Artist: The Aurora Project
Genre(s):
Rock
Discography:
Unspoken Words
Year: 2005
Tracks: 15
Thursday, 26 June 2008
Wednesday, 25 June 2008
Gerry Mulligan
Artist: Gerry Mulligan
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Gerry Mulligan Quartet With Chet Baker
Year: 1953
Tracks: 24
Jazz Masters 36
Year:
Tracks: 12
The most far-famed and plausibly sterling jazz baritonist of all meter, Gerry Mulligan was a heavyweight. A flexible soloist world Health Organization was ever quick to jam with anyone from Dixielanders to the most advanced boppers, Mulligan brought a somewhat revolutionary wakeful well-grounded to his potentially awkward and fell horn and played with the speeding and dexterity of an altoist.
Mulligan started on the pianoforte before learning clarinet and the various saxophones. His initial reputation was as an organiser. In 1944 he wrote charts for Johnny Warrington's receiving set band and before long was qualification contributions to the books of Tommy Tucker and George Paxton. He touched to New York in 1946 and united Gene Krupa's Orchestra as a staff organiser; his most far-famed chart was "Disk Jockey Jump." The uncommon times he played with Krupa's striation was on alto and the same situation existed when he was with Claude Thornhill in 1948.
Gerry Mulligan's first-class honours degree noteworthy recorded exploit on baritone horn was with Miles Davis' Birth of the Cool nonet (1948-50) only at one time over again his arrangements ("Godchild," "Patch That Dream" and 3 of his originals "Jeru," "Rocking chair" and "Urania de Milo") were more than significant than his forgetful solos. Mulligan spent much of 1949 writing for Elliot Lawrence's orchestra and acting anonymously in the sax segment. It was non until 1951 that he began to nonplus a bit of aid for his act upon on baritone. Mulligan recorded with his own nonet for Prestige, displaying an already recognizable legal. After he traveled to Los Angeles, he wrote some arrangements for Stan Kenton (including "Youngblood," "Swing House" and "Walk Shoes"), worked at the Lighthouse and then gained a even Monday night engagement at the Haig. Around this fourth dimension Mulligan accomplished that he enjoyed the supernumerary freedom of soloing without a piano player. He packed with trumpeter Chet Baker and soon their witching resonance was featured in his piano-less quartette. The group caught on quickly in 1952 and made both Mulligan and Baker into stars.
A drug raid place Mulligan out of action and over that quartette merely, when he was released from jailhouse in 1954, Mulligan began a new musical partnership with valve trombone player Bob Brookmeyer that was just as successful. Trumpeter Jon Eardley and Zoot Sims on tenor now and again made the group a 6 and in 1958 trumpeter Art Farmer was featured in Mulligan's Quartet. Being a very flexible player with regard for other stylists, Mulligan went out of his way to record with some of the not bad musicians he admired. At the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival he traded off with baritonist Harry Carney on "Prima Bara Dubla" while backed by the Duke Ellington Orchestra, and during 1957-60 he recorded discriminate albums with Thelonious Monk, Paul Desmond, Stan Getz, Ben Webster and Johnny Hodges. Mulligan played on the classic Legal of Jazz goggle box limited in 1958 and appeared in the movies I Want to Live and The Subterraneans.
During 1960-64 Mulligan light-emitting diode his Concert Jazz Band which gave him an opportunity to write, play baritone voice and once in a while double on pianissimo. The orchestra at times included Brookmeyer, Sims, Clark Terry and Mel Lewis. Mulligan was a little less active after the large band stone-broke up just he toured extensively with the Dave Brubeck Quartet (1968-72), had a part-time big lot in the 1970s (the Age of Steam), double on soprano for a period, lED a mid-'70s 6 that included vibraphonist Dave Samuels, and in 1986 packed on a record with Scott Hamilton. In the nineties he toured the world with his splendid "no-name" quartette and lED a "Renascence of the Cool Band" that performed and recorded remakes of the Miles Davis Nonet classics. Up until the goal, Gerry Mulligan was forever tidal bore to play.
Among Mulligan's compositions were "Walkin' Shoes," "Line for Lyons," "Bark for Barksdale," "Nights at the Turntable," "Verbalize Chaos," "Soft Shoe," "Bernie's Tune," "Blueport," "Vocal for Strayhorn," "Vocal for an Unfinished Woman" and "I Never Was a Young Man" (which he often sang). He recorded extensively through the years for such labels as Prestige, Pacific Jazz, Capitol, Vogue, EmArcy, Columbia, Verve, Milestone, United Artists, Philips, Limelight, A&M, CTI, Chiaroscuro, Who's Who, DRG, Concord and GRP.
Miriam Makeba
Artist: Miriam Makeba
Genre(s):
Pop
Ethnic
Discography:
Homeland
Year: 2000
Tracks: 10
Africa
Year: 1991
Tracks: 24
Pata Pata
Year: 1972
Tracks: 13
Welela
Year:
Tracks: 11
Following a ternary decennium retentive exile, Miriam Makeba's revert to South Africa was renowned as though a queen was restoring her monarchy. The response was fitting as Makeba remains the virtually authoritative female vocalist to come forth prohibited of South Africa. Hailed as The Empress Of African Song and Mama Africa, Makeba helped bring African music to a global hearing in the sixties. Nearly five decades afterwards her debut with the Manhattan Brothers, she continues to play an important function in the emergence of African music.
Makeba's life has been systematically marked by shin. As the girl of a sangoma, a mystic traditional healer of the Xhosa tribe, she exhausted sixer months of her birth year in gaol with her mother. Gifted with a dynamic vocal tone, Makeba recorded her debut individual, "Lakutshona Llange," as a member of the Manhattan Brothers in 1953. Although she left to build an all-female group named the Skylarks in 1958, she reunited with members of the Manhattan Brothers when she recognised the lead female role in a musical version of Billie Jean Moffitt King Kong, which told the tragical story of Black African boxer, Ezekiel "King Kong" Dlamani, in 1959. The same yr, she began an 18 calendar month enlistment of South Africa with Alf Herbert's musical extravaganza, African Jazz And Variety, and made an coming into court in a documentary film, Follow Back Africa. These successes light-emitting diode to invitations to perform in Europe and the United States.
Makeba was embraced by the African-American community. "Pata Pata," Makeba's signature tune was written by Dorothy Masuka and recorded in South Africa in 1956 ahead eventually becoming a major hit in the U.S. in 1967. In late-1959, she performed for four-spot weeks at the Village Vanguard in New York. She subsequently made a guest show during Harry Belafonte's groundbreaking concerts at Carnegie Hall. A double-album of the event, released in 1960, received a Grammy award. Makeba has continued to periodically reincarnate her collaborationism with Belafonte, cathartic an album in 1972 coroneted Miriam Makeba and Harry Belafonte. Makeba then made a especial edgar Guest appearance at the Harry Belafonte Tribute at Madison Square Garden in 1997.
Makeba's successes as a singer were too balanced by her point-blank views around apartheid. In 1960, the administration of South Africa revoked her citizenship. For the following thirty geezerhood, she was forced to be a 'citizen of the reality.' Makeba received the Dag Hammerskjold Peace Prize in 1968. After marrying radical Black militant Stokely Carmichael, many of her concerts were cancelled, and her recording contract with RCA was dropped, resulting in even more problems for the artist. She finally resettled to Guinea at the invitation of united States President Sekou Toure and agreed to serve well as Guinea's delegate to the United Nations. In 1964 and 1975, she addressed the General Assembly of the United Nations on the horrors of apartheid.
Makeba remained active as a musician over the years. In 1975, she recorded an album, A Promise, with Joe Sample, Stix Hooper, Arthur Adams, and David T. Walker of the Crusaders. Makeba coupled Paul Simon and South Africa 's Ladysmith Black Mambazo during their world-wide Graceland tour in 1987 and 1988. Two geezerhood later, she coupled Odetta and Nina Simone for the One Nation tour.
Makeba published her autobiography, Miriam: My Story, in English in 1988 and had it subsequently translated and published in German, French, Dutch, Italian, Spanish and Japanese. Following Nelson Mandela's spill from prison house, Makeba returned to South Africa in December 1990. She performed her first base concert in her fatherland in 30 years in April 1991. Makeba appeared in South African award-winning musical, Sarafina, in the persona of Sarafina's mother in 1992. Two geezerhood later, she reunited with her first base hubby, trumpeter Hugh Masekela, for the Tour Of Hope tour. In 1995, Makeba formed a charity administration to raise funds to help protect the women of South Africa. The same year, she performed at the Vatican's Nevi Hall during a world-wide broadcasted demonstrate, Christmas In The Vatican. Makeba's first base studio album in a x, Mother country, was released in 2000.
Tuesday, 24 June 2008
George Michael
Artist: George Michael
Genre(s):
Pop
Rock: Pop-Rock
Dance: Pop
Other
Jazz: Funk
Pop: Pop-Rock
Discography:
Twenty Five: Deluxe Edition
Year: 2006
Tracks: 44
Twenty Five
Year: 2006
Tracks: 44
The Very Best
Year: 2005
Tracks: 13
Round Here
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Rare Remixes
Year: 2004
Tracks: 12
Patience
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Megamix
Year: 2004
Tracks: 1
Flawless: The Mixes
Year: 2004
Tracks: 5
Amazing
Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
Shoot the Dog
Year: 2002
Tracks: 3
Freeek!
Year: 2002
Tracks: 5
Wham
Year: 2000
Tracks: 14
Music From The Edge Of Heart
Year: 2000
Tracks: 16
Songs From The Last Century
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Live
Year: 1999
Tracks: 10
Older and Upper
Year: 1998
Tracks: 17
Ladies and Gentlemen (CD 2)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 15
Ladies and Gentlemen (CD 1)
Year: 1998
Tracks: 14
B-Side
Year: 1998
Tracks: 10
Fastlove
Year: 1996
Tracks: 3
Older
Year: 1995
Tracks: 11
Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me
Year: 1991
Tracks: 4
Listen Without Prejudice Vol.1
Year: 1990
Tracks: 10
Freedom '90
Year: 1990
Tracks: 3
Faith
Year: 1990
Tracks: 14
The Finale
Year: 1986
Tracks: 14
Special
Year:
Tracks: 15
Singles and Remix
Year:
Tracks: 13
Released Lives
Year:
Tracks: 13
Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou (George Michael) achieved celebrity in the twosome Wham! in his native U.K. in 1982. Through 1986, he and his partner, Andrew Ridgeley, scored hit later hit in a variety show of styles from strike to up-tempo pop to slow ballads. As songster and lead-in isaac M. Singer, Michael bit by bit overshadowed the radical, and by the time they split, he was ready for a massively successful solo career. This began with the 1987 album Faith, which featured a series of chart-topping off singles and sold more than septenary billion copies. That Michael had not achieved a similar critical success was evident from the title of his followup album, Heed Without Prejudice, Vol. 1, which must be considered a major commercial dashing hopes even though it sold a million copies, included deuce Top Ten hits, and hit number two. With Vol. 2 ostensibly shelved, Michael contributed several songs to the brotherly love album Red Hot + Dance in 1992, and one of them, "Overly Funky," reached the Top 20.
After the failure of Hear Without Prejudice, Michael meshed in a bitter legal fight with his record company, accusatory them of not properly promoting the album and asking them to spill him from his sign up; he declared that he would refuse to expiration whatsoever records if he lost the case. He lost. After losing an attract, Michael bought his direction out of his Columbia contract and signed with the music division of Dreamworks, a fledgeling amusement potbelly founded by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and David Geffen. In 1996, he released Old, its gross revenue clear hampered by his long hiatus away from playing. In 1998, Michael made tabloid headlines when he was arrested for lewd take in a men's populace comfort station at a parking lot near his Beverly Hills home; following the incident, the vocalizer appeared on CNN and publically revealed his homosexuality. The covers collection Songs From the Last Century followed in late 1999.
Herbert Tachezi - organ
Stone's A Gem For Jewellery Giants
Movie star Sharon Stone has been named the new face of Italian jewellery firm Damiani just weeks after anti-China comments cost her a lucrative deal with Christian Dior in the Far East. Stone has since apologised for suggesting the recent earthquake tragedy in China was karma for the way the country's leaders treat Tibetans, but Dior dropped her from an advertising campaign there. But Damiani bosses accept the remarks made at the Cannes Film Festival last month were a slip-up on Stone's part, and she'll join the likes of Brad Pitt, Gwyneth Paltrow, Isabella Rossellini and Sophia Loren as spokesmodels for the gem giants. Stone will front an international print campaign for the firm's Musts and Masterpieces collection, in which she'll portray aviator Amelia Earhart and Biblical first lady Eve. Sparkling Stone says, "The wonderful thing about representing a diamond company is that you get to wear all of their diamonds!"
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Cbs - Cbs Wanted To Replace Rather With Olbermann
Following their decision to oust Dan Rather as anchor of The CBS Evening News,
CBS News executives, including then CBS President Les Moonves and CBS News President
Andrew Heyward considered replacing him with Keith Olbermann, who currently hosts
Countdown on MSNBC, according to an article that will appear in the next issue
of The New Yorker. According to summaries of the article that were published
Sunday, Heyward initially objected to Olbermann's approach, which included a closing
three-minute commentary on the day's events. According to the New Yorker article
by Peter J. Boyer, which cited no sources for the meeting, Olbermann later met with
Heyward's successor, Sean McManus. No details about that meeting were included in
the magazine article.
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Mathew Jonson
Artist: Mathew Jonson
Genre(s):
Techno
Electronic
Discography:
Love Letter To The Enemy
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Decompression EP
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
New Identity
Year: 2001
Tracks: 3
Dave Holland Quintet
Artist: Dave Holland Quintet
Genre(s):
Jazz
Discography:
Extended Play: Live at Birdland (cd2)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 4
Extended Play: Live at Birdland (cd1)
Year: 2002
Tracks: 5
Wesley Willis
Kings Of Leon reveal new album details
Kings of Leon have revealed the details of their highly anticipated forthcoming album.
'Only By The Night' -- the band's fourth studio album -- is due out on September 22.
The Followill clan have been working on the follow-up to 2007's 'Because Of The Times' in Nashville's Blackbird Studios. The band co-produced the album with Angelo Petraglia and Jacquire King.
Meanwhile, Kings of Leon are gearing up to play several live festival dates this summer.
The tour dates are:
Glastonbury Festival (June 27)
Switzerland Open Air St Gallen Festival (29)
Denmark Roskilde Festival, (July 4)
Belgium: Werchter Festival (5)
Paris, France: Le Zenith, (8)
Ireland Oxegen Festival (11)
Scotland: T In The Park Festival (13)
Madrid, Spain Summercase Festival (18)
Barcelona, Spain Summercase Festival, (19)
Jersey City, New Jersey Liberty State Park All Points West Festival (August 9)
Weston Park, Staffordshire V Festival (16)
Hylands Park, Chelmsford V Festival (17)
--By our Los Angeles staff.
Find out more about NME.
'Only By The Night' -- the band's fourth studio album -- is due out on September 22.
The Followill clan have been working on the follow-up to 2007's 'Because Of The Times' in Nashville's Blackbird Studios. The band co-produced the album with Angelo Petraglia and Jacquire King.
Meanwhile, Kings of Leon are gearing up to play several live festival dates this summer.
The tour dates are:
Glastonbury Festival (June 27)
Switzerland Open Air St Gallen Festival (29)
Denmark Roskilde Festival, (July 4)
Belgium: Werchter Festival (5)
Paris, France: Le Zenith, (8)
Ireland Oxegen Festival (11)
Scotland: T In The Park Festival (13)
Madrid, Spain Summercase Festival (18)
Barcelona, Spain Summercase Festival, (19)
Jersey City, New Jersey Liberty State Park All Points West Festival (August 9)
Weston Park, Staffordshire V Festival (16)
Hylands Park, Chelmsford V Festival (17)
--By our Los Angeles staff.
Find out more about NME.
Neon Dream
Artist: Neon Dream
Genre(s):
Rock: Gothic
Discography:
Anodyne
Year: 2003
Tracks: 9
J.Lo's School Show
Unloco
Artist: Unloco
Genre(s):
Metal
Discography:
Healing
Year: 2001
Tracks: 12
The Austin, TX, alt-metal outfit Ãœnloco is comprised of Joey Duenas (vocals), Brian Arthur (guitar), Victor Escareno (basso), and Peter Navarette (drums). Together since summertime 2000, this Latin four-piece ab initio formed from the brainstorm of Duenas. Duenas, wHO is a big winnow of Goldfinger, was in quest of the band's autograph, simply slipped guitar player Charlie Paulson a rough demo cut of Ãœnloco's debut. The repose is history, for Ãœnloco inked a deal with Maverick and issued a self-titled debut in give 2001. The six-song EP Useless was noneffervescent a favorite and their gnarling rap-rock level-headed was heavy among gigs with the Kottonmouth Kings, System of a Down, and Powermann 5000. Ãœnloco likewise made an appearance on the soundtrack to the 2000 Adam Sandler plastic film Little Nicky with their strain "Zippo."
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