Rhoda Scott: A Jazz Legend

With the album release of "Soul Sisters", we felt it necessary to offer the biography of a magnificent artist who has been featured on this album: Rhoda Scott.
Rhoda Scott, is an organist and American jazz singer born July 3, 1938, to Dorothy in the State of New Jersey.
After passing from the prestigious Manhattan School Of Music, she studied at the Conservatoire de Fontainebleau (France) with Nadia Boulanger. Rhoda Scott combines traditional skills with a great talent for jazz and religious music.
The Ambassador of the Hammond organ has enthused a large audience around the world for forty years. She has played with the biggest and the best of jazz including Ray Charles, George Benson, Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Morrow.
Nicknamed "The Barefoot Lady" (the Barefoot Organist), Rhoda Scott was discovered by Count Basie and he immediately urged her to join his club in Harlem. It is there that Eddie Barclay and his partner Raoul Saint-Yves, always on the lookout for new talent, offered her to come to Paris, where they engaged her to perform in his tavern, the Bilboquet, from July 1968.
She married Raoul Saint-Yves, a former actor and singer (aka Raoul singing waiter), on October 3, 1969 at the American Church in Paris .
Rhoda Scott has played, including at the Olympia, as part of a singing tour of Gilbert Becaud the early '70s, then recorded a concert soon after in that music hall, accompanied by Joe Thomas(flute / tenor sax) and Cees Kranenburg Jr. (drums).
Rhoda has a full talent makes it so comfortable in classical music in the jazz, gospel or the blues. Gifted with an exceptional musical memory, for example, she knows more than a thousand songs by heart and she made most of his repertoire. Besides, she never needed an evening program and plays by the inspiration of the moment and especially by the public reaction.
It creates, at the Vienna Festival 2004, "Lady Quartet. WithSophie Alour (tenor saxophone), Bilberry Besson (flugelhorn) andLisa Cat-Berro (alto saxophone) and Julie Saury (drums), she turns in jazz clubs and record an album January 21, 2008 in"Sunset" (60 rue des Lombards, Paris).
Rhoda Scott loves France and owns property in Orne Coulonges to the Sablon, near Nogent-le-Rotrou (28), where she resides periodically.
In 2009, she joined La Velle, another phenomenon of jazz, for a special concert in Paris at the Meridien Lionel Hampton Jazz Club which will be recorded and published under the title "Soul Sisters Come Together In Paris".

Alicia Keys recorded with Alejandro Sanz

For several days this has became known news that the renowned singer Alicia Keys recorded a song along with Spanish singer Alejandro Sanz, which aims to be to be included in the next record material from the artist's studio.This new song is called Looking for paradise and has already begun to be rumored that the first single and promotional cut new studio album by Alejandro Sanz.

Artwork: new album by The Used

The renowned rock band The Used returns to the music industry, this time with a studio recording new material under the name of artwork, as made known and are available for sale from September 8, 2009.

It is known ayt this time that the album will include 11 songs, which are listed below:

01. Blood On My Hands
02. Empty With You
03. Born To Quit
04. Kissing You Goodbye
05. Sold My Soul
06. Watered Down
07. On The Cross
08. Come Undone
09. Meant To Die
10. The Best Of Me
11. Men Are All The Same

4ever: The Veronicas' new song

After positioning the subject Untouched in the top of the charts in the music industry, now the renowned group The Veronicas, introduced the new item on promotion, the song titled 4ever.

As revealed, this song is part of the album Hook me up, last studio recording material published by The Veronicas for quite a while.

Chris Brown Case: 5 years probation

The popular R & B singer Chris Brown received his sentence today after being accused of having beaten his girlfriend, Rihanna. The sentence is 5 years probation and 180 days in addition to this community work.

He pleaded guilty to the assault on 22 June, by which a judge in Los Angeles gave the verdict after a plea deal. Chris pleaded guilty to the dispute that began in the early morning of 8 February, which left the singer Rihanna bloodied and bruised.

You as fans of Chris Brown, will continue their support after this incident? More than that... Do you as Fans of Rihanna continue to support her decision to go back to Chris?

Reality TV invades Jackson family too!

Adding a little spice television The A & E is in negotiations to launch a reality show about the family of Michael Jacson. Temporarily have called the program "Jackson Family Dynasty" and is planning the first program is a documentary of one hour was recorded before the death of the king of pop.

A & E plans to release the earnest this year, in the coming months and are only waiting for the right time. Since the death of Michael Jackson the fans have been involved in a great drama and A& E respects the wishes of the genuine Jackson Fans.

"Everyone wants to create a show that is very genuine," stated executive producer Jodi Gomes of Point 7 Entertainment. "They are not ashamed to talk about his brother, just want to find a way to do it honestly," he said.

Chrisette Michele is talented!

I just heard a few samplers by Chrisette Michele on Myspace. I am surprised that she has a range that most of the artists of current day seem to be missing. I also like teh fcat that she doesnot resort to the reverb sound that has become so annoying because of the hip-hop scene that has become so generic that I sometimes have a tough time differenciating work of one artist from another. 

Power to her... I am gonna go out and buy her music if it is in local stors elese Amazon here I come....