Artie Traum

Vocalist/songwriter and acoustic folk-jazz guitarist Artie Traum was located in Woodstock, NY. Born within the Bronx, he adopted his sibling Content into folk music in the first ’60s in the brand new York area, acquiring acoustic guitar lessons from jazz performers. He and his sibling created the folk-rock group the kids of Paradise within the middle-’60s and, after Happy’s departure, they transformed their name to Carry and documented an recording for Verve Forecast. Traum relocated to Woodstock in 1967 and worked well as an archive producer and author of film soundtracks. He also documented albums along with his sibling and with the Woodstock Hill Revue. After Traum’s 1986 single acoustic guitar recording Cayenne, Traum started relocating a jazzier path and utilizing a amount of sidemen from your electrical jazz and fusion globe (including guitarist David Torn and bassist Tony Levin) on 1993’s fresh age-flavored Characters from Joubée. The Look at from Right here (1996) and Conferences with Remarkable Close friends (1999) continuing Traum’s expansive folk-jazz strategy with many high-profile collaborators (like the enjoys of Steve Swallow, David Sancious, John Sebastian, Adrian Belew, Béla Fleck, David Grisman, and people of the Music group), as the Last Intimate (2001) downsized the guitarist’s ensemble of musician close friends and South of Lafayette (2002) noticed Traum time for his vocalist/songwriter root base, albeit while keeping his acoustic jazz leanings. Released in 2007, Thief of your time also highlighted Traum in acoustic vocalist/songwriter setting. Artie Traum passed away of liver cancers in July 2008; he was 65 yrs . old.