James Tyler
James Tyler is famed for his skill as a Renaissance and Baroque lutenist and viol player, but he also performs and records on the mandolin, the cittern, and even the banjo (more on that later). Tyler was born in Hartford, CT, in 1940 and attended the Hartt College of Music in that same city; he took lessons from lutenist Joseph Iadone on the side, and in 1962 made his first professional appearance in a concert by the New York Pro Musica. A few years later he traveled to Munich, joining the Studio der frühen Musik for a time, and then in 1969 he moved (semi-permanently) to Britain in order to play with the Early Music Consort and Reservata Musica. He co-founded the highly-praised Consort of Musicke, and also performed extensively with the Julian Bream Consort. Those who had followed Tyler's early music career were shocked to learn in 1974 that he had formed a ragtime quintet called the New Excelsior Talking Machine, picking up the banjo and setting it aflame to the strains of Scott Joplin and others; one supposes that the principles of informed historical performance practice are the same whether one is talking about Renaissance music or turn-of-the-twentieth-century music. In 1976, Tyler founded the London Early Music Group, reminding people that he hadn't abandoned his usual stomping ground.
James Tyler has wielded a heavy influence on several generations of early music performers. As a virtuoso on plucked instruments -- lute, mandolin, and, yes, banjo -- his playing has time and again proven to be the life of whatever ensemble he happens to be performing with (and there have been many in addition to the ones listed above). He has managed to impart something of his energetic manner to the students at the early music program at the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, and his books -- which include The Early Guitar (Oxford, 1980) and The Early Mandolin (Oxford 1989) -- are lucid and insightful.
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Your Woman
Pop - Released by Universal-Island Records Ltd. on 1 Jan 2005
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Renaissance Duets
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 1972
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Italian Airs and Dances
London Early Music Group, James Tyler
Classical - Released by Decca Music Group Ltd. on 1 Jan 1980
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The Unlikely Lad
Pop - Released by Universal-Island Records Ltd. on 1 Jan 2005
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Foolish
Pop - Released by Universal-Island Records Ltd. on 1 Jan 2005
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Tyler's World
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by Tyler James on 15 Jun 2017
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Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy)
Rock - Released by BossVicious Studios on 16 Jun 2023
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James Tyler, Vol. 1
Rock - Released by BossVicious Studios on 24 Jun 2022
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A Place I Go
Pop - Released by Universal-Island Records Ltd. on 1 Jan 2013
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Worry About You
Pop - Released by Universal-Island Records Ltd. on 1 Jan 2013
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Another Day
Alternative & Indie - Released by One Sided Compromise on 27 Nov 2023
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Tyler James - Stay (Prod. By Pendo46)
Hip-Hop/Rap - Released by 4570344 Records DK on 21 Mar 2024
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