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Download Kurt Elling mp3

2008-09-10T18:15:00.001-07:00

Artist: Kurt Elling: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Jazz

Discography:



Man in the Air

   Year: 2003

Tracks: 12


Flirting with Twilight

   Year: 2001

Tracks: 13


Live in Chicago

   Year: 2000

Tracks: 14


This Time It's Love

   Year: 1998

Tracks: 12


The Messenger

   Year: 1997

Tracks: 12


Close Your Eyes

   Year: 1995

Tracks: 13

One of the few male malarkey singers from around the baby boom coevals, Kurt Elling is an anomaly simply by profession. Given the depth and broad vision of his recordings and carrying out style, Elling is in a conference of his possess. Planning a calling in the academic creative activity, he ascertained jazz and took to it course. Deeply influenced by singer and poet Mark Murphy, Elling began to develop his idiosyncratic scat style in the smaller clubs of Chicago (mainly at the Green Mill, sharing the leg with legends Von Freeman and Ed Peterson) and then passim the Midwest. An Elling show fundament comprise ranting beat verse line, dramatic and poignant readings of Rilke, and hard-swinging scat. After sending a demo to Blue Note, Elling signed to the label and issued Close up Your Eyes in 1995. He began to get aid from the malarky press, not only for his talent and original style, simply too for his option in sidemen, which included Laurence Hobgood and Paul Wertico for a metre. His ultra-hip parting prevailed on 1996's Courier, which was tougher and leaner than its harbinger, and along with unvoiced touring and a mouthful for the theatrical and unconscionable, Elling south Korean won over not only critics just nothingness audiences from coast to coast. Elling was married that same yr and chose, depending on your item of horizon, either to retool his hippy simulacrum or broaden his traditional fundament with a compendium of monetary standard ballads and passion songs entitled This Time It's Love. The album won numerous awards in magazines and was nominated for a Grammy. Endless touring and guest appearances resulted in Blue Note issuing Live in Chicago from trinity sets at the Green Mill, and 2001 resulted in Dalliance with Twilight, his virtually challenging and square recording -- he opened the disc by spill the beans a Charlie Haden bass solo. Man in the Air and Nightmoves followed in 2003 and 2007, respectively.

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Sam Phillips, Don't Do Anything

2008-08-31T18:26:00.001-07:00

Smokey, smart, sultry, brainy and saturday in a bath in full clothed, Sam Phillips adds producing to her many-feathered bow for her eighth album (or her 13th, if you factor in her 1980s Christian-accented incarnation as Leslie Phillips).

Aiming for ''something lighter'', Don't Do Anything is packed to the gills with topsy-turvy lyrics that purport to say something but ar intended to mean something altogether different. Cleverly, Philips shrouds everything in an almost palpably incorporeal air (yes, that's how higgledy-piggledy it genuinely is!) conjured out of distorted, twanging guitars, thud to the point of booming percussion, viscous piano lines and breathy, crushed, vulnerable vocals that ringway your ears and inject themselves straight into your bloodstream. The result is an album to catch deliriously lost within.

The championship track is a reverend exercise in playful sophistication, delivered with a attractively understated light of pertain that is deliciously corroborated by the melodious merely coruscating judgment of conviction of Little Plastic Life and the pulsing, pouting early Elvis Costello-like scream of My Career In Chemistry. The fevervish, scrunched-up guitar, brittle banjo and stuttering staccato percussion on Shake it Down offers a mordant, clattering Tom Waits backdrop to perchance the cleanest, most aim vocals on the album.

Austerely covered by Robert Plant and Allison Krauss on last year's Raising Sand collaboration, Sister Rosetta Goes Before Us, in its creator's manpower, comes across more appropriately as a quixotic genus Circus sideshow oddment.

Another Song is a perfect Phillips concoction � any number of styles (and a myriad number of emotions) corralled together in one compact, bleakly beautiful toy � and Watching Out Of This World, with its splashy guitar heartbeat and lightly evaporating vocals provides a vivid punctuation mark to bring an album full of intrigue and dark-hued beauty to a memorable close.

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Brad Pitt Takes A Night Off From Angelina & The Twins

2008-08-11T18:19:00.001-07:00

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Brad Pitt took a much-needed break from parenting duties this week, according to a new report.

The actor is said to have loose the French chateaux where partner Angelina Jolie and their brood of sextet � including newborn gemini the Twins Knox and Vivienne � are presently holed up to savour some �guy time� at a local eatery.

An eyewitness tells Star that Brad sampled caviare, pasta with lobster and filet mignon, followed by several eyeglasses of champagne.

"Brad seemed happy to be free," said the onlooker.� "He was out until subsequently midnight and never chequered in with his family once.�

"In fact, he didn't text or call anyone the unhurt night!" �

According to an insider, Brad loves his family only relishes clip for himself.

"He's still an independent guy," says a source. "He dotes on Angelina and the kids, but if he didn't save alone time for himself, he would go crazy!"

Brad & Angelina show off Knox & Vivienne!

Vicki Delor

2008-08-06T01:22:00.001-07:00

Artist: Vicki Delor

   Genre(s):
New Age

Discography:


Turning

   Year: 2005
Tracks: 12


End Of Day

   Year: 2005
Tracks: 17


Clouds Passing Over

   Year: 2005
Tracks: 16

Sir Paul Mccartney - Mccartneys Daughter Judged New Song

2008-06-11T15:05:00.001-07:00

SIR PAUL MCCARTNEY relied on his four-year-old daughter BEATRICE to get a reaction to songs for his 2007 album MEMORY ALMOST FULL.

The former Beatle was writing songs for the LP when he played the youngster - his only child with ex-wife Heather Mills - a preliminary version of the LP's first single Dance Tonight.

And the star was convinced the song would be a hit after the tot joined in and danced along to the tune.

He says, "At home, I started stomping around the kitchen, playing this little instrument (a mandolin), just enjoying myself. I sang, 'Everybody gonna dance tonight'

"And my little girl came running in and started dancing, so I fell in love with the song."

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Leona Lewis - Lewis Signs Up To Sun Campaign

2008-06-04T21:28:00.001-07:00

British pop star LEONA LEWIS is to encourage children to stay safe in the sun - by becoming the face of a new campaign to promote the use of sunscreen.

The Bleeding Love hitmaker, 23, is spearheading the promotional drive by the U.K.'s Teenage Cancer Trust, which aims to warn youngsters about the dangers of sunburn and urge them to use protective lotion.

In addition to appearing in the organisation's print ads, Lewis has also designed a limited edition head scarf, which will be sold to raise money for the charity.

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Kylie tells Britney to "reach out" for help

2008-05-31T21:50:00.001-07:00

Pop singer Kylie Minogue has advised troubled star Britney Spears to "reach out" for whatever help she needs.
Speaking to The Sun, Australian singer Minogue said: "Who knows what is going on in her life? Britney isn't that young anymore. I think she will still come back but it's like she's taken an extended holiday."
She continued: "Whatever help she needs, she should reach out and get it. I wish someone would write a manual about fame because it's not easy."
The singer also said: "I'm always loath to say that because there are a lot more difficulties out there that people deal with every day - but when fame is handed to you, it is unique."
She added: "It's not to the same extreme, but I can remember having a mini-meltdown myself - and unless you've got good people around to support you, you've got a problem."

Reggaeton Stars Accused Of Plagiarism

2008-05-27T21:54:00.001-07:00

Reggaeton stars WISIN + YANDEL have been accused of plagiarism by a Panamanian songwriter.

Fernando Brown claims the duo's collaboration with Don Omar, Te sigo buscando, is a carbon copy of his song Enfermo de amor.

The reggaeton duo was served with legal papers on Thursday (15May08) after arriving in Panama City for a concert.

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Bunji Garlin

2008-05-27T21:25:00.001-07:00

Artist: Bunji Garlin

   Genre(s):
Reggae

Discography:

The Black Spaniard-CD

Year: 2003
Tracks: 20

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Green Dollar Colour

2008-05-27T21:01:00.001-07:00

Artist: Green Dollar Colour

   Genre(s):
Other

Discography:

Green Dollar Colour

Year: 2005
Tracks: 11

Victoria Beckham - Beckham Quits Music

2008-05-27T20:37:00.001-07:00

VICTORIA BECKHAM has quashed reports the SPICE GIRLS will reunite for a final time at former South African President NELSON MANDELA's 90th birthday concert this summer (Jun08) - because she has quit the music industry.

The former singer made a triumphant return to the stage as part of the group's comeback world tour last year (Dec07).

But the 34-year-old has ruled out ever performing with the band again - because she wants to concentrate on her career as a fashion designer.

She says, "I loved the whole social thing about being back with the girls. It was so much fun.

"But I am not going to sing anymore - I've hung up my mic."

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Arthur Baker

2008-05-27T20:06:00.001-07:00

Artist: Arthur Baker

   Genre(s):
Electronic

Discography:


The Message Is Love (Maxi-CD)

   Year: 1989
Tracks: 3


Breakin' CD1

   Year:
Tracks: 16

Arthur Baker was among the to the highest degree visible and widely imitated of the early hip-hop producers, masterminding breakthrough experiments with tape edits and synthetical beats earlier intersection over to acquaint the graphics of remixing into the pop mainstream. He began his life history as a club DJ in Boston and landed his first production do work at Emergency Records, debuting with Northend's "Happy Days." After relocating to New York in 1979, Baker speedily immersed himself in the nascent hip-hop scene; thither he was recruited by the Salsoul label to helm a session for Joe Bataan that yielded the rap trinket "Rap-O-Clap-O." His stay in the Big Apple largely stillborn, he then returned to Boston, producing a fistful of singles which went nowhere, among them Glory's "Prat You Guess What Groove This Is?"

A move back to New York followed, at which prison term Baker coupled the stave of Tommy Boy Records, where he teamed with co-producer Shep Pettibone to disk Afrika Bambaataa's groundbreaking ceremony 1982 single "Jazzy Sensation," a remaking of Gwen McCrae's "Low-down Sensation." Assuming fillet of sole production control, Baker next reunited with Bambaataa for the classical "Planet Rock," a watershed in hip-hop's early evolution -- a altogether synthesized record elysian by Kraftwerk's "Trans-Europe Express," its programmed beat generation leftfield an unerasable imprint on the music released in its wake. Baker's success at Tommy Boy lED to the formation of his have label, Streetwise Records; after helming metro nine hits for Rockers Revenge, Nairobi, and Citispeak, he sign a then-unknown New Edition, issue the stripling vocal group's debut single, "Confect Girl," in 1982.

Baker's gradual preoccupancy into the pop mainstream continued in 1983, when the cutting edge British dance mathematical group New Order contacted him to bring forth their single "Mix-up"; the record became an immediate golf-club classic, regular scraping into the American R&B charts. Remixes of the track besides helped pioneer the remix esthetic end-to-end the rock mainstream, and shortly Baker was producing material for Naked Eyes, Face to Face, Diana Ross, Jeff Beck, and others. In 1989, he also assembled artists including Al Green, ABC, and Jimmy Somerville to disk the all-star LP Unify, credited to Arthur Baker & the Backbeat Disciples. After a followup, 1991's Give in to the Rhythm, he returned to production, albeit no thirster exerting the same genial of influence as in the decade prior.

Analog Pussy

2008-05-27T19:45:00.001-07:00

Artist: Analog Pussy

   Genre(s):
Trance
   Trance: Psychedelic
   Electronic

Discography:


Sound Of Soul-(Gataka vs Indra Remix)

   Year: 2006
Tracks: 1


Trance 'n Roll

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 10


Future The Remixes

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 9


Vinyl Trax

   Year: 2002
Tracks: 9


Audio Santo

   Year: 2000
Tracks: 2

Britney set for a 5 million pound comeback

2008-05-27T17:32:00.001-07:00

London (ANI): Pop star Britney Spears is in secret negotiations to stage a spectacular comeback worth a whopping 5 million pounds in Las Vegas. The pop star, whose last UK No1 was in 2004, is poised to get a lot more with a mega-bucks one-off Las Vegas show, followed by a string of dates. "The concert will be one to top them all-a spectacle," News of the World quoted a source, as saying. "It will have jaw-dropping lights, amazing costumes and a performance from Britney to roll back the years," the source added. If all goes well, the 26-year-old will perform at Palms Hotel And Casino in Las Vegas at the end of the year.