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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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Duke Ellington
Oscar, as Duke Ellington would say, was 'beyond category.'" Herbie Hancock, another jazz piano star, said Peterson's influence could be found "in the generations that came after him." "Oscar Peterson redefined swing for modern jazz pianists for the ... Featuring a familiar cast of Washington-based jazz musicians, the free concert presented a traditional delight right off: vibraphonist Chuck Redd's engaging small-combo take on Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn's arrangement of the "Nutcracker ... Duke Ellington, who once called Peterson the "maharajah of the keyboard," was the one who encouraged him to play solo to showcase "the caviar of his talents ... without the eggs and the onions." Two years ago, the Canadian government issued a 50-cent ... Fornatale describes it as "a show built on the Duke Ellington philosophy that there are two kinds of music: good and bad. I can play Sinatra, I can play Led Zeppelin. If it fits, I can play it." As commercial radio formats have become tighter and ... Duke Ellington referred to him as the "Maharajah of the keyboard," while Count Basie once said "Oscar Peterson plays the best ivory box I've ever heard." Herbie Hancock, another legendary jazz pianist, said Peterson's impact was profound. "Oscar ... Affinity (1963) was one of his biggest sellers but his catalogue includes interpretations of the songbooks of Cole Porter and Duke Ellington, a highly successful single on Jimmy Forrest's compulsive Night Train (perfectly suited to Peterson's ... TORONTO -- Jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, who played with Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington during a 60-year career, died Sunday night. He was 82 and died at his home in the Toronto suburb of Mississauga, said Oliver ... Following Oscar Peterson on stage at a concert in 1967, Duke Ellington remarked: "When I was a small boy my music teacher was Mrs Clinkscales. The first thing she ever said to me was, 'Edward, always remember, whatever you do, don't sit down at the ... At 14, having won a talent contest, Frank recorded a solo with the Freddie Martin orchestra, and auditioned the following year for Duke Ellington. Ellington was impressed, but Morgan was too young to go on tour, even if his father had countenanced it ... And every year, I am reminded of the famous quote from Duke Ellington: "There's just two kinds of music: Good music and the other kind." Take pieces like Albinoni's famous "Adagio," or Ravel's "Pavanne." Though written long ago in a classical musical ...
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![Duke Ellington : The Blanton-Webster Band [disc 1]](http://img.mp3fiesta.com/covers/50/5026/alb_87636_th.jpg "Duke Ellington : The Blanton-Webster Band [disc 1]")
![Duke Ellington : The Blanton-Webster Band [disc 2]](http://img.mp3fiesta.com/covers/50/5026/alb_87637_th.jpg "Duke Ellington : The Blanton-Webster Band [disc 2]")
