Private Music is a United States

United States

The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 record company founded in 1984

1984 in music

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1984.-Janury-March:*January 21 – "Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood reaches number one in the UK singles chart, despite being banned by the BBC; it spends a total of forty-two weeks in the Top 40.*January 27 – Michael Jackson's...

 by experimental musician Peter Baumann

Peter Baumann

Peter Baumann formed the core line-up of the German electronic group Tangerine Dream with Edgar Froese and Christopher Franke in 1971. While touring with the band, Baumann composed his first solo album in 1976...

, as a home for instrumental music. Initially signing such artists as Yanni

Yanni

Yanni , born Yiannis Hrysomallis is a Greek self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer who has spent most of his life in the United States.He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album, Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time...

, Suzanne Ciani

Suzanne Ciani

Suzanne Ciani is an Italian American pianist and music composer who found early success with innovative electronic music.-Education:...

, Patrick O'Hearn

Patrick O'Hearn

Patrick O'Hearn is an American multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and recording artist. While his musical repertoire spans a diverse range of music, he is an acclaimed New Age artist in his solo career...

, and Baumann's former bandmates Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream

Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member...

, the record label specialized in New Age music

New Age music

New Age music is music of various styles intended to create artistic inspiration, relaxation, and optimism. It is used by listeners for yoga, massage, meditation, and reading as a method of stress management or to create a peaceful atmosphere in their home or other environments, and is often...

, but soon made a sharp turn to mainstream

Mainstream

Mainstream is, generally, the common current thought of the majority. However, the mainstream is far from cohesive; rather the concept is often considered a cultural construct....

 niches, with signings of Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal (musician)

Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He incorporates elements of world music into his music...

, Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr

Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...

, Etta James

Etta James

Etta James is an American blues, soul, rhythm and blues , rock and roll, gospel and jazz singer. In the 1950s and 1960s, she had her biggest success as a blues and R&B singer...

, A.J. Croce, and many more. Its releases were distributed by then-emerging BMG

BMG

Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...

, which bought Private Music in 1996.

History

In 1989, Baumann hired veteran Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...

' music executive Ron Goldstein. As Private Music's President & CEO, Goldstein moved the offices from New York City to Los Angeles, and expanded the staff to include former publicist for U2

U2

U2 are an Irish rock band from Dublin. Formed in 1976, the group consists of Bono , The Edge , Adam Clayton , and Larry Mullen, Jr. . U2's early sound was rooted in post-punk but eventually grew to incorporate influences from many genres of popular music...

, Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett

Tony Bennett is an American singer of popular music, standards, show tunes, and jazz....

 and Warners' "Musicians for Life" videos, Karen (Colaianni) Johnson. Together, they expanded the label's image. Baumann recruited the respected mainstream A&R executive Jamie Cohen, also a painter, while Goldstein directed Johnson's "artist re-development" efforts, with such eclectic veteran-artist signings as Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal (musician)

Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He incorporates elements of world music into his music...

, Etta James

Etta James

Etta James is an American blues, soul, rhythm and blues , rock and roll, gospel and jazz singer. In the 1950s and 1960s, she had her biggest success as a blues and R&B singer...

, Ringo Starr

Ringo Starr

Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...

, Jennifer Warnes

Jennifer Warnes

Jennifer Jean Warnes is an American singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer. She is known for her interpretations of compositions written by herself and many others, as well as an extensive playlist as a vocalist on movie soundtracks.Between 1979 and 1987 Warnes surpassed Frank Sinatra as...

, The Fabulous Thunderbirds

The Fabulous Thunderbirds

The Fabulous Thunderbirds are an American, Grammy-nominated Blues rock band, formed in 1974.-Career:After performing for several years in the Austin, Texas blues scene, the band won a recording contract with Takoma/Chrysalis Records, and later on signed with Epic Records.Their first two albums,...

, Toots Thielemans

Toots Thielemans

Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans , known as Toots Thielemans, is a Belgian jazz musician well known for his guitar and harmonica playing as well as his whistling. Thielemans is credited as one of the greatest harmonica players of the 20th century...

, Jimmy Witherspoon

Jimmy Witherspoon

Jimmy Witherspoon was an American jump blues singer.-Early life and career:James Witherspoon was born in Gurdon, Arkansas. He first attracted attention singing with Teddy Weatherford's band in Calcutta, India, which made regular radio broadcasts over the U. S. Armed Forces Radio Service during...

, Kate & Anna McGarrigle, Eliza Gilkyson

Eliza Gilkyson

Eliza Gilkyson is an Austin, Texas-based folk musician. She is the daughter of songwriter and folk musician Terry Gilkyson and Jane Gilkyson. She is the sister of guitarist Tony Gilkyson, who played with the Los Angeles-based bands Lone Justice and X...

, Joy Askew, The Pahinui Brothers, Kenny Rankin

Kenny Rankin

Kenny Rankin was an American pop and jazz singer and songwriter, originally from the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, New York.-Biography:...

, while expanding the catalogs of Yanni

Yanni

Yanni , born Yiannis Hrysomallis is a Greek self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer who has spent most of his life in the United States.He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album, Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time...

, Leo Kottke

Leo Kottke

Leo Kottke is an acoustic guitarist. He is widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopated, polyphonic melodies...

, Andy Summers

Andy Summers

Andy Summers is an English guitarist born in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, England. Best known as the guitarist for rock band The Police, he has also recorded twelve solo albums, collaborated with many other artists, toured extensively under his own name, published several books, and composed...

, Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar

Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...

, with debuts from A.J. Croce, Susan Werner

Susan Werner

Susan Werner is an American singer-songwriter. Much of Werner's work has been in the contemporary folk genre.-Career:Born and raised near Manchester, Iowa, Werner became interested in music at a young age and went on to receive a bachelor's degree in voice at the University of Iowa. In 1987, she...

, etc. An international marketing department was added, helmed by longtime Sony Music executive JP Bommel. Goldstein also entered into a joint venture with House of Blues

House of Blues

House of Blues is a chain of 13 live music concert halls and restaurants in major markets throughout the United States. House of Blues first location was in Cambridge's Harvard Square. It was opened in 1992 by Isaac Tigrett, co-founder of Hard Rock Cafe, and Dan Aykroyd, star of The Blues Brothers...

' record label (Cissy Houston

Cissy Houston

Emily "Cissy" Houston is a Grammy Award–winning American soul and gospel singer. She led a very successful career as a backup singer for such artists as Elvis Presley, Mahalia Jackson, Wishbone Ash and Aretha Franklin, and is now primarily a solo artist...

, John Mooney

John Mooney (musician)

John Mooney is an American blues guitarist and singer based in New Orleans, Louisiana. He has developed a unique music style by combining Delta blues, with the funky second line beat of New Orleans...

). Visual image was important to Goldstein who handpicked exquisite art director Melanie Penny (previously of Virgin Records

Virgin Records

Virgin Records is a British record label founded by English entrepreneur Richard Branson, Simon Draper, and Nik Powell in 1972. The company grew to be a worldwide music phenomenon, with platinum performers such as Roy Orbison, Devo, Genesis, Keith Richards, Janet Jackson, Culture Club, Lenny...

 and Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...

), as VP, Creative Services, through the life of Private Music.

Private Music's recordings earned multiple Grammy awards and nominations, and achieved high recognition on national television, with numerous artist appearances on The Late Show With David Letterman, The Tonight Show

The Tonight Show

The Tonight Show is an American late-night talk show that has aired on NBC since 1954. It is the longest currently running regularly scheduled entertainment program in the United States, and the third longest-running show on NBC, after Meet the Press and Today.The Tonight Show has been hosted by...

 With Johnny Carson

Johnny Carson

John William "Johnny" Carson was an American television host and comedian, known as host of The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson for 30 years . Carson received six Emmy Awards including the Governor Award and a 1985 Peabody Award; he was inducted into the Television Academy Hall of Fame in 1987...

 and Jay Leno

Jay Leno

James Douglas Muir "Jay" Leno is an American stand-up comedian and television host.From 1992 to 2009, Leno was the host of NBC's The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Beginning in September 2009, Leno started a primetime talk show, titled The Jay Leno Show, which aired weeknights at 10:00 p.m. ,...

, Late Night With Conan O'Brien

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Late Night with Conan O'Brien is an American late-night talk show hosted by Conan O'Brien that aired 2,725 episodes on NBC between 1993 and 2009. The show featured varied comedic material, celebrity interviews, and musical and comedy performances. Late Night aired weeknights at 12:37 am...

, The Today Show, Good Morning America

Good Morning America

Good Morning America is an American morning news and talk show that is broadcast on the ABC television network; it debuted on November 3, 1975. The weekday program airs for two hours; a third hour aired between 2007 and 2008 exclusively on ABC News Now...

, CNN

CNN

Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...

, Entertainment Tonight

Entertainment Tonight

Entertainment Tonight is a daily tabloid television entertainment television news show that is syndicated by CBS Television Distribution throughout the United States, Canada and in many countries around the world. Linda Bell Blue is currently the program's executive producer...

, etc. The label's recordings by Taj Mahal

Taj Mahal (musician)

Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He incorporates elements of world music into his music...

, produced by John Porter

John Porter (musician)

John Porter is an English musician and record producer.-Biography:He attended St Michael's School, Allerton Grange School, King's College, and Newcastle University....

, spawned the Phantom Blues Band which continues as a mainstay in blues recordings and concerts. Late in 1997, Private Music traded its vibe as a music "home" to a corporate "unit" (BMG). In 2001, Private Music became part of the short-lived Arista Associated Labels which also included Windham Hill; by 2004, after Sony

Sony

, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

 and BMG

BMG

Bertelsmann Music Group, , was a division of Bertelsmann before its completion of sale of the majority of its assets to Japan's Sony Corporation of America on October 1, 2008. It was established in 1987 to combine the music label activities of Bertelsmann...

 merged, the label's releases switched to RCA

RCA

RCA Corporation, founded as the Radio Corporation of America, was an American electronics company in existence from 1919 to 1986. The RCA trademark is currently owned by the French conglomerate Technicolor SA through RCA Trademark Management S.A., a company owned by Technicolor...

. Currently, no reissues have been scheduled. Like its mentor (Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros. Records Inc. is an American record label. It was the foundation label of the present-day Warner Music Group, and now operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of that corporation. It maintains a close relationship with its former parent, Warner Bros. Pictures, although the two companies...

), Private Music's business model leaves an example for indie artists who exemplify (Goldstein's A&R criteria of) "quality and excellence." Following his Private Music tenure, Goldstein served as President & CEO of the Verve Music Group label at Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group

Universal Music Group is an American music group, the largest of the "big four" record companies by its commanding market share and its multitude of global operations...

, in New York City. Johnson maintains KJPR Publicity & Artist Relations, in Los Angeles. Bommel is a Senior Vice President at MIDEM

Midem

-MIDEM:Short for Marché International du Disque et de l'Edition Musicale, MIDEM is the world's largest music industry trade fair, which has been held annually at and around the Palais des Festivals in Cannes, France, since 1967...

. Sadly, both Jamie Cohen and Melanie Penny, who enjoyed lucrative artistic careers, passed in 2008, 2009, respectively.

Discography

• Carlos Alomar
  Carlos Alomar
  Carlos Alomar is an American guitarist, composer and arranger best known for his work with David Bowie, having played on more Bowie albums than any other musician...
  
  
  • Dream Generator (1988)

• Joy Askew
  • "Tender City"

• Azuma
  • Azuma
  • The Wanderer

• Bounce the Ocean
  • Bounce the Ocean

• Suzanne Ciani
  Suzanne Ciani
  Suzanne Ciani is an Italian American pianist and music composer who found early success with innovative electronic music.-Education:...
  
  
  • Seven Waves (1982)*
  • The Velocity of Love (1986)*
  • Neverland (1988)
  • History of My Heart (1989)
  • Pianissimo (1990)
  • Hotel Luna (1991)
  • The Private Music of Suzanne Ciani (1992, compilation)
  • "Seven Waves" was originally released on Finnadar in 1982 and "The Velocity of Love" was released on RCA Skylark in 1986. Ciani owns the rights and released these through Private Music during her tenure there.

• Michael Colina
  Michael Colina
  Michael Dalmau Colina is a GRAMMY-winning American musician, composer, producer and engineer. He has written music for television, film, theatre, dance and live performances on concert stages throughout the United States, Europe and Japan...
  
  
  • Rituals
  • Shadow of Urbano

• A. J. Croce
  A. J. Croce
  Adrian James "A.J." Croce is an American singer-songwriter. He is the son of singer-songwriter Jim Croce and Ingrid Croce.-Early life and family:...
  
  
  • That's Me in the Bar
    That's Me in the Bar
    That's Me in the Bar is the second album by American singer-songwriter A. J. Croce, released in 1995 .-Track listing:All songs written by A.J...
    
     (1995)
  • A.J. Croce

• The Fabulous Thunderbirds
  The Fabulous Thunderbirds
  The Fabulous Thunderbirds are an American, Grammy-nominated Blues rock band, formed in 1974.-Career:After performing for several years in the Austin, Texas blues scene, the band won a recording contract with Takoma/Chrysalis Records, and later on signed with Epic Records.Their first two albums,...
  
  
  • Roll of the Dice
    Roll of the Dice
    Roll of the Dice is a 1995 studio album by Texas based Blues Rock band The Fabulous Thunderbirds, their second without Jimmie Vaughan.-Track listing:# "Roll Of The Dice"# "Too Many Irons In The Fire"# "How Do I Get You Back?"# "Here Comes the Night"...
    
     (1995)

• Bill Gable
  • There Were Signs

• Eliza Gilkyson
  Eliza Gilkyson
  Eliza Gilkyson is an Austin, Texas-based folk musician. She is the daughter of songwriter and folk musician Terry Gilkyson and Jane Gilkyson. She is the sister of guitarist Tony Gilkyson, who played with the Los Angeles-based bands Lone Justice and X...
  
  
  • Through the Looking Glass (1992)

• Philip Glass
  Philip Glass
  Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be 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 .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...
  
  
  • Passages (1990, with Ravi Shankar
    Ravi Shankar
    Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...
    
    )

• Jerry Goodman
  Jerry Goodman
  Jerry Goodman is an American violinist best known for playing electric violin in the bands The Flock and the jazz fusion Mahavishnu Orchestra. Goodman actually began his musical career as The Flock's roadie before joining the band on violin. Trained in the conservatory, both of his parents were...
  
  
  • On the Future of Aviation (1985)
  • Ariel (1986)
  • It's Alive (1987, live)

• Miles Goodwyn and Various Artists
  • Getting Even With Dad - soundtrack

• Mike Gordon
  Mike Gordon
  Mike Gordon is a bass guitar player and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish. Gordon is also an accomplished banjo player, and is proficient at piano, guitar, harmonica and percussion...
  
  
  • Clone (2002, with Leo Kottke
    Leo Kottke
    Leo Kottke is an acoustic guitarist. He is widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopated, polyphonic melodies...
    
    )

• Dan Hartman
  Dan Hartman
  Daniel Earl "Dan" Hartman was an American singer, songwriter and record producer, best known for such songs as: "Free Ride", "I Can Dream About You", "Instant Replay", "Love Sensation", and "Relight My Fire", all of which had world-wide success.-Career:Born in Pennsylvania's capital, Harrisburg,...
  
  
  • New Green, Clear Blue (1989)

• Nona Hendryx
  Nona Hendryx
  Nona Hendryx is an American vocalist, producer, songwriter, musician, author, and actress.Hendryx is known for her work as a solo artist as well as for being one-third of the trio Labelle, who had a hit with "Lady Marmalade." Her music has ranged from soul, funk, dance, and R&B to hard rock, art...
  
  
  • Skin Diver (1989)

• James Newton Howard
  James Newton Howard
  James Newton Howard is an American composer best known for his scores to motion pictures. He is one of the most popular and respected composers for cinema, and has scored over 100 films...
  
  
  • Promised Land (1985, soundtrack)

• Lucia Hwong
  Lucia Hwong
  Lucia Hwong has earned distinguished credits as a composer and instrumentalist. She has created music for theater, film, television, dance and the concert stage.-Biography:...
  
  
  • House of Sleeping Beauties (1985)
  • Secret Luminescence (1987)

• Etta James
  Etta James
  Etta James is an American blues, soul, rhythm and blues , rock and roll, gospel and jazz singer. In the 1950s and 1960s, she had her biggest success as a blues and R&B singer...
  
  
  • Mystery Lady: Songs of Billie Holiday (1994)
  • Time after Time
    Time After Time (Etta James album)
    Time After Time is an album by Etta James, released in 1995 through the record label Sony BMG. The album reached a peak position of number five on Billboard Top Jazz Albums chart....
    
     (1995)
  • Love's Been Rough on Me
    Love's Been Rough on Me
    Love's Been Rough on Me is an album by Etta James, released in 1997 through Private Music. The album reached a peak position of number 6 on Billboard Top Blues Albums chart....
    
     (1997)

• Eddie Jobson
  Eddie Jobson
  Edwin "Eddie" Jobson is an English keyboardist and violinist noted for his use of synthesizers. He has been a member of several progressive rock bands, including Curved Air, Roxy Music, U.K., and Jethro Tull. He was also part of Frank Zappa's band in 1976-77...
  
  
  • Theme of Secrets
    Theme of Secrets
    Theme of Secrets was a 'new age' album written and produced by Eddie Jobson, released in 1985. There are eight tracks on the album. "This masterpiece of soundscapes was created by using the Synclavier computer, and is a brilliant album from start to finish."- Features :A music video of one...
    
     (1985)

• Leo Kottke
  Leo Kottke
  Leo Kottke is an acoustic guitarist. He is widely known for his innovative fingerpicking style, which draws on influences from blues, jazz, and folk music, and his syncopated, polyphonic melodies...
  
  
  • A Shout Toward Noon
    A Shout Toward Noon
    A Shout Toward Noon is an album by American guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1986.-History:A Shout Toward Noon is Kottke's first recording on the Private Music label after a three-year sabbatical, largely due to a difficult tendinitis injury in his hand...
    
     (1986)
  • Regards from Chuck Pink
    Regards From Chuck Pink
    Regards from Chuck Pink is an album by American guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1988.The song "Busy Signal" is the only song by Leo Kottke nominated for a Grammy award...
    
     (1988)
  • My Father's Face
    My Father's Face
    My Father's Face is an album recorded by American guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1989. It is his second with producer T Bone Burnett.The same year as the release of My Father's Face Kottke would be featured in a PBS feature, Home and Away....
    
     (1989)
  • That's What
    That's What
    That's What is one of the more idiosyncratic releases by solo steel-string guitar artist Leo Kottke. It is distinctive in its jazzy nature and "talking" songs...
    
     (1990)
  • Great Big Boy
    Great Big Boy
    Great Big Boy is an album by American guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1991.-History:Kottke's fifth album on the Private Music label, Great Big Boy is unique in the later Kottke canon in that every song includes a vocal part. The disc consists of nine Kottke originals and a cover version of...
    
     (1991)
  • Peculiaroso
    Peculiaroso
    Peculiaroso is an album by American guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1994.-History:Coming more than two years after the Great Big Boy album, where all tracks included vocal parts, Peculiaroso returned to Kottke's usual mix of vocal and instrumental selections...
    
     (1994)
  • Leo Kottke Live
    Leo Kottke Live
    Live is a live album by American guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1995. It includes two of Kottke's signature monologues , giving a small taste of the complete concert experience. A previously unreleased song "Flattened Brain" is also included.-Reception:Writing for Allmusic, music critic Murrday...
    
     (1995)
  • Standing in My Shoes
    Standing In My Shoes
    Standing In My Shoes is an album by American guitarist Leo Kottke, released in 1997. It is an eclectic mix of traditional and contemporary music which surprised a few of Kottke's long-time fans....
    
     (1997)
  • One Guitar, No Vocals (1999)
  • Clone (2002, with Mike Gordon
    Mike Gordon
    Mike Gordon is a bass guitar player and vocalist most noted for his work with the rock band Phish. Gordon is also an accomplished banjo player, and is proficient at piano, guitar, harmonica and percussion...
    
    )

• Diego Modena, Jean-Philippe Audin
  • Ocarina
  • Ocarina II

• Kate & Anna McGarrigle
  • Heartbeats Accelerating
    Heartbeats Accelerating
    Heartbeats Accelerating is a 1990 album by the late Kate and Anna McGarrigle. It was their first album in seven years, after Love Over and Over in 1983, and received favourable reviews from many music critics....
    
     (1990)

• The Necks
  The Necks
  The Necks are an experimental jazz trio from Sydney, Australia, comprising Chris Abrahams on piano and Hammond organ, Tony Buck on drums, percussion and electric guitar and Lloyd Swanton on bass guitar and double bass...
  
  
  • Sex

• Patrick O'Hearn
  Patrick O'Hearn
  Patrick O'Hearn is an American multi-instrumentalist musician, composer and recording artist. While his musical repertoire spans a diverse range of music, he is an acclaimed New Age artist in his solo career...
  
  
  • Ancient Dreams (1985)
  • Between Two Worlds (1987)
  • Rivers Gonna Rise (1988)
  • Eldorado (1989)
  • Mix-Up (1990, remixes)
  • Indigo (1991)
  • The Private Music of Patrick O'Hearn (1992, compilation)
  • A Windham Hill Retrospective (1997)*

*BMG absorbed Private Music into Windham Hill; the label did not re-issue O'Hearn's releases.

• The Pahinui Brothers

• Phil Perry
  Phil Perry
  Phil Perry is an American R&B singer, songwriter, musician and a former member of the soul group The Montclairs from 1971 to 1975.- Biography :...
  
  
  • One Heart One Love (1998) Peak 82163
  • My Book of Love (2000) Peak 82181

• Sanford Ponder
  • Etosha - Private Music in the Land of Dry Water
  • Tigers Are Brave

• Willy Porter
  Willy Porter
  Willy Porter is a contemporary American folk musician and singer-songwriter from Mequon, Wisconsin. He is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire and was a member of the Epsilon Chi Chapter of Phi Gamma Delta, a men's fraternity.-Career:...
  
  

• Kenny Rankin
  Kenny Rankin
  Kenny Rankin was an American pop and jazz singer and songwriter, originally from the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, New York.-Biography:...
  
  
  • Professional Dreamer

• Leon Redbone
  Leon Redbone
  Leon Redbone is a singer and guitarist specializing in interpretations of early 20th-century music, including jazz and blues standards and Tin Pan Alley classics....
  
  
  • Christmas Island (1987)
  • Sugar (1990)
  • Up a Lazy River (1992)

• Shadowfax
  Shadowfax (band)
  Shadowfax was a new age/electronic musical group, best known for their albums Shadowfax and Folksongs for a Nuclear Village. In 1988 they won the Grammy for Best New Age Performance for Folksongs for a Nuclear Village...
  
  
  • The Odd Get Even (1990)

• Ravi Shankar
  Ravi Shankar
  Ravi Shankar , often referred to by the title Pandit, is an Indian musician and composer who plays the plucked string instrument sitar. He has been described as the best known contemporary Indian musician by Hans Neuhoff in Musik in Geschichte und Gegenwart.Shankar was born in Varanasi and spent...
  
  
  • Tana Mana (1987)
  • Inside the Kremlin (1988)
  • Passages
    Passages
    Passages is a musical album in the style of chamber music co-composed by Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass and released in 1990 by RCA Victor. The album's content is a hybrid of Ravi Shankar's signature sitar playing and Hindustani classical music and Philip Glass's distinct American minimalist...
    
     (1990, with Philip Glass
    Philip Glass
    Philip Glass is an American composer. He is considered to be 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 .His music is often described as minimalist, along with...
    
    )
  • Bridges: Best of Private Music Recordings (2001, compilation)
  • The Essential Ravi Shankar (compilation)*

* contains recordings from Columbia and Private Music

• Ringo Starr
  Ringo Starr
  Richard Starkey, MBE better known by his stage name Ringo Starr, is an English musician and actor who gained worldwide fame as the drummer for The Beatles. When the band formed in 1960, Starr was a member of another Liverpool band, Rory Storm and the Hurricanes. He became The Beatles' drummer in...
  
  
  • Time Takes Time
    Time Takes Time
    Although the booklet's credits include the statement "Tom Petty appears courtesy of MCA Records," Petty is not listed as a player or vocalist on any of the booklet's track-by-track personnel listings.-Personnel:...
    
     (1992)

• Andy Summers
  Andy Summers
  Andy Summers is an English guitarist born in Poulton-le-Fylde, Lancashire, England. Best known as the guitarist for rock band The Police, he has also recorded twelve solo albums, collaborated with many other artists, toured extensively under his own name, published several books, and composed...
  
  
  • Mysterious Barricades (1988)
  • The Golden Wire (1989)
  • Charming Snakes (1990)
  • World Gone Strange
    World Gone Strange
    Allmusic's review of the album consisted of a single sentence fragment: "Not really standard jazz, but some fine playing."-Track listing:All songs written by Andy Summers.# "World Gone Strange" - 6:14# "Ruffled Feathers" - 4:23# "Bacchante" - 6:28...
    
     (1991)

• Taj Mahal
  Taj Mahal (musician)
  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks , who uses the stage name Taj Mahal, is an American Grammy Award winning blues musician. He incorporates elements of world music into his music...
  
  
  • Like Never Before
    Like Never Before
    Like Never Before is an album by American blues artist Taj Mahal.-Track listing:# "Don't Call Us"# "River of Love"# "Scattered"# "Ev'ry Wind "# "Blues with a Feeling"# "Squat That Rabbit"# "Take All the Time You Need"# "Love Up"...
    
     (1991)
  • Dancing the Blues
    Dancing the Blues
    Dancing the Blues is an album by American blues artist Taj Mahal.-Reception:Allmusic gave a positive review of the album, calling the music "inclusive" and "eclectic", and praising a number of the individual tracks.-Track listing:...
    
     (1993)
  • Phantom Blues
    Phantom Blues
    Phantom Blues is an album by American blues artist Taj Mahal.-Track listing:# "Lovin' in My Baby's Eyes"# "Cheatin' on You"# "The Hustle Is On"# "Here in the Dark"# "Fanning the Flames"# "I Need Your Loving"# "Ooh Poo Pah Doo"# "Lonely Avenue"...
    
     (1996)
  • Señor Blues
    Señor Blues
    Señor Blues is a 1997 album by blues musician Taj Mahal, featuring a cover of James Brown's "Think". It won Best Contemporary Blues Album - or Contemporary Blues Recording at that year's Grammy Awards....
    
     (1997)
  • The Best of the Private Years
    The Best of the Private Years
    The Best of the Private Years is an album by American blues artist Taj Mahal.-Track listing:# "Blues Ain't Nothin'"# "Here In The Dark"# "Mind Your Own Business"# "Lovin' In My Baby's Eyes"# "Senor Blues"# "Ooh Poo Pah Doo"# "Hoochi Coochi Coo"...
    
     (2000, compilation)

• Tangerine Dream
  Tangerine Dream
  Tangerine Dream is a German electronic music group founded in 1967 by Edgar Froese. The band has undergone many personnel changes over the years, with Froese being the only continuous member...
  
  
  • Optical Race
    Optical Race
    -Personnel:* Paul Haslinger - composer, musician* Edgar Froese - composer, musician* Ralf Wadephul - composer* Christian Gstettner - studio technician* Monica Froese - cover concept* Norman Moore - art direction and design...
    
     (1988)
  • Lily on the Beach
    Lily on the Beach
    -Personnel:* Edgar Froese - keyboards, lead guitars, drums* Paul Haslinger - keyboards, rhythm guitars, stick, drums* Jerome Froese - lead guitar on "Radio City"* Hubert Waldner - soprano sax and flute on "Long Island Sunset"* Norman Moore - cover art and design...
    
     (1989)
  • Miracle Mile
    Miracle Mile (soundtrack)
    -Track listing:# "Teetering Scales" – 3:39# "One for the Books" – 3:04# "After the Call" – 5:11# "On the Spur of the Moment" – 3:00# "All of a Dither" – 3:24# "Final Statement" – 3:14# "In Julie's Eyes" – 3:15...
    
     (1989, soundtrack)
  • Melrose
    Melrose (album)
    - Personnel :* Edgar Froese– keyboards, lead guitar, rhythm guitar* Paul Haslinger– keyboards* Jerome Froese– keyboards, lead guitar* Hubert Waldner– saxophone on "Melrose"* Jim Rakete– Cover photos...
    
     (1990)
  • The Private Music of Tangerine Dream (1992, compilation)

• John Tesh
  John Tesh
  John Frank Tesh is an American pianist and composer of pop music, as well as a radio host and television presenter. His 10-year-old 'Intelligence for Your Life Radio Show' reaches 14.2 Million listeners/week, and is syndicated by Teshmedia on 400 stations in US, Canada, and the UK...
  
  
  • Tour de France (1988)
  • Tour de France... The Early Years (1990)

• Toots Thielemans
  Toots Thielemans
  Jean-Baptiste Frédéric Isidor, Baron Thielemans , known as Toots Thielemans, is a Belgian jazz musician well known for his guitar and harmonica playing as well as his whistling. Thielemans is credited as one of the greatest harmonica players of the 20th century...
  
  
  • East Coast West Coast (1994)
  • Brasilian Essence (2007)

• Chris Thomas
  Chris Thomas King
  Chris Thomas King is an American New Orleans, Louisiana-based blues musician and actor.-History:King was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. He is the son of blues musician Tabby Thomas. He has won awards including "Album of the Year" for both Grammy Award and Country Music Awards. King...
  
  
  • 21st Century Blues...from da hood

• David Van Tieghem
  • Safety in Numbers
    Safety In Numbers (David Van Tieghem album)
    Safety In Numbers is the second studio album by American electronica musician & percussionist David Van Tieghem, released in 1987. Tony Levin, the long time bassist for King Crimson, plays Chapman Stick on track 4...
    
     (1987)
  • Strange Cargo
    Strange Cargo (David Van Tieghem album)
    Strange Cargo is the third studio album by American electronica musician & percussionist David Van Tieghem, released in 1989.Strange Cargo's music has been described as more diverse by mixing funk, jazz, Asian music and progressive electronic styles, producing structured melodies and weird sounds,...
    
     (1989)

• Jennifer Warnes
  Jennifer Warnes
  Jennifer Jean Warnes is an American singer, songwriter, arranger and record producer. She is known for her interpretations of compositions written by herself and many others, as well as an extensive playlist as a vocalist on movie soundtracks.Between 1979 and 1987 Warnes surpassed Frank Sinatra as...
  
  
  • Famous Blue Raincoat: The Songs of Leonard Cohen"
  • The Hunter
    The Hunter (Jennifer Warnes album)
    The Hunter is the seventh album by Jennifer Warnes, released in 1992. It peaked at No. 13 on the Billboard Adult Contemporary charts.The Hunter was released five years after her breakthrough album Famous Blue Raincoat. Classified as adult contemporary, the album is jazz/R&B infused...
    
    

• Susan Werner
  Susan Werner
  Susan Werner is an American singer-songwriter. Much of Werner's work has been in the contemporary folk genre.-Career:Born and raised near Manchester, Iowa, Werner became interested in music at a young age and went on to receive a bachelor's degree in voice at the University of Iowa. In 1987, she...
  
  
  • Last of the Good Straight Girls
    Last of the Good Straight Girls
    Last of the Good Straight Girls is the third album by American singer-songwriter Susan Werner, released in 1995 . This was Werner's first major label album.-Track listing:All songs written by Susan Werner, except where noted...
    
    

• Jimmy Witherspoon
  Jimmy Witherspoon
  Jimmy Witherspoon was an American jump blues singer.-Early life and career:James Witherspoon was born in Gurdon, Arkansas. He first attracted attention singing with Teddy Weatherford's band in Calcutta, India, which made regular radio broadcasts over the U. S. Armed Forces Radio Service during...
  
  

• Yanni
  Yanni
  Yanni , born Yiannis Hrysomallis is a Greek self-taught pianist, keyboardist, and composer who has spent most of his life in the United States.He earned Grammy nominations for his 1992 album, Dare to Dream, and the 1993 follow-up, In My Time...
  
  
  • Optimystique
    Optimystique
    Optimystique is Yanni's first album, released on the Atlantic label in 1984, and Private Music label in 1989, .*From album liner: Optimystique was recorded in 1980 and released for the first time in 1984...
    
     (1984)
  • Keys to Imagination
    Keys to Imagination
    Keys to Imagination is Yanni's second album, released on the Private Music label in 1986 .-Track listing:#"The North Shore of Matsushima" – 5:08#"Looking Glass" – 6:35#"Nostalgia" – 4:27...
    
     (1986)
  • Out of Silence
    Out of Silence
    Out of Silence is Yanni's third album, released on the Private Music label in 1987 . It was during this year that Yanni was putting together his first touring band which included Joyce Imbesi and John Tesh on keyboards, and Charlie Adams on drums.The album was reissued in 2009 by Valley...
    
     (1987)
  • Chameleon Days
    Chameleon Days
    Chameleon Days is Yanni's fourth album, released on the Private Music label in 1988 . It peaked at #2 on Billboard's "Top New Age Albums" chart in the same year...
    
     (1988)
  • Niki Nana
    Niki Nana
    Niki Nana, is Yanni's fifth album, released on the Private Music label in 1989, . It peaked at #2 on Billboard's "Top New Age Albums" chart in the same year.The liner notes dedicate the album to his father and mother respectively:...
    
     (1989)
  • Reflections of Passion
    Reflections of Passion
    Reflections of Passion, is Yanni's sixth album, released on the Private Music label in 1990, , with a concert tour the same year and same title. Although it is categorized by the RIAA as a full album, all but three of the tracks on the album had been released at least once prior...
    
     (1990)
  • In Celebration of Life
    In Celebration of Life
    In Celebration of Life, is Yanni's seventh album, released on the Private Music label in 1991, . It topped at #3 on "Billboard's "Top New Age Albums" chart and at #60 on the "Billboard 200" in the same year....
    
     (1991)
  • Dare to Dream
    Dare to Dream (Yanni album)
    Dare to Dream is Yanni's eighth album, released on the Private Music label in 1992 . The album peaked at #2 on Billboard's "Top New Age Albums" chart and at #32 on the "Billboard 200" chart in the same year...
    
     (1992)
  • In My Time
    In My Time
    In My Time, Yanni's ninth album, released on the Private Music label in 1993, . This album is a gentler collection of piano-focused pieces. It attained Platinum status and was the second Grammy nomination for Yanni...
    
     (1993)
  • Yanni Live at the Acropolis
    Yanni Live at the Acropolis
    Yanni Live at the Acropolis, is the name of both an album and video by contemporary instrumental musician Yanni, recorded live at the Herodes Atticus Theatre, Athens, Greece, on September 25, 1993, and released in 1994. . This album peaked at #1 on "Billboard's "Top New Age Albums" chart and at...
    
     (1994)
  • A Collection of Romantic Themes
    A Collection of Romantic Themes
    A Collection of Romantic Themes is a 1994 compilation album by Yanni released on the Private Music label. It is the second compilation album to be released by Yanni....
    
     (1994, compilation)
  • Devotion: The Best of Yanni
    Devotion (The Best of Yanni)
    Devotion is a 1997 compilation album by Yanni released on the Private Music label.Nine of this compilation's fifteen tracks are from two of Yanni's quieter recordings, 1992's Dare to Dream and 1993's delicate In My Time...
    
     (1997, compilation)
  • In the Mirror (1997, compilation)
  • Enraptured: A Collection of Yanni Favorites (1997, compilation)
  • The Private Years
    The Private Years
    The Private Years is a compilation project released by Private Music in 1999, . It is a Box set that features five of Yanni's albums for Private Music — Reflections of Passion, In Celebration of Life, Dare to Dream, In My Time, and Yanni Live at the Acropolis, as well as the DVD of his concert...
    
     (1999, compilation)
  • Winter Light (1999, compilation)
  • Love Songs (1999, compilation)
  • Ultimate Yanni (2003, compilation)
  • The Collection (2006, compilation)

• Dan Zanes
  Dan Zanes
  Dan Zanes was a member of the popular 1980s band The Del Fuegos and is currently the front man of the Grammy-winning group Dan Zanes and Friends.-History:...
  
  
  • Cool Down Time (1995)

• Various (samplers)
  • Piano One (1985)
  • The World of Private Music, Vol. 1 (1986)
  • The World of Private Music, Vol. 2
  • The Private Music Sampler 1988 (1988)
  • The Private Music Sampler, Vol. 4
  • The Private Music Sampler, Vol. 5
  • Piano Two (1990)
  • Polar Shift
    Polar Shift (album)
    -References:* via Archive.org...
    
    (1991)

External links

• Johnson, Karen. http://kjprkarenjohnson.wordpress.com/ (WordPress, September 5, 2009.)