Gentle Giant

Gentle Giant is a British group of progressive Rock which will produce 12 albums (including one live ) between 1970 and 1980.

Gentle Giant manages to amalgamate with elegance of broad sources of inspiration which go from the medieval Musique to the Jazz while passing by the Polyphonie S of the Renaissance, the Folklore, the Soul, the symphonic music, the contemporary dissonances, the chamber music, the Rock… and to produce a work musicalement complexes, but finally accessible, thanks to the extreme richness of its melodies and its arrangements.

Composition of the group

  • Gary Green - guitars, percussions

  • Kerry Minnear - keyboards, low, violoncello, songs, percussions
  • Derek Shulman - song, low, saxophone
  • Phil Shulman - saxophone, trumpet, song (1970-72)
  • Ray Shulman - low, violin, guitar, percussions, trumpet
  • Martin Smith - battery (1970-71)
  • Malcolm Mortimore - battery (1971-72)
  • John Weathers - battery (1972-)

History

After having dissociated the group Simon Dupree and the Big Sound , Derek Shulman , Ray Shulman and Phil Shulman decided to form a new group with the guitarist Gary Green , the pianist Kerry Minnear and several beaters ( John Weathers became the official beater as from 1972) to record twelve albums in one decade. Their most popular discs were: In has Glass House (1973), The Power and the Glory (1974) and Free Hand left in 1975. Towards the end of their history, the group changed progressive style with something moreover pop , which became finally definitely less popular.

Discography of Gentle Giant

Other exits

Box discs

  • Under Construction , 1997
  • Scraping the Barrel , 2004

DVD

Creations

The group created the Shulberry , a small string instrument named in the honor of the Shulman brothers.

External bonds (In English)

  • Official site and not-official of Gentle Giant

Random links:Twenty francs Pierre de Coubertin | Sabrina, the apprentie witch | Todd Blackadder | List French legislatures | Santo Antonio de Lisboa (Florianópolis) | Apsaras