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DMX Arrested In Miami After Failing To Show Up For Court Hearing

2008-08-26T18:10:00.001-07:00

Rapper DMX was arrested outside a South Florida Wal-Mart by Miami police force Thursday afternoon (August 14) in connection with a bench warrantee issued earlier this week by an Arizona judge, according to TMZ.com.

The work bench warrant, which authorizes the immediate on-sight arrest of the accused by any civil authorisation, was issued Tuesday good afternoon by the Maricopa County Superior Court after the rapper failed to appear at a pretrial conference related to his pending drug guinea pig. At the time, a source close to DMX told MTV News that he didn't appear because he had checked into rehab.

The rapper's public guardian, Charles Kozelka, told the gossip site that he was working out a way for DMX to surrender when the arrest occurred.

DMX (born Earl Simmons) was originally supposed to appear to defend himself against one count of marijuana possession and quadruplet counts of drug-paraphernalia possession, all relating to a raid on his Arizona home in May. The rapper is also slated to appear in court within the month to defend himself against seven counts of animal mercilessness and charges that he gave an Arizona clinic fake personal identification.

In addition to the warrant, Commissioner Phemonia Miller originally raised the rapper's bond to $25,000 as a penalty for his failure to evidence in court on Tuesday. It is unknown whether X will continue to be held in a Miami pokey or extradited to Arizona.

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Download Donald Byrd

2008-08-16T18:07:00.001-07:00

Artist: Donald Byrd: mp3 download

   Genre(s):

Jazz
funk
Jazz: Funk
Blues

Discography:



Blackjack

   Year: 2004

Tracks: 7


Byrd in Hand

   Year: 2003

Tracks: 6


Street Lady

   Year: 1999

Tracks: 6


A New Perspective

   Year: 1999

Tracks: 5


Blue Breakbeats

   Year: 1998

Tracks: 7


Electric Byrd

   Year: 1996

Tracks: 4


His Majesty King Funk: Up with Donald Byrd

   Year: 1995

Tracks: 14


A City Called Heaven

   Year: 1994

Tracks: 8


Black Byrd

   Year: 1992

Tracks: 7


Harlem Blues

   Year: 1987

Tracks: 7


Thank You ... For F.U.M.L (Funking Up My Life)

   Year: 1978

Tracks: 8


Ethiopian Knights

   Year: 1971

Tracks: 3


Kofi

   Year: 1970

Tracks: 5


Fancy Free

   Year: 1969

Tracks: 4


Slow Drag

   Year: 1967

Tracks: 6


Creeper

   Year: 1967

Tracks: 7


Mustang!

   Year: 1966

Tracks: 8


Groovin' for Nat

   Year: 1962

Tracks: 11


Royal Flush

   Year: 1961

Tracks: 6


Chant

   Year: 1961

Tracks: 6


Fuego [The RVG Edition 2005]

   Year: 1960

Tracks: 6


Byrd in Flight

   Year: 1960

Tracks: 6


At the Half Note Cafe Vol.1

   Year: 1960

Tracks: 8


At The Half Note Cafe Vol. 2

   Year: 1960

Tracks: 6


Winterset

   Year: 1958

Tracks: 9


Off to the Races

   Year: 1958

Tracks: 6


Jazz in Paris: Donald Byrd Quintet Parisian Thoroughfare

   Year: 1958

Tracks: 8


Jazz in Paris: Byrd in Paris

   Year: 1958

Tracks: 5


Two Trumpets

   Year: 1956

Tracks: 5

Donald Byrd was considered unrivaled of the finest hard federal Bureau of Prisons trumpeters of the post-Clifford Brown earned run average. He recorded prolifically as both a leader and sideman from the mid-'50s into the mid-'60s, most a great deal for Blue Note, where he established a repute as a self-coloured stylist with a clean tone of voice, clear articulatio, and a hang for melodicism. Toward the conclusion of the '60s, Byrd became spell-bound with Miles Davis' go into fusion, and started recording his have forays into the field. In the early '70s, with the help of brothers Larry and Fonce Mizell, Byrd perfected a undimmed, breezy, commercially potent claim on nuclear fusion that was distinct from Davis, incorporating tighter arrangements and more of a smooth soul influence. Opinions on this phase of Byrd's career diverge wildly -- jazz purists absolutely hated it, stigmatisation Byrd a sellout and the records a betrayal of endowment fund, just rapturous jazz-funk fans regard it as some of the about advanced, long-suffering fiddle of its kind. In fact, proportionately speaking, Byrd is held in steady higher admiration by that audience than by straight-ahead jazz fans wHO love his unvoiced bebop yield.Donaldson Toussaint L'Ouverture Byrd II was born in Detroit, MI, on December 9, 1932. His padre, a Methodist diplomatic minister, was an amateur instrumentalist, and Byrd was already an accomplished cygnus buccinator by the time he finished high schooling, having performed with Lionel Hampton. Byrd served a stint in the Air Force, during which time he played in a military stripe, and after completed his bachelor's degree in music at Wayne State University in 1954. He touched to New York in 1955 to get his master's at the Manhattan School of Music, and before long began acting with pianist George Wallington's grouping. In December of that year, he was invited to connexion up Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers, fill up a chair formerly held by his perfection, Clifford Brown, and Kenny Dorham. Byrd as well began his recording calling during this period, in the lead several sessions (by and large for Savoy) and on the job often as a sideman, peculiarly at the Prestige judge. He left hand the Jazz Messengers in 1956 and united up with Max Roach; he went on to vamp with the likes of John Coltrane, Sonny Rollins, and Red Garland, and as well co-founded the Jazz Lab Quintet with altoist Gigi Gryce in 1957.In 1958, Byrd sign-language an undivided recording get with Blue Note, and as well formed a band with baritonist Pepper Adams, wHO would stay Byrd's unconstipated collaborator until 1961. Byrd's Blue Note debut was 1958's Off to the Races, and he and Adams collaborated on a series of excellent hard bebop dates over the adjacent trey days, including William Byrd in Hand (1959), At the Half Note Cafe, Vols. 12 (1960), The Cat Walk (1961), and Royal Flush (as well 1961), among others. Another 1961 recording, Liberate Form, launch Byrd talent a whitney Young Herbie Hancock some of his in the beginning exposure. Following this burst of activity, Byrd took a sabbatic to continue his studies in Europe, where he spent some metre under the tutorship of the legendary French music pedagogue Nadia Boulanger. He returned to the U.S. in 1963 and recorded A New Perspective, a now-classic set that skint new undercoat by incorporating gospel choirs into its arrangements; its signature piece, "Cristo Redentor," became quite an popular.In the mid-'60s, Byrd focussed more of his energies on didactics, and worked diligently to get to jazz and its history a logical piece of the college syllabus. He taught at Rutgers, Hampton, New York University, and Howard in the late '60s, and the concluding peerless remained a buckram association for much of the '70s. In the lag, Byrd continued to criminal record from metre to time, slip a final great deal of voiceless bop albums over 1966-1967 that included Mustang! and Cosh. Byrd as well began to study African music, elysian partly by the emerging black-consciousness tendency, and became interested in Miles Davis' efforts to court a younger audience (including Byrd's possess students) by experimenting with electronics and blue funk rhythms. 1969's Fancy Free launch Byrd using electric pianoforte for the first time, with a spaced-out sound that recalled Davis' In a Silent Way. 1970's Electrical Byrd had more than of a Bitches Brew smell, and the jams on 1971's Ethiopian Knights were thirster, funkier, and more aggressive. Byrd truly came into his possess as a fusion creative person when he hooklike up with brothers Larry and Fonce Mizell, wHO began to do by yield, bit of writing, and some musical support duties. Their number ane quislingism was 1972's Black Byrd, an eudaimonia, funky blend of nothingness and R&B. Jazz critics detested the album and called Byrd all sorts of name career, simply the record was a smash strike; it became the biggest vender in Blue Note history, and just lost strike number unitary on the R&B albums chart. In the waken of its success, Byrd formed a load-bearing group, the Blackbyrds, world Health Organization were culled from the cream of his music students at Howard University and recorded through the repose of the '70s. Byrd went on to discharge a draftsmanship string of successful LPs in partnership with the Mizell Brothers, including the complex figure blaxploitation soundtrack Street Lady (1974), Stepping into Tomorrow (1975), the much-lauded Places and Spaces (1976), and Caricatures (1977). All made the Top Ten on the R&B album charts, and the Places and Spaces single "Change (Makes You Wanna Hustle)" level got important play in discotheques. Jazz-funk fans revers this period in planetary, but ordinarily military military reserve their highest praise for Street Lady and, specially, Places and Spaces. As a side musical promissory note to his melodious career, Byrd finished law school in 1976, and went on to teach at North Carolina Central University.Following Caricatures, Byrd parted shipway with Blue Note and the Mizell Brothers and moved to Elektra. He recorded several albums over 1978-1983, just regular the most commercially successful, 1978's Thank You...for F.U.M.L. (Funking up My Life), didn't equalise the infectiousness of his Blue Note jazz-funk outings. In 1982, Byrd received his Ph.D. from Columbia Teachers College. He washed-out a few days in the mid-'80s away from written text, due in role to ill health, but continued to teach, moving on to North Texas State and Delaware State. In the belated '80s and early '90s, Byrd returned to the hard bebop of his early years on various roger Huntington Sessions for the Landmark label. He participated in knocker Guru's Jazzmatazz swelling in 1993, and with the second Coming of the jazz-rap motion and England's acidic jazz resurgence, his '70s albums became hugely popular sources for samples. In the interim, Byrd continued his activities as a jazz pedagogue.

Bernard Purdie

2008-08-07T18:53:00.001-07:00

Artist: Bernard Purdie

   Genre(s):
Jazz

Discography:


Bernard Purdie's Jazz Groove Sessions In Tokyo

   Year: 1993
Tracks: 8


Soul Drums

   Year: 1967
Tracks: 11

Britney Spears Not Dating Her Bodyguard

Miley Cyrus - Cyrus Penned Love Song About Mccartney

2008-06-27T22:47:00.001-07:00

Teen sensation MILEY CYRUS was left red-faced after meeting pop hunk JESSE MCCARTNEY - because he was her first ever celebrity crush.

The Hannah Montana star became a huge fan of the singer when he was part of now defunct boyband Dream - and the star was the inspiration behind the first song the 15-year-old penned.

But Cyrus was left embarrassed after she was introduced to the MCCartney shortly after moving to Hollywood, because he branded her lyrical tribute "cute".

She says, "It was so embarrassing, when I first moved to Los Angeles, I had a crush on Jesse MCCartney.

"In fact, the first song I ever wrote was about Jesse. He was on my show and I told him and he was like, 'That's so cute!'"

But Cyrus has now set her sights on a slightly more mature man.

She adds, "Orlando Bloom is gorgeous, but he's a bit of a player."

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Potter star Watson parties with Borrell

2008-06-09T13:44:00.001-07:00

'Harry Potter' star Emma Watson has been spotted partying with Razorlight frontman Johnny Borrell in London.
They met at the Vanity Fair And Burberry Portraits party at the National Gallery. And despite a 10-year age gap, the 17-year-old actress reportedly seemed enthralled.
"Emma had gone over to speak to Pixie Geldof, who was chatting to Johnny at the time. Emma and Johnny immediately hit it off," an onlooker told the Daily Telegraph.
"It was clear they had loads to talk about - even if they don't look like they have much in common."
According to the Daily Star, Borrell, 27, didn't realise who Watson was until they left the party and fans started calling her name.
The unlikely pair then reportedly hopped into a cab to another fashion party and from there, they are believed to have gone on to a private event at the Dorchester Hotel.

Spears' behaviour sparks fresh concerns

2008-06-01T22:56:00.001-07:00

Singer Britney Spears has sparked fresh concerns for her well-being after reportedly having another "public breakdown".
According to People magazine, the singer was spotted arguing with her friend Sam Lutfi as they returned from a short drive around Beverly Hills.
The magazine reports that Spears looked "visibly distraught" as she jumped out of the car at her home.
She then reportedly wandered around with her dog London in her arms, before sitting on a pavement, while paparazzi were snapping photographs of her.
Onlookers said that she "looked completely lost" and had tears in her eyes.
But the singer later told the photographers: "I'm fine. I'm... having a nice time with my dog."
The report also claims that Spears' most recent boyfriend Adnan Ghalib was later refused entry to her house.

Kooks bassist quits band for good

2008-05-25T22:26:00.000-07:00

The Kooks have permanently parted ways with bass player Max Rafferty.
Rafferty had previously spent several periods away from the group because of illness, but he has now left the Brighton rock group for good, according to his bandmates.
He will be replaced by Cat the Dog's bassist Dan Logan on a temporary basis.
No reason for Rafferty's departure has been given by The Kooks.
A statement from the band said: "Max Rafferty has parted company with The Kooks - the band will be continuing with the forthcoming shows. Dan Logan, bassist with local Brighton band Cat the Dog, will be filling in for the short-term."
The Kooks are currently preparing for the release of their second album 'Konk' on 14 April, which is the follow-up to their hugely successful debut 'Inside In/Inside Out'.

Barbara Walters - Walters Says She Understands Courics Woes

2008-05-22T21:58:00.001-07:00

Barbara Walters - Walters Says She Understands Courics Woes

Barbara Walters says that she

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Gest to spend Christmas in hospital

2008-04-24T19:30:00.001-07:00

Gest to spend Christmas in hospital

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Penn announces decision to divorce

2008-04-24T08:24:00.001-07:00

Penn announces decision to divorce

Actor Sean Penn is to divorce his wife Robin Wright Penn after 11 years of marriage.
A spokesperson for the couple confirmed the split to People magazine, but she did not give any further details about the decision.
The couple, who began dating in the early 1990s before tying the knot in 1996, have two children aged 14 and 16.
Actor-director Penn, 47, who won a Best Actor Academy Award in 2004 for his anguished performance in 'Mystic River', starred alongside his 41-year-old wife in several films, including 'State of Grace', 'Hurlyburly' and 'She's So Lovely'.
"Marriage ain't easy, but it's great most of the time,' Penn once told an interviewer. "I love Robin. I've always loved her."
Penn's relationship with Wright Penn was his second marriage. He was previously married to pop icon Madonna from 1985 to 1989.
Wright Penn was previously married to the actor Dane Witherspoon from 1986 to 1988.
Penn is currently basking in critical acclaim for directing the film 'Into the Wild', which is nominated for four prizes at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, regarded as a key Oscars indicator.

Aya Hisakawa

2008-04-17T16:44:00.001-07:00

Artist: Aya Hisakawa

   Genre(s):
Soundtrack

Discography:


Noir: Blanc Dans Noir cd2

   Year: 2001
Tracks: 8


Noir: Blanc Dans Noir cd1

   Year: 2001
Tracks: 9

Serge Blenner

2008-04-16T12:57:00.001-07:00

Artist: Serge Blenner

   Genre(s):
Ambient

Discography:


Miroir De Soi

   Year: 2004
Tracks: 12


Virtualis

   Year: 2001
Tracks: 12


Amour

   Year: 1996
Tracks: 8


Symbolique

   Year: 1993
Tracks: 12


Cosmos

   Year: 1990
Tracks: 12


Equateur

   Year: 1988
Tracks: 8

Father Ted star reveals cancer battle

2008-04-15T15:22:00.001-07:00

Father Ted star reveals cancer battle

'Father Ted' star Wienerwurst Kelle has revealed he is having chemotherapy after