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  Gabby Pahinui - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gabby was raised in the Kaka'ako area of Honolulu in the 1920s.
Gabby landed a gig as a back-up guitarist for Charley 'Tiny' Brown.
Gabby's children are active in the Hawaiian music scene, notably Cyril Pahinui, Bla Pahinui and Martin Pahinui, all of whom played on the Gabby Band recordings and have since become professional musicians.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Gabby_Pahinui   (831 words)

  
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By the early forties, Pahinui was becoming well known as a trusted musician that would add to the sound and style of any musical group despite the fact that he could not read music.
Gabby Pahinui became the most important and influential practitioner of the slack-key style of guitar playing.
As the decade of the nineteen seventies got under way, Gabby Pahinui was at the forefront of the development of the modern slack-key stylists, and his playing defined the modern era of this most unique styles.
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 Kyriakidis Group - Gabby Pahinui - Master of the Slack Key Guitar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Gabby quickly established himself as a strong musician, and as his skill with the steel string guitar improved, his astonishingly natural musical sense began to shine through, pulling him from the background to the fore.
Gabby was not only the folk hero of a nation, but an internationally recognized master of his instrument, his style of music, his art.
Gabby himself was originally in love with Jazz, and this is evident in his music.
soliton.phys.dal.ca /Members/daniel/Gabby   (2436 words)

  
 HMHFM Honorees - Gabby Pahinui
In his younger days, Gabby Pahinui was once described by a popular youth publication in Honolulu as "the folk hero of the Hawaiian music world".
It was Gabby's uncanny ability to impart the soul of Hawaiian music, however, that captured the attention of musicians and audiences alike.
Gabby was one of the first to record a slack key album when he teamed with steel guitar artist, Alvin "Barney" Isaacs, Jr.
www.hawaiimusicmuseum.org /honorees/2002/gabby.html   (543 words)

  
 Gabby Pahinui Tribute
Gabby Pahinui was -- and still is -- the recognized master of Hawaiian Slack-Key Guitar and Steel Guitar.
Gabby is a true legend of Hawaiian music.
To learn more about Gabby Pahinui and his music, please feel free to click on and read his biography and discography.
www.geocities.com /hawmele/Gabby   (148 words)

  
 Sticker Shock: Comfort Stew
Philip "Gabby" Pahinui was the father of modern Hawaiian music, a master of the slack-key (ki ho’alu) guitar, and every Local's hard-drinking, hard-living father figure.
Gabby was born in 1921 and raised in Kaka'ako, the heart of urban Honolulu.
Under Gabby’s mentorshop, a new generation of musicians—including his sons Bla and Cyril and Peter Moon (the subject of a future post)—began to make their presence known in the late 60s and early 70s in what became known as the Hawaiian Cultural Renaissance.
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 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Local News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Pahinui taught himself bass fiddle at age 10.
Pahinui's rich baritone trembled with bottomless emotion when he sang, and he could slide into a feathery falsetto that cut deeply into people's soul.
Gabby Pahinui may have been this century's most naturally talented instrumentalist, the sort of working-class hero who turns life into art, and vice versa.
starbulletin.com /1999/09/25/news/story6.html   (317 words)

  
 Pacific Beat® Cafe - Hawaiian Music Artist Profiles & Interviews
Pahinui was a brilliant self-taught musician with a bright falsetto that became raspy with age.
Gabby married Emily Kahua in 1937 and together they had 13 children--10 of whom were alive at the time of his death.
Gabby "Pops" Pahinui, pillar of 20th century Hawaiian music, died of a heart attack at 2:27pm on October 13, 1980, at the age of 59.
www.hawaiian-music.com /wireless/talkstory.html   (812 words)

  
 Gabby Pahinui  Cyril Pahinui James Bla Pahinui Martin Pahinui Pahinui Brothers
Pahinui has recorded prolifically since the late '60s when he appeared on several albums with his father, the late Gabby Pahinui (Hawaii's best known and most influential slack key guitarist).
Together Pahinui and Brozman have lovingly re-created some classics, emphasizing the melodies of songs that would have normally been heard in ensembles where the guitar might be more lost in the overall sound.
His father is Gabby Pahinui, the father of modern slack key, and his brothers, Cyril, Martin and Philip, have also made their mark.
www.realhawaii.jp /gabbypahinui.html   (1218 words)

  
 Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band,
Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian BandCountries that own much of their income to tourism tend to find their indigenous musics being filleted of emotional content and served up as clichés for souvenir purposes.
Pahinui and his fellow performer Atta Issacs were later to distinguish Ry Cooder's Chicken Skin Music and Cooder sits in here.
Gabby Pahinui, who featured on Ry Cooder's CHICKEN SKIN MUSIC, was at the forefront of the roots revival that took place in Hawaii in the '70s.
www.centrohd.com /music/albums/rating4g/gabby.htm   (268 words)

  
 Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band Volume 1 Hawaiian Music CD - Hanalei Video and Music - Your Global Source for Hawaiian ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Gabby Pahinui was born into a struggling family who "hanaied" him (put into another loving family), his brothers and one of his sisters to Philip and Emily Pahinui of Kaka'ako, an impoverished downtown Honolulu district.
Gabby received only a 5th grade education due to having to work shining shoes and selling newspapers to help support the family.
In the early 70's as a member of the Sons of Hawaii, Gabby was firmly placed in the forefront of the Hawaiian Music Renaissance.
hanaleivideoandmusic.com /hvcatalog/music_catalog/traditional/cd_mtrd005.asp   (435 words)

  
 SURFING FOR LIFE -- Hawaiian Music & Hula
Charles Philip (Gabby) Pahinui was born in Honolulu in 1921.
Gabby's contribution to the cultural renaissance of Hawaiian was enormous.
Hawaiian musicians, notably Gabby Pahinui, Tao Moe, the Sons of Hawai'i, helped transform Hawaiian music and its unique styles from a music closely guarded by families (the 'ohana) to one which was openly shared by Hawaiians with the world.
www.surfingforlife.com /music.html   (3923 words)

  
 Gabby Pahinui - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
In 1946, Gabby made his first recording, Hi'i Lawe.
Gabby took advantage of the time by recording four solo albums:
Gabby Pahinui, References, External links, 1921 births, 1980 deaths, American guitarists and Musicians of Hawaii.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Gabby_Pahinui   (487 words)

  
 Stevo's Hawaiian Music Guide - Featured CD: Gabby Pahinui - Gabby
If you do not have any Gabby Pahinui in your Hawaiian Music Collection, then you are missing out on one of the most admired and talented Hawaiian Artists of all time.
Gabby is commonly referred to as the best slack key guitar player of all time.
The way the Gabby, Atta, Joe Gang, and Gabby's sons blend their instruments into perfect harmony is beyond description.
www.hawaii-music.com /featuredcd/gabby_brown.shtml   (672 words)

  
 ROUGH GUIDES
Gabby Pahinui, born in 1921, is an Hawaiian legend.
Gabby joined one of the most popular singers and composers of the day, Andy Cummings as a steel guitarist and singer, an association that would last 17 years.
After meeting Gabby Pahinui the two started jamming together, and were later joined by bass player Joe Marshall and then steel guitar player David Rogers, to form the Sons of Hawaii in 1960.
www.farsidemusic.com /RG_hawaii.html   (4216 words)

  
 Slack Key Recordings
Charles Philip "Gabby" Pahinui (1921-1980) is remembered today as Hawai`i's premier slack key guitarist, and the founder of the modern slack key guitar era, and he continues to influence all slack key guitarists.
Gabby's incredible ki ho`alu skills are showcased on this arrangement in a C Wahine Tuning (C-G-E-G-B-E, from the lowest- to highest-pitched string, tuned down a half-step to sound in the key of B), commonly referred to as “Gabby's C Tuning.”, or “Gabby’s Hi’ilawe” Tuning.
Gabby recorded many other songs in this F tuning, especially for the Waikiki label, and he is the only slack key player who has recorded prominently in it.
www.dancingcat.com /dancingcat/recordings/HistoryCord.php   (5117 words)

  
 Tucson Weekly: Getting Some Slack (January 15 - January 21, 1998)
The elder Pahinui was the most influential of the slack-key masters, responsible not only for inspiring the next generation of players, but also for expanding the technical boundaries of this rich, improvisational form and its recorded history.
Gabby died in 1980; but his legacy continues, in no small part due to the impact he made on pianist George Winston, who fell in love with the slack-key sound after hearing recordings back in the early 1970s.
Joining Cyril Pahinui for the first time on an Arizona stage are George Kahumoku, Jr., and the Rev. Dennis Kamakahi, one of Hawaii's most prolific contemporary songwriters.
www.tucsonweekly.com /tw/01-15-98/mus2.htm   (710 words)

  
 Gabby Pahinui - Gabby: Reviews, Track Listing, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
When the newly founded Panini label approached Gabby Pahinui [+] in 1971 to record a new album with family and friends, the innovator of the slack-key guitar lately jumped on the opportunity.
Gabby (also known as "the Brown Album" due to the brown hues of the album cover) was released in 1972 with open arms from the Hawaiian community, and helping him on this project were his sons Bla, Phillip, Cyril, and Martin, along with longtime friends Manuel "Joe Gang" Kupahu and Leland "Atta" Issacs.
The music itself was full of Pahinui's wonderful guitar playing and his unique, soulful voice.
www.music.com /release/gabby/1   (230 words)

  
 Patrick Landeza | News | Articles
Pahinui, who lives in Honolulu, is the son of the late and legendary Gabby "Pops" Pahinui, one of Hawaii's best-known and most influential slack key guitarists.
Pahinui and Landeza bridge generations and continents during the Hawaiian Music Masters concert that arrives at The Met tonight.
Pahinui was taught by his father and played on all five of Gabby's groundbreaking albums during his teens.
www.patricklandeza.com /news/articles/031113.html   (589 words)

  
 Honolulu Star-Bulletin Features
A well-regarded house secret in Hawaiian music circles for decades, Pahinui was "discovered" by mainland session maestros such as Ry Cooder in the early 1970s, and the records recorded by Pahinui in the mid- to late-'70s were seminal influences for an entire generation of slack-key artists and fans.
What made Pahinui such an interesting musician was his incorporation of jazz and pop-music phrasing into traditional Hawaiian melodies.
Pahinui passed away in 1980, and a few years later Hawaii's annual slack-key festival was named in his honor.
starbulletin.com /97/02/20/features/story1.html   (525 words)

  
 Picking Up The Slack Key With Cyril Pahinui
Gabby Pahinui (1921-1980) repopularized ki ho'alu with his prodigious technique and wide-ranging musical tastes.
Gabby made slack key a vehicle for interpreting not only traditional Hawaiian tunes but also material from other genres and cultures, and he ushered in a fully developed solo style, augmented by his stirring, often falsetto vocals.
Pahinui recounted an encounter there with the late country-music legend: "Chet would say, 'Cyril, what tuning are you in?' and I'd say, 'Chet, this an open C,' and his eyes would open wide, and he would say, 'What is that?' He'd never heard that tuning.
www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/gate/archive/2001/08/23/derk.DTL&type=printable   (1361 words)

  
 Gabby Pahinui: Reviews, Discography, Audio Clips, and more ||| Music.com
Gabby Pahinui [+] helped to lay the foundation for Hawaiian slack key guitar playing.
During an early-'90s interview, Pahinui's son, James "Bla" Pahinui, also a skilled slack key guitarist, recalled, "My dad got away with a lot of stuff because it worked.
Pahinui recorded the first slack key recordings in 1946.
music.com /person/gabby_pahinui/1   (294 words)

  
 Hawaiian - The Gabby Pahinui Hawaiian Band   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Gabby Pahinui, perhaps one of the best known and most influential slack key players in the world, was the most significant post-war musician from the islands, and mentor to virtually all the guitarists in Hawaii today.
Along are many Gabby Pahinui's musical disciples, virtually the "who's who" of contemporary Hawaiian music: Leland "Atta" Isaacs, Sonny Chillingsworth, Manuel "Joe Gang" Kupahy, Bla Pahinui and Cyril Pahinui.
The music of Gabby Pahinui is their music, and it is as beautiful as the land from which it comes."
www.frankspicks.com /reviews/pahinui.html   (426 words)

  
 Joe Sixpack's Hawaiian Music Guide - Records and Artists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Gabby Pahinui's second-oldest son, James "Bla" Pahinui has much more of an overtly folk- or rock-influenced style than his brothers, often singing in English, and goofing around with both the music and his vocals.
His work with Gabby Pahinui and the Pahinui family ranks as some of the best records in the genre, as well as some of the best stuff he ever recorded...
Gabby's youngest son, Martin, is a wonderful vocalist and slack key player, steeped in the best song traditions of the island.
www.slipcue.com /music/international/hawaii/albums/E_01.html   (1844 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Gabby: Music: Gabby Pahinui   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Gabby had already had years of recordings behind him when this album was released in 1971 (in fact the album begins with a brief snippet of his rendition of "Hi'ilawe" taken off of a 78 rpm recording he did in the 40's).
When I heard Gabby Pahinui and the Sons of Hawaii in Maui in '78 I instantly recognized a similar feeling to that of Bob Wills - an easy pedestrian beat with lots of character and commentary.
Gabby Pahinui's music remains a constant source of pleasure and enjoyment 22 years later.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B000008NUP?v=glance   (1253 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Gabby Pahinui
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www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Gabby-Pahinui   (1287 words)

  
 Gabby Pahinui | Santopia.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
Gabby Pahinui is the legendary King of slack key and steel guitar.
Gabby has been an inspiration and influence for many other Hawaiian singers and musicians from traditional to contemporary.
Gabby was a free spirit with a huge heart and he was an absolute genius on the slack key guitar.
hawaii.santopia.com /Hawaii/HawaiianMusic/GabbyPahinui/tabid/1190/Default.aspx   (274 words)

  
 ScienceDaily: Gabby pahinui   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
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