Earnest Woodall

Infobox musical artist
Name = Earnest Woodall


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Occupation = guitarist, composer, sound engineer
Origin = Commack, New York
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Genre = Avante-Garde
Electronic
Jazz
Modern Classical Music
Minimalism
Years_active = 1988–present
Label = Zephyrwood Music
URL = http://www.ewoodall.com/Earnest Woodall (born July, 24 1959) is an American composer. Born in Bayshore, New York and raised in suburban Long Island, New York, Woodall took up the guitar at age 10, inspired by rock, blues and jazz players. A local teacher Peter Rogine introduced him to the music of Phillip Glass, Steve Reich and John Adams, as well as Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Thelonious Monk and coming of age with the progressive music of Yes,
Emerson, Lake and Palmer, and Pink Floyd which sparked a lifelong love of both modern classical music, progressive rock and jazz. Earnest Woodall soon attended the Five Towns College of Music and then the Berklee College of Music, later moving into the local music scene of the New York Tri-State area with a wide variety of bandleaders and musicians

Establishing himself as a rare artist that can play more than one style of music with true fluency, virtuosity and sincerity. Earnest Woodall proves it on his 2004 Zephyrwood Music release, "Time To Think". The album finds him confirming his reputation as an original and innovative composer / performer.

As well as recording his own music Earnest Woodall also composed andrecorded music for many independent films from 1992 – 2000 and also has received two Meet the Composer grants from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) Composers Program

In the late 1980s and early 90s Earnest Woodall found himself in thecenter of the cassette tape underground culture and was reviewed by the most popular underground music zines of the time such as "Option", "Fact-Sheet Five", "Tape Op", "Ear", "Wired", "The Improviser", "New Music Journal", "See-Hear", and "Creative Alternative".

Earnest Woodall also pulls a lot of influence from the eclectic randomness of Frank Zappa and the sounds produced by various progressive rock bands such as early Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Yes, and King Crimson.

Reviews

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Discography

Composition work

ee also

*Minimalist music
*Steve Reich
*John Adams
*Philip Glass
*Modern Classical Music
*Kronos Quartet

External links

Official site

* [http://www.ewoodall.com/ Official website]

Other sites

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