Tim Ware

Tim Ware Is A Composer And Musician Born In Sacramento California. He Came To Prominence With The Release In 1980 Of The Tim Ware Group On Kaleidoscope Records. The Tim Ware Group Working With A Number Of Other Talented San Francisco Bay Area Musicians Helped Define The Emerging Genre Of New Acoustic Music. The Band Featured Tim Who Also Composed All The Music On Mandolin And Guitar Bob Alekno On Guitar And Mandolin John Tenney On Violin Sharon O'Connor On 'cello And Kenneth Miller On Acoustic Bass. The Album Also Featured David Grisman Darol Anger And Mike Marshall On The Mandolin Quartet Piece "Spiral Moons" Which Rosanne Cash Cited As One Of Her Favorite Tunes In A Down Beat Magazine Article From That Period . In The Spring Of 1980 "Spiral Moons" Had Its World Premiere At The Great American Music Hall In San Francisco Performed By Tim Darol Mike And Mark O'Connor And A Few Months Later This Same Quartet Reprised That Performance At The Kuumbwa Jazz Center In Santa Cruz California. The Album Photography Was Done By Former Rolling Stone Chief Photographer Baron Wolman. In 1983 The Tim Ware Group Released Their Second Album Shelter From The Norm On Rounder Records With David Balakrishnan Replacing John Tenney On Violin. Although The Tim Ware Group In The Mandolin-Based Edition Disbanded In 1985 The Music Generates Interest To This Day Tim Was Featured As Artist Of The Week On The Mandozine Website. . In 1985 Tim Formed The Tim Ware Group V2 With Tim Playing Guitar David Balakrishnan Now In The Turtle Island String Quartet On Violin George Brooks On Saxophone Mark Van Wageningen On Electric Bass And Paul Van Wageningen On Drums. The Band Toured And Recorded And Disbanded In 1995. In 1992 Tim Composed "Los Surf" For Inclusion On The Debut Album By Teisco Del Rey Aka Dan Forte "The Many Moods Of Teisco Del Rey." And In 1996 Tim Reimagined "The Theme From Lawrence Of Arabia" As A Classic Surf Music Epic Which Was Featured On Teisco's Second Release "Teisco Del Rey Plays Music For Lovers." In 1997 Tim Started HyperArts Web Design Which Remains A Thriving Business. In Recent Years Tim Has Scored And Performed The Soundtracks For Several Oregon Public Broadcasting Documentaries Two Of Which Have Won Emmys And He Continues To Experiment With Musical Sound. He Is Also The Creator And Curator Of ThomasPynchon.Com And PynchonWiki.Com The Web's Largest Resources For American Novelist Thomas Pynchon. In 2000 Tim Was Interviewed For And Featured In A Feature-Length Documentary On The Seldom-Seen American Author. In 2005 A "greatest Hits" CD Consisting Of Digitally Remastered Tunes From The Tim Ware Group's Two Albums Was Released By Menus And Music A Publishing Company Started By Sharon O'Connor. In 2006 His Music Was Used As The Soundtrack For The BBC Four Radio Drama "Monkeyface." Tim Is Currently At Work On A Full-Length CD Of Surf And Surf-Inspired Music. read less