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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Album: Dexter Gordon - Jazz Sax
He brings the same simmering intensity to the Ivy Room, where he alternates standards and jazz compositions by the likes of tenor sax titan Dexter Gordon. "He's my favorite all time," Grantham says. "When I started playing saxophone, everybody wanted ... IN THE MOMENT" is a phrase popular among jazz musicians. It translates, roughly ... Blakey, Max Roach, Bob Brookmeyer, Clark Terry, Lee Morgan, Chico Hamilton, Dexter Gordon ... and Bette Midler; he also recorded Rahsaan Roland Kirk during the tenor-sax ... WASHINGTON - Frank Morgan, 73, a jazz saxophonist of impeccable ability, whose ... small ensemble at San Quentin prison in the 1960s with another addict and sax ... he participated in jam sessions with top musicians such as saxophonists Dexter Gordon and ... A comparatively mainstream project, Spotlight Jazz brought in some of jazz's most established, historic and commercially visible names (Sarah Vaughan, Dexter Gordon ... Vandermark 5, The Rempis Percussion Quartet, Triage and in an extraordinary sax ... This second wave of films featuring jazz heroes performing across Europe is done as beautifully as last year's collection. It's instructional to see Dexter Gordon, Wes Montgomery and ... The octogenarian sax behemoth Von Freeman finally receives his ... ... from funk, smooth jazz to ... and played the sax before Everette was born) and his mother played the piano in the church. He notes his musical inspiration were Grover Washington, Jr., Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon, Kirk ... Jr., Charlie Parker, Dexter Gordon ... ... jazz solo, generally a well-known solo. Using a solo of "Body and Soul" by Dexter Gordon, Elling sang a long tune, inspired by his daughter, Luiza, that was a tour de force, in which he captured some of the original inflections of Gordon's tenor sax ... Jazz still lives, yet the collective visual memory of its most legendary ... Dexter Gordon : Live in '63 and '64 - When you see Gordon in the opening shot of the 1963 ... climax offers viewers a chance to watch Paul Gonsalves lay out the tenor sax ... Women in Jazz" was the subject of the evening's agenda, a cogent title since, as Ed Bride ... Daly conceded she was on a Dexter Gordon kick, and she reached into the folio of the great sax player for arrangements of such tunes as "Society Red" and ... In 2002, after spending a decade on the New York City jazz scene, Mr. Redman moved back to ... Redman to explore the sounds of other sax giants, such as John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley and Dexter Gordon. “For as long as I can remember, saxophone ...
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