Patrick Gleeson Explained

Patrick Gleeson
Background:non_vocal_instrumentalist
Birth Date:9 November 1934
Occupation:Musician
Instrument:Synthesizer
Years Active:1960s–present
Associated Acts:Herbie Hancock

Patrick Gleeson (born November 9, 1934) is an American musician, synthesizer pioneer, composer, and producer.

Career

Gleeson moved to San Francisco in the 1960s to teach in the English Department at San Francisco State.[1] Gleeson began experimenting with electronic music in the mid-'60s at the San Francisco Tape Music Center using a Buchla synth and other devices. He resigned his teaching position to become a full-time musician. In 1968, "upon hearing Wendy Carlos' Switched-On Bach", he bought a Moog synthesizer and opened the Different Fur recording studio in San Francisco.[2]

He worked with Herbie Hancock in the early 1970s on two albums (Crossings and Sextant) and subsequent tours, pioneering synthesizers as a live instrument.[2] [3] Hancock initially hired Gleeson as a synthesizer technician and instructor, but ended up asking him to become a full-time band member, expanding the ensemble from six to seven musicians.[4] Hancock has credited Gleeson with introducing him to synthesizers and teaching him technique.[3] Sextant and Headhunters were both recorded in part at Different Fur studios. Gleeson has subsequently worked with many other Jazz musicians, including Julian Priester, Lenny White, Freddie Hubbard, Charles Earland, Eddie Henderson and Joe Henderson.

Gleeson recorded a number of solo albums, starting with Beyond the Sun - An Electronic Portrait of Holst's "The Planets" in 1976, to which Carlos contributed the sleeve notes. The album was nominated for a "best engineered recording-classical" Grammy in 1976.[2] Beyond the Sun was followed in 1977 by a more commercial album, Patrick Gleeson's Star Wars.

He worked as a producer and engineer on the 1978 Devo album Q: Are We Not Men? A: We Are Devo!, part of which was recorded at Different Fur.He sold his interest in Different Fur in 1985.[5]

Gleeson has been involved in the scoring of a number of film soundtracks, including The Plague Dogs, Apocalypse Now, Crossroads and The Bedroom Window. He has scored nine television series, including Knots Landing.[6]

In 2017 Gleeson retired from film and television scoring and returned to live performance, both as a solo artist and with a trio (Michael Shrieve, drums, and Sam Morrison, reeds).

Discography

As leader or co-leader

As sideman (partial listing)

With Paul Kantner, Grace Slick)

With Charles Earland

With Herbie Hancock

With Eddie Henderson

With Joe Henderson

With Meat Beat Manifesto

With Julian Priester

With Lenny White

Further reading

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gleeson . Patrick . Bruce and I . San Francisco Museum of Modern Art . 17 October 2018.
  2. Web site: Patrick Gleeson . Maygarden, Tony . endlessgroove.com . 2011-11-20 . https://web.archive.org/web/20120107064401/http://www.endlessgroove.com/issue1/gleeson.htm . January 7, 2012 . dead .
  3. News: Zussman. John Unger. Jazzing it up at the NCC. 2011-11-20. InfoWorld. July 5, 1982.
  4. See Stuart Nicholson's notes for the 2001 Warner Bros. CD reissue of Crossings
  5. Web site: Different Fur Studios: History. Different Fur. 2011-11-20. https://web.archive.org/web/20111203092302/http://differentfurstudios.com/blog/?page_id=130. December 3, 2011. dead.
  6. Book: Battino . David . Richards . Kelli . The Art of Digital Music . 2005 . Backbeat Books . San Francisco, CA . 0-87930-830-3 . 36 . registration .

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