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Hal Willner (born 1957, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a U.S. state located in the Northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 music producer working in recording, films, TV and live events. He is best known for assembling tribute album
Tribute album

A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions. Its concept may be either various artists making a tribute to a single artist, a single artist making a tribute to various artists, or a single artist making a tribute to another single artist....
s and events featuring a wide variety of artists and musical styles (jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
, classical, rock
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
, Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley

Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City-centered History of music publishings and songwriters who dominated the American popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century....
).

In the 1970s he worked under record producer Joel Dorn
Joel Dorn

Joel Dorn was an United States jazz and R&B music producer and record label entrepreneur. He started at Atlantic Records.32 Jazz, Label M, and are among the record labels he started....
. Willner is often credited as the inventor of the 'modern' tribute album
Tribute album

A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions. Its concept may be either various artists making a tribute to a single artist, a single artist making a tribute to various artists, or a single artist making a tribute to another single artist....
 with Amarcord Nino Rota in 1981. He became music supervisor of Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
 in 1981, a position which he has continued to hold.






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Hal Willner (born 1957, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania

The Commonwealth of Pennsylvania , often colloquially referred to as PA by natives and Northeasterners, is a U.S. state located in the Northeastern United States and Mid-Atlantic States regions of the United States....
) is an American
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
 music producer working in recording, films, TV and live events. He is best known for assembling tribute album
Tribute album

A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions. Its concept may be either various artists making a tribute to a single artist, a single artist making a tribute to various artists, or a single artist making a tribute to another single artist....
s and events featuring a wide variety of artists and musical styles (jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
, classical, rock
Rock and roll

Rock and roll is a form of music that evolved in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Its roots lay mainly in rhythm and blues, Country music, folk music, gospel music, and jazz....
, Tin Pan Alley
Tin Pan Alley

Tin Pan Alley is the name given to the collection of New York City-centered History of music publishings and songwriters who dominated the American popular music of the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century....
).

In the 1970s he worked under record producer Joel Dorn
Joel Dorn

Joel Dorn was an United States jazz and R&B music producer and record label entrepreneur. He started at Atlantic Records.32 Jazz, Label M, and are among the record labels he started....
. Willner is often credited as the inventor of the 'modern' tribute album
Tribute album

A tribute album is a recorded collection of cover versions of songs or instrumental compositions. Its concept may be either various artists making a tribute to a single artist, a single artist making a tribute to various artists, or a single artist making a tribute to another single artist....
 with Amarcord Nino Rota in 1981. He became music supervisor of Saturday Night Live
Saturday Night Live

Saturday Night Live is a weekly late-night 90-minute American sketch comedy/variety show filmed in New York City. It made its debut on October 11, 1975....
 in 1981, a position which he has continued to hold. He was also a producer of the TV program Sunday Night
Sunday Night

Sunday Night, later named Michelob Presents Night Music, was a late-night television show which aired for two seasons between 1988 and 1990 as a showcase for jazz and eclectic musical artists....
 hosted by David Sanborn
David Sanborn

David Sanborn is an United States alto saxophone saxophonist. Though Sanborn has worked in many genres, his solo recordings typically blend jazz with instrumental Pop music and R&B....
.

Willner has also produced albums for Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull

Marianne Faithfull is an award-winning England singer, songwriter, actor and diarist whose career spans over four decades. Her early work in pop and rock music in the 1960s was overshadowed by her struggle with drug abuse in the 1970s....
, Lou Reed
Lou Reed

Lewis Allan "Lou" Reed is an American rock music musician best known as the guitarist, Singing and principal songwriter of The Velvet Underground as well as a successful solo artist whose career has spanned several decades....
, Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell

William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an United States guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late '80s Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise music and more....
, William S. Burroughs
William S. Burroughs

William Seward Burroughs II was an United States novelist, essayist, social critic, Painting and spoken word performer.Much of Burroughs's work is semi-autobiographical, drawn from his experiences as an opiate addict, a condition that marked the last fifty years of his life....
, Gavin Friday
Gavin Friday

Gavin Friday is an Ireland singer and songwriter, composer and Painting....
, Lucinda Williams
Lucinda Williams

Lucinda Williams is an United States rock music, folk music, and country music singer and songwriter. She recorded her first albums in 1978 and 1980 in a traditional country and blues style and received very little attention from radio, the media, or the public....
, Laurie Anderson and Allen Ginsberg
Allen Ginsberg

Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an United States poet. Ginsberg is best known for the poem "Howl" , celebrating his friends who were members of the Beat Generation and attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States....
, among others. He produced a live tribute concert to Tim Buckley
Tim Buckley

Timothy Charles Buckley III was an experimental vocalist and musician who incorporated jazz, psychedelia, funk, soul music, and avant-garde rock in a career spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s....
, that ultimately launched the career of Tim's son Jeff
Jeff Buckley

Jeffrey Scott Buckley , raised as Scotty Moorhead, was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He was the son of Tim Buckley, also a musician....
. He has released one album under his own name: Whoops, I'm an Indian, which featured audio samples from 78 rpm records from the early-mid 20th century.

Tribute albums

  • Amarcord Nino Rota (1981) Willner's first tribute album salutes Italian composer Nino Rota
    Nino Rota

    Nino Rota was an Italian composer best known for his work on film scores, notably the films of Federico Fellini. He also composed the music for two of Franco Zeffirelli's Shakespeare films, and for Francis Ford Coppola's The Godfather trilogy....
    , and features interpretation of his music for Federico Fellini
    Federico Fellini

    Federico Fellini, Italian orders of merit was an Italy film director. Known for a distinct style which meshes fantasy and baroque images, he is considered as one of the most influential and widely revered filmmakers of the 20th century....
     films by jazz and pop musicians including: Wynton
    Wynton Marsalis

    Wynton Learson Marsalis is an United States trumpeter and composer. He is among the most prominent jazz musicians of the modern era and is also a well-known instrumentalist in European classical music....
     and Branford Marsalis
    Branford Marsalis

    Branford Marsalis is an United States saxophonist, composer and bandleader. While primarily known for his work in jazz as the leader of the Branford Marsalis Quartet, he also performs frequently as a soloist with classical ensembles and has led the group Buckshot LeFonque....
    ; Carla Bley
    Carla Bley

    Carla Bley, n?e Borg, is an United States jazz composer, jazz piano, organist and band leader. An important figure in the Free Jazz movement of the 1960s, she is perhaps best known for her jazz opera Escalator Over The Hill , as well as a book of compositions that have been performed by many other artists, including Gary Burton, Ji...
    ; Muhal Richard Abrams
    Muhal Richard Abrams

    Muhal Richard Abrams is an United States educator, administrator, composer, arranger, clarinetist, cellist, and Jazz piano in the Modern Creative and Free jazz mediums....
    ; Bill Frisell
    Bill Frisell

    William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an United States guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late '80s Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise music and more....
    ; Steve Lacy
    Steve Lacy

    This article is about the jazz musician. For the CEO of Meredith, see Steve Lacy .Steve Lacy , born Steven Norman Lackritz in New York, was a jazz saxophone....
    ; Jaki Byard
    Jaki Byard

    Jaki Byard was an American jazz piano and composer who also played trumpet and saxophones, among several other instruments. He was noteworthy for his eclectic style, incorporating everything from ragtime and Stride piano to free jazz....
    ; and Deborah Harry
  • That's The Way I Feel Now: A Tribute to Thelonious Monk
    Thelonious Monk

    Thelonious Sphere Monk was an American jazz pianist and composer.Widely considered one of the most important musicians in jazz -- he is one of only three jazz musicians to be featured on the cover of Time magazine -- Monk had a unique improvisational style and made numerous contributions to the standard jazz repertoire, including "Epi...
     (1984) features musicians ranging from John Zorn
    John Zorn

    John Zorn is an American avant-garde composer, orchestration, record producer, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist. Zorn's recorded output is prolific with hundreds of album credits as a performer, composer, or producer....
     to Peter Frampton
    Peter Frampton

    Peter Kenneth Frampton is an English musician, singer, record producer, and multi-instrumentalist. He was previously associated with the bands Humble Pie and The Herd , among others....
  • Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill
    Lost in the Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill

    Lost In The Stars: The Music of Kurt Weill is a 1985 in music tribute album to German-American composer Kurt Weill. It was executive-produced by Hal Willner and John Telfer, and produced by Hal Willner and Paul M....
     (1985) features musicians ranging from Sting to Charlie Haden
    Charlie Haden

    Charles Edward Haden is an American jazz musician. He is a double bassist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman....
  • Stay Awake: Interpretations of Vintage Disney Films
    Stay Awake (album)

    Stay Awake: Various Interpretations of Music from Vintage Disney Films is a 1988 tribute album recorded by various artists performing songs from Disney films....
     (1988) features performances of songs from Walt Disney
    Walt Disney

    Walter Elias Disney was a multiple Academy Award-winning American film producer, film director, screenwriter, voice actor, animator, entrepreneur and philanthropist....
     movies by a large cast of artists ranging from Sun Ra
    Sun Ra

    Sun Ra was a jazz composer, bandleader, piano and synthesizer player, poet and philosopher known for his "cosmic philosophy", musical compositions and performances....
     to Michael Stipe
    Michael Stipe

    John Michael Stipe is an United States singer who is the lead vocalist for the alternative rock band R.E.M. Stipe has become well-known for the "mumbling" style of his early career and for his complex, surrealism lyrics, as well as his social and political activism....
    , Ringo Starr
    Ringo Starr

    Richard Starkey Order of the British Empire , better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an England musician, singer-songwriter and actor, best known as the drummer for The Beatles....
    , Yma Sumac
    Yma Súmac

    Yma Sumac [] was a noted Peruvian soprano. In the 1950s, she was one of the most famous proponents of exotica music and became an international success, based on the merits of her extreme vocal range, which was said to be "well over four octaves" and was sometimes claimed to span even five octaves at her peak....
     and Ken Nordine
    Ken Nordine

    Ken Nordine is an United States voiceover and recording artist best known for his series of Word Jazz albums. His deep, resonant voice has also been featured in many advertisings and movie trailers....
  • Weird Nightmare: Meditations on Mingus (1992) is a tribute to Charles Mingus
    Charles Mingus

    Charles Mingus was an United States jazz bassist, composer, bandleader, and occasional pianist. He was also known for his activism against racism....
    , featuring instruments designed and built by American composer Harry Partch
    Harry Partch

    File:Harry Partch Institute-6.jpgHarry Partch was an United Statesn composer and musical instrument creator. He was one of the first twentieth-century composers to work extensively and systematically with microtonality scale s, writing much of his music for custom-made instruments that he built himself, tuned in 11-limit just intonation....
    , on loan from his estate. Performers include Bill Frisell
    Bill Frisell

    William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an United States guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late '80s Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise music and more....
    , Vernon Reid
    Vernon Reid

    Vernon Reid is an English guitarist, songwriter, composer and bandleader. Best known as the founder and primary songwriter of the heavy metal band Living Colour, Reid was named #66 on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time....
    , Henry Rollins
    Henry Rollins

    Henry Rollins is an United Statesn singer-songwriter, spoken word, stand-up comedian, author, actor, activist and publisher.After joining the short-lived Washington, D.C....
    , Keith Richards
    Keith Richards

    Keith Richards is an England guitarist, songwriter, singer, record producer and a founding member of The Rolling Stones. As a guitarist, Richards is mostly known for his innovative rhythm guitar playing....
    , Charlie Watts
    Charlie Watts

    Charles Robert "Charlie" Watts is the drummer of The Rolling Stones. He is also a jazz bandleader and commercial artist. Watts is sometimes referred to as "The Wembley Whammer" when introduced by Mick Jagger during a concert....
    , Don Byron
    Don Byron

    Don Byron is an American composer and multi-intrumentalist. He primarily plays clarinet, but also used bass clarinet and saxophones.Though rooted in jazz, Byron's music is stylistically eclectic....
    , Henry Threadgill
    Henry Threadgill

    Henry Threadgill is an United States composer, saxophonist and flautist....
    , Gary Lucas
    Gary Lucas

    Gary Lucas is an United States guitarist, a Grammy-nominated songwriter, and an international recording artist with over a dozen solo albums to date, and a soundtrack composer for film and television....
    , Bobby Previte
    Bobby Previte

    Robert "Bobby" Previte is a drummer, composer and bandleader. Previte earned a Bachelor of Arts in Economics at the University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, where he also studied percussion instrument....
    , Robert Quine
    Robert Quine

    Robert W. Quine was an American guitarist, known for his innovative guitar solos.A native of Akron, Ohio, Quine worked with a wide range of musicians, though he himself remained relatively unknown in comparison....
    , Leonard Cohen
    Leonard Cohen

    Leonard Norman Cohen, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963....
    , Diamanda Galás
    Diamanda Galás

    Diamanda Gal?s is an American-born avant-garde performance artist, vocalist, keyboardist, and composer of Greek people heritage.Known for her expert piano as well as her distinctive, operatic voice, which has a three and a half octave range, Gal?s has been described as "capable of the most unnerving vocal terror"....
    , Chuck D
    Chuck D

    Carlton Douglas Ridenhour , better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer. He helped create politically and socially conscious rap music in the late 1980s as the leader of the rap group, Public Enemy ....
     and Elvis Costello
    Elvis Costello

    Elvis Costello is an England musician and singer-songwriter. Costello came to prominence as an early participant in London's Pub rock scene in the mid-1970s, and later became associated with the punk rock and New Wave musical genres, before establishing his own unique voice in the 1980s....
  • September Songs: The Music of Kurt Weill (1995) re-creation of the previous Weill tribute as a Canadian TV special directed by Larry Weinstein. A CD was issued including performances by Nick Cave
    Nick Cave

    Nicholas Edward Cave is an Australian musician, songwriter, author, screenwriter, Painting, and occasional film actor. He is best known for his work in the rock band Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, established in 1984 in music, who have become critically acclaimed for their fascination with American roots music....
     and P J Harvey
  • Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen
    Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen

    Stormy Weather: The Music of Harold Arlen is a compilation tribute album of Harold Arlen songs, released by Sony in February 2003 as a companion album to the film of the same name....
     (2005) another Larry Weinstein TV program. The CD includes performances by Rufus Wainwright
    Rufus Wainwright

    Rufus McGarrigle Wainwright is a Grammy-nominated, Canadian-American singer-songwriter. He has recorded five albums of original music, several extended play, and numerous tracks included on Compilation album and film soundtracks....
    , Debbie Harry
    Debbie Harry

    Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry is an American singer-songwriter and actress, most famous for being the lead singer for the punk rock/New Wave music band Blondie ....
    , David Johansen
    David Johansen

    David Roger Johansen is an United States rock and roll, protopunk, blues and pop music singer, as well as a songwriter and actor. He was a member of the wikt:seminal protopunk, R'n'B/Rock N' Roll band, The New York Dolls and also achieved commercial success under the pseudonym Buster Poindexter....
    , Eric Mingus and Sandra Bernhard
    Sandra Bernhard

    Sandra Bernhard is an American comedian, singer, actress and author. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy in which she often bitterly critiques celebrity culture and political figures....
  • Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man
    Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man

    Leonard Cohen: I'm Your Man is a 2005 movie by Lian Lunson about the life and career of Leonard Cohen. The movie is based on a January 2005 tribute show at the Sydney Opera House titled "Came So Far for Beauty", which was produced by Hal Willner....
     (2006) soundtrack for Lian Lunson's documentary film about Willner's Leonard Cohen
    Leonard Cohen

    Leonard Norman Cohen, Order of Canada, National Order of Quebec is a Canadian singer, songwriter, musician, poet and novelist. Cohen published his first book of poetry in Montreal in 1956 and his first novel in 1963....
     tribute event Came So Far For Beauty
  • Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys
    Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs, and Chanteys

    Rogue's Gallery: Pirate Ballads, Sea Songs and Chanteys is a compilation album of sea shanties performed by a wide array of artists, ranging from Sting to Bryan Ferry, representing a variety of genres....
     (2006) 2x double CD includes performers ranging from Bono
    Bono

    Paul David Hewson , also known by his stage name Bono, is the main vocalist of the Ireland rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2....
     to Van Dyke Parks
    Van Dyke Parks

    Van Dyke Parks is an United States composer, arranger, producer, musician, singer, and actor. His work spans six decades, and he has worked with luminaries from Grace Kelly to the Beach Boys and the Byrds, and recently, Loudon Wainwright III and Joanna Newsom....
    .
  • The Harry Smith Project: Anthology of American Folk Music Revisited (2006). Recorded at Hal Willner's Harry Smith Project events in London (1999), Brooklyn (1999) and LA (2001), plus a DVD documentary.


Live tribute events

  • Greetings From Tim Buckley
    Tim Buckley

    Timothy Charles Buckley III was an experimental vocalist and musician who incorporated jazz, psychedelia, funk, soul music, and avant-garde rock in a career spanning the late 1960s and early 1970s....
     (1991)
  • Edgar Allan Poe
    Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, Short story writer, Editing and Literary criticism, and is considered part of the American Romanticism. Best known for his tales of Mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the Detective fiction genre....
    's writings (1995), which lead to the album Closed on Account of Rabies
    Closed On Account of Rabies

    Closed On Account of Rabies is a double-Compact disc with poems and tales of Edgar Allan Poe performed by various artists, and produced by Hal Willner....
     (1997)
  • Marquis de Sade
    Marquis de Sade

    Donatien Alphonse Fran?ois de Sade, Marquis de Sade was a France aristocrat, revolutionary and novelist. His novels were philosophical novel and sadomasochistic, exploring such controversial subjects as rape, bestiality and necrophilia....
    's writings (1998)
  • The Harry Smith
    Harry Everett Smith

    Harry Everett Smith was an United States archivist, ethnomusicology, student of anthropology, record collector, experimental filmmaking, fine art, bohemianism and mystic....
     Project     (1999-2001)
  • Came So Far For Beauty, An Evening of Songs by Leonard Cohen (2003-2006)
  • Forest of No Return: Hal Willner Presents Vintage Disney Songbook (2007)
  • "Stay Awake" at St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn
    Brooklyn

    Brooklyn is one of the five Borough of New York City, located at the western end of Long Island. An independent city until its consolidation with New York in 1898, Brooklyn is New York City's most populous borough, with 2.5 million residents, and second largest in area....
    , NY (2008-04-02)
  • "Hal Wilner's Stay Awake" at UCLA was scheduled for October 30, 2008, but was cancelled due to unavailability of some performers.


Spoken word recordings

With the increasing prevalence of tribute albums in the late 1980s (such as Red Hot + Blue
Red Hot + Blue

Red Hot + Blue is the first in the series of compilation albums from the Red Hot Organization. The recording was the first in the Red Hot Benefit Series....
), Willner decided to turn his attention to spoken word
Spoken word

Spoken word is a form of literature art or artistic performance in which lyrics, poetry, or stories are spoken rather than sung. The category of spoken-word that is often done with a musical background is performance poetry....
 recordings.

  • Dead City Radio (1990) by William Burroughs has musical backing by Sonic Youth
    Sonic Youth

    Sonic Youth is an American rock music rock band formed in New York City in 1981. The current lineup consists of Thurston Moore , Kim Gordon , Lee Ranaldo , Mark Ibold and Steve Shelley ....
    , Donald Fagen
    Donald Fagen

    Donald Jay Fagen is an United States musician and songwriter. He is co-founder, lead singer, and the principal songwriter of the jazz-influenced Rock music musical ensemble Steely Dan....
    , John Cale
    John Cale

    John Davies Cale , better known as John Cale, is a Welsh people musician, composer, singer-songwriter and record producer who was a founding member of the rock & roll band The Velvet Underground....
     and others.
  • Spare Ass Annie and Other Tales (1996) by William Burroughs with music by The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy
    The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy

    The Disposable Heroes of Hiphoprisy was an industrial hip-hop band active during the early 1990s.The band was formed in 1990 by Michael Franti and Rono Tse, and introduced the work of guitarist Charlie Hunter....
    .
  • The Lion For Real by Allen Ginsberg
    Allen Ginsberg

    Irwin Allen Ginsberg was an United States poet. Ginsberg is best known for the poem "Howl" , celebrating his friends who were members of the Beat Generation and attacking what he saw as the destructive forces of materialism and conformity in the United States....
     features musical accompaniment by Bill Frisell
    Bill Frisell

    William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an United States guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late '80s Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise music and more....
    , Philip Glass
    Philip Glass

    Philip Glass is an American music composer. He is considered one of the most influential composers of the late-20th century and is widely acknowledged as a composer who has brought art music to the public ....
    , Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney

    Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
     and others.
  • Closed on Account of Rabies (1997) consists of readings of Edgar Allan Poe
    Edgar Allan Poe

    Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet, Short story writer, Editing and Literary criticism, and is considered part of the American Romanticism. Best known for his tales of Mystery and the macabre, Poe was one of the earliest American practitioners of the short story and is considered the inventor of the Detective fiction genre....
     poems and tales by Iggy Pop
    Iggy Pop

    Iggy Pop, born James Newell ?sterberg, Jr. on April 21, 1947, is an American Rock music singer, songwriter, and occasional actor. Although he has had only limited mainstream success, Iggy Pop is considered an innovator of punk rock, garage rock, and other related rock music....
     and others. As Willner's only "spoken word" tribute album, it fits in the context of his other music-based tributes.
  • In With The Out Crowd (1998) by poet Bob Holman
    Bob Holman

    Bob Holman is a poet and poetry activist in the United States....
    .
  • Let The Buyer Beware (2004) is an authoritative six CD box set of historic recordings by the comedian
    Comedian

    A comedian or comic is a person who seeks to entertain members of an audience, primarily by making them laughter. This might be through jokes or amusing situations, or acting a fool, as in slapstick, or employing prop comedy....
     Lenny Bruce
    Lenny Bruce

    Lenny Bruce , born Leonard Alfred Schneider, was an United States stand-up comedian, writer, Cultural critic and satire of the 1950s and 1960s....
    .


Film related projects

  • The Carl Stalling Project: A CD of music composed and/or arranged by Carl Stalling
    Carl Stalling

    Carl W. Stalling was a noted American composer and arranger of music for animated cartoons. He is most closely associated with the Looney Tunes shorts produced by Warner Bros., where he worked, averaging one complete score each week, for twenty-two years....
     for Warner Brothers cartoons.
  • The soundtracks to Robert Altman
    Robert Altman

    Robert Bernard Altman was an United Statesn film director known for making Cinema of the United States that are highly Naturalism , but with a stylized perspective....
    's films Short Cuts
    Short Cuts

    Short Cuts is a 1993 in film drama film directed by Robert Altman. Filmed from a screenplay by Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt, it is inspired by nine short stories and a poem by Raymond Carver....
     and Kansas City
    Kansas City (1996 film)

    Kansas City is a 1996 film, directed by Robert Altman, and featuring numerous jazz tracks. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miranda Richardson, Harry Belafonte, and Steve Buscemi starred....
    .
  • Produced the soundtrack album with Bono
    Bono

    Paul David Hewson , also known by his stage name Bono, is the main vocalist of the Ireland rock band U2. Bono was born and raised in Dublin, Republic of Ireland, and attended Mount Temple Comprehensive School where he met his future wife, Ali Hewson, and the future members of U2....
     and others for the Wim Wenders
    Wim Wenders

    Ernst Wilhelm Wenders is a Germany film director, playwright, author, photographer and film producer....
    ' movie The Million Dollar Hotel
    The Million Dollar Hotel

    The Million Dollar Hotel is 2000 in film drama film based on a concept story by Bono of U2 and Nicholas Klein, and directed by Wim Wenders. It stars Jeremy Davies , Milla Jovovich and Mel Gibson....
    .


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