Artist: Mike Stern
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Between the Lines
Year: 2006
Tracks: 10
VOICES
Year: 2004
Tracks: 9
These Times
Year: 2004
Tracks: 11
Neesh
Year: 2004
Tracks: 7
Play
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Give and Take
Year: 1997
Tracks: 11
Is What It Is
Year: 1994
Tracks: 9
Standards (and Other Songs)
Year: 1992
Tracks: 11
Upside Downside
Year: 1990
Tracks: 9
Time in Place
Year: 1990
Tracks: 7
Recognized as one of the finest guitarists among his peers, Mike Stern was born on January 10, 1953, in Boston, MA, just grew up in Washington, D.C., in front returning to Boston to work at the Berklee School of Music. Stern was only 22 when he joined Blood, Sweat & Tears, for whom he played trey years in front signing on with Billy Cobham's jazz fusion outfit, which light-emitting diode to Stern's large breakthrough when Miles Davis enlisted him as guitar player for Davis' give back from a five-year musical hiatus in 1981. Stern played and recorded with Davis until 1983, when Stern toured with Jaco Pastorius, just he rejoined Davis in 1985, which also brought about Stern's debut release as a leader, the warmly received Neesh. This time, Stern remained with Davis for a year, after which he cycled through projects by David Sanborn and Steps Ahead patch simultaneously recording his follow-up to Neesh, coroneted Upside Downside, which marked his low gear release for Atlantic Records' jazz class. Stern continued a steady twine of releases for Atlantic over the next few years patch chronic to play with several other projects, including Michael Brecker and the reunited Brecker Brothers, finally scoring his first Grammy nomination with the release of Is What It Is in 1994, then garnering some other nominating speech for his 1996 followup, Betwixt the Lines. Stern standard his third Grammy nod for his 2001 release Voices, which was Stern's first recording with vocals -- albeit tongueless vocalese -- and likewise marked the goal of his tenure with Atlantic. Stern issued his debut album for ESC in early 2004, and two years later, with a disgorge of impressive financial backing musicians (Richard Bona, Me'Shell NdegéOcello, Roy Hargrove, and Kim Thompson, among others), World Health Organization Let the Cats Out was released.
