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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 49. Chapters: Nigel Kennedy, Fred Frith, Seth Lakeman, Victor Silvester, Bobby Valentino, Marion Scott, Arthur Catterall, Eddie Jobson, William Shield, Hidayat Inayat Khan, Ric Sanders, Michael Christian Festing, George Pinto, Isolde Menges, James Whild Lea, Ambrose, Fiona Brice, Diana Yukawa, Philip Langridge, John Ella, Wallace Hartley, Joni Fuller, Bert Firman, Andy Eastwood, David Braham, Irvine Arditti, William Brade, John Lenton, Arthur Elwell Fisher, Sheila Nelson, Cyril Stapleton, Florence Maude Ewart, Darryl Way, Thomas Jesty, Shirley Thompson, Russell Senior, Haydn Wood, Mik Kaminski, David Cross, Urban Blitz, Remo Lauricella, Wilfred Gibson, Steve Bingham, Timothy Essex, Richard Charke, Marius Kahan, Thomas Linley the younger, Nicolas Mori, Charles Hague, Wilhelm Cramer, Rohan Kriwaczek, Graham Clark, Henry Holmes, Alfred Holmes, Thomas Haigh, Sarah Martin, Henry Blagrove, Vicky Aspinall, Ben Hancox, Edwin Ellis, John Tiplady Carrodus, Henry Condell, Elsie Southgate, Charles William Glover, Simon Hewitt Jones. Excerpt: Fred Frith (born 17 February 1949) is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer and improvisor. Probably best-known for his guitar work, Frith first came to attention as one of the founding members of the English avant-rock group Henry Cow. Frith was also a member of Art Bears, Massacre and Skeleton Crew. He has collaborated with a number of prominent musicians, including Robert Wyatt, Derek Bailey, The Residents, Lol Coxhill, John Zorn, Brian Eno, Lars Hollmer, Bill Laswell, Iva Bittova, the ARTE Quartett and Bob Ostertag. He has also composed several long works, including Traffic Continues (1996, performed 1998 by Frith and Ensemble Modern) and Freedom in Fragments (1993, performed 1999 by Rova Saxophone Quartet). Frith produces most of his own music, and has also produced many albums by other...
