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Jaime Robert Robertson (born July 5 , 1943 in Toronto, Ontario , Canada ) is a Songwriter , Guitar ist and singer, probably best known for his membership in The Band . BIO Born to a Jewish father and a Mohawk mother, Robertson's earliest exposure to music was at Six Nations 40, Ontario , where he spent his summers growing up. He studied guitar from his youth and was writing songs and performing from his teen years. By 1958 , Robertson was performing in various groups around Toronto . In 1960 , he met singer Ronnie Hawkins , who headed up a band called The Hawks (after relocating to Canada ), and joined the group, which toured often, before splitting from Hawkins in 1963 . The quintet styled themselves as The Canadian Esquires and '''Levon and the Hawks''' {Link without Title} , (after rejecting such Tongue-in-cheek names as '''The Honkies''' and ''' The Crackers '''), before ultimately calling themselves The Band . THE BAND Bob Dylan hired The Band for his famed, controversial tours of 1965 and 1966, his first wide exposure as an electrified Rock And Roll performer rather than his earlier acoustic Folk sound. Robertson's distinctive guitar sound was an essential part of the music; Dylan famously praised him as "the only mathematical guitar genius I’ve ever run into who doesn’t offend my intestinal nervousness with his rearguard sound." From their first album, '' Music From Big Pink '' (1968), The Band was praised as one of Rock Music 's preeminent groups. Rolling Stone in particular lavished praise and coverage on The Band, to an extent rarely seen in that magazine. Robertson sang only a few songs with The Band , but was the group's primary songwriter, and was often seen as the De Facto bandleader. Drummer and singer Levon Helm would later claim that Robertson took too much songwriting credit for The Band's material. In 1976 , Robertson decided to break up The Band, reporting that he was profoundly exhausted by nearly twenty years' worth of almost non-stop touring. In The Last Waltz , Robertson noted that he had been playing live Rock And Roll music almost since Rock And Roll began. The Band reformed in 1983 , without Robertson. MARTIN SCORSESE Martin Scorsese hired Robertson to compose the Musical Score for his 1980 film Raging Bull . Robertson would later work on Scorsese's movies '' The King Of Comedy '', '' The Color Of Money '' and '' Casino '', and act as executive music director for '' Gangs Of New York ''. ALBUMS WITH THE BAND
SOLO MUSIC Robertson has released four solo albums:
FILM CREDITS Robertson is credited in the following films:
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