Jump to content

Steve Newman (musician)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Steve Newman on stage at the 2010 Solstice Beer Festival in Broederstroom, South Africa

Steve Newman is a South African acoustic guitarist and a founding member of the group Tananas.[1][2][3] For thirty years Newman has been collaborating with fellow South African guitarist, Tony Cox.[4] He is also one of The Aquarian Quartet, consisting of Tony Cox, Syd Kitchen (deceased 2011), Greg Georgiades and Steve Newman. He was a member of Mondetta, a self-described world music group, with Gito Baloi (of Tananas) and Wendy Oldfield.[5]

Discography

[edit]

As Steve Newman

  • Your Mother is Very Worried About You (1979) — out of print LP
  • What Do You Want (1982) — solo and with Tony Cox; out of print LP
  • 101 Ways to Play the Acoustic Guitar (1983) with Tony Cox — out of print LP
  • Man on the Jetty (1985) — out of print cassette (solo), recorded at Pearl Road Studios, London, by Doc Rowe
  • Tananas (1986) with Kathryn Locke — out of print cassette
  • Planetarium Live (c. 1989) with Tony Cox — out of print cassette
  • Alive at La Plaza (1993) with Tony Cox — out of print cassette
  • About Time (2002) with Tony Cox
  • Steve Newman (2004) — solo independent release
  • The World in a Guitar (2004) with Aquarian Quartet & friends (Madala Kunene, Terence Scarr, Edi Nedilander, Ashish Joshi, Kesivan Naidoo, Errol Dyers)
  • Flavour (2008) — solo

With Tananas[6]

  • Tananas (1989)
  • Spiral (1990)
  • Time (1992)
  • Orchestra Mundo (1995)
  • Unamunacua (1996)
  • The Collection (1997)
  • Seed (1999)
  • Alive in Jo'burg (2001)

References

[edit]
  1. ^ "Steve Newman". The Orbit SA. theorbit.co.za. 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  2. ^ "Steve Newman: Still living it, after all these years". Daily Maverick. dailymaverick.co.za. 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  3. ^ "Profile: Steve Newman". 31 May 2002.
  4. ^ "Tony Cox & Steve Newman : Tous les albums et les singles".
  5. ^ "Steve Newman". The Orbit SA. theorbit.co.za. 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  6. ^ "Tananas: Biography". VH1.com Urge Music Downloads. All Media Guide, LLC. 2005. Archived from the original on 10 May 2004. Retrieved 7 June 2007.