Seven-Time GRAMMY® Award Winner Kirk Franklin Releases 12th CD, Hello Fear in Stores March 22, 2011
Franklin Joins Steve Harvey on the Gospel Comedy Tour
NEW YORK, Feb. 22, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — Multiple GRAMMY®, Stellar and Dove Award winner Kirk Franklin releases his 12th CD, Hello Fear, on March 22, 2011.
RECORDED LIVE AT JAZZ AT LINCOLN CENTER, ALBUM IS A TRIBUTE
TO THE ICONIC STAR OF SOUL, R&B, COUNTRY, JAZZ & POP
Given the rousing artistic and commercial success of the first recorded collaboration of legendary country troubadour Willie Nelson and jazz statesman Wynton Marsalis on 2008’s Blue Note album Two Men With the Blues, it’s not surprising that the pair would rendezvous again. The New York Times called it “a smart and heartfelt record,” while Entertainment Weekly wrote that “Willie and Wynton may seem like an odd couple, but this live disc makes the country legend and jazz master sound like natural partners with Marsalis’ usual horn-fronted band doing the driving and Nelson settling in perfectly with his off-beat vocal phrasing.” To continue, please click “MORE”!
Chef
to the Stars Wolfgang Puck to Cater and Along Came Mary Productions to
Produce The Recording Academy®’s Official GRAMMY Awards After-Party
LOS ANGELES, Feb. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — GRAMMY®-nominated R&B/pop singer/songwriter Keri Hilson, GRAMMY-winning and current GRAMMY nominee hip-hop/neo-soul band the Roots, and DJ Wayne G are scheduled to perform at the 2011 GRAMMY Celebration® — The
Recording Academy®’s official after-party. Additionally, in the
celebration’s MasterCard Jazz Lounge, the exclusive invitation-only
event will feature performances by members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and the GRAMMY® Jazz Ensembles.
Inspired by images of Studio 54, this year’s all-star gathering will
hearken back to one of the most stylized eras in music history with a
chic disco nightclub theme. The event will be catered by chef
extraordinaire Wolfgang Puck and produced by Along Came Mary Productions.
One of the year’s most anticipated events attracting GRAMMY winners,
nominees and celebrities, the 2011 GRAMMY Celebration will take place at
the Los Angeles Convention Center on Feb. 13 immediately following the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards. To continue, please click “MORE”!
Marc Anthony, Jamie Foxx, Jewel, John Mayer,
Pauley Perrette, and Donnie Wahlberg Added as Presenters to the
Superstar Lineup for the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards®
Music’s Biggest Night® Airs Live Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011, 8 P.M. ET/PT, Only on CBS
SANTA MONICA, Calif., Feb. 9, 2011 /PRNewswire/ — As a “valentine” and “get-well card” to Recording Academy Lifetime Achievement Award and GRAMMY® Legend Award recipient Aretha Franklin, four-time GRAMMY winner Yolanda Adams, four-time GRAMMY winner and Latin GRAMMY® winner Christina Aguilera, GRAMMY winner Jennifer Hudson, country superstar Martina McBride, and current nominee Florence Welch will join together on the 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards®
in celebration of the 18-time GRAMMY winner and current nominee’s music
and ongoing legacy. The special segment will feature individual and
collective performances of some of the Queen of Soul’s classic hits and
will add to the stellar lineup for Music’s Biggest Night®. Current
nominee Esperanza Spalding will also perform in a special number with members of the GRAMMY Jazz Ensembles and GRAMMY Camp. Two-time GRAMMY and three-time Latin GRAMMY winner Marc Anthony, GRAMMY and Academy Award® winner Jamie Foxx, seven-time GRAMMY winner and current nominee John Mayer, actor Pauley Perrette, and actor/singer Donnie Wahlberg have been added as presenters to the music industry’s premier event. The 53rd Annual GRAMMY Awards will take place live on Sunday, Feb. 13, 2011, at STAPLES Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast in high definition and 5.1 surround sound on the CBS Television Network from 8 – 11:30 p.m. (ET/PT). The show also will be supported on radio worldwide via Westwood One, and covered online at GRAMMY.com and CBS.com, and on YouTube at www.youtube.com/thegrammys. To continue, Please click “MORE”!
NEW YORK, Jan. 10, 2011
/PRNewswire/ — Music World/Columbia Records –Beyonce’s I AM…WORLD
TOUR full-length concert film, was the best-selling music DVD of 2010.
Lensed during the artist’s record-breaking international concert tour,
the deluxe DVD/Soundtrack edition—including the concert DVD, a live
soundtrack, an exclusive, intimate documentary and explosive travelogue,
and a 40-page collection of never-seen photos—was released on Tuesday, November 30, 2010
and still holds the #1 position on Nielsen SoundScan Music DVD chart. A
Blu-ray version of Beyonce’s I AM…WORLD TOUR is also available.
In Brazil, where Beyonce played to massive audiences, including 60,000 in Sao Paulo,
last winter, the DVD has been certified platinum. It is also certified
Platinum in the UK and is certified gold in six countries including France, Australia and Canada. To continue, Please click “MORE”!
JAZZ LEGEND FREDDIE HUBBARD CELEBRATED WITH RELEASE OF
PINNACLE, LIVE & UNRELEASED FROM KEYSTONE KORNER
SET FOR MARCH 8 RELEASE ON RESONANCE RECORDS
Trumpet great Freddie Hubbard
at the top of his game, with West Coast all-stars digging into his
sturdiest compositions – plus John Coltrane’s technically challenging
piece “Giant Steps” – during a couple of nights in San Francisco,
eternally exciting though recorded 30 years ago. That’s Pinnacle, Live and Unreleased: From Keystone Korner, a bounteous gift to any fan or fan-in-the-making of fiery and funky, sophisticated and melodically inspired music.
Hubbard
was, next to Miles Davis, the most dramatic and far-reaching brass
player of the past 60 years. He died at age 70 in December 2008, leaving
a legacy of some 100 recordings under his own name and with everyone
from Wes Montgomery and Art Blakey to Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, Oscar
Peterson, Quincy Jones, Dexter Gordon, George Benson, Sarah Vaughan, Max
Roach, Count Basie, Ornette Coleman and many others. Throughout the
course of his luminous international career, Hubbard established a
standard of pure sound that brass players aspire to today.
Hubbard’s
explosive and lyrical virtuosity (first noted during a high school band
performance in his hometown of Indianapolis) as well as his flow of
brilliant, spontaneous ideas and determination to play loudest, hardest,
fastest and most imaginatively, will never go out of style. Pinnacle
comprises more than an hour of highest level performances by Hubbard on
trumpet and flugelhorn, with pianist Billy Childs, bassist Larry Klein (better known now as Joni Mitchell’s producer), saxophonists Hadley Caliman and David Schnitter, trombonist Phil Ranelin, and drummers Eddie Marshall and Sinclair Lott. To continue, Please click “MORE”!
Available For the First Time on CD/LP/Digital
New York, Dec. 10, 2010 //PRNewswire/ –Recorded 30 years ago while Marley was touring in support of his album Uprising, Live Forever is Bob Marley‘s
last recorded concert. This never before released audio collection
offers an incredible snapshot of one of music’s most influential
performers.
Bob Marley & The Wailers – Live Forever: The Stanley Theatre, Pittsburgh, PA, September 23, 1980
(UMe/Tuff Gong International) is a 2CD/3LP/digital collection that
features many of Bob’s most cherished songs, and is available for the
first time on February 1, 2011. This
unforgettable concert contains unique performances of “No Woman No Cry,”
“Jammin’,” and “Is This Love,” to name a few, and depicts a musical
innovator and inspiration to people of many cultures and generations.
This spectacular audio documentary Live Forever, also immortalizes the last song Marley ever performed live in concert: “Get Up Stand Up,” his rally cry for equality. To continue, Please click “MORE”!
SINGER WILL DOWNING CANCELS 2010 CONCERT DATES DUE TO ILLNESS Beloved singer under doctors orders to rest for balance of year Due to unforeseen illness, R&B singer Will Downing has cancelled the rest of his concert performances for 2010. Downing was diagnosed with the neuro-muscular disorder Polymyositis in 2007 …
MARCUS MILLER CAPTURES A ONCE IN A LIFETIME EVENING ON NEW LIVE RECORDING Known For His Captivating Live Shows, Bassist/Producer/Composer Triumphs On A Night In Monte-Carlo Features Special Guests Roy Hargrove and Raul Midón Bassist, producer, composer, and all-around musician Marcus Miller has been a student and a …
R&B Soul Singer Kem Joined Forces With Lincoln for Luxury Event Tied to 2011 Lincoln MKX Crossover DEARBORN, Mich., Nov. 15, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Universal Motown R&B Soul Singer Kem, Lincoln and Uptown Magazine joined together this past weekend for an intimate luxury experience tied to the 2011 Lincoln MKX …
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