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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Stan Getz
... secure of mainstream international jazz stars, he was invited to perform in all kinds of contexts, including work with symphony orchestras and guest appearances on many all-star jazz get-togethers with artists including Ella Fitzgerald, Stan Getz ... He played alongside giants of jazz like Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Charlie Parker, Roy Eldridge, Nat King Cole, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Ella Fitzgerald and Duke Ellington. Ellington referred to him as "Maharajah of the keyboard." Basie said ... Influenced early in his career by Art Tatum, Peterson went on to become an acclaimed soloist, collaborator and band leader whose musical partners included Count Basie, Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday and Stan Getz. The Montreal native ... Guitarist Wes Montgomery bounces off the rhythms of Dutch drummer Han Bennink on one disc, while John Coltrane mixes it up with fellow saxophonists Eric Dolphy and Stan Getz on another. There's singer Sarah Vaughan in her late-'50s/early-'60s prime ... ... includes some of the best jazz musicians around, people who have played with and been in the Duke Ellington Orchestra, the Count Basie Orchestra, Dizzy Gillespie’s band, and more.” Capp has performed with everyone from Stan Kenton to Stan Getz ... He took jobs on cruise ships around South America and Hawaii, commanding the stage with his sax, acquiring a love of Brazil, Mexico and Bermuda, and once, on a cruise, got a compliment from Stan Getz. He worked in forestry in eastern Oregon and had ... His credits include performing with such legends as Sarah Vaughan, Stan Getz, Tony Bennett, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme, and Elvis Presley. He came to Vegas in the early '60s and played for orchestras at resorts, including the old Thunderbird ... ... three-CD, one-DVD career retrospective issued last month by Dreyfus Jazz, compiles his work as a sideman with such greats as Lester Young, Bud Powell, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins, Sarah Vaughan, Thelonious Monk, Eric Dolphy, Stan Getz ... And, if one is to believe the calendar, he played bossa nova when it was still an infant, not a craze credited to Stan Getz, Joao Gilberto, and Antonio Carlos Jobim when the three released Getz/Gilberto in 1963. Babasin played on and contributed a ... Great horn players like John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Paul Desmond and Gerry Mulligan. Drummers and bass players, too … so many things outside the piano.” He’ll perform at the Folly with a high-powered trio including bassist Sean Smith ...
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