Place 02:15 Tools
Roughed Up 01:31 Tools
At Your Leisure 02:22 Tools
Robot Boogie 02:27 Tools
Get Down 02:28 Tools
Night Moods 06:29 Tools
Happy Tourist 01:51 Tools
The Set Up 02:00 Tools
Bustle 02:13 Tools
Plaything 02:03 Tools
Success Story 3 (BRJ2) 02:53 Tools
country holiday 01:30 Tools
May Morning 02:02 Tools
Hit Man 01:34 Tools
deep fix 02:03 Tools
Fight Night 03:33 Tools
Jungle Jazz Room 00:06 Tools
Strange Signals 03:27 Tools
Rhythm Banana 03:15 Tools
B1 - Fly Me 02:15 Tools
I Wanna Get To Know You. 04:14 Tools
Party Up - Shades of Gray 01:43 Tools
Guitar Concerto: I. Dances 03:40 Tools
Pendulum (BRM1) 01:50 Tools
FLYING BIRD 03:23 Tools
Unseen Danger (From The Professionals) 02:09 Tools
Spoof 02:28 Tools
Friends 02:40 Tools
Pianola Rag 02:58 Tools
Hot Box 00:30 Tools
Barcelona Or Bust 02:27 Tools
Regrets 02:08 Tools
Island Rescue 00:46 Tools
Cooking The Joint 01:30 Tools
New Faces 04:44 Tools
B6 - In-Time 03:47 Tools
Conference Motion 02:23 Tools
Thinking About You 03:39 Tools
The Private Thoughts Of A Practical Joker 02:16 Tools
Glittering Mud 02:27 Tools
GLIDING THROUGH CLOUDS 02:57 Tools
Feelings 02:40 Tools
Tut-Tut-Tutti 04:44 Tools
B2 - Just An Old Square At Heart 02:23 Tools
Shake It 01:17 Tools
Great Fun 02:14 Tools
Three's Company 02:19 Tools
Snowdrops And Raindrops 02:20 Tools
Success Story 3 02:53 Tools
Walking The Rabbit 03:02 Tools
Streaking Strings 03:52 Tools
Field Events 02:53 Tools
Deliver The Goods 02:10 Tools
Giant 02:09 Tools
Last Goodbye 04:44 Tools
Go Mack Go 04:40 Tools
The Open Door 01:57 Tools
Vice Grip 02:27 Tools
Race of champions 03:05 Tools
All On A Summer Day 02:41 Tools
Newcomers 03:27 Tools
To Catch A Fish 02:04 Tools
Lullaby for Lovers 02:40 Tools
old times good times 03:52 Tools
Silent Motion 03:23 Tools
Flyaway 01:33 Tools
All for Laughs 01:45 Tools
Winter Pastoral 01:45 Tools
Like a Rolling Stone 00:38 Tools
Nothing Can Come Between Us - Shades of Gray 03:51 Tools
B7 - The Explorers 02:05 Tools
Beverly Hills ['Deadly Habitz'] 02:05 Tools
Start The Day Right 03:13 Tools
The End of the Day 01:33 Tools
Samba Dee (Stole My Gal) 02:55 Tools
Grandslam 01:37 Tools
Quiet Waltz 03:18 Tools
Welcome News 01:37 Tools
The Double Take [KPM 1174 'Amusement' (1976)] 03:52 Tools
Eye Catcher - Bruton Music Library 01:52 Tools
Lonely Hour 01:43 Tools
Tense Dialogue 01:52 Tools
Dreams of Redcar 02:52 Tools
Honeymoon 02:19 Tools
Caprice 01:57 Tools
State Fair 02:46 Tools
Manpower 02:53 Tools
Good for Life 02:37 Tools
A Day in the Life [KPM 1174 'Amusement' (1976)] 03:18 Tools
Leading Light 02:20 Tools
Spring to Life 2 02:45 Tools
Last Minute Panic 02:46 Tools
Guitar Concerto: II. Love Songs 03:41 Tools
Sitting On This Fence 01:33 Tools
It's Good to Be Alive 02:18 Tools
Zaz 01:57 Tools
Summer Sales 02:52 Tools
Warm Waters 03:41 Tools
Flying 1 01:51 Tools
After The Fair 02:34 Tools
Good for Life (short version) 01:38 Tools
Squirrel 02:18 Tools
Spring to Life 1 02:12 Tools
Fun On The Run 02:09 Tools
Thoughtful Folk 01:51 Tools
Honeymoon Hotel 01:51 Tools
Birds Bikinis And Boobs 02:52 Tools
Manhattan Transfer 02:58 Tools
Clover County 01:27 Tools
Flying 2 03:40 Tools
Suzanne Comes Back 01:33 Tools
Sunny Summer 02:18 Tools
Good News 02:06 Tools
Spooky 02:58 Tools
V.I.P. 01:51 Tools
Whos Afraid Of Jim The Wolf 01:33 Tools
Lazy Days 01:51 Tools
Vacation 01:22 Tools
Lonely Clover 01:51 Tools
I Spy With My Little Eye 02:04 Tools
Drinks On The Terrace 02:04 Tools
Paper Boy 02:46 Tools
Roughed Up (Frantic Speeded up Version) 02:39 Tools
The Brutonian 01:51 Tools
Just An Old Square At Heart 01:51 Tools
GARDEN PICTURES 01:37 Tools
Time and Motion 02:34 Tools
Flowers 02:30 Tools
Giant 3 02:39 Tools
Jazz Up 00:38 Tools
Steve Gray - Running From Danger 00:38 Tools
Brewster 02:31 Tools
Guitar Concerto: III. Jokes 01:51 Tools
Pendulum 01:51 Tools
It's the Walkman 03:41 Tools
Lonesome 01:51 Tools
Queen Wasp 04:04 Tools
Sequence I - Dies Irae, Tuba Mirum, Rex Tremendae 03:41 Tools
Beverly Hills - Sampled in "Deadly Habitz" 03:41 Tools
Mighty Atom (From "The Opening Of Misty Beethoven" 1977) 01:27 Tools
Stalagtite 02:30 Tools
Happiness 03:30 Tools
Suzanne Comes Back short version 01:21 Tools
Superbrite 01:21 Tools
Latin Quarter 02:30 Tools
Fragments of Tension 01:21 Tools
long weekend 01:21 Tools
little miss bristol 01:21 Tools
Success Story 1 00:38 Tools
More Haste Less Speed 02:39 Tools
Sweet and Salt - Pascal York Chillhouse Mix 01:55 Tools
Beverley Hills [CJ Fly - 'Still the Motto'] 00:38 Tools
Sun Hunter 1 02:08 Tools
Funny Bone 01:51 Tools
Girl in the sun 01:51 Tools
A Girl Called Amelia 01:51 Tools
House Of Straw 02:52 Tools
Sun Hunter 2 01:52 Tools
Elizabethan Pastoral 02:30 Tools
Starlight Snowfall 02:30 Tools
House of Straw reprise 01:10 Tools
Steve Gray - Go For Broke 01:10 Tools
Giant 1 02:10 Tools
Spring to Life 3 01:55 Tools
Success Story 2 02:32 Tools
Nightride 01:57 Tools
Beverley Hills Riped by Dj Паштет 02:26 Tools
Before And After 01:27 Tools
Jazz Suite for Bassoon: 1. Allegro 01:27 Tools
You Turn My Legs to Water band version** 02:36 Tools
Beverley Hills (Bruton Music Library 1980) 02:30 Tools
Mahogany 03:30 Tools
who's afraid of jim the wolf 03:30 Tools
Raincheck 03:30 Tools
Giant 2 02:32 Tools
Anxiety 02:32 Tools
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• Steve Gray, musician, born April 18 1944 Middlesborough England; died September 20 2008 The musical presence of Steve Gray. As a session keyboard player in the 1970s, he played for Quincy Jones, Henry Mancini, Michel Legrand, Lalo Schifrin, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis Jr, John Barry and many others, but he never regarded himself as a creative pianist and was shy of the role in the presence of the jazz players he loved. In the 1980s he was the keyboardist in the guitarist John Williams' crossover band Sky - participating in several hit albums - but played down his part. After he left Sky, his achievements might well surprise those who had only glimpsed his presence in the shadows. He wrote a guitar concerto for Williams and the London Symphony Orchestra in 1988, a piano concerto for the French jazz-piano legend Martial Solal, two operas and a requiem mass, orchestrated Brian Eno's works in collaboration with the composer, and much more. From 1991, he worked with the North German Radio (NDR) Big Band in Hamburg, conceiving with them a project devoted to the music of the South African Abdullah Ibrahim. Gray was born in Middlesbrough and began to teach himself the piano at the age of 10. He played bassoon in the Middlesbrough Municipal Junior Orchestra but gravitated to the saxophone section under the direction of Ron Aspery, who later founded the groundbreaking Yorkshire fusion trio Back Door. Gray's ears were already teaching him all he needed. In his early teens, attending a Duke Ellington concert with Aspery, he began transcribing the music he had heard while on the bus on the way home. He eventually became a pit pianist at the Middlesbrough Empire, moved to London in the early 1960s, and joined a quartet led by the great British bop drummer Phil Seamen. Typically, he felt that he was lucky to get the gig and feared that Seamen would rumble his shortcomings. Gray then joined the bands of Eric Delaney, Johnny Howard and Mike Cotton, and by the late 1960s was working on studio sessions. Exploring composition, he wrote background music for movies, radio and TV, and released A Woman in Love (1969), an album of his own pieces. Within a few years he was running his own quintet, Wasp, with ex-Shadows drummer Brian Bennett and saxophonist-composer Duncan Lamont, and recording an incidental melange of light funk, classical, disco, Latin, jazz and electronics for the KPM company. Gray's expertise blossomed. He arranged Jonathan Hodge's score for the Richard Burton film Villain (1971), and his sense of harmony and texture led him to reshape the Walker Brothers sound on their comeback albums No Regrets (1975) and Lines (1976). He also accompanied Olivia Newton-John for the 1974 Eurovision song contest, as well as Petula Clark and Tom Jones. Gray disliked performing in public, but an invitation in 1980 to join Sky for a performance in Westminster Abbey and an Australian tour was too hard to resist. He composed Singer (1986), with Georgie Fame, for the Holland Metropole Orchestra, which also played Gray's arrangements of Eno's music from the album The Shutov Assembly. He composed two works for the W11 Opera in London for young people and an adaptation of Emilio de Cavalieri's 1599 work Rappresentazione di Anima e di Corpo for the Cologne Opera House. It was after vocalist and composer Norma Winstone invited him to write settings for her atmospheric songs that he began working with the NDR Big Band. Gray had written some big-band arrangements for Winstone some years before, and the singer was startled by his appreciation of lyrics. "I suggested swapping eight-bar phrases with the band on Easy to Love," Winstone later remarked, "and he said 'oh, but that would bring you back in the middle of a sentence'. He was right, of course." Gray wrote an arrangement for Winstone's haunting account of The Peacocks, written by former Billie Holiday pianist Jimmy Rowles, and played piano on the recording. "That pianist really knows what he's doing," the vastly experienced Rowles said. Winstone's invitation led to the NDR's Kurt Giese suggesting a Duke Ellington project to Gray in 1991, and the NDR ball began to roll. The partnership has included the Ekapa Lodumo album with Ibrahim in 2001 and a requiem mass for big band and choir. In 1998, Gray was guest professor of composition and arrangement in the Berlin Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler jazz department. The composer's untapped potential was immense, and the NDR offered him freedoms he had never known before. His old playing partner Duncan Lamont once opined that his wit, wisdom and otherworldly intuitions made him seem "1,000 years old". The bassist Chris Laurence, asking the self-taught Gray where he got his eerily voiced chords from, was told: "I didn't know the right ones." • Steve Gray, musician, born April 18 1944; died September 20 2008 Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.