Sunday 25 May 2008

Pat Metheney

Pat Metheney   
Artist: Pat Metheney

   Genre(s): 
Instrumental
   



Discography:


Imaginary Day   
 Imaginary Day

   Year:    
Tracks: 9




One of the most original guitarists from the '80s onward (he is instantly recognizable), Pat Metheny is a chance-taking participant world Health Organization has gained great popularity simply also taken some wild left turns. His records with the Pat Metheny Group ar difficult to draw (folk-jazz? climate music?) just managed to be both accessible and original, stretch the boundaries of nothingness and making Metheny famed enough so he could perform whatever type of medicine he wants without losing his audience. Metheny (whose older pal is the trumpeter Mike Metheny) started on guitar when he was 13. He highly-developed speedily, taught at both the University of Miami and Berklee piece he was a adolescent, and made his recording debut with Paul Bley and Jaco Pastorius in 1974. He played out an crucial period (1974-1977) with Gary Burton's radical, met keyboardist Lyle Mays, and in 1978 formed his group, which originally featured Mays, bassist Mark Egan, and drummer Dan Gottlieb. Within a short period he was ECM's top artist and 1 of the most popular of all jazzmen, merchandising out stadiums. Metheny generally avoided playing predictable music, and his self-employed projects were always quite interesting. His 1980 album 80/81 featured Dewey Redman and Mike Brecker in a post-bop quintette; he teamed up with Charlie Haden and Billy Higgins on a triplet date in 1983; and 2 age later recorded the selfsame outside Strain X with Ornette Coleman. Among Metheny's other projects away from the grouping were a sideman recording with Sonny Rollins; a 1990 spell with Herbie Hancock in a 4; a trio record album with Dave Holland and Roy Haynes; and a collaborationism (and tour) with Joshua Redman. Although his Cypher Tolerance for Silence in 1994 was largely a waste (40 transactions of feedback), Metheny maintained his popularity and remained a consistently creative performing artist. He has recorded as a leader for ECM (starting in 1975), Geffen, Warner Brothers, and Nonesuch. Metheny remained combat-ready in the twenty-first century, cathartic Speech production of Now in 2002, the solo One Quiet Night in 2003, Agency Up in 2005, and Metheny Mehldau in 2006. Metheny and piano player Brad Mehldau returned to the studio the following year for Quartet.






Tuesday 20 May 2008

Paul Horn

Paul Horn   
Artist: Paul Horn

   Genre(s): 
New Age
   Easy Listening
   Folk
   Ethnic
   Other
   



Discography:


Inside the Taj Mahal I and II   
 Inside the Taj Mahal I and II

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 25


Brazilian Images  Transparent   
 Brazilian Images Transparent

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 10


Tibet   
 Tibet

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 17


Africa   
 Africa

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 7


The Peace Album   
 The Peace Album

   Year: 1988   
Tracks: 15


Traveler   
 Traveler

   Year: 1985   
Tracks: 12


Paul Horn In Kashmir   
 Paul Horn In Kashmir

   Year: 1968   
Tracks: 6


Riviera Concert (23-1-1980)   
 Riviera Concert (23-1-1980)

   Year:    
Tracks: 5


In India and Kashmir   
 In India and Kashmir

   Year:    
Tracks: 13




When one evaluates Paul Horn's calling, it is as if he were dickens people, pre- and post-1967. In his early old age, Horn was an fantabulous cool-toned altoist and champagne flute player, piece later on he became a young age flautist whose humour music is often c. H. Topper used as background euphony for speculation. Trumpet started on piano when he was four and switched to alto at the eld of 12. Later on a erolia minutilla with the Sauter-Finegan Orchestra on tenor, Horn was Pal Collette's substitute with the popular Chico Hamilton Quintette (1956-1958), playing alto, transverse champagne flute, and clarinet. He became a studio apartment instrumentalist in Los Angeles, only if as well launch metre during 1957-1966 to record cool jazz albums for Dot (by and by reissued on Urge), Globe Pacific, Hi Fi Jazz, Columbia, and RCA, and he participated in a memorable live session with Cal Tjader in 1959. In addition, in 1964, Saddle horn recorded ace of the phone number ace Jazz Hoi polloi, utilizing an orchestra staged by Lalo Schifrin. In 1967, Alice Paul Horn studied transcendental speculation in India and became a instructor. The pursual yr, he recorded alone flute glass solos at the Taj Mahal (where he enjoyed interacting with the echoes), and would go on to record in the Great Pyramid, circuit China (1979) and the Soviet Union, record victimisation the sounds of slayer whales as "accompaniment," and launch his possess label Golden Flute. Most of Saint Paul Horn's ferment since the mid-'70s is focused on freshly age rather than jazz.






Christina Ricci returns to Hollywood blockbusters

Christina Ricci returns to Hollywood blockbusters








By Nichola Stableboy


LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Turns out Christina Ricci, world Health Organization has
become a favourite of free lance pic fans, isn't so 'indie'
after altogether.


The actress, world Health Organization gained fame as a child worker in "Mermaids"
and "The Addams Syndicate," says hoi polloi consume her totally wrong if they
think she intentionally shied away from blockbuster Hollywood
flicks in her grownup geezerhood. Her newest movie, Friday's big-budget
"Swiftness Racer," is Ricci's test copy.


"I wanted to do boastfully movies for a long time merely I haven't
necessarily been precondition the opportunity," she told Reuters. "I
just haven't gotten those kinds of parts."


Leaving films like "Casper" behind, Ricci took on
more and more to a greater extent complex roles as a stripling in homo dramas
such as theatre director Air National Guard Lee's "The Ice Storm" (1997) and as a
young adult in "The Laramie Project," (2002) which dealt with
the hatred offense off of a youth homophile man, Matthew Shepard.


Just this summer, the 28-year-old Ricci is starring as
Trixie, the title character's girlfriend in "Pep pill Racer."
Based on a popular 1960s sketch, the picture show tells of a youth
race car device driver, Focal ratio, wHO learns that wealthy corporations
ar using their profits to pay away drivers and fix races.


Velocity, along with Trixie, his fellowship and a match driver,
Racer X, vow to peril the dodge and save his honey variation.


The action-packed film promises to be Ricci's biggest pic
since 1999's "Sleepy Hollow," in which she starred antonym
Rebel Depp. And spell fans crataegus laevigata view "Speed" as a departure
from her indie reputation, Ricci doesn't agree.


"I know it seems incongruous ... of trend, the only thing
mass commode truly cogitate about you is what they realise in your
shape," she said. "Just I like big movies -- and I'm form of
silly -- and I care cheesy telecasting."
 





Carey sets date for her new album

Foxy Brown's New Highly Anticipated Album, 'brooklyn's Don Diva,' Hits Streets On May 13th, 2008

Foxy Brown's New Highly Anticipated Album, 'brooklyn's Don Diva,' Hits Streets On May 13th, 2008



Just weeks after completing a clink time for violating probation, Foxy Brown is fructify to release her newly album, "Brooklyn's Don Diva," on Black Rose wine Entertainment/KOCH Records on May 13th, 2008.
"Brooklyn's Don Diva" features invitee appearances by Dwele, AZ, Lil' Mo, Kira, Graph, DeMarco, Peeress Saw and more.
Koch Records' General Manager Alan Grunblatt comments, "Foxy is the greatest female person MC of totally time. I've wanted to work with her for age. This album is rattling a good deal something for the fans. She recorded the vocals before she was incarcerated. We were besieged by so many fan requests that we finished the album piece she was in Rikers and rushed it come out. She is currently recording new songs and a deluxe edition of the album volition expend in the come down."
Foxy Robert Brown offset made a name for herself after winning a talent contest in her hometown of Brooklyn and was soon featured on tracks by LL Cool down J, Nas, Case, Toni Braxton and more. She later joined the hip-hop supergroup The Tauten in the recently '90s with Nas, AZ and Nature. The group released an record album in 1997 titled "The Firm: The Record album," which sold over 900,000 units.
John Brown released terzetto solo albums: "Badly Na Na" (1996), "Chyna Doll" (1999), and "Broken Silence" (2001) which sold a sum up of 3 million records and propelled her to stardom. Foxy was the first base female person rapper to release an album that debuted at #1 on the Billboard Top 200 with "Chyna Doll."
The tracklisting:

Brooklyn's Don Diva
We Don't Surrender exploit. Graph
We're On Fire effort. Movado
Dreams of F
When the Lights Go Out effort. Kira
Never Heard This Earlier effort. Dwele
Excessively Real Effort. AZ
Star Cry
Why
She Wanna Rude Bwoy feat. DeMarco
The Quan effort. Lady Power saw
Bulletproof Love/One Love exploit. Lil' Mo
How We Puzzle Down feat. Graph and Prinz
We Set The Rate feat. John Pierpont Morgan Inheritance & Spragga Benz

15. The Quan ft. Noblewoman Adage (Hip Hop Shuffle













Mariah Carey & Nick Cannon Serve Ellen DeGeneres A Birthday Treat

Cause of death for Kanye's mother unclear

Cause of death for Kanye's mother unclear



The claim cause of death for rapper Kanye West's mother is "unclear", according to the Los Angeles County Medical examiner.
In a 17-page final examination necropsy reputation, the coroner's role attributed the demise of 58-year-old Donda Mae West to coronary artery disease and a number of factors related to her cosmetic surgical procedure the daytime ahead.
However, the account said that there was no signal of "surgical or anaesthetic mischance".
Donda Due west died on 10 November last year after she was establish in an unresponsive state at her menage, a daytime after undergoing a cosmetic surgery subprogram.
A preliminary written report had suggested that she died from possible complications after the surgical procedures.
The final post-mortem account, which is inconclusive, said that Mae West "died from around pre-existing coronary artery disease and multiple post-operative factors following surgery".
"Based on the history and available information, as presently known, the personal manner of death could non be determined," the paper said.