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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: Sonny Stitt
The Bebop Recordings, 1949-1952," featuring saxophonist Sonny Stitt. One of the largely unsung artists of jazz, Stitt mostly played alto and spent his entire career in the artistic shadow of Charlie Parker, an incredibly innovative and much better ... The opening officially was created one week ago when longtime coach Sonny Lubick joined Kowalczyk at a news conference ... I don't follow Mine's football but I checked out their web site and it does seem that Stitt is doing an impressive job. I ... Beginning as a trumpeter, Dave Peck made his transition to the piano after meeting Marian McPartland at a summer jazz camp. Throughout the '70s, he performed with legends like Chet Baker, Sonny Stitt and Lee Konitz. Peck has won accolades from ... The last '70s concert for the Modern Jazz Quartet and music from Sonny Stitt, Kai Winding, Dizzy Gillespie, Thelonious Monk, Al McKibbon and Art Blakey. Compiled from various news sources by JOHN SMYNTEK at 313-222-5169 and jsmyntek@freepress.com . . ... He also performed with such jazz greats as Chet Baker, Sonny Stitt, Roy Hains, Philly Joe Jones and Lee Konitz, and, most recently, did a year-and-a-half tour with pianist Hank Jones. Joining DeJulio will be drummer Joe LaBarbera, who is best known ... Jazz at Pearl's pays tribute to Bailey with an organ combo led by Gene Ludwig, a B-3 master who toured with Sonny Stitt. With Bailey holding down the drum chair, guitarist Brian Pardo rounds out the band, which will be joined by a special guest. ... Griffin was known as the fastest saxophonist around, with the biggest sound in town (in stark contrast to his diminutive 5-foot-4-inch frame), a cutthroat competitor on the level of Sonny Stitt or his own frequent sparring partner, Eddie "Lockjaw ... I'd been playing with [bop sax virtuosos] Gene Ammons and Sonny Stitt, and that was more or less traditional music; you had to play chords within the structure of so-called jazz or whatever. But the AACM really opened me up to just how creative I ... And while this third-generation bop-fest is not going to have anyone kicking their Charlie Parker and Sonny Stitt CDs to the curb, Perry and Ryga's enthusiasm, virtuosity, and telepathic rapport are undeniable. Pianist Ross Taggart, bassist Neil ...
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