The album achieved quadruple-platinum status with U.S.
#JAN HAMMER COMPLETE DISCOGRAPHY TORRENT SERIES#
The popular success of his music on the series was evident after just one season when, on 2 November 1985, the Miami Vice Soundtrack hit number one on the Billboard Top Pop album charts. But his greatest challenge came in the fall of 1984, when the producers of Miami Vice enlisted him to commence the rigorous weekly schedule of scoring the series. Hammer's original scores for three major motion pictures complement a long list of credits for documentaries, "made-for-TV" movies in the U.S., commercials, and station identifications. Into 1984, his various talents were employed on recordings as diverse as James Young's ( Styx) first solo album, City Slicker for which he co-wrote and produced John Abercrombie's Night Mick Jagger's first solo album, She's the Boss and Jeff Beck's Flash which included Hammer's song "Escape", winner of the 1985 Grammy award for " Best Rock Instrumental Performance". (Action Research into Multiple Sclerosis), featuring Jimmy Page, Eric Clapton, Joe Cocker and a host of others. benefit concerts that raised money for Ronnie Lane's A.R.M.S. Hammer took the stage with Jeff Beck in December 1983 for the nine U.S. He formed Schon & Hammer, a duo with ex Santana and Journey guitarist Neal Schon, that recorded Untold Passion in 1981 and Here to Stay in 1982. One of the album tracks, "Star Cycle," went on to become the theme for the British television series The Tube. Also in 1978, he wrote and performed on three songs for Jeff Beck's next album, There and Back which was released in 1980. He then formed a new band, known as "Hammer". Hammer returned to solo work with the release of Black Sheep in 1978. He then joined Di Meola for a tour chronicled the same year on Tour De Force - Live and finally appeared throughout Scenario, utilizing a Fairlight CMI digital synthesizer and contributing to more than half of the album's compositions. Casino, Splendido Hotel and Electric Rendezvous followed. In 1977, Hammer recorded Elegant Gypsy with Al Di Meola. Hammer composed music for the Czech cinematic fairy-tale The Incredibly Sad Princess. One final album by the group followed in 1977, Melodies. The group turned out three LPs the following year: their own Oh, Yeah? and, with Jeff Beck, the RIAA platinum Wired (with Jan's "Blue Wind"), and Jeff Beck with the Jan Hammer Group Live, a chronicle of their 100-show tour together, certified gold. The Jan Hammer Group was formed in 1976 and supported The First Seven Days on tour, receiving good reviews from both jazz and rock critics. He produced and recorded the album at Red Gate Studio, which he'd built in his upstate New York farmhouse and which has been the location of his recordings ever since. Hammer was an early pioneer of playing the Minimoog Moog synthesizer in a live setting.Īfter recording albums with Goodman and John Abercrombie (ECM session Timeless with Jack DeJohnette) in 1974, Hammer's solo career began with the release of The First Seven Days (1975).
A successful jazz fusion band, they performed some 530 shows before their farewell concert on 30 December 1973. Upon completion of his studies, Hammer spent a year touring with Sarah Vaughan, recorded with Elvin Jones and Jeremy Steig, then moved to New York City and joined the original lineup of the Mahavishnu Orchestra with guitarist John McLaughlin, violinist Jerry Goodman, bassist Rick Laird, and drummer Billy Cobham in 1971. Hammer decided to move to the United States and resolved to become a citizen after receiving a scholarship at Berklee School of Music in Boston. This was released as Malma Maliny by the German label MPS Records. Hammer recorded a jazz trio live album at "The Domicile" in Munich on 30 August 1968. When the Warsaw Pact invaded Czechoslovakia on 20 August 1968, Hammer's studies at the Academy were cut short. Upon entrance to the Prague Academy of Musical Arts, he completed many compulsory classes including harmony, counterpoint, music history, and classical composition.
Hammer formed a jazz trio in high school, performing and recording throughout Eastern Europe at the age of fourteen. He aspired to follow his father into medicine until a family friend convinced him to develop his musical talents instead. Hammer began playing the piano at the age of four and his formal instruction started two years later. His mother was Vlasta Průchová, a well-known Czech singer, and his father was a doctor who worked his way through school playing vibraphone and bass guitar. Jan Hammer was born in Prague, then capital of Czechoslovakia (now the Czech Republic).
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