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George Lewis

There are 2 different jazz musicians named George Lewis's listed here, bios of both follow: 1. A New Orleans based traditional jazz clarinetist (born 1900 - died 1968), a contemporary of Bunk Johnson and Kid Ory, the streaming audio on Last.fm is all by George Lewis 1. 2. A modern computer-interfacing trombonist and composer born 1952 in Chicago who has played with numerous current artists including on Laurie Anderson's album Big Science. Bios

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Robert Ashley

Robert Ashley may be either of two different artists - an American opera writer or an American video-games journalist and podcaster. A) Robert Ashley, a distinguished figure in American contemporary music, holds an international reputation for his work in new forms of opera and multi-disciplinary projects. His recorded works are acknowledged classics of language in a musical setting. He pioneered opera-for-television.

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David Behrman

David Behrman (born Salzburg, Austria, August 16, 1937) is a US composer and the producer of Columbia Records' Music of Our Time series. He was also a founding member of the Sonic Arts Union. He toured with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and has worked with Ben Neill. He was a part of Robert Ashley's Music with Roots in the Aether interview series. He is known as a minimalist composer. His music has often involved interactions between live performers and computers, usually with the computer generating sounds triggered by some aspect of the live performance...

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Scenic Routes

Gary Halmkan has been a singer/songwriter/performing artist for many years standing. In early 2000 he lived in Slovakia where he recorded an album with some of the best local musicians, which then led to a tour of Slovakia and the Czech Republic. Returning to Brighton (England) in 2004 with his wife to be (Livia Smiesna, accordion player). Together they formed the nucleus of what would later become the band Scenic Routes. Taking as their inspiration the musical traditions heard by them on their travels throughout Eastern Europe.

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