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MATT GERAGHTY PROJECT feat. Grammy Winners
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Chanticleer – Magnificat (DVD Audio) $16.98 In the wake of its previous, Grammy-winning disc of contemporary madrigals (Colors of Love), the all-male a cappella ensemble that calls itself Chanticleer–in homage to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales –comes home to roost in this theme album of early music. After all, this is the territory that Chanticleer first staked out when the group banded together in 1978, and the return is most welcome. … |
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Bach’s Greatest Hits: A Unique Jazz Vocal Treatment of Johann Sebastion Bach: Swingle Singers: (Grammy Award Winner) … |
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James Taylor – the eminent singer, songwriter, musician and performer of the 70s was born in Boston in 1948 and grew up in the university town of Chapel Hill, North Carolina. On summer with his family on Marthas Vineyard, he met fellow guitarist/songwriter Danny Kootch Kortchmar and began performing. He established himself and began writing songs during his stay.
Moving to New York, Taylor formed the Flying Machine with Kortchmar in 1966. After the spilt, he headed to London, where he lived for a year. After a demo tape, he got signed to the Beatles Apple Records by A&R man Peter Asher, who became his manager and producer. The debut album James Taylor (1968) contained Taylors classic Carolina in My Mind. Raised in North Carolina, James now lives in western Massachusetts. His warm baritone is among the most recognized voices in popular music and his guitar playing has established its own standard.
Throughout his long career, James Taylor has earned 40 gold, platinum and multi-platinum awards and 5 Grammy Awards for a catalog running from 1970′s Sweet Baby James to his Grammy Award-winning efforts Hourglass (1997) and October Road (2002). Taylor’s first Greatest Hits album got him the RIAA’s elite Diamond Award, for sales in excess of 10 million units in the United States. For his achievements, James was honored with the 1998 Century Award, Billboard magazine’s highest accolade, presented for illustrious creative achievement. In 2000, he was inducted into both the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame and the prestigious Songwriter’s Hall of Fame. In February 2006, The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences chose James its MUSICARES Person of the Year.
His songs, “Fire and Rain,” “Country Road,” “Something in The Way She Moves,” “Mexico,” “Shower The People,” “Your Smiling Face,” “Carolina In My Mind,” “Sweet Baby James,” “Don’t Let Me Be Lonely Tonight,” “You Can Close Your Eyes,” “Walking Man,” “Never Die Young,” “Shed A Little Light,” “Copperline” etc. have had an insightful influence on both songwriters and music lovers of all generations and from all walks of life., James set an example for solo singer and songwriters as an inspirational recording and touring artist.
James released Sweet Baby James in 1970 which got triple-platinum and “Fire and Rain” reached the Top 10 hits. The same, another million-seller album was released, Mud Slide Slim and the Blue Horizon, giving the #1 single, “You’ve Got a Friend,”. The recording won a Grammy Award in 1971 for Best Pop Male Vocal. In 1972, Taylor scored another Gold album with One Man Dog, which was followed up in 1973 with Walking Man.
The album Gorilla (1975) included two more major chart entries: “How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)” and “Mexico.” Following his final Warner Brothers recording, In The Pocket, James moved on to Columbia Records and released a series of critically-acclaimed and commercially successful albums: JT, his 1977 double-platinum debut, included a Top 10 cover of Jimmy Jones’ “Handy Man,” a song that gave Taylor another Grammy for Best Pop Male Vocal. Flag (1979), Dad Loves His Work (1981), That’s Why I’m Here (1985), Never Die Young (1988), New Moon Shine (1991) and the double-disc Live album (1993), show Taylor’s consistency: all were certified platinum.
Hourglass (1998) earned James his first Grammy Award for Best Pop Album, and October Road (2002), another Grammy winner, also enjoyed platinum sales.
James Taylor’s music symbolizes the art of songwriting in an exceptionally elementary form. James warm baritone is among the most recognized voices in popular music and his guitar playing has established its own standard.
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Flute, Classical: Rhonda Larson performing Marais
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Chanticleer – Magnificat (DVD Audio) $16.98 In the wake of its previous, Grammy-winning disc of contemporary madrigals (Colors of Love), the all-male a cappella ensemble that calls itself Chanticleer–in homage to Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales –comes home to roost in this theme album of early music. After all, this is the territory that Chanticleer first staked out when the group banded together in 1978, and the return is most welcome. … |
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Bach’s Greatest Hits: A Unique Jazz Vocal Treatment of Johann Sebastion Bach: Swingle Singers: (Grammy Award Winner) … |
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Trumpeter’s Heritage $10.50 … |
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For any musician who aspires to be like them, the competition comes not from fellow musicians or even from Louis and Sivamani, rather from Bollywood explains world-renowned musicians, jazz artist Louis Banks and ace percussionist Sivamani. The duo were in town for the opening of Yamaha Music Square in Sector 37, Chandigarh (October 7, 2009) with the scions of Indian contemporary and fusion music took turns to talk about the grand Grammy nomination and define their art form.
While, Louis Banks started playing a piano and Sivamani took his position at the drums, guess what they both had in mind — an honest confession to make, “It’s unfortunate that while the world rejoices our music, we in India continue to plug into only Bollywood.” Louis has the reason, “Because, Bollywood music is easy to understand. You don’t have to be attentive to appreciate it as it conditions you. On the other hand, our music requires some hard work from the audience as well to comprehend it.” Sivamani though was not so despondent, “Indians are opening up to new genres of music. They are looking out for more options.”
“Except the time when it was displaced by disco, jazz has been around for years, and now, it’s making a comeback,” informed Banks, who is now experimenting with the music along with his son. “The focus is integrating Indian with western music,” Banks pointed out informing that he is coming out with a six-album release soon. After giving award-winning music to TV serials, ad campaigns, films etc, Banks is now shifting full-time to live concerts. “The fun lies in playing live,” he smiled. Thirty years down the ‘music’ line, and Damba Bahadur Budhapriti aka Louiz Banks has come a long way, from being a class teacher and jazz player in Kolkata to landing in Mumbai with Rs 300, tuning to guru RD Burman, and making it big.
“Those were tough times, but good times too. We played for love, for passion of music. Today, there are a number of instruments and opportunities like reality shows, but one thing everyone should remember – if you are in it for money, then forget music,” added Banks, who, by the way, also does impressionistic paintings! “The impact of Indian classical music is everlasting, you just can’t get over it. Whatever music we invent, it descends to the Indian music,” asserted Louis before Sivamani chipped in, “One needs to master Indian music before experimenting and diversifying it.” Of course, they took formal training, but their interest in music made all the difference, “I took my first lessons in music at the funerals, when I played soft music on different instruments,” shared Sivamani.
Gradually various milestones were achieved. “The major one came 25 years back, forming a band together, Shanti, and giving first international performance in Russia.” Helping in their cause of making universal music, they believe, are easily available quality instruments and reality shows. Louis explained the rest, “When we began to learn music, instruments had to be imported, unlike the present scenario. The musicians are being discovered by reality shows, who otherwise wouldn’t have got an opportunity.” For Banks, there is immense talent in India. “And the recent exposure has suddenly made the West sit up and take notice of Indian music,” said Banks adding it’s never too late to learn music provided you have the passion and aptitude. But he added, it’s always better to start early!
Just like Sivamani, who started playing music as a child at funerals. And now, when it comes to musical beats, no one drums it better than Sivamani. From kanjira, damru, Indian conch, ghungroo to an odd suitcase, plastic water bottle, the man has created music out of it all. And when he’s not playing he’s practising on pillows! “Those were my first lessons in music,” said the percussionist par excellence who has been playing with Banks and their band, Asia Electrik for 25 years now! Looking forward to his world tour, Jai H, with AR Rahman, and two new albums Mahaleela and Anand, Sivamani said music for him is rhythm. “It’s peace, it’s the best diversion to depression… rhythm is like a banyan tree, it’s one, just like sound, it’s everywhere,” he hailed its therapeutic powers.
They’re asked why is their music ‘western’ only. There’s a simple answer to it. “Because we come from western background,” said Sivamani, who had his first brush with percussion while returning home from school in Chennai as the instrument would be played at funerals. However, there music’s not devoid of the influence of Indian classical. It constantly makes way into their music in sound, in ragas. “I wondered which western counterpart would fit in with ragas and discovered it was jazz as that offers so much freedom. Jazz can be improvised upon and so can be classical,” said Banks.
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GRAMMY Tribute to Sir Neville Marriner
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Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna, etc. / Salamunovich, Los Angeles Master Chorale $11.54 Modern choral music for amateur singers may be America’s biggest musical underground. That’s the only explanation of why Grammy-nominated composer Morten Lauridsen can claim that his works are some of the most often-performed new pieces in years, although few among the East Coast intelligentsia have ever heard of him. Like the similarly popular John Rutter, Lauridsen inhabits an extremely conserva… |
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Calling All Dawns $13.06 Winner of two Grammy Awards in 2011: Best Classical Crossover Album, and Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists (for ‘Baba Yetu’)…. |
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Smart Symphonies: Classical Music to Help Stimulate Your Baby’s Development $6.99 … |
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Grammy Awards For Classical Music, including: Grammy Award For Best Chamber Music Performance, Grammy Award For Best Orchestral Performance, Grammy … Classical Performance, Operatic Or Choral $11.05 Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We belie… |
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Smooth, soothing, relaxing, simply beautiful. All are adjectives that could be used to describe this great Eagles song. The highlight and strength of this song is the arrangement of the singers’ voices throughout. It was not an easy arrangement to make but it certainly turned out to be pretty much perfect. In fact, this song won the Eagles the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement for Voices in 1977. Even though this category has since been removed from the Grammy Awards, it is still a great recognition of the glorious arrangement of voices this song presents. Simply outstanding!
I know what you are all thinking right now, not another Eagles song. I’m not hiding from the fact that I love the Eagles, in fact, I was trying to resist writing about this song today and tried to focus on another song. It came to no avail so I thought that I should just spill the beans now with this post.
Lyrics-wise, the song deals with the idea of an impostor entering town aka a new kid, and how the entire town likes him but at the same time they follow him and watch his every move. This leads to a certain degree of fame for the new kid but at the same time the town talks behind his back causing some uncertainty. However, this fame will only last until a newer kid enters town and takes over the current new kid.
This song became the band’s 3rd number 1 hit in the US and charted in the top 20 in the UK. I’m unaware of how it fared in other countries, so if you do know, please let me know by writing a comment down below.
While I’ve been focusing on the arrangement of the voices, I’m almost forgotten to mention the guitar playing going towards the end of the song. They are simply spectacular and just sound perfect for the song. You really can’t fault their sound or their position in the song. The last singing of the chorus and fade out is simply wonderful and really lets out all the tension and emotion that had been building during the song.
It’s my dream to write a song as good or even better than this song. This song is one of the songs that I’ve set as a benchmark in quality songwriting and composing. I hope this song inspires you to do the same, because this song is what good music is all about. If only there were more songs like these. Enjoy!
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Classical Music Workshops at the White House
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Lauridsen: Lux Aeterna, etc. / Salamunovich, Los Angeles Master Chorale $11.54 Modern choral music for amateur singers may be America’s biggest musical underground. That’s the only explanation of why Grammy-nominated composer Morten Lauridsen can claim that his works are some of the most often-performed new pieces in years, although few among the East Coast intelligentsia have ever heard of him. Like the similarly popular John Rutter, Lauridsen inhabits an extremely conserva… |
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Emotion & Commotion $6.97 BECK JEFF EMOTION & COMMOTION… |
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Calling All Dawns $13.06 Winner of two Grammy Awards in 2011: Best Classical Crossover Album, and Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocalists (for ‘Baba Yetu’)…. |
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Daphnis & Chloe $10.36 … |
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Smart Symphonies: Classical Music to Help Stimulate Your Baby’s Development $6.99 … |
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Grammy Awards For Classical Music, including: Grammy Award For Best Chamber Music Performance, Grammy Award For Best Orchestral Performance, Grammy … Classical Performance, Operatic Or Choral $11.05 Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We belie… |