Biography: Steve Halpern is the original new age artist, in the most accurate sense of the term. In 1975 he released Spectrum Suite, his first album of music specifically designed for relaxation and healing. Before that, Halpern had been immersed in the New York City jazz scene as a trumpeter and guitarist. His ...Read full biography
Spectrum Suite can be marked as the album that began the New Age music movement. (Okay, so Tony Scott's Music for Zen Meditation preceded it by eleven years.) With this album, Steven Halpern introduced ...Read full review
More music for relaxation in the typical Halpern mode, it is couched in the composer's more eccentric new age theories involving the healing powers of crystals. ~ Linda Kohanov, Rovi ...Read full review