- Jeremy Steig
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Name = Jeremy Steig
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Origin =Greenwich Village ,New York
Instrument =Flute
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Genre =Jazz Jazz-rock
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Years_active = 1963- present
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Notable_instruments =Jeremy Steig, (
September 23 ,1942 ), the son of "New Yorker" cartoonistWilliam Steig , is notable as one of the fewjazz flutists playing flute exclusively, as opposed to doubling from otherwoodwind s.Life and career
At age 19 Steig was involved in a
motorcycle accident which left him paralyzed on one side. For some years afterward, he played the flute with the help of a special mouthpiece.After a start in mainstream jazz, with albums with
Bill Evans andDenny Zeitlin , Steig became an early force in thejazz-rock fusion experiments of the late 1960s and early 70s, including with the short lived bandJeremy and the Satyrs. . His album "Energy", later re-released with additional material, under different titles, featured keyboard playerJan Hammer and bassistEddie Gomez , and was recorded atElectric Lady Studios under the hand of sometimeJimi Hendrix engineer Eddie Kramer.Steig addressed the tonal color restrictions of the instrument by the use of "modern" acoustic techniques (voice multiphonics and overtones similar to
Rahsaan Roland Kirk , key percussion) electronic effects, and by using the entire battery of flute-family instruments, frompiccolo tobass flute (including the obscure Sousa-eraalto piccolo ), often over-dubbed and multi-tracked together.His song
Howlin' For Judy from his 1970 album "Legwork" is the source of the main sample in the 1994Beastie Boys ' single "Sure Shot ".elected recordings
* "Energy" (1971) re-released wholly or partially on CD, with different combinations of extra tracks, as "Fusion" and "Something Else"
* "Firefly" (1977)CTI Records
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