Sunday, 24 August 2008

Download Mandy Patinkin mp3






Mandy Patinkin
   

Artist: Mandy Patinkin: mp3 download


   Genre(s): 

Easy Listening
Vocal

   







Discography:


Sings Sondheim
   

 Sings Sondheim

   Year: 2003   

Tracks: 34
Sings Sondheim CD2
   

 Sings Sondheim CD2

   Year: 2002   

Tracks: 12
Sings Sondheim CD1
   

 Sings Sondheim CD1

   Year: 2002   

Tracks: 22






Actor/singer Mandy Patinkin carven kO'd a varied career onstage, in films, in the recording studio, and on goggle box. Though he was amuck of a flexible tenor voice with a spacious range and was known for his bravura playing style, few of his picture appearances made use of goods and services of his musical ability, and he was more than widely known as a dramatic thespian on telly than anything else. Nevertheless, he was one of the major American melodic theater performers of his contemporaries.


Patinkin first-class honours degree developed an stake in playacting and singing while growing up in Chicago. He tended to the University of Kansas, then the Juilliard School of Drama in New York City, leaving without a academic degree when he was able to find sufficiency stage work to turn professional. During the second gear half of the seventies, he was closely associated with the New York Shakespeare Festival at the Public Theater, acting in many of the celebrated dramatic art company's productions, on and cancelled Broadway. He made his moving picture debut in 1978, playing a small division in The Big Fix.


Patinkin's first meaning appearance in a musical came with the Public Theater's brief off-Broadway production of Leave It to Beaver Is Dead (March 29, 1979). He got his big break later the same year when he was rove as Che in the Broadway production of Evita (Sept 25, 1979), a role that north Korean won him the Tony Award; he was featured on the original Broadway mould album, which sold over a billion copies.


In the late '70s and early '80s, Patinkin appeared in a series of non-singing parts in films, gradually gaining more large roles: Concluding Embrace (1979); French Postcards (1979); Night of the Juggler (1980); Ragtime (1981); Daniel (1983); and Yentl (1983). Then he made a victorious retort to the Broadway stage, starring in the melodious Sunday in the Park with George (May 2, 1984). He was nominated for some other Tony and appeared on the original Broadway mould album, which reached the charts. (In 1986, the show was videotaped and broadcast on the Showtime overseas telegram web, later earning dismissal as a home video.) Further, his performance constituted him as an important interpreter of the music of Stephen Sondheim, Broadway's most well-thought-of songwriter, and he amalgamated that status with his coming into court in a concert version of Sondheim's 1971 musical Follies performed and recorded in September 1985; the album reached the charts in 1986.


Though Patinkin continued to seem in non-singing roles in the movies -- Maxie (1985), a peculiarly memorable execution in the wild-eyed drollery The Princess Bride (1987), Foreigner Nation (1988), The House on Carroll Street (1988) -- his opportunities as a singer increased in the irregular half of the 1980s. He was contracted for a series of studio tramp recordings of Broadway musicals by CBS Masterworks including South Pacific (1986), Valet de chambre of La Mancha (1990), and Kismet (1991). This association lED to his organism signed as a recording artist by CBS, which released his debut album Mandy Patinkin, in 1989. He accompanied the button with his own one-person show, Mandy Patinkin in Concert: Dress Casual (July 25, 1989), which opened at the Public Theater and transferred for a limited run on Broadway. His second gear album, Trim Casual, was released the following year.


Patinkin got his first gear probability to sing onscreen with his coming into court in Pecker Tracy in 1990. Though the film had no formal soundtrack album, Madonna, one of its stars, issued an album of her songs from it, I'm Breathless, on which Patinkin was featured. Released in May 1990, the album went multi-platinum. This was a busy performing prison term for him, as he had parts in three films released in 1991, True Colors, The Doctor, and Impromptu (the last marking the motion-picture show directional debut of James Lapine, the librettist and director of Sunday in the Park with George).


Patinkin made occasional stage appearances during this period, only he returned to Broadway in a big room with the successful musical The Secret Garden (April 25, 1991), likewise appearance on the original Broadway mould album. After departure the show up, Patinkin stayed on Broadway by stepping in as a replacement vomit penis in the musical Falsettos. By this time, he had suit a sufficiently prominent figure in the musical dramatics to attract non merely kudos, just as well criticism. Fans idolized his energetic, committed expressive style, which reminded some of the days of Al Jolson and Ethel Merman. Detractors criticized him for the same tendencies, which they set up overstated, and Forbidden Broadway, the long-running satiric musical revue, crystallized the charge of hamminess in its Patinkin parody, set to the tune of " Mary Poppins, "Super-Frantic, Hyper-Active, Self-Indulgent Mandy" (establish on Tabu Broadway, Vol. 2, 1991).


Patinkin returned to films in Life With Mikey (1993), The Music of Chance (1993), and Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994), and switch to Nonesuch Records, he released his third record album, Experiment, in May 1994. But his life history entered a new phase when he agreed to a role on a new meshwork television series, playing Dr. Jeffrey Geiger on the hospital dramatic play Chicago Hope, which premiered September 18, 1994. The prove was a hit, and Patinkin won an Emmy Award, merely he left the programme early in its instant season for the most part referable to family considerations; at once married and having started a category, he was based in New York, piece the demo filmed in Los Angeles. (He returned to Michigan Hope on an occasional ground, however, even becoming a semi-regular during the 1999-2000 season, the show's last year on the air.)


Patinkin released his fourth album, Academy Award & Steve, a tribute to Oscar Hammerstein II and Stephen Sondheim, in October 1995. His life history was slowed by centre trouble in the mid-'90s, and in 1996 he underwent a corneal transpose, enduring a second base one in 1998. Nevertheless, he managed to seem in several films, among them Work force With Guns (1997), Sweetheart on the Bridge (1998), and Elmo in Grouchland (1999) (fifty-fifty getting to sing in the last). In February 1998, he released his fifth record album, Mamaloshen, which establish him singing traditional and other material in Yiddish. He returned to Broadway in the New York Shakespeare Festival's production of The Wild Party (Apr 13, 2000), which earned him another Tony nomination and an visual aspect on the original Broadway range record album, though the musical closed after iI months.


Patinkin's sixth album was a children's compendium, Kidults, released in September 2001. That December, he appeared in the motion picture Piñero, playing the part of his old wise man Joseph Papp of the Public Theater. He put together a one-woman phase show of Sondheim music, Celebrating Sondheim, which he toured with, resulting in the album Sings Sondheim, released in October 2002, and a melt at the Henry Miller Theatre on Broadway in December 2002 and January 2003. Although he had continued to make up guest appearances on television series during the early geezerhood of the 21st hundred, appearing on such shows as Touched by an Angel, Boston Public, and Law of nature & Order, he ultimately took on a steady series assignment over again with the occult Dead Like Me on the Showtime cable meshing in 2003. On September 22, 2005, he went endorse to network video with the premiere of the offense dramatic event serial Criminal Minds on CBS. Like Boodle Hope, Reprehensible Minds was a succeeder, and Patinkin stayed with it during the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 seasons. But he expressed reservations close to the show’s force in the press, and he quit abruptly at the end of its second class, subsequently agreeing to take a shit a few appearances at the start of the 2007-2008 season.





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Wednesday, 6 August 2008

Oasis Stands on Shoulders of Two Giants

Oasis is pickings a new approach to spreading the word all around the world.


Warner Bros. Records has inked a deal with the Liam- and Noel Gallagher-controlled Big Brother Recordings and will share distribution duties with the band's longtime home, Sony BMG, on the British hitmakers' upcoming new album, Dig Out Your Soul.


Sony will continue to oversee all U.K. releases while Warner peddles the disc in North America.


"Everyone at Warner/Reprise could non be more excited at the outlook of supporting such majuscule artists, and working closely with Big Brother to continue to increase Oasis' profile in North America," Warner Bros. Records honcho operating ship's officer Diarmuid Quinn said Wednesday. "P.S.: The new medicine kicks ass."



























Dig Out Your Soul, the seventh studio album from the five gents wHO make up Oasis, is duo out Oct. 7. The Noel Gallagher-penned number one single, "The Shock of the Lightning," is expected to let radio play starting in mid-August.


"I precious to pen music that had a groove, not songs that followed that traditional blueprint of verse line, chorus and middle octonary. I wanted a sound that was more mesmeric and driving, with songs that would draw you in, songs that you would maybe have to connect to�to feel," Gallagher said.


This is the starting time new set of tunes from the Manchester-based pout tops�hailed as the Beatles' heir apparent when they hit the scene in 1994�since the digital-only claim song they provided for the soundtrack of their 2007 concert documentary. The doc, highborn Lord Don't Slow Me Down, chronicled their Don't Believe the Truth earth tour in 2005 and 2006.










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Friday, 27 June 2008

Madonna To Become Malawi Citizen






While we know Madonna's adoption of Malawian toddler David Banda became official last week, now the singer is apparently becoming an honourary Malawian citizen!

According to government officials, Madonna just loves Malawi so much that she is set to be made an honourary citizen.

Madge has done a bit of humanitarian work in Malawi, funding orphanages and assisting in the planning of building new schools.

Malawi's tourism minister Billy Kaunda apparently said: "We are proud as a country to be associated with such a megastar. She will have freedom of all cities here. She won't be bothered with issues like visas and other limitations."







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Thursday, 19 June 2008

Dancer, Actress Cyd Charisse Dead At 86

Cyd Charisse, a star of MGM musicals in the 1940s and '50s, died Tuesday in Los Angeles of an apparent heart attack at age 86. She co-starred with Gene Kelly in Singin' in the Rain and Brigadoon and with Fred Astaire in such films as Dancing in the Dark and The Band Wagon. Astaire once remarked about working with her: "When we were dancing, we didn't now what time it was." Survivors include her husband of 60 years, the singer Tony Martin.


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Friday, 13 June 2008

Donots

Donots   
Artist: Donots

   Genre(s): 
Other
   Rock: Punk-Rock
   



Discography:


Got The Noise   
 Got The Noise

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 13


Amplify the Good Times (Limited Edition)   
 Amplify the Good Times (Limited Edition)

   Year: 2002   
Tracks: 16


Pocketrock   
 Pocketrock

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 12




 





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Friday, 6 June 2008

Weird Al Yankovic

Weird Al Yankovic   
Artist: Weird Al Yankovic

   Genre(s): 
Comedy
   Rock: Comedy Rock
   



Discography:


Straight Outta Lynwood   
 Straight Outta Lynwood

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 12


Poodle Hat   
 Poodle Hat

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 12


Bad Hair Day   
 Bad Hair Day

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 12


Bad Hair Day   
 Bad Hair Day

   Year: 1996   
Tracks: 12


Weird Al Yankovic   
 Weird Al Yankovic

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


Running With Scissors   
 Running With Scissors

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


Polka Party   
 Polka Party

   Year:    
Tracks: 10


Off The Deep End   
 Off The Deep End

   Year:    
Tracks: 12


In 3d   
 In 3d

   Year:    
Tracks: 11


Even Worse   
 Even Worse

   Year:    
Tracks: 11


Dare To Be Stupid   
 Dare To Be Stupid

   Year:    
Tracks: 11


Alapalooza   
 Alapalooza

   Year:    
Tracks: 12




The foremost birdsong lampooner of the MTV era, "Weird Al" Yankovic carried the flashlight of musical mood more than proudly and more successfully than whatever performing artist since Allan Sherman. In the world of novelty records -- a musical genre famous for its extensive indorse catalogue of flashes-in-the-pan and one-hit wonders -- Yankovic was top executive, marking ruin afterward bang up over the course of an long-suffering life history which found him topically gibelike everything from newfangled undulation to gangsta knock.


Alfred the Great Matthew Yankovic was born October 23, 1959, in Lynwood, CA. An only baby, he began playing the squeeze box at age seven, undermentioned in the tradition of polka star Frank Yankovic (no sex act); in his former teens he became an devouring fan of the Dr. Demento prove, draftsmanship intake from the parodies of Allan Sherman as good as the musical clowning of Spike Jones, Tom Lehrer, and Stan Freberg. In 1973 Demento rung at Yankovic's school, where the 13 year old passed the wireless horde a demo tape of base recordings; three eld later, Demento played Yankovic's "Belvedere Cruising" -- an accordion-driven come out strain written around the family's Plymouth -- on the air, and his calling was launched.


Yankovic quickly emerged as a staple of the Demento playact heel, recording a olympian amount of tongue-in-cheek material throughout his highschool vocation. After commencement, he studied architecture; piece attending California Polytechnic State University, he besides united the stave of the campus radio station, commencement adopting the nickname "Weird Al" and spinning a mixture of freshness and new moving ridge hits. In 1979, the success of the Knack's teras strike "My Sharona" inspired Yankovic to record a takeoff dubbed "My Bologna"; non only was the sung dynasty a smash with Demento fans, merely it even base favour with the Knack themselves, wHO positive their label, Capitol, to way out the irony as a single.


Later on graduating in 1980, Yankovic cut "Some other One Rides the Bus," a takeoff of Queen's chart-topping "Some other One Bites the Dust" recorded live in Dr. Demento's studios; the song became an resistance shoot, and Yankovic followed it up with "I Love Rocky Road," a caustic remark of Joan Jett & the Blackhearts' "I Love Rock 'n Roll." After hooking up with notable academic term guitar player and producer Rick Derringer, he sign-language to Scotti Bros., which issued his debut LP, "Weird Al" Yankovic, in 1983. The album featured the sung dynasty "Ricky," a tune divine as by Toni Basil's hit "Paddy" and the I Love Lucy tv series; issued as a single, it hit the Top one C charts, and its sequent telecasting became a raw material of the fledgling MTV network.


Ultimately, much of Yankovic's success resulted from his skilled use of music picture, a mass medium non available in the earned run average of Spike Jones or Allan Sherman; on the spur of the moment, non only could records themselves serve as travesty fodder, only their television clips were ripe for caustic remark as easily. Additionally, MTV hard naturalized Yankovic's populace character; betting gaudy Hawaiian shirts, nappy hair, and an armoury of goofy mannerisms, he cut a clearly freaky figure which he systematically used to uttermost risible effect. After Michael Jackson's "Beat It" became the about acclaimed picture in the medium's brief history, Yankovic recorded "Eat It" for his sophomore attempt, 1984's "Weird" Al Yankovic in three-D; the "Eat It" video, which mocked the "Beat It" clip scene-for-scene, became an MTV smash, and the Grammy-winning unmarried reached the Top 15.


In addition to "Eat It," In three-D besides launched the minor hits "King of Suede" (a rewrite of the Police's "King of Pain") and "I Lost on Jeopardy" (a sendup of the Greg Kihn Band's "Endangerment"), as well as "Polkas on 45," the first in a series of medleys of pop hits recast as polka numbers pool. Defy to Be Stupid, the get-go comedy track record ever released in the new compact disk format, followed in 1985, and featured "Like a Surgeon," a takeoff of the Madonna hit "Like a Virgin." Like its predecessor, Make bold to Be Stupid went amber, merely 1986's Polka Party! fared ailing and charted only concisely, suggestion many to drop a line off Yankovic's career.


However, in 1988, Yankovic returned with the platinum-selling Even Worse, its title and record album cover a reference point to Michael Jackson's recent Bad LP. "I'm Fat," the get-go single and telecasting, likewise parodied the unstinting Martin Scorsese-directed clip for Jackson's hit "Bad"; shot on the like subway congeal used by Jackson, the video -- which depicted Yankovic as a grotesquely rotund tough guy -- won him his instant Grammy. The future year, he starred in the feature plastic film UHF, which he likewise co-wrote; a soundtrack appeared as well.


After an extended geological period of quiet, he returned in 1992 with Off the Deep End, which featured the Top 40 hit "Smells Like Nirvana," a sendup of Nirvana's landmark single "Smells Like Teen Spirit." After 1993's Alapalooza, he resurfaced in 1996 with Bad Hair Day, his highest-charting record to date thanks to the success of the single "Amish Paradise," a takeoff of the Coolio hit "Gangsta's Paradise." The follow-up, Running with Scissors, appeared in 1999, with Poodle Hat landing in 2003. Straight Outta Lynwood appeared in 2006 with the unmarried "White & Nerdy," a suburban parody of Chamillionaire's hit "Ridin."






Saturday, 31 May 2008

Dreams of Passion

Dreams of Passion   
Artist: Dreams of Passion

   Genre(s): 
Instrumental
   



Discography:


20 Greatest Instrumentals   
 20 Greatest Instrumentals

   Year:    
Tracks: 20




 






Thursday, 29 May 2008

Davina Mccall - Davina Mccall To Take Up Serious Acting

TV star DAVINA MCCALL has revealed that she wants to quit presenting to pursue serious acting roles.

She has even hired Michael Foster, the man who was behind BILLIE PIPER's transformation from songstress to actress, to mastermind the next stage of her career.

As part of her career move, Davina will reportedly quit her job as the face of BIG BROTHER when the ninth series ends this September.

"After doing so many series of Big Brother she's become bored," an insider tells the News Of The World, adding that she feels it is "the right time to move on".

"She's very excited and convinced that Michael can turn her into a serious actor."

Any roles that she is given will not be Davina's first acting gig – she starred in the TV sitcom SAM'S GAME in the 1990s.

This follows news that songstress LILY ALLEN is also contemplating a career change and is turning her hand to comedy sketch writing along with her TV star pals JAMES CORDEN and MATTHEW HORNE of GAVIN AND STACEY fame.




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Loni Anderson - Anderson Weds For Fourth Time

Ageing pin-up LONI ANDERSON has married folk singer BOB FLICK.

The 62-year-old WKRP In Cincinnati star exchanged nuptials with The Brothers Four singer Flick in a ceremony on Saturday night (17May08), which was attended by friends and family.

Anderson was given away by her son Quinton, from her former marriage to actor Burt Reynolds, which ended in divorce in 1993.

The couple originally dated for six months when Anderson was a teenage model, but they split and went their separate ways as her acting career took off.

It is the fourth marriage for Anderson, who has decided to keep her maiden name.

She has also previously been wed to Ross Bickell and Bruce Hasselbeck.




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American Idol - Fallen Idol Still On Top




Even though it drew its lowest ratings in five years, last Tuesday night's American
Idol still was the second-most watched show of the week last week, beaten only
by the Wednesday-night edition of Idol, which drew its lowest numbers in three
years. For a May sweeps week, it might as well have been June. Except for the two
Idol shows, none had enough appeal to draw more than 20 million viewers. (There
was a time when all of the top-ten shows during a sweeps week routinely attracted
20 million viewers or more.) CBS remained the nation's most-watched network again
last week, averaging a 6.7 rating and an 11 share (or about 10.6 million viewers).
ABC placed second with a 6.2/11. Fox followed with a 5.5/9 (although it continued
to top the list among adults 18-49); NBC remained last among the major networks with
a 4.0/7.



The top ten shows of the week according to Nielsen Research:
1. American
Idol (Wednesday), Fox, 13.9/21; 2. American Idol (Tuesday), Fox, 12.6/20;
3. Dancing With the Stars (Tuesday), ABC, 12.0/18; 4. Dancing With the
Stars (Monday), ABC, 11.7/19; 5. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, CBS,
11.4/17; 6. Grey's Anatomy, ABC, 10.5/16; 7. Without a Trace, CBS,
9.8/16; 8. Desperate Housewives, ABC, 9.7/15; 9. CSI: Miami, CBS, 9.5/16;
10. NCIS, CBS, 8.9/14.






14/05/2008




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Eddie Griffin - Comedian Griffin Sued For Assault

U.S. comic EDDIE GRIFFIN is facing legal action from a member of a TV crew who claims to have been assaulted by the star.

Vince Beane has filed papers at Los Angeles Superior Court accusing the stand-up comedian of attacking him on 10 March (08).

At the time of the alleged incident, Beane was working as a production manager on a pilot TV show starring Griffin, and he claims the star flew into a drunken rage when he discovered he had been booked into a "cheap three star hotel" - allegedly taking his anger out on Beane.

The TV firm - The Leslie Grief Company - is also named in the suit, according to TMZ.com. Bosses are accused of plying Griffin with alcohol and then failing to protect staff from "the violent propensity of the inebriated Eddie Griffin."




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JPat Management President / CEO Jonnetta Patton Launches Independent Record Label JPat Records

Roster Includes R&B Group Kwiet Storm and R&B Solo Artist Dante
Both Acts Will Perform at the 30th Annual Bauder College Student Fashion
Show on Friday, May 16th in Atlanta And Stream Live Online

ATLANTA, May 15 -- Atlanta based JPat Management President
/ CEO Jonnetta Patton recently launched her own independent record label,
JPat Records, with two newly signed acts on the roster - R&B group Kwiet
Storm and R&B male singer Dante. Jonnetta Patton, a veteran music executive
and artist manager, is best known as the mom and former longtime manager of
five-time Grammy Award winning superstar Usher. In addition to forming her
new record label, she is managing the career of her youngest son,
Grammy-nominated producer James "JLack" Lackey and Jive recording artist
Natasha.

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080515/CLTH046-a )

(Photo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20080515/CLTH046-b )

To kick off the newly formed label, JPat Records will participate in
the 30th Annual Bauder College student fashion show on May 16th at
AmericaMart in Atlanta. The runway show will feature top designs of 22
student and alumni designers. The runway show will be opened and closed
with performances by R&B group Kwiet Storm. R&B solo artist Dante will also
perform during the event. Also represented by JPat Management, the
management team that guided the success of multi-platinum superstar Usher,
is Grammy-nominated producer James "JLack" Lackey, who produced the music
for the Bauder Black Tie student fashion show. Jonnetta Patton, CEO and
President of JPat Management, also plans to attend the event.

The show will also be a live streaming event and fans can log on to
view Kwiet Storm and Dante perform live by visiting
http://yaktivate.com/jpatrecordsevent/ at 8 pm ET on May 16, 2008.

Hailing from Chicago, Kwiet Storm comprises of four handsome and
talented singer/songwriter/producers who have literally dedicated their
lives to the pursuit of their dream. Cousins Duke Terrell, 18, and Lewis
"Drey Skonie" Jackson, 19, hooked up with best friends Russell "Romance"
Foster, 20, and Roshawn "Slow Mo" Lyles, 20, two years ago and set out on a
journey that would ultimately bring them to Atlanta and Jonnetta Patton of
JPat Management, the training ground and team that guided the astronomical
success of multi- platinum R&B superstar Usher. Already receiving strong
radio support for their single "Get To Know You" from major R&B radio
stations such at WGCI in Chicago, WVEE-103 in Atlanta, WFXE in Columbus and
WJTT in Chattanooga, among others, Kwiet Storm is off to a great start.

Dante, the 20-year-old Philadelphia native was playing the lead role in
the musical stage play "The Life of Marvin Gaye" when, during intermission,
he was introduced to Jonnetta Patton. Impressed by his soulful music and
acting abilities, she soon signed him to her record label.

JLack, Grammy nominated producer and Usher's younger brother is a force
to be reckoned with. He has already achieved success producing R&B artist
Lloyd's #2 hit single "Get It Shorty" and produced music for Lloyd's
upcoming album. JLack also produced the music featured in the national
launch of Usher's men's and women's fragrance, Usher's performance on
Movies Rock and Usher's new album, Here I Stand. Recently JLack won an
ASCAP Award and signed a multi- million dollar publishing deal with EMI
Music Publishing.

For more information on JPat Records and the live streaming event on
May 16th, please visit: http://www.jpatrecords.com




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Album Review: Yellowjackets Featuring Mike Stern, "Lifecycle" (Heads Up International)

It's been 15 years since the Yellowjackets featured a guitarist on an album, so you had to figure if they were going to do it, they were going to get a ringer. Mike Stern [ tickets ] more than fits the bill. The four-time Grammy nominee, besides having released many acclaimed solo albums, has played alongside Miles Davis, Jaco Pastorius, and Blood, Sweat & Tears.The fusion quartet--keyboardist Russell Ferrante, bassist Jimmy Haslip, saxophonist Bob Mintzer and drummer Marcus Baylor--performed with Stern at the Montreal Jazz Festival in 2007. "We've all been [fans] of Mike's for a long time," Ferrante commented in a statement. "Our goal was to make a recording that sounded like Mike had been in the band forever, and I think we accomplished that. To my ears, it feels cohesive--like five musicians with a genuine rapport."Indeed, Stern fits right in to the angular funk of "Falken's Maze," effortlessly blending with the unison lines, and stepping forward with his signature blues-to-bebop style when the space is there. "Country Living," as the name implies, slows things down, but it's more of a lazy funk turn than anything resembling country. Not surprisingly, Stern comfortably trades phrases with Mintzer.The guitarist penned the sprite swing of "Double Nickel" (featuring some aggressive drumming by Baylor) and the somber ballad "Dreams Go," while Mintzer's "Yahoo" rekindles earlier Yellowjackets fusion, with Ferrante dropping playful synth lines all over the odd time signature. The odd feel is also there for the group-written "3 Circles" and lush, atmospheric "Lazaro," which features a lyrical bass solo from Haslip, who had originally written the piece for a solo album.Mission accomplished with "Lifecycle." Mike Stern fits in like he's been with the band for the last 15 years, and the result is an adventurous jazz-fusion release. The only questions posed by this five-piece lineup are: one, where do the studio albums grow from here?; and two, how will the new (and old) tunes stretch out live? Luckily, the second question will be answered throughout the rest of the year.

Ferrari, Luc

Ferrari, Luc   
Artist: Ferrari, Luc

   Genre(s): 
Classical
   



Discography:


Unheimlich Schoen   
 Unheimlich Schoen

   Year: 1993   
Tracks: 1


Petite Symphonie Intuitive Pour   
 Petite Symphonie Intuitive Pour

   Year: 1973   
Tracks: 3


Acousmatrix 3   
 Acousmatrix 3

   Year:    
Tracks: 4