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University of Miami
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The University of Miami is a private, nonsectarian research university in Coral Gables, Florida, United States. As of 2015, the university enrolls 16,848 students in 12 separate colleges/schools, the university offers 116 undergraduate,105 masters, and 63 doctoral degree programs, of which 59 are research/scholarship and four professional areas of study. Over the years, the students have represented all 50 states. With more than 14,000 full and part-time faculty and staff, uM’s main campus in Coral Gables has 239 acres and over 5.7 million square feet of buildings. In the 2017 U. S. News and World Report study of colleges and universities, Research is a component of each academic division, with UM attracting $346.6 million per year in sponsored research grants. UM offers a library system with over 3.1 million volumes and exceptional holdings in Cuban heritage. UM also offers a range of student activities, including fraternities and sororities. UMs intercollegiate athletic teams, collectively known as the Miami Hurricanes, UMs football team has won five national championships since 1983 and its baseball team has won four national championships since 1982. They believed that a university would benefit their community. They were overly optimistic about future financial support for UM because the South Florida land boom was at its peak, the university began in earnest in 1925 when George E. Merrick, the founder of Coral Gables, gave 160 acres and nearly $5 million, to the effort. These contributions were land contracts and mortgages on real estate that had sold in the city. The university was chartered on April 18,1925 by the Circuit Court for Dade County. By the fall of 1926, when the first class of 372 students enrolled at UM, the boom had collapsed. For the next 15 years the university barely remained solvent, the construction of the first building on campus, now known as the Merrick Building, was left half built for over two decades due to economic difficulties. In the meantime, classes were held at the nearby Anastasia Hotel, with partitions separating classrooms, in 1929, Walsh and the other members of the Board of Regents resigned in the wake of the collapse of the Florida economy. UMs plight was so severe that students went door to door in Coral Gables collecting funds to keep it open, a reconstituted ten-member Board was chaired by UMs first president Bowman Foster Ashe. The new board included Merrick, Theodore Dickinson, E. B, douglas, David Fairchild, James H. Gilman, Richardson Saunders, Frank B. Shutts, Joseph H. Adams, and J. C, in 1930, several faculty members and more than 60 students came to UM when the University of Havana closed due to political unrest
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Coral Gables, Florida
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Coral Gables, officially the City of Coral Gables, is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, located southwest of Downtown Miami. The United States Census Bureau estimates conducted in 2013 yielded the city had a population of 49,631, Coral Gables is home to the University of Miami. The city of Coral Gables has its own newspaper, Coral Gables News, Coral Gables was one of the first planned communities, and prefigured the development of the gated community and the homeowners association. It is infamous for its strict zoning regulations, the city was developed by George Merrick during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The citys architecture is almost entirely Mediterranean Revival style, including the Coral Gables Congregational Church, the domed, Catholic Church of the Little Flower was built somewhat later, in a similar Spanish Renaissance style. By 1926, the city covered 10,000 acres and had netted $150 million in sales, Merrick meticulously designed the downtown commercial district to be only four blocks wide and more than two miles long. The main artery bisected the business district, Merrick could boast that every business in Coral Gables was less than a two-block walk. During World War II many Navy pilots and mechanics were trained and housed in Coral Gables, Coral Gables is located at 25°43′42″N 80°16′16″W. It is bordered on the west by Red Road north of Sunset Drive and West 49th Avenue and it is bordered on the north by Tamiami Trail/U. S. Route 41, except for a section that extends north of 8th Street for eight blocks between Ponce de Leon Boulevard and Douglas Road. S. 1 to Battersea Road, and by Biscayne Bay south of Battersea Road, on the south, it is bordered by the Charles Deering Estate. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 37.2 square miles. 13.1 square miles of it is land and 24.0 square miles of it is water. 4% were vacant, in 2000,24. 45% had children under the age of 18 living with them. In Coral Gables,61. 11% were family households,17. 3% had a householder with no husband present. The average household size was 2.36, and the household had 1.68 vehicles. In 2000, the city population was out with 17. 4% under the age of 18,14. 58% from 18 to 24,25. 02% from 25 to 44,27. 01% from 45 to 64. The median age was 39.44 years, the population consisted of 51. 31% females and 48. 69% males. In 2000, the income for a household in the city was $77,890
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Music school
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A music school is an educational institution specialized in the study, training and research of music. Such an institution can also be known as a school of music, music academy, music faculty, college of music, music department, Music instruction can be provided within the compulsory general education system, or within specialized childrens music schools such as the Purcell School. Elementary-school children can access music instruction also in after-school institutions such as music academies or music schools, in Venezuela El Sistema of youth orchestras provides free after-school instrumental instruction through music schools called núcleos. In other parts of Europe, the equivalents of higher school of music or university of music may be used, although music and music education may have been in existence for thousands of years, the earliest history is speculative. Even when history starts to be recorded, music is mentioned more frequently than music education. Within the biblical tradition, Hebrew litany was accompanied with music, but the Torah or Pentateuch was silent on the practice and instruction of music in the early life of Israel. ”This has led some scholars to believe that the prophet Samuel was the patriarch of a school which taught not only prophets and holy men. The schola cantorum in Rome may be the first recorded school in history. The school consisted of monks, secular clergy, and boys, wells Cathedral School, England founded as a Cathedral School in 909 a. d. to educate choristers, continues today to educate choristers and teaches instrumentalists. However the school appears to have been refounded at least once, Saint Martial school, 10th to 12th century, was an important school of composition at the Abbey of Saint Martial, Limoges. It is known for the composition of tropes, sequences, in this respect, it was an important precursor to the Notre Dame School. It was the Notre Dame school which was the earliest repertory of polyphonic music to gain international prestige, the school was a group of composers and singers working under the patronage of the great Cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris. First records on Escolania de Montserrat, boys choir linked to a school, back to 1307. The Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia is one of the oldest musical institutions in the world, the term conservatory has its origin in 16th-century Renaissance Italy, where orphanages were attached to hospitals. The orphans were given an education there, and the term gradually applied to music schools. These hospitals-conservatories were among the first secular institutions equipped for training in music. By the 18th century, Italian conservatories were already playing a role in the training of artists. In the city of Naples, a conservatorio was strictly a secular place for teaching and learning specializing in music education. The second half of the 19th century saw the network expanding to the Americas, Rio de Janeiro, Boston, Baltimore and Chicago, Havana, and Buenos Aires
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Pre-law
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In the United States, pre-law refers to any course of study taken by an undergraduate in preparation for study at a law school. The American Bar Association requires law schools to admit students with an accredited Bachelors Degree or its equivalent depending on the students country of origin. Hence, most undergraduate institutions do not offer an official pre-law concentration, in 2001, the five most common majors of students entering law school were political science, history, English, psychology, and criminal justice. The five majors with the highest acceptance rates were physics, philosophy, biology, chemistry, a pre-law program is sometimes offered at some American colleges and universities, however, it is considered to be a track that follows a certain curriculum. Specific requirements for these vary by institution. There are many benefits to being pre-law or a part of a pre-law society and these benefits include the opportunity to interact with lawyers and law professors, gaining a comprehensive ground in legal studies and concepts, and receiving discounts off LSAT prep courses. Pre-law programs encourage students to effectively and think creatively and critically. Furthermore, a program can also help a student figure out if law school is the right path for them
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Graduate school
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A graduate school is a school that awards advanced academic degrees with the general requirement that students must have earned a previous undergraduate degree with a high grade point average. The distinction between schools and professional schools is not absolute, as various professional schools offer graduate degrees. Also, some graduate degrees train students for a specific profession, many universities award graduate degrees, a graduate school is not necessarily a separate institution. Those attending graduate schools are called students, or often in British English as postgraduate students and, colloquially, postgraduates. Degrees awarded to students include masters degrees, doctoral degrees. Producing original research is a significant component of graduate studies in the humanities, sciences and this research typically leads to the writing and defense of a thesis or dissertation. In graduate programs that are oriented towards professional training, the degrees may consist solely of coursework, the term graduate school is primarily North American. Unlike in undergraduate programs, however, it is common for graduate students to take coursework outside their specific field of study at graduate or graduate entry level. Some institutions designate separate graduate versus undergraduate staff and denote other divisions, Graduate degrees in Brazil are called postgraduate degrees, and can be taken only after an undergraduate education has been concluded. Lato sensu graduate degrees, degrees that represent a specialization in a certain area, sometimes it can be used to describe a specialization level between a masters degree and a MBA. However, since there are no norms to regulate this, both names are used indiscriminately most of the time, stricto sensu graduate degrees, degrees for those who wish to pursue an academic career. Usually serves as qualification for those seeking a differential on the job market. Most doctoral programs in Brazil require a degree, meaning that a Lato Sensu Degree is usually insufficient to start a doctoral program. Doctors / PhD, 3–4 years for completion, usually used as a stepping stone for academic life. In Canada, the Schools and Faculties of Graduate Studies are represented by the Canadian Association of Graduate Studies or Association canadienne pour les études supérieures and its mandate is to promote, advance, and foster excellence in graduate education and university research in Canada. In addition to a conference, the association prepares briefs on issues related to graduate studies including supervision, funding. Admission to a masters program generally requires a degree in a related field, with sufficiently high grades usually ranging from B+ and higher. Some schools require samples of the writing as well as a research proposal
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Jazz
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Jazz is a music genre that originated amongst African Americans in New Orleans, United States, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and developed from roots in Blues and Ragtime. Since the 1920s jazz age, jazz has become recognized as a form of musical expression. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, call and response vocals, polyrhythms, Jazz has roots in West African cultural and musical expression, and in African-American music traditions including blues and ragtime, as well as European military band music. Although the foundation of jazz is deeply rooted within the Black experience of the United States, different cultures have contributed their own experience, intellectuals around the world have hailed jazz as one of Americas original art forms. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on different national, regional, and local musical cultures, New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass-band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. In the 1930s, heavily arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz, bebop emerged in the 1940s, shifting jazz from danceable popular music toward a more challenging musicians music which was played at faster tempos and used more chord-based improvisation. Cool jazz developed in the end of the 1940s, introducing calmer, smoother sounds and long, modal jazz developed in the late 1950s, using the mode, or musical scale, as the basis of musical structure and improvisation. Jazz-rock fusion appeared in the late 1960s and early 1970s, combining jazz improvisation with rock rhythms, electric instruments. In the early 1980s, a form of jazz fusion called smooth jazz became successful. Other styles and genres abound in the 2000s, such as Latin, the question of the origin of the word jazz has resulted in considerable research, and its history is well documented. It is believed to be related to jasm, a term dating back to 1860 meaning pep. The use of the word in a context was documented as early as 1915 in the Chicago Daily Tribune. Its first documented use in a context in New Orleans was in a November 14,1916 Times-Picayune article about jas bands. In an interview with NPR, musician Eubie Blake offered his recollections of the slang connotations of the term, saying, When Broadway picked it up. That was dirty, and if you knew what it was, the American Dialect Society named it the Word of the Twentieth Century. Jazz has proved to be difficult to define, since it encompasses such a wide range of music spanning a period of over 100 years. Attempts have been made to define jazz from the perspective of other musical traditions, in the opinion of Robert Christgau, most of us would say that inventing meaning while letting loose is the essence and promise of jazz. As Duke Ellington, one of jazzs most famous figures, said, although jazz is considered highly difficult to define, at least in part because it contains so many varied subgenres, improvisation is consistently regarded as being one of its key elements
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Coral Gables
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Coral Gables, officially the City of Coral Gables, is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, located southwest of Downtown Miami. The United States Census Bureau estimates conducted in 2013 yielded the city had a population of 49,631, Coral Gables is home to the University of Miami. The city of Coral Gables has its own newspaper, Coral Gables News, Coral Gables was one of the first planned communities, and prefigured the development of the gated community and the homeowners association. It is infamous for its strict zoning regulations, the city was developed by George Merrick during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The citys architecture is almost entirely Mediterranean Revival style, including the Coral Gables Congregational Church, the domed, Catholic Church of the Little Flower was built somewhat later, in a similar Spanish Renaissance style. By 1926, the city covered 10,000 acres and had netted $150 million in sales, Merrick meticulously designed the downtown commercial district to be only four blocks wide and more than two miles long. The main artery bisected the business district, Merrick could boast that every business in Coral Gables was less than a two-block walk. During World War II many Navy pilots and mechanics were trained and housed in Coral Gables, Coral Gables is located at 25°43′42″N 80°16′16″W. It is bordered on the west by Red Road north of Sunset Drive and West 49th Avenue and it is bordered on the north by Tamiami Trail/U. S. Route 41, except for a section that extends north of 8th Street for eight blocks between Ponce de Leon Boulevard and Douglas Road. S. 1 to Battersea Road, and by Biscayne Bay south of Battersea Road, on the south, it is bordered by the Charles Deering Estate. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has an area of 37.2 square miles. 13.1 square miles of it is land and 24.0 square miles of it is water. 4% were vacant, in 2000,24. 45% had children under the age of 18 living with them. In Coral Gables,61. 11% were family households,17. 3% had a householder with no husband present. The average household size was 2.36, and the household had 1.68 vehicles. In 2000, the city population was out with 17. 4% under the age of 18,14. 58% from 18 to 24,25. 02% from 25 to 44,27. 01% from 45 to 64. The median age was 39.44 years, the population consisted of 51. 31% females and 48. 69% males. In 2000, the income for a household in the city was $77,890
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Jeffri W. Bantz
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Jeffri W. Bantz was an American classical conductor and teacher. A native of Marion, Indiana, Bantz moved with his family to Florida in 1969 when his father and he attended Pompano Beach High School and graduated from Deerfield Beach High School, where he was concertmaster of the school orchestra. Bantz received his music education at Florida Atlantic University and the University of Miami. His first church job in Florida was at the First Baptist Church in Deerfield Beach and he served several churches, including First Methodist Church of Pompano Beach, Florida and St. Stephens Episcopal in Coconut Grove, Florida. In 1981, he became the organist and Associate Director of Music at the First Presbyterian Church of Pompano Beach, in 1998, he became Director of Music at the Pink Church where he remained until June 2006. Under his direction the Music Program at the Pink Church became widely respected throughout the country, in 2000, Bantz joined the Florida Philharmonic Chorus as assistant director. Bantz was associated with the Floridas Singing Sons Boychoir for 20 years, the Singing Sons performed the National Anthem at the very first Florida Marlins baseball game in 1993. Under Bantz direction, the boychoir was featured in performances with James Judd, Maureen Forester, Chanticleer, Audrey Hepburn, Liza Minnelli, Judy Collins and they also were featured performers at national and regional conventions of the American Choral Directors Association. Lauderdale Symphony Chorus, the Gold Coast Opera, the Ft. Lauderdale Christian Chorale and he also served as conductor or accompanist for numerous international artists such as Marvis Martin, Dean Peterson, Janice Chandler, Steven Rickards, Curtis Rayam and many others. The recipient of local, state, and national awards. In 1995, he was a finalist for the Cultural Foundation of Broward Countys Moretti Award, in 2005, he received the Distinguished Service Award from the Broward County Music Teachers Association
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Ann Curless
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Ann Curless-Weiss in an American popular music singer, most notable as part of Exposé. Curless was raised in Miami Beach, Florida and attended school there, during her years attending Miami Beach High School, she joined Doug Burris Rock Ensemble, and was a member of this from 1979-82. She enrolled in University of Miami Frost School of Music, majoring in music and music merchandising. After graduating from the University of Miami, she started her career in cover bands until she was asked to join Exposé in 1986. She was the last member to join the Arista lineup, and was introduced to Jeanette Jurado and she was active in Exposé from 1986–1996, singing lead on the hit singles Stop, Listen, Look and Think, As Long as I Can Dream, and In Walked Love. After Exposé released their greatest hits album, she kept a low profile and she has also written for other artists, including Degrees of Motion, Celi Bee, and Angela Bofill in addition to working on a charity project called Songs of Love. In 2006, Curless renewed connections with the members of Exposé and is now touring with the group. Their first performance since 2003 was on October 21,2006 as part of the Freestyle Explosion concert at the AmericanAirlines Arena in Miami, Curless was formerly married to George Hess in the early 1990s, a former dance music executive at RCA/Arista Records. She has since remarried and has three children, official Ann Curless Page on MySpace
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Bill Frisell
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William Richard Bill Frisell is an American guitarist, composer and arranger. One of the guitarists in jazz since the late 1980s. He went on to work in a variety of contexts, notably as a member of the New York City Downtown Scene where he formed a partnership with composer John Zorn. He was also a member of Paul Motians groups from the early 1980s until the drummers death in 2011. Since about 2000, Frisells eclectic output as a bandleader has strongly emphasized folk, country music and he uses an array of effects to create unique sounds from his instrument. Frisell was born in Baltimore, Maryland, but spent most of his youth in the Denver and he studied clarinet with Richard Joiner of the Denver Symphony Orchestra as a youth, graduated from Denver East High School, and went to the University of Northern Colorado to study music. His original guitar teacher in the Denver-Aurora metropolitan area was Dale Bruning, after graduating from Northern Colorado, where he studied with Johnny Smith, Frisell went to the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studied with Jon Damian and Jim Hall. Frisells major break came when guitarist Pat Metheny was unable to make a session, and recommended Frisell to Paul Motian. Frisell became ECMs in-house guitar player, and worked on albums, most notably Jan Garbareks 1981 Paths. Frisells first solo release was In Line, which featured solo guitar as well as duets with bassist Arild Andersen, Frisells first group to receive much acclaim was a quartet with Kermit Driscoll on bass, Joey Baron on drums, and Hank Roberts on cello. Many other albums with larger ensembles were recorded with this group as the core, in the 1980s, Frisell lived in the New York City area and was an active participant in the citys music scene. He lived in Hoboken, New Jersey, where the rents were cheaper and he forged an early partnership with John Zorn—including as a member of quick-change band Naked City—and performed or recorded with many others. He also became known for his work in Motians trio, along with saxophonist Joe Lovano, in 1988 Frisell left New York City and moved to Seattle, Washington. During this time he performed with musicians, including up. He also branched out by performing soundtracks to silent films of Buster Keaton with his trio, in the mid-1990s, Frisell disbanded his trio. He continued the trend marked by Have a Little Faith by more explicitly incorporating elements of bluegrass and his friendship with Gary Larson led him to provide music for the TV version of The Far Side. Since 2000, Frisell has lived on Bainbridge Island, Washington, in 1999 Frisell was commissioned by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota to compose Blues Dream, which he premiered on November 15,1999. He later recorded the work for a 2001 release on Nonesuch, also in 1999 he released The Sweetest Punch, which featured a seven-piece jazz ensemble reworking the tunes written and recorded by Elvis Costello and Burt Bacharach on Painted from Memory
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Buddy Rich
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Bernard Buddy Rich was an American jazz drummer and bandleader. Widely considered one of the most influential drummers of all time and known for his technique, power. He performed with many bandleaders, most notably Tommy Dorsey, Harry James, Count Basie, Rich was born in Brooklyn to Jewish-American parents Bess and Robert Rich, both vaudevillians. His talent for rhythm was first noted by his father, who saw that Buddy could keep a beat with spoons at the age of one. He began playing drums in vaudeville when he was 18 months old, at the peak of Richs childhood career, he was reportedly the second-highest paid child entertainer in the world. At age 11, he was performing as a bandleader and he received no formal drum instruction and went so far as to claim that instruction would only degrade his musical talent. He also never admitted to practicing, claiming to play the only during performances and was not known to read music. Rich first played jazz with a group in 1937 with Joe Marsala. He then played with Bunny Berigan and Artie Shaw, and even instructed a 14-year-old Mel Brooks in drumming for a period when playing for Shaw. At 21, Rich participated in his first major recording with the Vic Schoen Orchestra, in 1938, he was hired to play in Tommy Dorseys orchestra, where he met and performed with Frank Sinatra. In 1942, Rich left the Dorsey band to join the United States Marine Corps, in which he served as an instructor, never saw combat. He rejoined the Dorsey group after leaving the Marines two years later, in 1946, Rich formed his own band with financial support from Sinatra, and continued to lead different groups on and off until the early 1950s. In the early 50s, Rich played with Dorsey and began to perform with trumpeter Harry James, in 1966, Rich left James to develop a new big band. For most of the period from 1966 until his death, he led successful big bands in an era when the popularity of big bands had waned from their 1930s and 1940s peak. Rich also served as the drummer for many recordings, where his playing was often much more understated than in his own big-band performances. In 1968 Rich collaborated with the Indian tabla player Ustad Alla Rakha in the studio album Rich à la Rakha by Buddy Rich and Alla Rakha. Perhaps his most popular later performance was an arrangement of a medley derived from Leonard Bernsteins West Side Story. The West Side Story Suite is a complex arrangement which highlights Richs ability to blend the rhythm of his drumming into his bands playing of the musical chart
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Mark Egan
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Mark Egan is an American jazz bassist and trumpeter known for his membership in the Pat Metheny Group and the Gil Evans Orchestra. He is co-founder of the fusion band, Elements. Mark McDanel Egan was born in Brockton, Massachusetts in 1951, influenced by his father, he studied trumpet at age 10. He played the trumpet throughout high school, and began playing the bass when he was 15, while attending the University of Miamis Frost School of Music, initially as a trumpet student, he studied with jazz educator Jerry Coker. He switched from trumpet to bass part way through the program, while in Miami he also became friends and performed with Ira Sullivan, Pat Metheny, Danny Gottlieb, Clifford Carter. His teachers included Jaco Pastorius, Dave Holland, and Andy LaVerne, in 1975, after graduate school, Egan went on tour with Eumir Deodato and the Pointer Sisters and recorded with David Sanborn. Two years later he worked as a musician in New York City. He was part of the Pat Metheny Group until 1980, then with the Groups drummer, Danny Gottlieb and they were joined by Bill Evans on saxophone and Clifford Carter on keyboards. Elements recorded and toured through the 1990s, during the 1980s and 1990s, Egan was also part of the Gil Evans Orchestra. He founded his own label, Wavetone Records. Egan has made three videos, Om Yoga & Meditation, Music on the Edge, and Bass Workshop. He has appeared on the soundtracks of movies including Two Moon Junction, The Object of My Affection, Youve Got Mail and he recorded an album, Urge, with trumpeter Forrest Buchtel, Jr. featuring, among other things, the theme from CNN Headline News. 1985 Mosaic 1988 A Touch of Light 1992 Beyond Words 2001 Freedom Town 2006 As We Speak 2007 Live
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Pat Metheny Group
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Pat Metheny Group is a jazz fusion group founded in 1977. The core members of the group are guitarist, composer and bandleader Pat Metheny, and keyboardist and composer Lyle Mays, who was part of the groups inception in 1977. Other long-standing members include bassist and producer Steve Rodby, who joined in 1981, and Paul Wertico, founder Pat Metheny first emerged on the jazz scene in the mid-1970s with a pair of solo albums. First was Bright Size Life, released in 1976, an album with bass guitarist Jaco Pastorius. The next album, released in 1977, was Watercolors, featuring Eberhard Weber on bass, pianist Lyle Mays, the two friends would talk into the late evening during the early 1970s and discuss the new possibilities their instruments held. In 1977, bassist Mark Egan joined Metheny, Mays, and they released the self-titled album Pat Metheny Group in 1978 on the ECM label, which featured several songs co-written by Metheny and Mays. The group built upon its success with tours in the USA. The group featured a sound, particularly due to Methenys Gibson ES-175 guitar coupled to two digital delay units and Mays Oberheim synthesizer and Yamaha Organ. The group played in a range of styles from experimental to grassroots music. The Pat Metheny Group released the album Offramp in 1982, Offramp marked the first recorded appearance of bassist Steve Rodby in the group, and also featured Brazilian guest artist Naná Vasconcelos. Offramp was also the groups first recording to win a Grammy Award, in 1983, a live album titled Travels was released. It won the Grammy Award for Best Jazz Fusion Performance in 1984,1984 brought the release of First Circle a popular album that featured compositions with mixed meters. With this album, the group had a new drummer, Paul Wertico, Wertico and Steve Rodby having both played with the Simon & Bard Group. A soundtrack album The Falcon and the Snowman followed in 1985 and it featured the song This Is Not America, a writing and performing collaboration with David Bowie which reached #14 in the British Top 40 and #32 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in early 1985. The South American influence would continue and intensify on First Circle with the addition of Argentine multi-instrumentalist Pedro Aznar and this period saw the commercial popularity of the band increase, especially thanks to the live recording Travels. First Circle would also be Methenys last project with the ECM label, Metheny had been a key artist for ECM, the next three Pat Metheny Group releases would be based around a further intensification of the Brazilian rhythms first heard in the early 80s. Additional South American musicians appear as guests, notably Brazilian percussion player Armando Marcal, still Life, was the Groups first release on new label, Geffen Records, and featured several tracks which have long been popular with the groups followers, and which are still in their setlist. Another popular highlight was Last Train Home, a rhythmically relentless piece evoking the American Midwest, the 1989 release Letter from Home continued this approach, with the South American influence becoming even more prevalent in its bossa nova and samba rhythms
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Ben Folds
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Benjamin Scott Ben Folds is an American singer-songwriter and record producer. From 1995 to 2000, Folds was the frontman and pianist of the rock band Ben Folds Five. After the group disbanded, Folds performed as a solo artist and has toured all over the world. In addition to contributing music to the soundtracks of the animated films Over the Hedge, Folds produced Amanda Palmers first solo album and was a judge on the NBC a cappella singing contest The Sing-Off from 2009 to 2013. Folds was born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina and he became interested in piano at age nine. His father, a carpenter, brought one home through a trade with a customer who was unable to pay. During this time, Folds listened to songs by Elton John and Billy Joel on AM radio, during his years at Richard J. Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem, Folds played in several bands as the pianist, bassist, or drummer. In the late 1980s, Folds and longtime friend Millard Powers formed the band Majosha, the group released several locally produced records. They played their first gig at Duke Universitys Battle of the Bands in 1988 and they played at bars and fraternity parties, and self-produced an EP called Party Night, Five Songs About Jesus, which they sold locally. The EP has four songs, none of which are about Jesus and they recorded Shut Up and Listen to Majosha in 1989. It contains, among other tracks, the four songs from Party Night and Emaline and Video, the song Get That Bug from Party Night was released as a dance mix in Japan. After Majosha broke up, Folds played drums in a band called Pots and Pans with Evan Olson and Britt Snuzz Uzzell, Olson and Uzzell formed Bus Stop with Folds brother, Chuck Folds, on bass, and Eddie Walker on drums. Folds eventually got a publishing deal with Nashville music executive Scott Siman who saw Folds open for musician Marc Silvey. He played drums for a stint in Power Bill, headed by Jody Spence, Millard Powers. Power Bill was later renamed The Semantics, Folds did not take a creative role in the band. He attracted interest from major labels and he ended up playing drums there as a session musician. In Nashville, I was running eight miles a day, hanging out with my friends, walking around eating chocolate-chip cookies and playing a lot of drums, I was never frustrated – even though I wasnt fulfilling my contract obligations. If you are failing in Nashville, at least your standard of living is nice, Nashville is a nice way to fail
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Kenneth Fuchs
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Kenneth Fuchs is an American composer, conductor, and educator. He is Professor of Music Composition at the University of Connecticut, Fuchs has composed music for orchestra, band, chorus, and various chamber ensembles. Fuchss operatic monodrama Falling Man was presented at the National September 11 Memorial & Museum in commemoration of the 15th anniversary of 9/11 and his music is regularly performed in the United States, Europe, China, and Japan. The London Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of JoAnn Falletta, has recorded four discs of Fuchss music for Naxos American Classics, the first, released in August 2005, was nominated for two Grammy Awards. The second disc, which features music for horn, was released in January 2008, following the release of this disc, MusicWeb-International stated, Fuchss distinctive voice is evident from the outset, and his flair for orchestral colours and sheer lyricism shine through. The third disc, recorded in August 2011 at Londons historic Abbey Road Studios, was released in August 2012, following the release of this disc, BBC Music Magazine stated, Kenneth Fuchs writes tonal orchestral music of great imagination. Hes a master of orchestral writing, on Naxoss third Fuchs recording, everything gets five-star treatment. The LSO under JoAnn Falletta sounds brilliant in a spacious Abbey Road recording, the disc was included in the 2012 Grammy Award nominations for the category Producer of the Year, Classical. The fourth disc, recorded at Abbey Road Studios in August 2013, featuring a program of music based on texts by Don DeLillo, John Updike. Gramophone Magazine featured the disc in its Awards Issue, stating, “Fuchs claims his own expressive warmth and colour…. The performances are exemplary, from baritone Roderick Williamss commanding artistry to the bold, fresh playing of the London Symphony Orchestra under JoAnn Falletta’s sensitive direction. ”Fuchss latest disc of music was released by Naxos in April 2013 and includes Falling Canons, Falling Trio. The disc received outstanding reviews in print and at on-line sources, including Fanfare Magazine, Gramophone Magazine, in 2012, the United States Air Force Band of Flight commissioned Fuchss celebration fanfare for brass and percussion From the Field to the Sky. The work, dedicated to the National Museum of the United States Air Force, was premiered under the baton of Lieutenant Daniel W. Boothe on November 3,2012, in 2008, the United States Air Force Academy Band commissioned Fuchss work for band United Artists. Following performances on tour throughout the U. S. the band recorded the work under the baton of Colonel Larry H. Lang for inclusion on the disc Windscapes, the work was simultaneously published and released by the Hal Leonard Corporation, the worlds largest music print publisher. Since its release the work has played by high school and college bands throughout the United States. In September 2011, Hal Leonard followed up with Fuchss work for band Discover the Wild, the Adrian Symphony Orchestra in Michigan appointed Fuchs as composer in residence for the 2009–10 seasons. In collaboration with music director John Thomas Dodson, the residency included world premiere performances of five works, the residency concluded with the premiere of Divinum Mysterium on April 10,2010. The concerto was composed especially for London Symphony Orchestra principal Paul Silverthorne, Silverthorne recorded the work with the LSO for Fuchss third Naxos disc on August 19,2011
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Bruce Hornsby
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Bruce Randall Hornsby is an American singer and keyboardist. Hornsby draws frequently from classical, jazz, bluegrass, folk, Motown, gospel, rock, blues and he also collaborated with Grateful Dead and was an unofficial member of the band from September 1990 to March 1992, playing over 100 shows during that period. Bruce Randall Hornsby was born in Williamsburg, Virginia, a son of Robert Stanley Hornsby, an attorney, real-estate developer and former musician and he graduated from James Blair High School in Williamsburg, Virginia, in 1973, where he played on the basketball team. He studied music at the University of Richmond, as well as Berklee College of Music, the band, which is listed in Skeleton Key, A Dictionary for Deadheads, performed covers of Allman Brothers Band, The Band, and predominantly Grateful Dead songs. Although Hornsbys collaboration with Bobby Hornsby would be relatively short-lived, Bobbys son R. S. was a recurring guest-guitarist with Hornsbys band and his performances were often looked forward to by fans. Hornsby died on January 15,2009 in a car accident near Crozet, following his graduation from the University of Miami, in 1977, Hornsby returned to his hometown of Williamsburg, and played in local clubs and hotel bars. In 1980, he and his younger brother John Hornsby moved to Los Angeles, before moving back to his native southeastern Virginia, he also spent time in Los Angeles as a session musician and performed as a member of the touring band for pop star Sheena Easton. Hornsby can clearly be seen in the video for Eastons 1984 hit single “Strut”. In 1984 he formed Bruce Hornsby and the Range, who were signed to RCA Records in 1985, besides Hornsby, Range members were David Mansfield, George Marinelli, former Ambrosia member Joe Puerta, and John Molo. Hornsbys recording career started with the biggest hit he has had to date and it topped the American music charts in 1986. The song described aspects of homelessness, the American civil rights movement and it has since been sampled by at least six rap artists, including Tupac Shakur, E-40, and Mase. With the success of the single, the album The Way It Is went multi-platinum, every Little Kiss also did respectably well. Other tracks on the album helped establish what some labeled the Virginia sound, a mixture of rock, jazz, and bluegrass. Bruce Hornsby and the Range went on to win the Grammy Award for Best New Artist in 1987, beating out Glass Tiger, Nu Shooz, Simply Red and Timbuk3. Hornsby and the Ranges sound was distinctive for its use of syncopation in Hornsbys piano solos, a piano sound. John Molos drumbeats were often looped throughout the versions of songs. They are typical double-time beats, which allowed Hornsby and the rest of the band to do more with their solos, Hornsby and the Ranges second album, Scenes From The Southside was released in 1988. It included Look Out Any Window and The Valley Road which many critics noted for their more spacious musical arrangements and it also included Jacobs Ladder, which the Hornsby brothers wrote for musician friend Huey Lewis, Lewiss version became a number one hit from his album Fore
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Jimmy Buffett
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James William Jimmy Buffett is an American musician, songwriter, author, actor, and businessman. He is best known for his music, which portrays an island escapism lifestyle. Together with his Coral Reefer Band, Buffett has recorded hit songs including Margaritaville and he has a devoted base of fans known as Parrotheads. Aside from his career in music, Buffett is also a writer and is involved in two restaurant chains named after two of his best-known songs, Cheeseburger in Paradise and Margaritaville. He owns the Margaritaville Cafe restaurant chain and co-developed the Cheeseburger in Paradise restaurant chain, Buffett was born on December 25,1946, in Pascagoula, Mississippi, and spent part of his childhood in Mobile, Alabama. He is the son of Mary Lorraine and James Delaney Buffett, in grade school years, he attended St. Ignatius School, where he played the trombone in the school band. Buffetts grandfather was a sailor, therefore he was exposed to sailing as a child which had an effect on his life. He later lived in Fairhope, Alabama and he graduated from McGill Institute for Boys in 1964. He was initiated into the fraternity Kappa Sigma at the University of Southern Mississippi, after graduating from college, Buffett worked as a correspondent for Billboard magazine in Nashville, breaking the news of the separation of Flatt and Scruggs. Buffett married Margie Washichek in 1969, they divorced in 1972, Buffett spent years working as the First Mate on the yacht of industrialist Foster Talge on the Petticoat III in Key West while perfecting the Caribbean Rock n Roll genre. Buffett and his wife, Jane have two daughters, Savannah Jane and Sarah Delaney, and an adopted son, Cameron Marley. They separated in the early 1980s but reconciled in 1991, Buffett also owns a home in St Barts, a Caribbean island where he lived on and off in the early 1980s while he was part-owner of the Autour de Rocher hotel and restaurant. He spends part of the summer traveling about the East Coast on his sailboat, an avid pilot, Buffett owns a Dassault Falcon 900 that he often uses while on concert tour and traveling worldwide. He has also owned a Boeing Stearman, Lake Amphibian and Grumman Albatross and his father died May 1,2003 at the age of 83. His mother died a few months after her husband, on September 25,2003, in 2015, Jimmy Buffett spoke at the University of Miamis graduation ceremony and received an honorary doctorate in music. Wearing flip flops and aviator sunglasses he told graduates, Its time to see the world, time to kiss a girl, and time to cross that wide meridian. Buffett began his career in Nashville, Tennessee, during the late 1960s as a country artist and recorded his first album. During this time, Buffett could be found busking for tourists in New Orleans
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Late Show with David Letterman
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Late Show with David Letterman is an American late-night talk show hosted by David Letterman on CBS, the first iteration of the Late Show franchise. The show debuted on August 30,1993, and was produced by Lettermans production company, Worldwide Pants Incorporated, the shows music director and leader of the house band, the CBS Orchestra, was Paul Shaffer. The head writer was Matt Roberts and the announcer was Alan Kalter, of the major U. S. late-night programs, Late Show ranked second in cumulative average viewers over time and third in number of episodes over time. In most U. S. markets the show aired from 11,35 p. m. to 12,37 a. m. Eastern and Pacific Time, and recorded Monday through Wednesdays at 4,30 p. m. the second Thursday episode usually aired on Friday of that week. In 2002, Late Show with David Letterman was ranked No.7 on TV Guides 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time. As host of both Late Night and Late Show for more than 30 years, Letterman surpassed Johnny Carson as the longest running talk show host in 2013. That same year, Late Night and Late Show were ranked at #41 on TV Guides 60 Best Series of All Time, in 2014, Letterman announced his retirement and the final episode of Late Show aired on May 20,2015. The show was succeeded by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, hosted by Stephen Colbert. For most of the 20 years preceding Late Show, CBSs late night fare consisted of movies, reruns and specialty programming packaged under the title CBS Late Night and broadcast to middling ratings. When David Letterman became available following a conflict with NBC, CBS was eager to lure him and offered him a three-year, $14 million per year contract, according to their agreement, the show would spend a month in Hollywood at least once a year. CBS purchased the Ed Sullivan Theater for $4 million, spending several million to renovate it, the renovation was supervised by architect James Polshek. CBS total cost for acquiring the show including renovations, negotiation rights paid to NBC, signing Letterman, announcer Bill Wendell, Shaffer, the writers and the band was over $140 million. A significant issue regarding Lettermans move to CBS was the ownership of long-running comedy bits used on Late Night, NBC claimed that much of what he did on Late Night was intellectual property of the network. Ultimately a compromise was reached in key areas, NBC gave Letterman the choice of at least two options to name his new show, Late Show with David Letterman or Nightly with David Letterman. On this matter CBS executives stepped in, rejecting Nightly in part because of confusion with Nightline on ABC. Thus, Late Show with David Letterman quickly became the official title, after Letterman was introduced on Late Shows very first episode, NBC Nightly News anchor Tom Brokaw accompanied him on stage and wished him reasonably well. As part of an act, Brokaw then proceeded to retrieve a pair of cue cards while stating that These last two jokes are the intellectual property of NBC
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Dawnn Lewis
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Dawnn Lewis is an American actress and singer. Since then, Lewis has appeared in numerous TV series, including other sitcoms, born in Brooklyn, New York to Carl and Joyce Lewis, who are of African-American and Guyanese descent, Lewis began singing at the age of 4 and acting at 11. She graduated from the High School of Music and Art at age 16, after high school, she studied at the University of Miami, graduating cum laude with a major in Musical Theatre and a minor in Journalism in 1982. She co-wrote the theme song to A Different World, with Bill Cosby and Stu Gardner, in A Different World, Lewis appeared for the first five of the six-season run as Jaleesa Vinson from 1987 to 1992. Although her character was married to another of the characters on the show, her character disappeared from A Different World without explanation. On her Super Password appearance in 1988, she was paired with Dallas star Ken Kercheval, in Hangin with Mr. Cooper, Lewis appeared in the first of the five seasons as Robin Dumars. She did not appear on the two shows concurrently — she left A Different World to star in Hangin with Mr. Cooper and she and Holly Robinson Peete, along with R&B quartet En Vogue, performed the theme song for Season 1 of Mr. Cooper. Lewis portrayed Deloris Van Cartier in Peter Schneiders Sister Act the Musical and she has voiced Storm of the X-Men in three games, most recently Marvel, Ultimate Alliance 2. She also voiced Granny Grim on The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, Lewis has also done voice work as LaBarbara in Futurama, and voiced a number of characters on The Boondocks. She co-starred as Marigold Ballord in the Disney Channel Original Movie The Poof Point, in 2000, Lewis played Blabberwort the Troll in the miniseries The 10th Kingdom. In 2006, Lewis starred as Melba Early in the adaptation of Dreamgirls. Lewis released her debut CD, entitled Worth Waiting For, in 2006 and she most recently played Addaperle in The Wiz with New York City Centers Encores. In 2009, she played Denise Fields on One Tree Hill, in 2010, Lewis played a minor recurriung role as Laurens mother in The Secret Life of the American Teenager. In 2012, she voiced Malora in Strange Frame and she also appeared as Dr. Knapp on Days of Our Lives in 2012–2013. As of 2015, Lewis is playing a role on Major Crimes as Patrice, a love interest for Lt. Provenza. In March 2016, Lewis will join the vocal cast of Disney Juniors hit animated series Doc McStuffins as the voice of Grandma McStuffins, Lewis was married to former NBA player Johnny Newman from 2004 until 2006. Official website Dawnn Lewis at the Internet Movie Database Different World Star Dawnn Lewis to Get Into the Habit for Sister Act The Musical Playbill, URL accessed 2006-09-24
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Steve Morse
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Steven J. Steve Morse is an American guitarist and composer, best known as the founder of the Dixie Dregs, and since 1994, the guitar player of Deep Purple. Morses career has encompassed rock, country, funk, jazz, classical, in addition to his successful solo career, he was briefly a member of Kansas in the mid-1980s. Most recently, Morse became a member of the supergroup Flying Colors alongside long-time bandmate Dave LaRue, Steve Morse was born in Hamilton, Ohio. His family soon moved to Tennessee, then Ypsilanti, Michigan, although familiar with piano and clarinet, Morse ultimately became interested in guitar. Morse worked briefly with his older brother Dave in a band called The Plague until the family moved to Augusta, in the late 1960s, he played in a band called Three with his older brother and a junior high schoolmate, William Gerald Wooten, who played keyboards. The three performed at a local youth club, The Green Onion, and at Legion Halls. This short-lived group covered bands such as Led Zeppelin and Cream, West and Morse continued to play as a duet billed as the Dixie Dregs until Morses expulsion from school in the 10th grade. This expulsion enabled his enrollment at the University of Miami School of Music, during the 1970s, the University of Miami played host to a number of future influential musicians, including Bruce Hornsby, Pat Metheny, and Jaco Pastorius. Andy West also enrolled at the University of Miami and, with Morse, drummer Bart Yarnold, keyboardist Frank Josephs and violinist Allen Sloan, in 1975, the group compiled a recording used for promotional efforts. This recording was released in 1997 as The Great Spectacular. From late 1987 to early 1988, Morse worked as a commercial airline co-pilot, upon Morses graduation from the University of Miami in 1975, he and West officially named their group Dixie Dregs. Their first effort for Capricorn, Free Fall, established Morse as an important newcomer to the fusion genre, although receiving positive reviews as a pivotal jazz fusion album, it sold poorly. What If was released in 1978, writing credits were more collaborative and the bands sound had matured into more than what was strictly considered fusion at the time. Southern rock, classical, folk and country elements were combined to form a cohesive, though supported by a tour, record sales remained flat, but gained Morse and the band an invitation to perform at Montreux Jazz Festival on 23 July 1978. The recorded performance was released the year on Night of the Living Dregs. Capricorn went bankrupt in late 1979, and the Dixie Dregs were left without a label, Arista Records signed the band in 1979 to record three albums. Production control was handed to Morse, and Dregs of the Earth was released in May 1980, All eight tracks were written by Morse, and the album peaked at number 27 on Billboards Jazz Album Chart. Arista became increasingly concerned about Dixie Dregs album sales and pressured the band to change their name to simply The Dregs in an attempt to increase the visibility in the public eye
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Dixie Dregs
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The Dixie Dregs is an American band formed in the 1970s. Their mostly instrumental music fuses Hard rock, southern rock, Progressive metal and classical forms in a unique style. The Dixie Dregs evolved from an Augusta, Georgia band called Dixie Grit, formed by Steve Morse, the band featured Morses older brother Dave on drums, Frank Brittingham and Johnny Carr. Carr was later replaced by Mark Parrish, shortly after Steve Morses enrollment at University of Miamis School of Music in 1971, Dixie Grit was disbanded. Morse and West continued performing as a duet, calling themselves Dixie Dregs, in 1973, Steve Morse, Andy West, Allen Sloan and Bart Yarnal met while students at the University of Miamis School of Music to play as Rock Ensemble II. West also attended Georgia State University for a year while studying cello, at the time, the University of Miami hosted a lively musical community, including future greats Pat Metheny, Jaco Pastorius, Danny Gottlieb, T Lavitz and Bruce Hornsby. Rod Morgenstein was asked to fill in as drummer after a surfing accident disabled Yarnal, in 1974, during the school years at UofM, keyboardist Frank Josephs was added to their lineup. In 1975, the groups first effort, The Great Spectacular was recorded at the University, approximately 1,000 copies of the original LP were pressed. The album was reissued in 1997 in CD form, based on the strength of a three song demo and a tip from former Allman Brothers Band members Chuck Leavell and Twiggs Lyndon, Capricorn Records signed them in late 1976 to record Free Fall. Steve Davidowski was the keyboardist on Free Fall, when Steve left to work with fiddler Vassar Clements, former Dixie Grit/Dixie Dregs keyboardist Mark Parrish rejoined the group later that year. Night of the Living Dregs included studio recordings as well as performed live. Ken Scott - The Beatles and producer/arranger George Martins right-hand man, in October 1979, Capricorn Records declared bankruptcy, and the band was signed by Arista Records in January 1980, to create three albums. At that time, keyboardist Parrish left and was replaced by T Lavitz, later that year, Dregs of the Earth was released. He won an Angel Award as co-producer of a Christian album, for Unsung Heroes, released in 1981, the band changed their name to The Dregs in an effort to gain more commercial appeal. Violinist Sloan was replaced by Mark OConnor, winner of Nashvilles Grand Masters Fiddle Championship for their 1982 release and this album introduced vocals for the first time as a further attempt to gain more airtime. Guest vocalists included the Doobie Brotherss Patrick Simmons and Alex Ligertwood, Industry Standard provided the Dregs with another Grammy nomination for Best Rock/Jazz Instrumental Performance. The recent name change, vocal additions and a touring schedule did nothing to improve sales. In the late 1980s, the group reunited for a tour featuring former members Morse, Morgenstein, Lavitz and their return was complemented by a Best Of release entitled Divided We Stand
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Deep Purple
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Deep Purple are an English rock band formed in Hertford in 1968. The band is considered to be among the pioneers of metal and modern hard rock. Originally formed as a rock band, the band shifted to a heavier sound in 1970. Deep Purple, together with Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath, have referred to as the unholy trinity of British hard rock. They were listed in the 1975 Guinness Book of World Records as the globes loudest band for a 1972 concert at Londons Rainbow Theatre, Deep Purple have had several line-up changes and an eight-year hiatus. The 1968–1976 line-ups are commonly labelled Mark I, II, III and their second and most commercially successful line-up featured Ian Gillan, Jon Lord, Roger Glover, Ian Paice, and Ritchie Blackmore. This line-up was active from 1969 to 1973, and was revived from 1984 to 1989, and again from 1992 to 1993. The bands line-up has been more stable in recent years. Deep Purple were ranked number 22 on VH1s Greatest Artists of Hard Rock programme, the band received the Legend Award at the 2008 World Music Awards. Deep Purple were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2016, in 1967, former Searchers drummer Chris Curtis contacted London businessman Tony Edwards, in the hope that he would manage a new group he was putting together, to be called Roundabout. Curtis vision was a supergroup where the members would get on and off. Impressed with the plan, Edwards agreed to finance the venture with two partners, John Coletta and Ron Hire, all of Hire-Edwards-Coletta Enterprises. The first recruit to the band was the classically trained Hammond organ player Jon Lord, Lord was currently performing in a backing band for the vocal group The Flower Pot Men, along with bassist Nick Simper and drummer Carlo Little. Simper had previously been in Johnny Kidd and the Pirates and survived the 1966 car crash that killed Kidd, Lord put the two on alert that hed been recruited for the Roundabout project, after which Simper and Little suggested guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, whom Lord had never met. Simper had known Blackmore since the early 1960s when his first band, the Renegades, debuted around the time as one of Blackmores early bands. HEC persuaded Blackmore to return from Hamburg to audition for the new group, Blackmore was making a name for himself as a studio session guitarist, and had also been a member of the Outlaws, Screaming Lord Sutch, and Neil Christian. Curtis erratic behaviour and lifestyle, fueled by LSD use, caused a sudden disinterest in the project he had started, but HEC was now intrigued with the possibilities Lord and Blackmore brought, while Lord and Blackmore were also keen to continue. The two carried on with recruiting members, keeping Tony Edwards as their manager
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Maria Schneider (musician)
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Maria Schneider is an American composer and big-band leader who has won multiple Grammy Awards. Schneider was born in Windom, Minnesota, upon leaving Eastman, Gil Evans hired her as his copyist and assistant. Schneider collaborated with Gil Evans for the few years, working with him on music for a tour with Sting and assisting him as he scored the film The Color of Money. She studied with Bob Brookmeyer from 1986 to 1991, in 1992, Schneider formed The Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra, which appeared weekly at Visiones in Greenwich Village from 1993 until it closed in 1998. Her orchestra has performed at many jazz festivals and concert halls, playing Europe, South America. Schneider has performed with over 80 groups in over 30 countries, in 2013, she received an honorary doctorate from the University of Minnesota. Schneiders Concert in the Garden was the first award-winning album produced by ArtistShare, winter Morning Walks featured soprano Dawn Upshaw, the Saint Paul and Australian Chamber Orchestras, bassist Jay Anderson, pianist Frank Kimbrough, and multi-instrumentalist Scott Robinson. The album was written to poetry by U. S, poet Laureate Ted Kooser and was funded by ArtistShare. It won Schneider a Grammy Award for Best Classical Contemporary Composition, Upshaw won a Grammy for her vocal performance, while the Best Engineered Album, Classical award went to David Frost, Tim Martyn, and Brian Losch. Schneider is a birdwatcher and enlisted band members to contribute bird calls on Cerulean Skies on her recording Sky Blue. Schneider has been an advocate for musicians’ rights and copyright. She has testified before Congress, and has asked to participate in several roundtables conducted by the US Copyright Office. In April of 2014, on behalf of NARAS, Schneider testified on Section 512 of Section 17, before the Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, interview with Frank J. Oteri on October 1,2008
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Patti Scialfa
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Vivienne Patricia Patti Scialfa is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. Scialfa has been a member of the E Street Band since 1984 and has married to Bruce Springsteen since 1991. In 2014, Scialfa was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the E Street Band, Scialfa grew up in the Jersey Shore community of Deal, New Jersey. She was the child of Joseph Scialfa and Patricia Scialfa. Her father was of Sicilian ancestry and her mother is from Belfast and she also has half-siblings from her fathers second marriage. Her father was a local entrepreneur, who started with a single television store. Scialfa graduated from Asbury Park High School in 1971, Scialfa was writing songs from an early age and first worked professionally as a back-up singer for New Jersey bar bands after she completed high school. She has a degree from New York University, earned after she transferred from the University of Miamis jazz conservatory at the Frost School of Music. While in college, Scialfa was submitting original material to artists in the hope that it would be recorded. However, none of her songs were recorded, and after graduating, Scialfa worked as a busker, together with Soozie Tyrell and Lisa Lowell, she formed a street group known as Trickster. Scialfa had a role in The Stone Ponys house band Cats on a Smooth Surface. These gigs won her notice and, eventually, recording work with Southside Johnny, in 1984, Scialfa joined the E Street Band, three or four days before the opening show of the Born in the U. S. A. In 1986, she appeared on the Rolling Stones Dirty Work album and she worked with Keith Richards on his first solo disc Talk is Cheap. Steve Jordan, who co-produced the Richards record, was a friend of Scialfas from her Greenwich Village days, Scialfa maintains her music industry friendships over many years. Scialfa has recorded three albums, 1993s Rumble Doll, 2004s 23rd Street Lullaby and 2007s Play It as It Lays. Her first two albums received four-star reviews from Rolling Stone, while the third got three and a half and her records are a mix of confessional songwriting, impressive vocal range, and traditional country, folk and rock music. Springsteen and fellow E Street bandmates, like Lofgren and Roy Bittan, following the release of her second album, Scialfa played a series of club dates along the East Coast and she was also the opening act of the post-final night of the Vote for Change tour. When asked during the conference for the NFL Super Bowl in 2009 whether she was working on a new album
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E Street Band
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The E Street Band is an American rock band, and has been musician Bruce Springsteens primary backing band since 1972. The band was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2014. S, Bonds, Darlene Love, Southside Johnny, The Grateful Dead, Santana, Lucinda Williams, Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Tracy Chapman, Lady Gaga and Aretha Franklin. The E Street Band was founded in October 1972, but it was not formally named until September 1974, Springsteen has put together other backing bands during his career, but the E Street Band has been together more or less continuously since its inception. The original lineup included Garry Tallent, Clarence Clemons, Danny Federici, Vini Mad Dog Lopez, the band took its name from the street in Belmar, New Jersey, where Sancious mother lived. She allowed the band to rehearse in her garage, ‘Bruce’ tourists to the area often mistakenly believe the house was on the corner of E Street and 10th Avenue, perhaps due to the song Tenth Avenue Freeze-Out about the bands beginnings. The Sancious house was at 1107 E Street with the garage squeezed between the house and the southside fence, Springsteens debut Greetings from Asbury Park, N. J. appeared in 1972, and the bands first national tour began in October 1972. Sancious, even though he played on the album, missed that first tour and it was not until June 1973 that he began appearing regularly on stage with the band. In February 1974, Lopez was asked to resign, and was replaced by Ernest Boom Carter. A few months later, in August 1974, Sancious and Carter left to form their own jazz band called Tone. They were replaced in September 1974 by Roy Bittan and Max Weinberg, violinist Suki Lahav was briefly a member of the band before leaving in March 1975 to emigrate to Israel. Steven Van Zandt, who had long associated with Springsteen and had played in previous bands with him. This lineup remained stable until the early 1980s when Van Zandt left to pursue his own career and he would later rejoin the band in 1995. In June 1984 Nils Lofgren was added to replace Van Zandt, Springsteens future wife, by 2002, the band also included Soozie Tyrell. Tyrell had earlier worked with Scialfa touring with Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, whether Tyrell became as full-fledged a member as the others remains unclear. When asked about the lack of mention in a release prior to the Magic Tour, Springsteen just said in response. Springsteen stated at the time, Danny is one of the pillars of our sound and has played beside me as a friend for more than 40 years. We all eagerly await his healthy and speedy return, Federici made his only return to the stage on March 20,2008, when he appeared for portions of a Springsteen and E Street Band performance at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis. Federici died on April 17,2008 at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City, Springsteens album, Working on a Dream, is dedicated to him
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Jon Secada
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Jon Secada is a Cuban American singer and songwriter. Secada was born in Havana, Cuba, and raised in Hialeah and he has won two Grammy Awards and sold 20 million albums since his English-language debut album in 1992. His music fuses funk, soul, pop and Latin percussion, Secada also has worked as a songwriter for Gloria Estefan, Jennifer Lopez, Ricky Martin, Mandy Moore and other performers. Secada emigrated with his parents to the United States at age 12 after previously living in Spain, while he attended school, as a teen, Secada discovered his gift for music. In the culturally-diverse city of Miami, Secada was exposed to salsa, Secada also became interested in rhythm and blues and pop music performed by Barry Manilow, Marvin Gaye, Billy Joel, Elton John, and Stevie Wonder. Secada graduated from South Floridas Hialeah High School in 1979 and then enrolled at Miami Dade Community College, during college, he became an accomplished jazz musician and was inducted into the Iron Arrow Honor Society. He completed a Bachelors degree in Music and then earned a Masters degree in Jazz Vocal Performance, in the late 1980s, Gloria Estefan hired Secada as a background singer. He also started composing music for Estefan, including some of her best-known ballads, among other songs, Secada co-wrote and sang background on Coming Out of the Dark, Glorias number one hit from her 1991 album Into the Light. During Estefans Into the Light World Tour, Secada was given the opportunity of taking over the stage. The song was Always Something which would be featured later on his debut album and it launched his career as a solo performer. In 1991, Secada legally changed his first name from Juan to Jon. Secada scored a No.5 Pop hit with his Gold single Just Another Day, the Spanish-language version of Secadas solo album, Otro Día Más Sin Verte, became the No.1 Latin album of 1992 and earned Secada his first Grammy Award for Best Latin Pop Album. In 1994, Secadas second album, Heart, Soul & a Voice featured members of the Miami Sound Machine and guests Arturo Sandoval, the album went Platinum in the US. One of its singles, If You Go, was a top ten Pop hit and Mental Picture and his third album on EMI, Amor, was released in 1995 and earned Secada his second Grammy for Best Latin Pop Performance. Secada co-wrote the song Bella, the Spanish version of Shes All I Ever Had for Ricky Martins 1999 multi-platinum self-titled album and he also co-wrote and co-produced the song Baila for Jennifer Lopez, which appeared on her 1999 multi-platinum album, On the 6. He worked with teen singing sensation Mandy Moore on two of her tracks, One Sided Love and It Only Took a Minute from her self-titled multi-platinum album. In 2001, he was a backing vocalist on Enrique Iglesiass album Escape on the tracks Dont Turn Off the Lights, Secada has performed with opera legend Luciano Pavarotti and recorded a duet with Frank Sinatra on The Best is Yet to Come from Sinatras Duets II album. In 1995, Secada starred in Broadways hit musical Grease, playing the role of Danny Zuko
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Collective Soul
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Collective Soul is an American rock band originally from Stockbridge, Georgia. Now based in Atlanta, the group consists of lead vocalist Ed Roland, rhythm guitarist Dean Roland, bassist Will Turpin, drummer Johnny Rabb, before forming Collective Soul, singer Ed Roland studied music composition and guitar at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts. Since the mid-1980s Roland was involved in Atlantas underground music scene making demos and he also worked at Real 2 Reel Studios in Stockbridge, which was owned by bassist Will Turpins father, Bill Turpin. Rolands duties were producing, mixing and engineering for local Atlanta artists and he recorded his demos and released an independent solo album Ed-E Roland in 1991. At this time the group was known as Ed-E. That initial version of the Ed-E band dissolved in the mid to late 1980s due to incompatible musical tastes among other differences, Roland subsequently formed Marching Two-Step which included original Collective Soul drummer Shane Evans, Michele Rhea Caplinger, and Matt Serletic. Marching Two-Step were a local gigging band for a few years, Rolands early attempts to be signed to a recording contract by a label faced rejections. Caplinger would become a music industry publicist and was appointed executive director of the Atlanta Chapter of the Recording Academy in 2000. Serletic would go on to become a Grammy winning producer for Collective Soul, Matchbox Twenty, Blessid Union of Souls and Edwin McCain, after the demise of Rolands previous music collaborations, he enlisted musicians to record a demo in a basement. Roland initially intended to sell the songs to a company and had no immediate plans of forming a band out of it. The demo was submitted to Amy Staehling, host of the Georgia music show at Album 88, Georgia State University’s student radio station in Atlanta. She carted up the song Shine, and it was added to the stations rotation, the demo was also passed along to WJRR in Orlando, Florida which began playing Shine, soon to be its most requested song. Atlantic Records took note of the popularity of Shine and subsequently signed them to a contract, upon Collective Souls signing, Atlantic wished to capitalize on the bands success and quickly re-released the 1993 demo Hints Allegations and Things Left Unsaid as their first studio album. Although reluctant to have the unpolished demo represent their new line-up, Collective Soul gained international recognition, the band quickly began work on what they would consider their true debut record and were invited to perform at Woodstock 1994. They also toured extensively across North America, the group’s self-titled second album issued the following year, was certified RIAA triple platinum, and logged a 76-week run on the Billboard 200. Notable singles from Collective Soul included US Rock Chart No.1 hits December, Where The River Flows, and The World I Know, No.2 hit Gel, and the Top 10 hit Smashing Young Man. While the legal battles continued, the band went to a cabin, in the middle of 40 acres of cow pasture in Stockbridge and they recorded into a computer their impromptu efforts of songs Roland penned, and these became Disciplined Breakdown. The legal case was settled, and both parties were instructed not to discuss the outcome
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Matchbox Twenty
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Matchbox Twenty is an American rock band, formed in Orlando, Florida, in 1995. The group currently consists of Rob Thomas, Kyle Cook, Brian Yale and their second album, Mad Season, released in 2000, charted in the top three on the Billboard 200 and was certified 4× Platinum in the United States. Their third album, More Than You Think You Are, released in 2002, was only certified 2× Platinum in the United States, director Bill Draheim documented the band throughout the process while making More Than You Think You Are. The documentary Theresville was an online extra, the band then went on hiatus in 2004 after rhythm guitarist Adam Gaynors departure. As a result, Paul Doucette took over rhythm guitar after the band reunited in 2007 and they released a compilation album, Exile on Mainstream, which was certified Gold in the United States. After the release, the band toured to support it, Matchbox Twenty then took another hiatus while Rob Thomas embarked on a successful solo career but reunited again in 2010. The band released North, their album, on September 4,2012 which made its debut at number one on the Billboard 200. Matchbox Twenty released their album, Yourself or Someone Like You. While their first single, Long Day, was a success in the west coast. Real World, and Back 2 Good, Push and 3 A. M. did not chart on the Billboard Hot 100 chart due to the rule in effect prior to 1998 that required a song to be released as a single in order to appear on the Hot 100. Real World and Back 2 Good proved to be the bands first entries into the Billboard Hot 100, the album eventually shipped more than 12 million copies in the U. S. alone, achieving a diamond certification. In 1998, Matchbox Twenty recorded a version of their single,3 A. M. for release on the charity album Live in the X Lounge. In 1999 the band was sued by New Yorker Frank Torres for using his image without his permission on the cover of Yourself or Someone Like You, Torres had been walking down the street when he was asked by a photographer to pose for a picture. Before recording their album, Rob Thomas collaborated with Itaal Shur on a song called Smooth for Carlos Santanas comeback album. Thomas was supposed to act only as a songwriter for Smooth, Smooth was the albums lead single and became a hit in 1999. Thomas won three Grammy Awards for writing and performing on Smooth, Record of the Year, Song of the Year, during 2000, Matchbox 20 renamed themselves to Matchbox Twenty and released their second album, Mad Season. The album, on the strength of several singles, including Bent. The video for Bent made fun of singer Thomas increased fame from Smooth by showing the band members assaulting him
