Steven Halpern
Born in New York, New York in 1947, Steven Halpern would go from young jazz cat
to the father of New Age music. Bored with his jazz career by the end of the
1960s, Halpern relocated to the west coast where he began to explore creating
music designed to make people relax, focus, and be more healthful. His first
album in this new style, 1976’s Spectrum Suite, ignored rhythmic patterns and
focused on beautiful harmonics played on electric piano. He released it on his
own record label and marketed the album in non-traditional retail settings, and
even with these humble beginnings, th...
