A Windham Hill Retrospective (CD)

• Category:  Music  »  Instrumental  »  Guitar
• Format: CD   Learn more about the CD format using Tower WIKI.
• Release Date: January 26, 1993
• Label: Windham Hill Records
• UPC: 019341112129
• WAPI (Tower ID): 105999381
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• Tower.com Sales Rank: #70828 in Music (See Top 100 Music Bestsellers)
• #499 in Instrumental (See Top 100 Instrumental Bestsellers)
• #86 in Guitar (See Top 100 Guitar Bestsellers)

Personnel: Will Ackerman (guitar, charango); Michael Hedges (guitar); Darol Anger, Charles Bisharat (violin); Dan Reiter (cello); Chuck Greenberg (lyricon); Enrique "Quique" Cruz (quena, zampona, entara); Paul McCandless (bass clarinet, oboe, English horn); George Winston, Ira Stein (piano); Tim Story (keyboards); Michael Manring (bass).

Producers: Scott Saxon, Will Ackerman, Elliot Mazer, Steven Miller, Alex DeGrassi.

Engineers include: Scott Saxon, Stephen Hart, Steven Miller.

Includes liner notes by Will Ackerman.

William Ackerman supposedly once threatened bodily harm to a journalist who called his music "new age." Whether he likes the term or not, the German-born guitarist provided the genre with its most visible symbol when he founded the Windham Hill label in the mid '70s with his debut album, IN SEARCH OF THE TURTLE'S NAVEL.

Ackerman stepped down as head of the label in 1984 and left the company entirely in the early '90s when it was sold to BMG. This 1993 compilation draws from all eight of Ackerman's Windham Hill releases, drawing most heavily from his early solo albums, which in retrospect seem to be his best work. The keyboard sounds in particular on his '80s records now sound a bit dated, but not enough to detract from the mastery of his playing, rooted in both folk and jazz but somehow sounding like neither.

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