30th anniversary fest set for this weekend
If jazz had a Mount Rushmore, James Moody's face would be right up there with Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie.
Maybe the next best thing -- aside from his live performance Saturday at the Playboy Jazz Festival -- is YouTube, where you can catch the great saxophonist as a member of Dizzy's first big band, back in the 1940s.
"If I'd have known what it was, I probably would have fainted with all that stuff," Moody likes to say of his stint with the source of the 20th century's greatest musical revolution.
" 'Cause when I joined the band, (Thelonious) Monk was the piano player and Klook was the drummer -- Kenny Clarke -- and Bags (Milt Jackson) was there, too." Not to mention such original gangsters as Miles Davis, Ray Brown and John Lewis.
Moody, 83, speaks today as he did when he was first recorded 60 years ago on the big band's "Emanon." This was not a health food store but a screaming blues track with breathtaking sarcastic breaks from Gillespie's horn, an inexorable groove from Ray Brown, the bassist, and a climactic passage reserved for Moody after Dizzy finishes.
Patrons of the 30th anniversary Playboy Jazz Festival will feel Moody's undiminished power when he appears with Roy Hargrove at the Hollywood Bowl. They can compare his live performance with the "Emanon" track, 99 cents on iTunes. The witty, emblematic opening; the bottomless resources; the unflagging swing; and the discreetly blasting climax -- his whole thing is there, and it has never run down.
On Saturday, Moody might favor MC Bill Cosby, his longtime friend, with a performance of the immortal "Moody's Mood for Love." He enthralled a Bowl audience last year when he and Roberta Gambarini combined the classic hit number with a deft comic routine.
Does he enjoy doing such things?
"Well, it depends," he said. "I enjoy playing music. I like to play music first, I mean that's what it is.
"I don't even like the comedy bit thing put in there because I'm really a musician. That's what I wanna do."
Does he feel that the long-popular number has overshadowed his other work?
"Well, I did that in 1949 in Stockholm, Sweden. That is when I did that." He would say no more on the topic.
So what would he and Hargrove play on Saturday?
"We'll play music," said the great James Moody, who is really a musician.
Friday, 27 June 2008
Monday, 23 June 2008
Kooks: 'Arctics are dead in the US'
The Kooks frontman Luke Pritchard has continued his war of words with the Arctic Monkeys by declaring their US career "dead".
Pritchard, who allegedly kicked Arctics frontman Alex Turner in the face, said the Kooks will be more successful in the US than their rivals.
He told The Sun: "It's really going great over there [in the US]. Radio is really picking up on the album.
"Arctic Monkeys have just died over there. They were huge for their first album but it hasn't happened with the second one."
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Pritchard, who allegedly kicked Arctics frontman Alex Turner in the face, said the Kooks will be more successful in the US than their rivals.
He told The Sun: "It's really going great over there [in the US]. Radio is really picking up on the album.
"Arctic Monkeys have just died over there. They were huge for their first album but it hasn't happened with the second one."
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Sunday, 15 June 2008
Panteon Rococo
Artist: Panteon Rococo
Genre(s):
Latin
Discography:
Companeros
Year:
Tracks: 15
A La Izquierda De La Tierra
Year:
Tracks: 14
Latin rock band from Mexico Panteón Rococó was formed in the mid-'90s, transcription its first EP, called Pa' Mi Negra, in 1997. The undermentioned year, the group participated in a double-album called Eskuela De Baile, tributary with two of its original songs, "L'America" and "Curame." A alike compiling called Puro Eskañol came a year later, including Panteón Rococó's "Borracho." In 1999, the ten-piece Latin ska and reggae band was awarded at an event known as Skalaria for being the Best Local Ska Performer. In October of that same year, Panteón Rococó released its debut album, A La Izquierda De La Tierra.
Wednesday, 11 June 2008
The Headhunters
Artist: The Headhunters
Genre(s):
Other
Discography:
Return of the Headhunters!
Year: 2005
Tracks: 10
Double success for Take That at the Brits
Jolie Finds Childbirth 'Fascinating'
Angelina Jolie loves every aspect of motherhood - even hailing giving birth by Caesarean section "fascinating". The 32-year-old mother of four - who is currently expecting twins with partner Brad Pitt - insists childbirth is such a life-changing experience for her, it outweighs any pain she may feel during the process. Jolie gave birth to daughter Shiloh, now two, via Caesarean and she is looking forward to welcoming her unborn babies into the world this summer . She tells the new edition of Vanity Fair magazine, "I had a C-section (with Shiloh) and I found it fascinating. I didn't find it a sacrifice and I didn't find it a painful experience. "I found it a fascinating miracle of what a body can do." Jolie and Pitt are also parents to adopted kids Maddox, six, Pax, four, and Zahara, three.
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Erykah Badu tours 'Amerykah'
Neo-soul singer Erykah Badu has mapped out a six-week North American tour to support her latest release, "New Amerykah, Pt. One: 4th World War."
The Roots will join Badu on the majority of the outing, which is set to launch May 4 in Detroit. The performers will visit US cities from coast to coast, as well as a few Canadian provinces, and Badu will veer off for gigs in Puerto Rico and the Caribbean island of Aruba. Details are listed below.
After a lengthy hiatus from recording, Badu got back to business with her fourth studio set, "New Amerykah," which dropped on her 37th birthday in February and landed at No. 2 on The Billboard 200. The album's lead single, "Honey," was released late last year to coincide with the singer's 10-year anniversary in the music biz, and it's still making waves on R&B/hip-hop charts.
The new record marks Badu's first full-length in seven years. Her previous studio effort was 2003's gold-certified EP "Worldwide Underground," which also debuted in the Top 5 on The Billboard 200.
The four-time Grammy winner picked up her first couple of gold statues for her 1997 debut, "Baduizm," which has achieved multi-platinum status.
When she's not making music, Badu has a second career as an actress. She's appeared in films including "Blues Brothers 2000" and "Cider House Rules."
The Dallas-based songstress is also a humanitarian: She serves as a spokesperson for the AIDS Arms LifeWalk and she formed the nonprofit group B.L.I.N.D. (Beautiful Love Incorporated Non Profit Development), which works to create social change through economic, artistic and cultural development.
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Ferry Corsten
Artist: Ferry Corsten
Genre(s):
Trance
Other
Discography:
Revive More Sleepless Nights EP
Year: 2007
Tracks: 8
Passport United States Of America
Year: 2007
Tracks: 15
Live at Dance Tour
Year: 2007
Tracks: 1
Beautiful (Dancetour Anthem 2007) CDS
Year: 2007
Tracks: 2
Sensation White
Year: 2006
Tracks: 1
Star Traveller - Incl Hydroid Remix-(TSU6058) Vinyl
Year: 2005
Tracks: 2
Slinkey
Year: 2004
Tracks: 2
Rock Your Body Rock
Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
Right of Way CD2
Year: 2004
Tracks: 6
Right of Way CD1
Year: 2004
Tracks: 14
Mix By DJ Oliver Volume1
Year: 2004
Tracks: 3
Live At Dance Valley
Year: 2002
Tracks: 1
Live
Year: 2002
Tracks: 1
Live At Innercity - Amsterdam Rai
Year: 1999
Tracks: 16
Solar Serenades
Year:
Tracks: 15
Otherwise known as System F, Ferry Corsten blush wine to excrescence in the late '90s as unitary of Europe's top trance DJs, highlighted by an anthem-filled appearance on Ministry of Sound's first Trance Nation album. Before attaining such acknowledgement, Corsten began his DJing at the early eld of 15, when he would spin at schoolhouse parties. By his late teens, he was perusal to be an electrical engineer, an dream that was presently eclipsed by his growing interestingness in electronic dance music. Soon he was getting sound gear to produce his have tracks and started releasing his music under monikers such as Moonman, Pulp Victim, Vera Cocha, Gouryella (with DJ Tiesto), and System F, highlighted by the winner of his single "Extinct of the Blue," which entered the U.K.'s Top 20. Yet his almost successful make is undoubtably his cartroad "Air," under the pretence of Albion, a data track that has been championed by many of the world's top DJs (including Paul Oakenfold and John Digweed on their Globose Underground albums) and has since been re-released in 2000 as Aura 2000 on Platipus with additional remixes by artists such as Oliver Lieb and Hybrid. Meanwhile, Corsten likewise won good deal of attention for his high profile remix of Art of Trance's graeco-Roman "Republic of Madagascar." And even though his appearance as the guest DJ on Ministry of Sound's anthem-filled Trance Nation debut wasn't the sort of well-composed plant one would require from an experient DJ such as Corsten, it did help impel his identify farther into his audience's consciousness.
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