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Mp3 music: Keith Jarret

2008-09-10T18:03:00.001-07:00

Artist: Keith Jarret: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Other

Keith Jarret's discography:

Personal Mountains

Year:

Tracks: 5

One of the virtually significant pianists to emerge since the sixties, Keith Jarrett maintained a career that went through versatile phases. He gained international fame for his solo concerts, which establish him ad libitum improvising all of the music without any prior planning, but he likewise light-emitting diode a couple of dynamical quartets/quintets, performed classical music, and later played exploratory versions of standards with his longtime terzetto. Although his inclination to "tittle-tattle along" with his piano now and then is distracting, Jarrett continued to grow as a powerful improviser after decades of important accomplishments.

Jarrett started on the piano when he was trey, and by the time he was 7 he had already played a recital. A child prodigy, Jarrett was a professional spell still in tier school. In 1962, he studied at Berklee, and then started working in the Boston area with his triad. He stirred to New York in 1965, and exhausted four-spot months with Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers. As a member of the very democratic Charles Lloyd Quartet (1966-1969), Jarrett traveled the world and became well-known; he besides began double now and then on soprano (which he would use through the seventies). During 1969-1971, he was with Miles Davis' nuclear fusion reaction group, playing organ and electric keyboards; Chick Corea was also in the band for the first class. Jarrett can be heard "battling" Corea throughout Davis' Live at the Fillmore, just is in more creative form on Live/Evil.

Upon going Miles Davis, Jarrett permanently swore off electric keyboards. He had cut roger Huntington Sessions as a leader for Vortex (1967-1969) and Atlantic (1971), simply starting in November 1971, he recorded extensively for ECM (in addition to some roger Huntington Sessions in the 1970s for ABC/Impulse), an In the 1970s, Jarrett lED deuce groups: an exciting unit with Dewey Redman, Charlie Haden, Paul Motian, and occasional percussionists (oftentimes Guilherme Franco); and a European band with Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielsson, and Jon Christensen that recorded the popular "My Song." In addition, starting in 1972 Jarrett began his renowned series of makeshift concerts that resulted in such popular recordings as Solo Concerts, KÃ¶ln Concert, and the mammoth Sun Bear Concerts. By the 1980s, Jarrett was performing classical music as much as jazz, only in the nineties he recorded extensively (including a six-CD bouncy do) with his "standards trio," which included Gary Peacock and Jack DeJohnette. Although ab initio influenced by Bill Evans, Jarrett has had an original and influential expressive style of his own since the early '70s, and remains a vital force in jazz.

Download Happy Family mp3

2008-08-31T18:06:00.001-07:00

Artist: Happy Family: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Jazz
ROck: Alternative

Discography:



Toscco

   Year: 1997

Tracks: 9


Happy Family

   Year: 1995

Tracks: 7

Formed in 1987 at Tokyo's University of Meiji, the implemental quartette Happy Family describes its music as chamber jazz-rock driven by the fast and big rhythms of hard rock. Reference points admit Magma, Univers Zero and Henry Cow, but Happy Family wager out its possess turf with its stunning, sometimes raging, intensity.

Founding members Kenichi Morimoto (keyboards), Shigeru Makino (guitar) and Tatsuya Miyano (electric fretless bass) were joined by drummer Keiichi Nagase in 1990. This quartet issued several tapes earlier cathartic Happy Family on the Cuneiform label in 1995. Takahiro Izutani replaced Makino, delivery a grittier sound to the group's second base CD, Toscco, once more on Cuneiform.

Morimoto, world Health Organization enjoys jazz-rock, chamber-rock and avant stone, composes a good deal of the group's material. Miyano exemplifies the "zeuhl" stylus of Magma bassists Jannik Top and Bernard Paganotti. Miyano is a member of Mekanik Kommandoh, a Magma pass over band formed by Tatsuya Yoshida, leader of the Japanese punk-zeuhl radical, Ruins. Nagase, world Health Organization intentional the covers for the band's releases, contributes rhythmical complexity to Happy Family's music.

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Mp3 music: Shearwater

2008-08-21T18:11:00.001-07:00

Artist: Shearwater: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Indie
Rock
Pop
Other

Shearwater's discography:



Palo Santo

   Year: 2006

Tracks: 11


Thieves EP

   Year: 2005

Tracks: 5


Winged Life

   Year: 2004

Tracks: 12


Everybody Makes Mistakes

   Year: 2002

Tracks: 12


The Dissolving Room

   Year: 2001

Tracks: 12


Okkervil

   Year:

Tracks: 4

Originally conceived as a one-off collaboration 'tween Okkervil River's Will Sheff and Kingfisher's Jonathan Meiburg, Shearwater continues the tradition of detailed, incubation songwriting determine by greco-Roman artists like Nick Drake and Leonard Cohen and present-day indie rock and roll songwriters such as Bill Callahan and Will Oldham. The radical began after Sheff and Meiburg had known each other for exactly a week with the idea that the duet wanted to make an album called The Dissolving Room. The couple exchanged songwriting ideas through electronic mail and were so pleased with the results that they clear-cut to make their figure into a permanent, touring social role. The Dissolving Room was released in early 2001 by the Grey Flat imprint. The following year Shearwater released some other album, Everybody Makes Mistakes, and their third album, Winged Life, followed in 2004. Meiburg's influence over the counseling of the band steadily increased over the days, and this trend continued on the band's fourth release, 2006's Palo Santo. The band touched from Misra to Matador that year, devising way for the release of an expanded edition of Palo Santo in 2007.

L.A. curator immerses himself in Chinese art � in China

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

LOS ANGELES � Let others talk about the lure of art from China. James Elaine did something or so it. He moved there.

"China is hither to bide," says Elaine, an artist and conservator who has organized high-strung exhibitions and introduced rising figures at Hammer Museum at the University of California, Los Angeles, for the past tense decade. "The culture, the art world, it's non a furore of the West that's going to fade away. China is a power."

With the help of a grant from the Asian Cultural Council � and the boom of the 2008 Ordway Prize, a $100,000 award for midcareer artists, curators and art writers � he has traded his Hammer "curator" championship for "adjunct curator" and taken himself to China, where he plans to stay two years.

The goal is to learn more than about artistic production being made throughout the vast area and research possibilities of exhibitions and exchange programs for the museum and the university. He spends about half his prison term working for the Hammer, the perch pursuing main projects.

"I want to be a bridge," Elaine says. "I think there are a lot of opportunities to get together and better half for a long time ahead."

His jeopardize is a bold move, for him and the university, simply it reflects an escalating interest in Chinese present-day art that goes well beyond Beijing Olympics fever.

At the moment, Elaine is back in Los Angeles for his first Chinese show, an installation by Sun Xun that's share of the Hammer Projects series and runs through Oct 12.

Inspired by a 1914 bilingual book, "The New China," Sun � a 28-year-old artist wHO lives in Hangzhou and founded an animation studio in 2006 � has explored changing notions of China's evolution in wall paintings and an animated film.

"I do see in this new generation, a new kind of nontextual matter being made," Elaine says. "Maybe not new to the world, but sure enough new to China. The first wave was political pop, more than direct and obvious work. I'm eyesight a much more introverted, emotional, psychological, sexual type of work, people investigating themselves and their identity. Sun Xun is asking identity questions about his country, where it came from, where it's departure and the world's perceptions."

From East to West

This season, Chinese fine art seems to be all over. A snap of the global nontextual matter calendar is filled with Chinese offerings:

In Paris, the big summertime show at the Musee Maillol (web.museemaillol.com), featuring works by 35 artists, has an Olympics theme, "China Gold."

This fall's attraction at the Asia Society (world Wide Web.asiasociety.org) in New York is "Art and China's Revolution."

In London, the Saatchi Gallery (www.rizzoliusa.com) is touting its Chinese solicitation with a profusely illustrated book, "The Revolution Continues: New Art From China."

California is rich territory for young artists from China.

In Los Angeles, in addition to the Hammer demo, three galleries (DNJ Gallery, DF2 and Morono Kiang Gallery) are showing photography and paintings from China.

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (www.sfmoma.org) recently opened "Half-Life of a Dream: Contemporary Chinese Art From the Logan Collection," featuring 50 paintings, sculptures and installations of external contemporary art.

And the fall exhibition at Berkeley Art Museum (web.bampfa.berkeley.edu) is "Mahjong: Contemporary Chinese Art From the Sigg Collection," a travelling exhibition showcasing the work of nigh 100 artists from the collection of Uli Sigg, a Swiss businessman and former diplomatist who fatigued many days in China.

All this art represents the tumultuous growth that has transpired since the Cultural Revolution over in 1976.

Initially, artists had to run to the West to gain realisation and realize a living. And the government crackdown in Tiananmen Square in 1989 brought new restrictions. But today it's possible for van artists to flourish at home and � for a few � to become wealthy.

The market for contemporary Chinese art has boomed, with a big push from Christie's and Sotheby's auction bridge houses. Paintings of Chinese people looking for stressed, low and hysterical by artists such as Zhang Xiaogang, Liu Xiaodong, Yue Minjun and Zeng Fanzhi take brought $2 million to $9 million at auction.

"The market is shifting," Elaine says. "A whole modern generation is coming up with a new imaginativeness. Ten or 15 years ago, some of these artists didn't have a penny. Now they ar wealthier than I will ever be. Young people see that you potty be an artist in China. You can be respected, you can make lots of money and you don't have to do traditional Chinese landscape painting."

Critics and criticism

Not everyone embraces the art gushing out of China.

New Republic critic Jed Perl darned the new Saatchi Gallery publication as "the most hateful art book promulgated in my lifetime" and condemned some of the artists for "getting comfortable with Mao (Zedong)" and rehabilitating his atrocities in their work.

Jeff Kelley, an expert in Chinese modern-day art wHO curated the Logan aggregation exhibition at SFMoMA, takes a more than nuanced perspective in his catalog essay. Art thought to represent a yellow reaction to rampant consumerism or administration control, he contends, "has revealed itself to be more psychologically resonant than the facade of pop iconoclasm and gestures of ironic insulation might pronto suggest."

The masklike visages so frequently painted may not expose the artists' souls, he writes, but they "re-enact the psychic aftermath of an era in which representations of specific human emotions were replaced with the idealized faces of the Revolution."

What whitney Young artists ar doing is another write up, as the Chinese exhibitions reveal. The photographers at DNJ Gallery shoot pictures of people riding trains and bicycles, panoramas of streets, portraits of miners, dwellings in an antediluvian farming community.

"As the culture changes, you see the subject affair changing," Elaine says. "You see what is genuinely real and what's happening."

A native of Dallas whose mother was born in China, the daughter of American missionaries, Elaine has spent several years encyclopaedism to verbalise, read and write Chinese. But he didn't go to China until 2002, with his family.

"When I came back to L.A. from that trip, I was just full of passion and fire," he says. "I had to learn the language. It was near frenetic. I didn't know why I was doing it. I just had to. When I came to Los Angeles 10 years agone, I view it was the Wild West. Now China is the Wild West. I love it."

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DeeJay kMx

2008-08-06T01:16:00.001-07:00

Artist: DeeJay kMx

   Genre(s):
Reggae

Discography:

Remix Reggaeton Vol.3

Year: 2006
Tracks: 1

Die Apokalyptischen Reiter

2008-06-24T13:02:00.001-07:00

Artist: Die Apokalyptischen Reiter

   Genre(s):
Metal
   Industrial
   Metal: Death,Black

Discography:


Riders On The Storm

   Year: 2006
Tracks: 14


Samurai

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 13


Have A Nice Trip

   Year: 2003
Tracks: 14


All You Need Is Love

   Year: 2001
Tracks: 12


Allegro Barbaro

   Year: 1999
Tracks: 17


Soft And Stronger

   Year: 1997
Tracks: 13


Firestorm (Demo)

   Year: 1996
Tracks: 7

German metallic element band Die Apokalyptischen Reiter (roughly, "Horsemen of the Apocalypse") formed in mid-1995. Comprising frontman Fuchs, guitarist Pitrone, bassist Volk-Man, keyboardist Dr. Pest, and drummer Sir G., the group recorded its first base demonstration tape, Firestorm, the next yr, resulting in a deal with the Hammerheart pronounce to spillage an expanded edition highborn Soft and Stronger. In the inflame of 1999's Allegro Barbaro, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter shifted aside from the melodic death alloy of old efforts to the more than epical and atmospherical approach number one introduced via 2000's All You Need Is Love. The 2003 Nuclear Blast pronounce debut, Get a Nice Trip, further refined the rule, boosting Fuchs' vocals in the amalgamate and accenting more integrated melodies and rhythms. After climb their first base headlining tour, Die Apokalyptischen Reiter traveled to Denmark to record the 2004 LP Samurai. Another potent commercial display, it sic the stage for 2006's Riders on the Storm, which debuted in the German Top 40.

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VH1 to Televise 'The 46664 Concert Honouring Nelson Mandela at 90' Exclusively in the U.S.

2008-06-15T00:59:00.000-07:00

WILL SMITH TO HOST CONCERT IN LONDON'S HYDE PARK WHERE AMY WINEHOUSE, QUEEN
+ PAUL RODGERS, ANNIE LENNOX, AND LEONA LEWIS AMONG MANY OTHERS INVITED TO
PERFORM
VH1, VH1 CLASSIC, VH1 SOUL AND MHD: MUSIC HIGH DEFINITION TO PREMIERE
CONCERT HIGHLIGHTS ON MONDAY, JUNE 30 AT 9 PM EDT/PDT
VH1.COM TO LIVE STREAM THE EVENT, FRIDAY, JUNE 27 AT 1:30 PM EDT

NEW YORK, June 3 -- VH1 is joining in the global birthday
celebration of one the world's greatest leaders, Nelson Mandela.

The music and pop culture network is the exclusive U.S. outlet
televising "The 46664 Concert Honouring Nelson Mandela at 90" taking place
in London's Hyde Park on Friday, June 27. The concert will also be streamed
live on VH1.com that day at MandelaConcert.VH1.com. Artists already
committed to perform include Amy Winehouse, Leona Lewis, Queen + Paul
Rodgers, Annie Lennox, The Sugababes, Simple Minds, Dame Shirley Bassey,
Andrea and Sharon Corr, Jerry Dammers and Razorlight will take the stage to
honor Nelson Mandela. Many other world-renowned artists and performers will
also be performing.

Hosted by multi-talented actor/rapper Will Smith, VH1's coverage of The
46664 Concert will stream live at MandelaConcert.VH1.com on Friday, June 27
at 1:30 PM EST. A 2-hour special of concert highlights will premiere on VH1
on Monday, June 30th at 9 PM EST/PST. The event will also be simulcast on
VH1 Classic, VH1 Soul and MHD, MTV Networks' music high-definition channel.
In addition to being a monumental birthday celebration, the event also
serves as a response to the global HIV/AIDS epidemic designed to invite the
whole world to take a stance on this worldwide health issue.

The concert name refers to Nelson Mandela's prison number (46664 -
pronounced four, double six, six, four) when he spent 18 years of his 27
years in prison on Robben Island off the coast of Cape Town in South
Africa.

Oprah Winfrey, former President Bill Clinton, Prime Minister Gordon
Brown, Robert De Niro, Forest Whitaker are among those who will attend some
of the events surrounding the three-day celebration in London which
culminates in the evening concert.

South African and African artists Johnny Clegg, Sipho Mabuse, Loyiso,
the Soweto Gospel Choir, Papa Wemba, Sudanese 'war child' rapper Emmanuel
Jal, and AIDS orphan choir: The Children of Agape will also join in the
celebration.

The concert proceeds will benefit Nelson Mandela's HIV/AIDS charity
46664 that he founded in 2002. "I am supposed to be retired but my friends
and the charitable organizations that bear my name want to use my 90th
birthday year to raise funds to continue our work and so of course I want
to help them," said Nelson Mandela.

"Nelson Mandela epitomizes strength and courage around the world. He
has come to symbolize hope, working tirelessly through his 46664
organization to raise awareness about the impact of AIDS, especially in
Africa, and promote HIV prevention measures globally," said Tom Calderone,
VH1's Executive Vice President, General Manager. "We at VH1 have a long
history of proactively engaging our viewers in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
We are proud to be a part of this momentous occasion and are eager to share
the celebration with music fans across the U.S."

Notes to Editors:

Mr. Mandela made HIV AIDS the target of his 'new fight' in 2002 and the
46664 campaign was launched with a concert in Cape Town on November 29th
2003 under the direction of Dave Stewart, Annie Lennox and Queen's Brian
May and Roger Taylor with support from artists such as Bono, The Edge and
Beyonce,

46664 takes its name from Mr. Mandela's Robben Island prison number. He
was prisoner number 466, incarcerated in 1964.

At the time of Mr. Mandela's release in 1990 South Africa recorded
120,000 people living with HIV. Today the number of South Africans living
with HIV AIDS exceeds 5.5. million.

Inspired by the vision and leadership of Nelson Mandela, 46664 is an
African response to the global HIV AIDS epidemic that invites the whole
world to take the fight in hand.

A campaign vehicle of the Nelson Mandela charitable organisations,
46664 raises funds to support the ongoing 46664 campaign and the HIV AIDS
projects it directly supports throughout sub-Saharan Africa. 46664's
project funds develop and support practical programmes for the prevention,
testing, and care and support for those infected and affected by HIV/AIDS

46664 recently unveiled its new campaign "It's in our hands," which
will build on its past achievements and expand its outreach activities in
South Africa to communities and schools to engage the youth who are at most
at risk. The not-for-profit organisation harnesses the universal connecting
power of music, sport and entertainment to deliver its messages primarily
to the younger generations. The campaign is supported by over 80
international ambassadors from the world of sport and entertainment.

VH1 connects viewers to the music, artists and pop culture that matter
to them most with TV series, specials, live events, exclusive online
content and public affairs initiatives. VH1 is available in 90 million
households in the U.S. VH1 also has an array of digital channels and
services including VH1Classic, VH1 Soul, VH1 Mobile, VH1Games and extensive
broadband video on VH1.com. Connect with VH1 at VH1.com.

Launched in May 2000, VH1 Classic is a 24-hour network that presents
videos, concerts and music special all day long, featuring the best of
rock, soul and pop artists from the 60s, 70s, 80s, and the early 90s
including The Beatles, The Stones, Tina Turner, Led Zepplin, Madonna,
Marvin Gaye, The Who, Stevie Wonder, The Police and many more. Learn more
at http://www.vh1classic.com.

Launched in 1997, VH1 Soul is the 24-hour network that brings music
lovers the hottest, soul, neo-soul an R&B hits from the 90s and today
featuring core artists such as Alicia Keys, Jill Scott, Outkast, Mary J.
Blige and Usher. VH1 Soul, the premier source for all R&B and soul music,
is now seen in the Top 20 U.S. markets for African-Americans and is
available in nearly 20 million U.S. households.

MHD: Music High-Definition, MTV Networks' high-definition music
channel, launched in January 2006 and features original music based
programming for a variety of music genres, including hip hop, rock,
country, pop, reggaeton, soul and more, as well as HDTV acquisitions and
original content from MTV Networks Music Group's MTV, VH1, and CMT family
of services.

*** For up-to-the-minute and archival press information including
releases and photographs, visit VH1's press-only Web site at
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Press Contacts:
Toni Herron/VH1 Brett Henne/VH1
(212) 846-7528 (212) 846-6752

Event PR - TV/Radio and International Media
The PR Contact:

UK
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Email: howard@howardents.co.uk

International Office
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Print Media:
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Kelly Rowland to perform Live on Channel V

2008-06-11T19:47:00.001-07:00

Ms Kelly Rowland

She�s a Grammy-winning superstar, has a mountain of hits to her name, and was one third of the best-selling female group in history. And now she is coming to work it for Channel [V]. She is Ms Kelly Rowland.
Channel [V] is thrilled to announce that R&B/pop diva Kelly Rowland will be stopping by the studio for what�s set to be a monster episode of What U Want, premiering Friday 13 June at 4.00pm.
With glamour set to the max and backed by four dancers, Kelly will perform her current single Daylight as well as the booty-shaking sensation, international #1 hit, Work. Joining her in the studio to get the low down on her visit to Oz will be What U Want hosts Danny Clayton and Renee Bargh.
Channel [V] is all about the music, bringing big name local and international stars direct to your lounge room. Don�t miss Kelly Rowland�s electrifying LIVE performance as she works it on Channel [V].
What U Want With Kelly Rowland Live
Australian TV Premiere
Friday 13 June at 4.00pm
Exclusive to Channel [V]

Carey Hart: 'Pink Gave Me A Headache'

2008-06-11T19:43:00.005-07:00

Carey Hart, the estranged husband of Pink, has stated he will remain single for a while, because he doesn’t need anymore “headaches”.

The motorcross racer got married to Pink in Costa Rica in 2006 and announced their split earlier this year.

Hart has no intentions to pursue love interests though, because he thinks they are more trouble than they’re worth.

He tells Life & Style: "I don't need any headaches from the opposite sex. I'm flying solo for a very long time."

Pete Wentz Beats Gossip Sites To News

2008-06-11T19:43:00.003-07:00

Pete Wentz has admitted to "an amazing faux paus" in a post on his website, when he revealed that he ran out of gas while driving in Los Angeles and was photographed by the paparazzi.

The Fall Out Boy "celebritard" wrote the following message on his website on Friday:

"well the universe has a way of righting itself.

so as a boy "celebritard" you dont have to really worry about panty-less shots getting out of a car or nip slips. but i had an amazing faux pas with my dad in the valley today. i always drive with the gas light on. on empty. today i ran out of gas. i am pretty sure the pictures are gonna only get me a higher rating on the word's idiot list. but thanks to the guy that ran and got me gas, then refused to take any money and gave me three morrissey pins instead. what a strange world.

oops i did it again.

ps im pretty sure where i ran out of gas was where the cobra kai dojo was set in karate kid 3. can i get any verification on this?"

NEXT: Janet Jackson: Record Label Not Promoting Me

Photo courtesy of Clandestine.

Big Brown Shows Clay Who's Hung Like a Horse

2008-06-11T19:43:00.001-07:00

When it comes to getting chicks pregnant, size really does matter.

Superhorse Big Brown will reportedly make as much as $50 million in stud fees if he wins the Triple Crown. That's as much as $100K per mare.

Not sure how much Jaymes Foster had to pony up for Clayken's swimmers, but we're guessing he didn't command quite as much -- especially for being such a long shot.

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Everlife

2008-06-11T19:42:00.001-07:00

Artist: Everlife

   Genre(s):
Indie

Discography:

Everlife

Year: 2007
Tracks: 10

$52,100 for Sex and the City date

2008-06-11T19:41:00.001-07:00

A Japanese 'Sex and the City' fan is set to pay $52,100 (€33,100) to attend the premiere of the new movie of the hit sitcom with Kristin Davis, one of the stars of the show.
The woman, who outbid dozens of other fans to the prize in an eBay auction, will also receive a professional hair and make-up styling and a pair of Jimmy Choos for the big bash on 27 May.
Davis, who played straight-laced brunette Charlotte in the series and reprises the role in the film, has revealed that she participated in the auction on behalf of the charity Oxfam America, a branch of Oxfam Worldwide.
She told US Weekly: "Oxfam's mission is to alleviate poverty and injustice by helping people learn skills and create lives.
"I just got back from Africa and saw first-hand that we're making a long-term difference. It gave me a sense of satisfaction."

Alanis opens up about heartache

2008-06-11T19:40:00.001-07:00

Alanis Morissette is eager to avoid another love breakup � because splits hit her too hard, femalefirst.co.uk reports.

The singer-songwriter admits she was devastated when her engagement to actor Ryan Reynolds ended last year, and it took her months to recover.

She reportedly fears she wouldn�t be able to handle another breakup of that magnitude.

�I was a full-blown love addict, so it was like, �I can�t keep doing this, my body can�t take it,��

Morissette told the Los Angeles Times newspaper. �Breakups are a horrible thing for almost everybody I know. For someone who is a love addict, it�s debilitating.�

But Morissette is confident her split from Reynolds was her personal rock bottom.

�I�ve been on a constant journey toward finally surrendering and hitting the rock bottom that I�ve been avoiding my whole life,� she added. �So this was a huge, critical juncture for me. Everything broke, and it was an amazing and horrifying time.�

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Mohammad Reza Shajarian

2008-06-11T19:39:00.001-07:00

Artist: Mohammad Reza Shajarian

   Genre(s):
Ethnic

Discography:

Dastgah Chahargah

Year: 1995
Tracks: 3

Gil Evans

2008-06-11T19:38:00.001-07:00

Artist: Gil Evans

   Genre(s):
Jazz

Discography:

Jazz Masters 23

Year:
Tracks: 10

One of the to the highest degree significant arrangers in jazz history, Gil Evans' three album-length collaborations with Miles Davis (Miles Ahead, Porgy and Bess and Sketches of Spain) ar all considered classics. Evans had a extended and varied life history that sometimes ran analogue to the trumpeter. Like Davis, Gil became involved in utilizing electronics in the 1970s and preferable non to face plunk for and recreate the past. He lED his own band in California (1933-38) which eventually became the backup mathematical group for Skinnay Ennis; Evans stayed on for a time as arranger. He gained recognition for his pretty futurist charts for Claude Thornhill's Orchestra (1941-42 and 1946-48) which took vantage of the ensemble's cool tones, utilised French horns and a tuba as frontline instruments and by 1946 merged the influence of federal Bureau of Prisons. He met Miles Davis (wHO admired his act upon with Thornhill) during this time and contributed arrangements of "Moonlight Dreams" and "Boplicity" to Davis' "Birth of the Cool" nonet.

After a time period in obscureness, Evans wrote for a Helen Merrill session and and so collaborated with Davis on Miles Ahead. In addition to his work with Miles (which too included a 1961 recorded Carnegie Hall concert and the half-album Subdued Nights), Evans recorded several superb and highly original sets as a leader (including Gil Evans and Ten, Young Bottle Old Wine and Peachy Jazz Standards) during the epoch. In the 1960s among the albums he worked on for other artists were famed efforts with Kenny Burrell and Astrud Gilberto. After his possess sessions for Verve during 1963-64, Evans waited until 1969 until recording once more as a loss leader. That year's Blue devils in Orbit was his first successful travail at combining acoustic and electric instruments; it would be followed by dates for Artists House, Atlantic (Svengali) and a far-famed tribute to Jimi Hendrix in 1974. After 1975's In that location Comes a Time (which features among its sidemen David Sanborn), to the highest degree of Evans' recordings were taken from live performances. Starting in 1970 he began playing with his large supporting players on a weekly footing in New York clubs. Filled with such all-star players as George Adams, Lew Soloff, Marvin "Hannibal" Peterson, Chris Hunter, Howard Johnson, Pete Levin, Hiram Bullock, Hamiet Bluiett and Arthur Blythe among others, Evans' later on bands were top-heavy in talent only tended to stray on excessively long. Gil Evans, other than sketching out a framework and contributory his keyboard, seemed to permit the orchestra largely campaign itself, inspiring rather than close guiding the music. There were some worthwhile recordings from the 1980s (when the stripe had a long cosmic string of Monday night gigs at Sweet Basil in New York) merely in general they do non ofttimes live up to their potential difference. Prior to his end, Gil Evans recorded with his "arranger's piano" on duets with Lee Konitz and Steve Lacy and his body of

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