Charlie Palmieri

   
Artist: Charlie Palmieri

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   

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Discography:


   
 La Herencia

   Year: 2007   
Tracks: 16


   
 Latin Bugalu

   Year: 2001   
Tracks: 8


   
 Con Salsa y Sabor: Charlie Palmieri and Menique

   Year:    
Tracks: 8

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The older brother of Eddie Palmieri, Charlie Palmieri was every bit as talented a piano player as his sib, selfsame percussive and responsive to musical rhythm piece as well flashing florid passages that were understandably the product of a classic education. His pianissimo studies began at seven-spot and he accompanied the Juilliard School of Music, turn pro at 16. He started the group el Conjunto Pin Pin in 1948, and then played in a serial of ensembles -- including those of Tito Puente, Tito Rodriguez, and Pupi Campo -- earlier forming his possess Charanga Duboney group in 1958. As music director of the Alegre All Stars while recording for the Alegre pronounce in the sixties, Palmieri stimulated rival among Latin labels like Tico and Fania, which formed their possess all-star bands in reply. Like many Latin wind artists of the time, Palmieri flirted with the popular Latin boogaloo style in the 1960s and made some records for major labels like RCA Victor and Atlantic. He endured a near mental breakdown in 1969, but rebounded to work over again for Puente on his El Mambo de Tito Puente television programme, and he also institute a second calling as a historiographer and teacher of Latin music and history at respective New York colleges in the seventies. Palmieri stirred briefly to Puerto Rico from 1980 to 1983, and after woe a severe heart attempt and shot upon his regress to New York, he recovered to lead respective Latin combos, including Combo Gigante. One of his last recordings was a galvanic cameo appearance on Mongo Santamaria's "Mayeya" in 1987 (now on Mongo's Afro Blue: The Picante Collection for Concord Picante), and he appeared in England for the first time in 1988 shortly before his decease. Almost all of Palmieri's exploit is hard to recover through and through domestic channels, only Messidor's A Giant Step is available on CD.

Denied: Paul Newman Cancer Reports "Not True"

Paul Newman does not have cancer, his rep says.

Reports that the iconic film legend is not battling terminal lung cancer are "not true," the actor's rep Toni Howard says, shooting down a month's worth of rumors.

Whispers of a life-threatening disease started in May when the 83-year-old citied illness for pulling out of directing duties at his Westport, Conn. hometown's production of Our Town.

The rest snowballed from there. Subsequent stories reported the Oscar winner, a lifelong smoker, was diagnosed at New York's Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center and was being treated as an outpatient.




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Pete Wentz Denies Twins Rumor He Started

Pete Wentz has denied a rumor that he started when he announced on a radio show that his wife, Ashlee Simpson-Wentz, is expecting twins, blaming his mix-up on the early morning interview.

Speaking on the John Jay and Rich radio show in Pheonix on Thursday morning (June 12), Wentz talked about a scrapbook the couple are keeping for their newborn saying, "We've been keeping a book so far, like a journal for them when their born."

The comment lit up the gossip pages with news that the newly married couple are expecting twins, however, Wentz has explained to Perez Hilton that it was all a misunderstanding.

"That was waaaaay wrong. I meant to say 'the baby' and said 'them' cos it was 7 am. Not in a bs way: I can tell you we are absolutely not having twins. I totally misspoke coz we dunno if it's a boy or girl. I try to speak vaguely and I totally blew it on this one."

NEXT: Mike Myers: Don't Expect Wayne's World 3

Photo courtesy of Clandestine.

Live: Flight of the Conchords at the Orpheum Theatre

Flight of the Conchords operates on another dimension. That was clear enough Friday from the band's performance at the Orpheum Theatre, where the duo opened with the electro sci-fi song "Robots" and its cautionary tale of the fall of mankind and the rise of the befuddled machines: "No more war, no more racism . . . no more yogurt."

The two singer-songwriters began the song in silhouette, possibly to disguise the embarrassing absence of proper robot costumes. Jemaine Clement (the one in glasses) moaned melodically and mechanically as Bret McKenzie (the other one) sang a binary vocal solo: "Zero, zero, zero, zero, zero, one / zero, zero, zero, zero, zero one-one . . . "

This was stupid and playful, and the reaction was big laughs and wild applause. It was the first of two sold-out nights at the venue for Flight of the Conchords, a lo-fi musical comedy duo from New Zealand, whose HBO comedy series of the same name has spread the band's understated insanity and biting, meandering tunes to a new American audience since its 2007 debut.

Their specialty is musical parody and absurdity to the point of surrealism. It's an inspired tradition: In the '80s, "This Is Spinal Tap" portrayed a band of clueless metal gods in decline; in the '90s, it was Tenacious D -- a pair of clueless fans and wannabe metal gods going nowhere. Now on HBO, Flight of the Conchords is a kind of clueless indie folk-rock duo looking for love and fame with no help at all from their equally inept manager.

For the real-life Flight of the Conchords, songs often still work best in the context of larger on-screen comedy, but the band was also a hilarious live act in their jeans and rolled sleeves, playing acoustic guitars through their deadpan streams of consciousness. Songs were tuneful and pleasant and ridiculous and inane and mostly drawn from the band's new album, "Flight of the Conchords" on Sub Pop. Even McKenzie nearly cracked up a couple of times.

During "The Most Beautiful Girl (In the Room)," the duo plucked a lilting tune and purred, wept and sang in hushed tones: "You're so beautiful, you could be a waitress . . . you could be a part-time model." Another song told of a pair of starving sailors lost at sea, slowly eating each other, piece by piece -- without permission. And there was a new breakup ballad, sung by Clement: "Jen said she would never see me again / When she saw me again, she said it then."

There were loving parodies of Barry White (the heavy-breathing "Business Time") and David Bowie ("Bowie"). "Foux Du Fa Fa" had a samba beat as the singers moaned romantically through some random words in French: "Baguette, fromage . . . soupe du jour, Jacques Cousteau . . . voilà, uh-huh-huh." It's an old joke, but stupid, clever fun is forever fresh.

They are aspiring rock stars, after all. They know their responsibilities. So they also did a song about "issues," even if the specific issues were not so important. "War, poverty, whale saving," said Clement. "Anything Bono is into, really."

Britney's Driving Not As Criminal As It Seems

Britney Spears will not be charged over an incident last year in which she allegedly ran over the foot of a paparazzo.

According to the LAPD, Brit was not at fault and the evidence doesn't prove that Brit left the scene of an accident -- since it's impossible to tell whether or not Brit was even aware she ran over the photog's foot.

Of course, it's usually impossible to tell what Britney is aware of.



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The Groundhogs

   
Artist: The Groundhogs

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 Hogwash

   Year: 1972   
Tracks: 12


   
 Split

   Year:    
Tracks: 8

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Koan

Donnie Darko - Donnie Darko Actress Defends Controversial Sequel

The leading actress of the Donnie Darko sequel has defended its director in the face of criticism.

In 2001, Donnie Darko launched the careers of leading man Jake Gyllenhaal and writer/director Richard Kelly, with audiences and critics alike stunned by its innovative look at teenage anxiety and hallucination.

But when sequel S Darko was announced, fans and Kelly reacted angrily, questioning why the 2001 film needed a follow-up.

Kelly disowned the project, writing on his blog: "I haven't read this script. I have absolutely no involvement with this production, nor will I ever be involved.

"I have no control over the rights from our original film, and neither I nor my producing partner Sean McKittrick stands to make any money from this film."

But Step Up 2 the Streets star Briana Evigan, who stars as Samantha Darko, has defended the sequel, saying: "Chris Fisher is the coolest director."

The film begins seven years after the events of the first film and sees Samantha Darko - played by Daveigh Chase in the original - and a friend troubled by visions while on a roadtrip.

"This [film] is so crazy. It's basically about going back in time and changing something," Evigan told MTV.

"[My character] ends up switching a moment in time to take her life - [to help] somebody else, her best friend. It goes into all different dimensions, but it's really about turning something around for somebody else, and being able to go back and have another chance."

"We just come back [in time] and change what happened in the first one," she added.

S Darko is currently filming in Utah ahead of a 2009 release.


13/06/2008 10:14:38

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New Hi-def Movies May Come To Cable

The major studios plan to offer high-definition movies on cable and satellite on
demand even before they are released on DVD and Blu-ray. As reported by Video
Business, the MPAA has filed a petition with the FCC seeking permission to use
anti-copying encryption, currently barred by FCC regulations, for the high-definition video
service. "In order to make this extremely high-value content available for in-home
viewing at such an early window, protections are necessary to deter unauthorized
copying or redistribution of the content," the MPAA petition said. Few details about
the high-definition service were included in the petition, which said merely that
if it is approved, "each film studio will make its own decision about how, when and
with which partners it might use this option."

21/05/2008

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Clooney's ex 'moving-on' following split

George Clooney's ex-girlfriend, Sarah Larson is "moving forward" following her recent split from the Hollywood star, according to a friend close to the model.
Jennifer Morss told People magazine that her pal was doing okay since Clooney called-off their romance. She said: "From what we've talked about she's doing well. You just move forward. She's a strong, very smart girl who I think will make it through pretty much anything."
Clooney and 29-year-old Larson had been dating for just over a year before their split late last month. The romance catapulted Larson, a former cocktail waitress, into the limelight however, Morss insists that her friend was not affected by the increased attention.
She said of Larson: "Your whole life changes overnight, but she maintained that down-to-earth [quality]. She as a person never changed - she would say, 'Yes, I'm dating George, but I want to be known for Sarah.'"
She added that Larson would be okay in the wake of the break-up. Morss said: "She's still Sarah, and she maintained all of her relationships with friends and family. When you don't change to go into something like that, there's not a whole lot of change to come out of it."

Disney banking on custom Blu-ray features

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Live, onscreen chat functions for future installments of such titles as "Lost" and "High School Musical" are among the next-generation extras Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment has up its sleeve.


As the studio begins an aggressive push to transition consumers from standard DVD to Blu-ray Disc, it plans to introduce a suite of Web-enhanced special features that will include exclusive conversations with filmmakers.


During a presentation Monday night to officially unveil Disney's first BD Live title -- an elaborate 50th anniversary edition release of "Sleeping Beauty" -- division president Bob Chapek promised to add BD Live elements, which allow movie viewers to tap into the Web for a wealth of interactive options, to all upcoming Disney-branded releases beginning in the fourth quarter. To further hasten the transition to Blu-ray, Disney is including a standard DVD with "Sleeping Beauty" to make it easy for consumers to understand the difference between the two formats.


Chapek said the interactive extras on "Sleeping Beauty," from onscreen chat rooms to video messaging, are merely "our jumping-off point of what's to come."


Thanks to BD Live, future Disney releases could include such extras as live chats with filmmakers in which viewers use their BlackBerrys or other PDAs to type in their end of the conversation, which then appears on the screen, as the movie rolls.


The chat function debuts with "Sleeping Beauty," out October 7, with an instant message window that enables viewers to chat with fellow viewers watching the Blu-ray Disc at the same time.


"The idea of my little girl being able to experience the movie and chat in real time with her grandparents across the country is very exciting to me," Chapek said. "We are introducing this important feature on 'Sleeping Beauty,' but imagine the possibilities of extending this to other titles such as 'High School Musical' or, eventually, ABC's hit show 'Lost.' Can you imagine the level of excitement that will create with the tweens or the rabid fan base of 'Lost'?"


Using the studio's video messaging, or "Disney Movie Mail," a viewer can insert a video message into a movie at any point and send it to another viewer for playback the next time the movie is watched.