By Clyde Lee Dennis
Talented Smooth Jazz artist Steve Cole has released his most recent CD on the Warner Bros. Records recording label, entitled NY LA.
Steve Cole has been a super star in the Smooth Jazz genre for quite a while now and NY LA is an excellent illustration as to why.
These days it’s a very rare CD on which every single song is good or better than the one before it. This CD is certainly one of those rare CDs.
Overall NY LA is excellent from beginning to end. One of those CDs that after a few listens the songs are just etched into your memory. A must have for the Smooth Jazz fan. Really spectacular from beginning to end.
My SmoothLee Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 8, Missing You. This is a great track!
NY LA Release Notes:
Steve Cole originally released NY LA on Mar 25, 2003 on the Warner Bros. Records label.
CD Track List Follows:
1. NY-LA
2. Everyday
3. Tonight It's On - (featuring Mauli B./Charlean Hines)
4. Love Letter
5. Off Broadway
6. Interlude IV
7. Every Little Thing - (featuring Mauli B.)
8. Missing You
9. Close Your Eyes, Free Your Mind
10. Keep It Live - (featuring Brevi/Aloe Blacc)
Personnel: Steve Cole (soprano, alto & tenor saxophones, keyboards, synthesizer); Charlean Hines, Mauli B, Brevi (vocals); Aloe Blacc (rap vocals); David Mann (tenor saxophone, keyboards); Barry Danielian (trumpet, flugelhorn); Brian Culbertson (piano, keyboards, synthesizer); Daron Johnson (Wurlitzer piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Otmaro Ruiz (Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards); Marquis "Hami" Dair (keyboards, guitar); Paul Jackson, Jr., Tony Maiden, Bernd Schoenhart (guitar); Alex Al, Will Lee (bass); Reggie Hamilton (upright bass); Michael White, Kahari Parker, Ralph Rolle (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion); Walter Lee (turntables). Producers: Brian Culbertson, Marquis "Hami" Dair, Susan Youngblood, David Mann.
Get the information you want on your favorite smooth jazz songs and artists at http://www.iLoveSmoothJazz.com
Clyde Lee Dennis, a.k.a. SmoothLee is a life long music fanatic, smooth jazz in particular, and does a daily online radio show featuring smooth jazz music that can be heard at http://www.MiamiSmoothJazz.com
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Steve Cole "NY LA" Smooth Jazz Music CD Review
By Clyde Lee Dennis
Talented Smooth Jazz artist Steve Cole has released his most recent CD on the Warner Bros. Records recording label, entitled NY LA.
Steve Cole has been a super star in the Smooth Jazz genre for quite a while now and NY LA is an excellent illustration as to why.
These days it’s a very rare CD on which every single song is good or better than the one before it. This CD is certainly one of those rare CDs.
Overall NY LA is excellent from beginning to end. One of those CDs that after a few listens the songs are just etched into your memory. A must have for the Smooth Jazz fan. Really spectacular from beginning to end.
My SmoothLee Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 8, Missing You. This is a great track!
NY LA Release Notes:
Steve Cole originally released NY LA on Mar 25, 2003 on the Warner Bros. Records label.
CD Track List Follows:
1. NY-LA
2. Everyday
3. Tonight It's On - (featuring Mauli B./Charlean Hines)
4. Love Letter
5. Off Broadway
6. Interlude IV
7. Every Little Thing - (featuring Mauli B.)
8. Missing You
9. Close Your Eyes, Free Your Mind
10. Keep It Live - (featuring Brevi/Aloe Blacc)
Personnel: Steve Cole (soprano, alto & tenor saxophones, keyboards, synthesizer); Charlean Hines, Mauli B, Brevi (vocals); Aloe Blacc (rap vocals); David Mann (tenor saxophone, keyboards); Barry Danielian (trumpet, flugelhorn); Brian Culbertson (piano, keyboards, synthesizer); Daron Johnson (Wurlitzer piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Otmaro Ruiz (Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards); Marquis "Hami" Dair (keyboards, guitar); Paul Jackson, Jr., Tony Maiden, Bernd Schoenhart (guitar); Alex Al, Will Lee (bass); Reggie Hamilton (upright bass); Michael White, Kahari Parker, Ralph Rolle (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion); Walter Lee (turntables). Producers: Brian Culbertson, Marquis "Hami" Dair, Susan Youngblood, David Mann.
Get the information you want on your favorite smooth jazz songs and artists at http://www.iLoveSmoothJazz.com
Clyde Lee Dennis, a.k.a. SmoothLee is a life long music fanatic, smooth jazz in particular, and does a daily online radio show featuring smooth jazz music that can be heard at http://www.MiamiSmoothJazz.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Clyde_Lee_Dennis
Talented Smooth Jazz artist Steve Cole has released his most recent CD on the Warner Bros. Records recording label, entitled NY LA.
Steve Cole has been a super star in the Smooth Jazz genre for quite a while now and NY LA is an excellent illustration as to why.
These days it’s a very rare CD on which every single song is good or better than the one before it. This CD is certainly one of those rare CDs.
Overall NY LA is excellent from beginning to end. One of those CDs that after a few listens the songs are just etched into your memory. A must have for the Smooth Jazz fan. Really spectacular from beginning to end.
My SmoothLee Bonus Pick, and the one that got Sore [...as in "Stuck On REpeat"] is track 8, Missing You. This is a great track!
NY LA Release Notes:
Steve Cole originally released NY LA on Mar 25, 2003 on the Warner Bros. Records label.
CD Track List Follows:
1. NY-LA
2. Everyday
3. Tonight It's On - (featuring Mauli B./Charlean Hines)
4. Love Letter
5. Off Broadway
6. Interlude IV
7. Every Little Thing - (featuring Mauli B.)
8. Missing You
9. Close Your Eyes, Free Your Mind
10. Keep It Live - (featuring Brevi/Aloe Blacc)
Personnel: Steve Cole (soprano, alto & tenor saxophones, keyboards, synthesizer); Charlean Hines, Mauli B, Brevi (vocals); Aloe Blacc (rap vocals); David Mann (tenor saxophone, keyboards); Barry Danielian (trumpet, flugelhorn); Brian Culbertson (piano, keyboards, synthesizer); Daron Johnson (Wurlitzer piano, Hammond B-3 organ); Otmaro Ruiz (Fender Rhodes piano, keyboards); Marquis "Hami" Dair (keyboards, guitar); Paul Jackson, Jr., Tony Maiden, Bernd Schoenhart (guitar); Alex Al, Will Lee (bass); Reggie Hamilton (upright bass); Michael White, Kahari Parker, Ralph Rolle (drums); Lenny Castro (percussion); Walter Lee (turntables). Producers: Brian Culbertson, Marquis "Hami" Dair, Susan Youngblood, David Mann.
Get the information you want on your favorite smooth jazz songs and artists at http://www.iLoveSmoothJazz.com
Clyde Lee Dennis, a.k.a. SmoothLee is a life long music fanatic, smooth jazz in particular, and does a daily online radio show featuring smooth jazz music that can be heard at http://www.MiamiSmoothJazz.com
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Korn, Evanescence Team For Family Values Tour
by Mitchell Peters, L.A.
Korn and Evanescence will co-headline this year's Family Values tour, which will visit 31 North American cities starting July 16 in St. Louis.
Sharing the main stage on this year's Live Nation-produced festival are Atreyu, Flyleaf, Hellyeah and Trivium. Additional bands, venues and dates will be announced shortly.
Last year, after a five-year hiatus, Korn revived the Family Values tour for a summer run that featured Deftones, Stone Stour, Flyleaf and Japanese upstarts Dir en gray. The trek grossed $6.2 million and drew more than 347,000 fans in attendance for 26 shows, according to Billboard Boxscore.
Through Korn's partnership with Live Nation, the 2006 tour offered concertgoers lawn tickets priced at $9.99 for all amphitheater dates. This year's edition of Family Values will offer similar pricing.
This news From http://www.billboard.com
LIVE REVIEW: Christina Aguilera's "Back to Basics" Tour
Christina Aguilera's Oakland, California, stop on her Back to Basics tour was anything but simple. Featuring numerous sets, costume changes for nearly every song, and drastic revisions of her earlier hits, much of the ninety-minute show emphasized the twenty-six-year-old's evolution from bubblegum starlet to "dirrty" vixen to her current incarnation as retro-styled soul siren. Opening with "Ain't No Other Man" as Aguilera and her eight dancers made their entrance down a lit staircase in sharp white suits, the presentation was a marked improvement over her 2003 Justified & Stripped tour with Justin Timberlake. Now moving more confidently with classier choreography, more enthusiastic dancers, and a tighter band, Aguilera demonstrated that her once-uncertain stage presence has nearly caught up with her famed vocal dexterity.
Aguilera's not one to hold back. Just as she'd rather embellish a melody than sing it simply, her show emphasized extremes -- short skirts with long trains that she nervously pushed away from her high stiletto heels, heartfelt proclamations of respect to soul singers "Back in the Day," lace chaps that her dancers attached to her legs to prove that -- despite her marriage -- she's "Still Dirrty." As she sang "Oh Mother" in praise of her mom divorcing her allegedly abusive father, staged footage flashed behind her of a man repeatedly punching a woman as blood dripped from her face. Just as Tina Turner proclaimed in "Proud Mary" that she never does anything "nice and easy," Aguilera proved once again that she never does anything nice and subtle.
When her material suits her full-throttle attack, Aguilera triumphs. Staged as revival meeting, "Makes Me Wanna Pray" celebrated flesh and spirit with gospel fervor as dancers spun around Aguilera while she dropped to her knees, James Brown-style. For the Beatle-esque "Welcome," the staging took a circus motif as dancers swung on trapezes and breathed fire. "Beautiful" remains such a perfect, self-empowering ballad that no amount of excess notes can defeat it, and "Fighter" ended the show on a hard-rocking high. Aguilera made no mention of the fact that her Oakland gig with supporting acts the Pusycat Dolls and Danity Kane fell on International Women's Day. Whereas Madonna pioneered her brand of bustier feminism with knowing finesse, Aguilera and pals opt for strip-club bombast, even when belting pro-female anthems. Now more woman than girl, Aguilera's looking and sounding stronger than ever, but could benefit from a little adult nuance.
by BARRY WALTERS from www.rollingstone.com
Aguilera's not one to hold back. Just as she'd rather embellish a melody than sing it simply, her show emphasized extremes -- short skirts with long trains that she nervously pushed away from her high stiletto heels, heartfelt proclamations of respect to soul singers "Back in the Day," lace chaps that her dancers attached to her legs to prove that -- despite her marriage -- she's "Still Dirrty." As she sang "Oh Mother" in praise of her mom divorcing her allegedly abusive father, staged footage flashed behind her of a man repeatedly punching a woman as blood dripped from her face. Just as Tina Turner proclaimed in "Proud Mary" that she never does anything "nice and easy," Aguilera proved once again that she never does anything nice and subtle.
When her material suits her full-throttle attack, Aguilera triumphs. Staged as revival meeting, "Makes Me Wanna Pray" celebrated flesh and spirit with gospel fervor as dancers spun around Aguilera while she dropped to her knees, James Brown-style. For the Beatle-esque "Welcome," the staging took a circus motif as dancers swung on trapezes and breathed fire. "Beautiful" remains such a perfect, self-empowering ballad that no amount of excess notes can defeat it, and "Fighter" ended the show on a hard-rocking high. Aguilera made no mention of the fact that her Oakland gig with supporting acts the Pusycat Dolls and Danity Kane fell on International Women's Day. Whereas Madonna pioneered her brand of bustier feminism with knowing finesse, Aguilera and pals opt for strip-club bombast, even when belting pro-female anthems. Now more woman than girl, Aguilera's looking and sounding stronger than ever, but could benefit from a little adult nuance.
by BARRY WALTERS from www.rollingstone.com
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