Biography
Various artists with the name:
1) Michael White (violinist) (1933–2016), jazz musician
2) Michael White (US singer) of The White, an American hard rock combo and occasional Led Zeppelin tribute band
3) Michael 'Mick' White (born 1967), English hard rock singer for Samson
4) Michael White (clarinetist) (born 1954), New Orleans jazz musician
5) Michael White (singer), country music artist
6) Trippie Redd (Michael White IV, born 1999), rap artist from Canton, Ohio
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1) Michael Walter White (24 May 1930 - 6 December 2016) was an American jazz violinist.
White was born in Houston, Texas, and grew up in Oakland, California, taking up the violin when he was six years old. He first became known in 1965 when he played with the John Handy Quintet at the Monterey Jazz Festival, and recorded three albums with Handy. White was among the first to play the violin in avant-garde jazz, and in the late 1960s became one of the first jazz violinists to play jazz rock fusion (with his band The Fourth Way). He has played with musicians such as Sun Ra, Prince Lasha, McCoy Tyner, Eric Dolphy, Wes Montgomery, Kenny Dorham, Joe Henderson, and Richard Davis. In early 2007, The Michael White Quintet's "Mechanical Man" won in The 6th Annual Independent Music Awards for Best Jazz Song.
White lived in Los Angeles, California. After a long period of obscurity, in the mid 1990s he was involved in a reunion of the Handy Quintet, and recorded an album as co-leader with Bill Frisell, Motion Pictures (1997). In 2006 White released the album Voices. He died on December 6, 2016.
Discography
1971: Spirit Dance (Impulse!)
1972: Pneuma (Impulse!)
1973: The Land of Spirit and Light (Impulse!)
1974: Father Music, Mother Dance (Impulse!)
1974: Go with the Flow (Impulse!)
1978: The X Factor (Elektra Records)
1979: White Night (Elektra)
1997: Motion Pictures (Intuition)
2006: Voices (Izniz)
With John Handy
Recorded Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival (Columbia, 1966)
Projections (Columbia, 1968)
With The Fourth Way
The Fourth Way (Capitol Records, 1969)
The Sun and Moon Have Come Together (1970, Harvest Records)
Werewolf (Harvest, 1970)
With Sonny Simmons
Manhattan Egos (Arhoolie, 1969 & 2000)
Burning Spirits (Contemporary, 1971)
With The Dead Science
Submariner (2003)
"Bird Bones in the Bughouse" (2004)
With Pharoah Sanders
Thembi (Impulse!, 1971)
Elevation (Impulse!, 1973)
With Alice Coltrane
John Coltrane: Infinity (1972)
With Joe Henderson
The Elements (Milestone, 1973)
2) Michael White & the White is an American hard rock combo and occasional Led Zeppelin cover band, formed around US singer Michael White.
White started his career in 1973, when he played with Los Angeles-based The Boyz, in a line-up which included Mick Brown and George Lynch (both of Dokken). He is further credited as being a vocalist in early incarnations of London.
White formed The White in 1977 with guitarist Lanny Cordola (of Giuffria, House of Lords). The band would later include guitarist- Chap Cooper, drummer- Rocky Romano and bassist John Wilson. Since then the White has toured extensively through North America and Europe.
In 1986 Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin assisted in securing White a recording contract with Atlantic Records. The debut album "Michael White" was recorded at Musicland Studios in Munich Germany (where Led Zeppelin recorded their Presence album) with legendary producer Reinhold Mack at the board. The album was well received, earning a five "K" review from Derek Oliver of Kerrang magazine. The album featured W.A.S.P. guitarist Randy Piper, Alan St Johns of the Billy Squier band, Bobby Chouinard of the Gary Moore band and Danny Bilan of Moxy. The White then recorded two CDs for the Griffin Music label: "The White" (1990) and "Plays the Music of Led Zeppelin" (1994), which were later re-released as a double-album under the title A Tribute To Led Zeppelin - Studio Sessions, Volume One & Volume Two.
In 2005 Cleopatra Records approached White to record on a Led Zeppelin tribute album entitled "Led Box" which also featured Eric Bloom of Blue Öyster Cult, Pat Travers, Joe Lynn Turner (of Rainbow), Rick Derringer, Rick Wakeman (Yes), Steve Morse (Deep Purple) and Keith Emerson (ELP).
In 2009 White created "Orchestral Zeppelin" and toured around Canada performing with volunteer orchestras in each city.
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