The MP3 Catalog Blog
The MP3 Catalog Blog
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01/23/2008 09:57 AM
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Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys was born in 1981, and despite her young age she has already risen to the top of the music industry. By the end of 2007, Keys had sold more than 35 million records. When compared to other musical performers, it is easy to see that Keys has achieved a very high level of [...]
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01/20/2008 09:52 PM
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Taylor Swift Still Isn’t Relinquishing the Charts
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The talented Miss Swift isn’t budging from her solid perches at the top of Billboard’s country albums and songs charts, where she sits with Taylor Swift and
“Our Song,” respectively.To make life even sweeter, Swift also has this week’s highest vaulting new single, “Picture to Burn,” which bows at No. 52. The only other first-time songs [...]
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01/16/2008 08:53 PM
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Dean Owens - Whisky Hearts
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In many ways, Dean Owens’s third solo album is very old fashioned. That isn’t meant as a criticism - musically it references huge slabs of Springsteen (especially the opener, Years Ago, one of those slyly political songs with its ripe rip of sax, and the gloriously uplifting Hallelujah) and in its more relaxed moments the [...]
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01/15/2008 08:45 PM
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Tom Baxter - Skybound
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It’s been three years since we heard anything from Tom Baxter. His 2004 release Feather and Stone, especially its opening track My Declaration, was a Radio Two favourite, but since then, not a sausage. Now comes Skybound, an autobiographical album, which shows off his angelic, dreamy voice with an eclectic mix of sounds and styles.A [...]
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01/14/2008 04:54 PM
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The Magnetic Fields - Distortion (Nonesuch)
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It’s four years since the last The Magnetic Fields album, i, but Stephin Merritt has hardly been idle. Yet where 69 Love Songs showed a remarkable profligacy of songwriting, and Showtunes elicited his love of Chinese music, Distortion is a conscious step back - not just looking over its shoulder, but swiveling round for a [...]
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01/13/2008 03:16 PM
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Chrisette Michele
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Surrounded by music since she was a small child, twenty-four year old singer, songwriter and composer Chrisette Michele has been blessed with an old soul and this Long Island bred songwriter and vocalist has a deep appreciation for the harmonic
foundations that includes gospel and jazz. “I did my first solo when I was four [...]
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01/12/2008 02:31 PM
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Sara Bareilles
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As a gifted singer and a versatile pianist with no formal training, Sara Bareilles burst onto the pop scene with a naturally skilled voice ranging from powerful and
soulful to sweet and gentle, earning her instant comparisons to Fiona Apple and Norah Jones. At age 18, she left the Redwood forests of her hometown, Eureka, CA, [...]
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01/11/2008 02:27 PM
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Tony Yayo Confident As Trial Date Is Set; Promises Eminem, Dr. Dre Will Be On G-Unit LP
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“I just came from court, I got my Donald Trump button-up on,” Tony Yayo said with a smile on Thursday afternoon (January 10) while sitting in the G-Unit’s Manhattan office.
Yayo, born Marvin Bernard, had been in court earlier in the day to make an appearance before his upcoming trial on charges of endangering the [...]
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01/07/2008 04:26 PM
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Kanye vs Beyonce
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Kanye West has revealed that Beyonce kicks his ass at Connect 4.
As strange as it sounds the friends battled it out at the board game when they were hanging out at Jay-Z’s new club recently.
In his first blog since the death of his mother Kanye thanked fans for the support and talked of playing Connect [...]
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01/07/2008 01:42 PM
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Fogerty’s Creative Revival
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John Fogerty’s newest, Revival, is easily his best record since Centerfield, and has some of his best material since the CCR days. Songs like Gunslinger, Creedence Song, and Long Dark Night hold their own against Creedence’s best stuff.
The album starts off with Don’t You Wish It Was True, with a beat that is similar to [...]
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Charles Mingus
Charles Mingus "Live at Cornell 1964" (Blue Note) -- Another year for a Mingus college concert revelation, with the great Eric Dolphy/Johnny Coles/Clifford Jordan front line. Best jazz vocal album: Kurt Elling "Night Moves" (Blue Note) -- Kurt took us ... A pocket address book from his time in Hollywood boasted scribbled names like Shelly Winters to Monty Clift, and his Rolodex from the Seventies read like a Who's Who of the times – from Truman Capote and Charles Mingus to Hugh Hefner, The Mike ... Charles McPherson, the longtime saxophonist for Charles Mingus, lived here, as did Barney Kessel, James Moody and Mundell Lowe. But they played only infrequent gigs in town, living here but mostly playing elsewhere. The Cheathams' jam sessions (at ... Amid the wash of CDs and DVDs, the Jazz Icons DVD series (Naxos/Select) must be singled out for making available exceptional concert footage of such greats as Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, Sarah Vaughan and Wes Montgomery. Just missing out on the ... ... Benjamin Kunkel, Thomas Kutz, Rachel LeRoy, Hope Lorah, Gabrielle Lucente, Andrew Martinelli, Jamie McDonald, Zachary Mingus ... Petkash, Justin Racculia, Alaina Rineman, Christopher Salvatore, Larissa Sanders, Kyle Searfoss, Katherine Seidel, Charles ... There's singer Sarah Vaughan in her late-'50s/early-'60s prime, as well as Dexter Gordon, Dave Brubeck and Charles Mingus in fine form. If I had to choose one, it'd be Duke Ellington's orchestra caught on a very good night at Amsterdam's Concertgebouw ... He was a sideman with the early stars of jazz, led one of the most admired bands on the swing era, and catalyzed the careers of musicians like Charles Mingus. All the while, Red Norvo was bringing the mallet instruments to jazz. ... It's been a good year for jazz. No single new recording stands out, as Ornette Coleman's Sound Grammar did in 2006, but many albums more than satisfy. Charles Mingus Sextet with Eric Dolphy, Cornell 1964 (Blue Note). The clear winner is this live two ... A hilariously rambunctious performance of "Song with Orange" by the great Charles Mingus had trumpeter Yust displacing trombone soloist Ben Galloway with a squeal of his muted trumpet, after which Toepfer chased Yust away with a sax squeal of his own ... One of the famed Jones brothers of Pontiac — with pianist Hank and the late drummer Elvin — Thad worked with Basie in the 1950s, and was proclaimed as "Bartók with valves" by Charles Mingus. This ballad surfaced on the album Consummation during ...
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