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Full Albums #1146 - The Very Best Of All Woman, Welcome To The Club Best of 2008, Firstclass The Finest In House, Lisa Hilton

VA - The Very Best Of All Woman - Platinum Collection [3CDs-Set] Download link :- http://rapidshare.com/files/164430025/va.tvboawpc.part1.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/164430148/va.tvboawpc.part2.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/164430638/va.tvboawpc.part3.rar http://rapidshare.com/files/164431253/va.tvboawpc.part4.rar Tracklist: CD 1 01 - Joss Stone - Right to be wrong 02 - Kylie Minogue - Love at first sight 03 - Madonna - Like a Prayer 04 - Kelis - Trick Me 05 - Danni Minogue - Put the Ne

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Thelonious Monk - The Complete Prestige Recordings

Disc One:Flyin’ Hawk; Recollections; Drifting On A Reed; On The Bean; Bye-Ya; Monk’s Dream; Sweet And Lovely; Little Rootie Tootie; Bemsha Swing; Reflections; These Foolish Things; Trinkle, Tinkle; Think Of One; Let’s Call This; Think Of One (alt); Friday The 13th.Personnel:Thelonious Monk - Pianotracks 1-4:Coleman Hawkins - Tenor Saxophone; Edward Robinson - Bas; Denzil Best - Drums; tracks 5-12: Gary Mapp - Bass; Art Blakey - Drums; Max Roach - Drums;tracks 13-16:Sonny Rollins - Tenor Saxophon

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Q&A: Mike Refuerzo

EM: Occupation and Position. REFUERZO: My full time job - single father raising 2 beautiful children.  Everything I do revolves around them. For work, I produce TV commercials for Apple Computers. I’m also a producer at my company, TBWA \ Media Arts Lab . EM: What neighborhood do you closely identify with? What makes your community so unique? I grew up in Los Angeles, but I guess I closely identify with the neighborhood I currently live in, the helms bakery area of Culver city. I try to k

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Alright, sit down.

Squires, said the old man with the hat on. Shut up son, this ain’t no ballet lesson. First of all the pain has a purpose, it’s there to drive you away from something that isn’t good for you. And if ever you should crave bananas that is a lack of potassium, it is not a sign of your inner monkiness. That’s monkey-ness, Squires, not monk-i-ness and definitely not remotely Thelonius’ dance, you have to take your lessons where you find them cos the world in here ain’t like the world down there where

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when love comes to town (photos + video)

bono and edge performed with b.b. king at the kodak theatre in hollywood on sunday, where the thelonius monk institute of jazz was honoring b.b. king and paul allen. video by u2mel: here's a video of another song that bono and edge perform on. bono apparently felt it was appropriate to wear his version of a canadian tuxedo. more photos are here .

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mills: Gonzalo Rubalcaba -  Well, You Needn’t. Since Nudawn...

mills: Gonzalo Rubalcaba -  Well, You Needn’t. Since Nudawn enjoyed Art Tatum’s almost inhumanly dextrous performance of Gershwin, I thought I post Gonzalo Rubalcaba’s version of this Thelonius Monk standard. I tend to dislike excessively flashy, technique-oriented stylists, but I find Rubalcaba to be just barely on the right side of showmanship: he uses his remarkable skills to achieve textural and propulsive playing that turns the piano -already a combination of drum and string- into som

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Gonzalo Rubalcaba -  Well, You Needn’t. Since Nudawn...

Gonzalo Rubalcaba -  Well, You Needn’t. Since Nudawn enjoyed Art Tatum’s almost inhumanly dextrous performance of Gershwin, I thought I post Gonzalo Rubalcaba’s version of this Thelonius Monk standard. I tend to dislike excessively flashy, technique-oriented stylists, but I find Rubalcaba to be just barely on the right side of showmanship: he uses his remarkable skills to achieve textural and propulsive playing that turns the piano -already a combination of drum and string- into something li

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William Claxton, Photographer of Cool, Dies at 80

Photographer William Claxton died on Sunday at age 80. The cause was complications from congestive heart failure. Much has been written about Claxton in recent years, and he has become a favorite in galleries and among a young generation of photographers who admired the stylish realism of his work. He's best known for his photographs of jazz musicians such as Thelonius Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, and, most prominently, Chet Baker. One of his most famous images shows Baker at a p

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Hands off

I realize that it is unlikely that most of my readers will find this as funny as I do, but this pro-Obama button was posted yesterday at musikwissenbloggenschaft, and I had to share it: And for any who might be unfamiliar with the theramin, you can read about it here. And also, check out this video of a friend of mine playing a little Thelonius Monk on one:

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Libra 2008 - Cooperative Creative Air Spirits

by Robert Wilkinson When the Sun transits Libra, we are shown the light of entering into relationships, ideals, partying, and other pleasing social forms. It's the beginning of Autumn, with its focus on harvesting that which is agreeable to us, socializing and connecting with a greater "perfect vision" while seeing the endings in the old forms of our lives. Libra is self-initiating, interactive, and tries to see all the different points of view in any situation. The Sun in Libra shines the lig

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IBMA Keynote Address available online

IBMA Keynote Address available online posted by John on 10.11.08 @ 9:07 am Tags: Berklee, IBMA 2008 The IBMA has posted the text of the Keynote Address delivered by Berklee College of Music President Roger Brown at last week’s World Of Bluegrass Convention on their web site. His speech addressed two main themes: that the period when bluegrass music emerged was a time of uncertainly in the music business, and that many parallels could be drawn between the development of bebop jazz and

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My comments on your comments

I am poor "replier" to your comments. Not because I don't want to reply. But because I have no system and had perhaps not enough time. Time I will have soon. And for the system, I will most probably follow Susanne's who is good at replying to any comment she has on her posts. Or make my "receipt answer" on your blog when I visit. But to return the courtesy right now, I have gone through some of your recent comments and here are my comments to yours. Jason wrote on “Jazz on the 5th, Nr.5": I Lo

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Podcast 123: Happy Birthday, Thelonius Sphere Monk

What can I say that has not already been said about the great Mr. Monk, who would have celebrated his 91st birthday today. He was a true original - in his musical performances, his compositions, his sense of style. He was at ground zero when Be-Bop began in the early 1940's, and he played major roles in developing the sound of modern jazz. He played with anyone who was anyone, and his tutelage of John Coltrane was key to Trane's future successes. He fell in and out of vogue, but never pandered

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Happy Birthday, Thelonius

Ninety years ago today, in Rocky Mount, North Carolina, Thelonius Monk was born. It took him longer than Charlie Parker or Dizzy Gillespie to make it big, but "Straight, No Chaser", "Round About Midnight", and "Blue Monk", along with his albums of interpretations of Duke Ellington, will live forever. John Coltrane once said: "I always had to be alert with Monk, because if you didn't keep aware all the time of what was going on you'd suddenly feel as if you'd stepped into an empty elevator sha

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Today On Radio 2 10/10/08

'Tis the Friday before Thanksgiving, and just a reminder that if you want to enter the Ron Sexsmith Contest today is your last chance. The draw itself will be live on Radio 2 Morning (6 a.m.-10 a.m.) on Tuesday October 14th, the day after the long weekend. (Also known as the day we go to the polls, but that's the stuff of another blog. Actually many other blogs, politics being what they are.) As for the music on your radio today -- here's what's coming up: Radio 2 Morning (6 a.m.-10 a.m.)

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Her "Election" Documentary: Distributed By a Musician We All Know!

In the spirit of the upcoming presidential election, Erika Frankel's (C'00) documentary campaign film (with a twist!) is about to be released nationwide on October 24th. Since I posted about Erika's film Frontrunners last September, they had their world premiere in competition at South by Southwest (SXSW) and were picked up for distribution by Adam Yauch's (of the Beastie Boys) new company Oscilloscope Pictures. Frontrunners is their third release. Per Erika here's the synopsis, "What d

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Her "Election" Documentary: Distributed By a Musician We All Know!

In the spirit of the upcoming presidential election, Erika Frankel's (C'00) documentary campaign film (with a twist!) is about to be released nationwide on October 24th. Since I posted about Erika's film Frontrunners last September, they had their world premiere in competition at South by Southwest (SXSW) and were picked up for distribution by Adam Yauch's (of the Beastie Boys) new company Oscilloscope Pictures. Frontrunners is their third release. Per Erika here's the synopsis,"What do Tim Robb

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Kenny Barron - "Innocence" (1978)

This is a 1978 album with Kenny Barron on both rhodes and acoustic piano, ripped from vinyl and donated to the blog by swboy, who also gave us the Brasil : Samba Bossa MPB compilation back in July. I think this one is a first for the blogosphere ...Boomp3.comBoomp3.comBoomp3.comlinks in comments - THE SIDEMAN - Kenny Barron's first 'appearance' on record was as both arranger and composer on Yusef Lateef's "The Centaur and the Phoenix" in 1960 when he was only seventeen, although he didn't actual

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The Highlights of My Vacation. By Geniusofdespair

.fullpost{display:inline;}This is the powerline farm in the area of the St. Lucie Nuke plant. Above is a restaurant (I didn't eat at it) I saw in the South (one of the Carolina's). Thought the name was strange at best. Hit read more for the last photo: This is the World War II battleship North Carolina. Really interesting, especially below deck. The battleship tour was the best thing I did...oh, I also saw the Ron Carter trio, that was pretty good too. The food highlight was the Cannoli in L

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?Aiming for something much more meta-musical?

That’s how critic Ben Ratliff describes Jason Moran’s interpretation of a legendary 1959 concert by Thelonius Monk. In “Echoes of Monk, 50 Years Later,” the the New York Times writer puts Moran’s “In My Mind: Monk at Town Hall” in the context of other tributes set to mark the golden anniversary of Monk’s jazz milestone. [...]

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