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'''Galt MacDermot''' (born [[18 December]] [[1928]] in [[Montreal, Quebec]]) is a [[Canadian]] [[pianist]], [[composer]] and writer of [[musical theatre]]. He was educated at [[Upper Canada College]] and [[Bishop's University]] ([[Sherbrooke, Quebec]]). He was trained in music in [[South Africa]] and made a study of [[African music]] his specialty. |
'''Galt MacDermot''' (born [[18 December]] [[1928]] in [[Montreal, Quebec]]) is a [[Canadian]] [[pianist]], [[composer]] and writer of [[musical theatre]]. He was educated at [[Upper Canada College]] and [[Bishop's University]] ([[Sherbrooke, Quebec]]). He was trained in music in [[South Africa]] and made a study of [[African music]] his specialty. |
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On [[8 August]] 2006, [[Oh No]] in fact released an album on [[Stones Throw Records]], produced completely with Galt MacDermot samples, entitled ''Exodus into Unheard Rhythms''. |
On [[8 August]] 2006, [[Oh No]] in fact released an album on [[Stones Throw Records]], produced completely with Galt MacDermot samples, entitled ''Exodus into Unheard Rhythms''. |
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Galt MacDermot (born 18 December 1928 in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian pianist, composer and writer of musical theatre. He was educated at Upper Canada College and Bishop's University (Sherbrooke, Quebec). He was trained in music in South Africa and made a study of African music his specialty.
He is best known as the composer of the groundbreaking 1960s rock musical Hair, which ran for nearly 2000 performances in both London and New York, won a Grammy Award in 1969, and was made into a film in 1979.
MacDermot is also popular amongst collectors of jazz, funk and film soundtracks, for the scores he created to minor productions such as Woman is Sweeter and Rhinoceros. Working with high-calibre jazz musicians such as Bernard Purdie, Jimmy Lewis and Idris Muhammad, MacDermot created tight, rhythmical soundtrack pieces which effectively prefigured the funk material of James Brown. Consequently, MacDermot's work from this period has been sampled by hip-hop musicians including Busta Rhymes, who borrowed "Space" for "Woo hah!", and Handsome Boy Modelling School, DJ Vadim, DJ Premier and Oh No (rapper), who have all sampled the same segment from "Coffee Cold".
On 8 August 2006, Oh No in fact released an album on Stones Throw Records, produced completely with Galt MacDermot samples, entitled Exodus into Unheard Rhythms.
Shows
- My Fur Lady (1957)
- Hair (1967)
- Isabel's a Jezebel (1970)
- Two Gentlemen of Verona (1971)
- Dude (1973)
- Via Galactica (1973)
- The Human Comedy (1984)
Partial discography
- Hair
- Hair Pieces - on Verve Forecast (1967)
- Corporation
- Shapes of Rhythm/Woman is Sweeter
- Up From the Basement Volumes 1 & 2
- Purdie as a Picture
External link
- Galt MacDermot's Official Website
- Galt MacDermot's Discography
- Galt MacDermot's Free Streaming Music
- Galt MacDermot's MySpace Page
- Galt MacDermot's Photo Gallery
- Galt MacDermot's Full Biography
- Galt MacDermot's New Pulse Jazz Band
- Galt MacDermot at IMDb
- Galt MacDermot at the Internet Broadway Database
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