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Starlight (Joan Armatrading Album)
''Starlight'' is the eighteenth studio album by British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading, and was released in 2012 as a digital album on the Hypertension label, (HYP 12287) and then as a CD in 2013 on the 429 Records (FTN 17925) and Savoy labels. The album was recorded at Bumpkin Studios, Armatrading's own purpose-built studio. Background ''Starlight'' was recorded during 2011 and is the final album in a trilogy of albums by Armatrading each concerned with a specific musical genre. The first two albums, ''Into the Blues'' and ''This Charming Life'', focused on blues and rock music respectively, and ''Starlight'' was written as an "out and out jazz album". The idea of writing three albums concerned with specific genres grew out of Armatrading's 2003 album ''Lovers Speak''. Armatrading produced the album, wrote and arranged all the songs and plays all the instruments. Reception James Christopher Monger of AllMusic commented that ''Starlight'' "offers up a luxurious set of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Joan Armatrading
Joan Anita Barbara Armatrading, (, born 9 December 1950) is a Kittitian-English singer-songwriter and guitarist. A three-time Grammy Award nominee, Armatrading has also been nominated twice for BRIT Awards as Best Female Artist. She received an Ivor Novello Award for Outstanding Contemporary Song Collection in 1996. In a recording career spanning nearly 50 years, Armatrading has released 20 studio albums, as well as several live albums and compilations. Early life Joan Armatrading, the third of six children, was born in 1950 in the town of Basseterre in what was then the British colony Saint Christopher and Nevis. Her father was a carpenter and her mother a housewife. When she was three years old, her parents moved with their two eldest boys to Birmingham in England, sending Joan to live with her grandmother on the Caribbean island of Antigua. In early 1958, at the age of seven, she joined her parents in Brookfields, then a district of Birmingham. (The area, now mostly demoli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz
Jazz is a music genre that originated in the African-American communities of New Orleans, Louisiana in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, with its roots in blues and ragtime. Since the 1920s Jazz Age, it has been recognized as a major form of musical expression in traditional and popular music. Jazz is characterized by swing and blue notes, complex chords, call and response vocals, polyrhythms and improvisation. Jazz has roots in European harmony and African rhythmic rituals. As jazz spread around the world, it drew on national, regional, and local musical cultures, which gave rise to different styles. New Orleans jazz began in the early 1910s, combining earlier brass band marches, French quadrilles, biguine, ragtime and blues with collective polyphonic improvisation. But jazz did not begin as a single musical tradition in New Orleans or elsewhere. In the 1930s, arranged dance-oriented swing big bands, Kansas City jazz (a hard-swinging, bluesy, improvisationa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live At The Royal Albert Hall (Joan Armatrading Album)
''Live at the Royal Albert Hall'' is a live album by the British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading. It was recorded live on tour in 2010 and 2011, following the release of Armatrading's seventeenth studio album ''This Charming Life''. The album was released as a digital album, CD and DVD by 429 Records / Savoy Jazz (FTN17814). Background The CD version of ''Live at the Royal Albert Hall'' contains 15 of the 21 songs from the tour's set list, and was recorded live at the Royal Albert Hall in London. The DVD version of the album contains all 21 songs and was also recorded at the Royal Albert Hall, with additional footage of recordings from concerts in Denver, Colorado. The album presents the concert as it happened, with no overdubs or additions. Since this album was recorded from the tour following the release of ''This Charming Life'', many of the songs on it are from that album. ''Live at the Royal Albert Hall'' consists of six songs from ''This Charming Life'' and three son ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Into The Blues
''Into the Blues'' is the sixteenth studio album by British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading, released on 1 May 2007. The album was recorded by Armatrading at Bumpkin Studios, her own purpose-built studios. It was released on the 429 label (17625) and on the Hypertension label (HYP 7255). The album was released in 2008 as a deluxe edition, with a DVD. Background ''Into the Blues'' was the first of a trilogy of albums by Armatrading each concerned with a specific genre of music. She wrote and produced three albums focused on blues, rock and jazz music, respectively. She described ''Into the Blues'' as "the CD I've been promising myself to write for a long time". Writing a whole album in one genre was a departure for Armatrading, as all her previous albums had an eclectic mix of influences from many genres. Blues-inspired music features on many Armatrading albums, as far back as her 1976 album ''Joan Armatrading'', though ''Into the Blues'' is her first album to concentrate s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
This Charming Life
''This Charming Life'' is the seventeenth studio album by British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading, and was released on 30 March 2010. The album was recorded during 2009 by Armatrading at Bumpkin Studios, her own purpose-built studios, and mastered at Metropolis Studios. It was released on the 429 label (Catalogue number: 17760) and the Hypertension label (HYP 10272). Armatrading's third live album '' Live at the Royal Albert Hall'' was recorded as part of the tour that accompanied the release of ''This Charming Life''. Background ''This Charming Life'' is the second of a trilogy of albums by Armatrading each concerned with a specific genre of music. She wrote and produced three albums focused on blues, rock and jazz music respectively, and ''This Charming Life'' is the second of these, and is an album that focuses on "guitar-driven rock"Donelan, Charles (5 August 2010).Joan Armatrading Comes to the Lobero. ''Santa Barbara Independent''. Retrieved 24 May 2015 Armatrading ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lancashire Telegraph
The ''Lancashire Telegraph'', formerly the ''Lancashire Evening Telegraph'', is a local tabloid newspaper distributed in East Lancashire, England. It is edited by Karl Holbrook. There are around twenty towns in the area, including Blackburn, Burnley, Accrington, Darwen, Nelson, Clitheroe, Colne, and Rawtenstall. The editor is Karl Holbrook, who is also the group editor of Newsquest's newspaper brands across Lancashire and Greater Manchester, including The Bolton News, Bury Times, The Oldham Times and Salford City News. The newspapers are owned by Newsquest, a division of Gannett, a firm based in the United States. History The newspaper was founded by Thomas Purvis Ritzema, a young newspaper manager, who purchased two shops at 19 and 21 Railway Road, Blackburn, for the launch of his venture. The first copy appeared on the streets on 26 October 1886, and sold for a ha’penny. It was known then as the ''Northern Daily Telegraph'', and it was the first evening newspaper to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lovers Speak
''Lovers Speak'' is the fifteenth studio album by British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading, and was released on 25 March 2003. Three tracks from the album ("Lovers Speak", "Love Bug" and "Crazy for You") were released by Telstar on 10 March 2003 as a sampler. Background ''Lovers Speak'' was the first studio album released by Armatrading in eight years, following the 1995 release of ''What's Inside''. At the time of this album's release she was no longer attached to a major record label – she had spent 18 years with A&M and had then released one album through RCA. All the songs on ''Lovers Speak'' were written, arranged and produced by Armatrading, and recorded at G2 Music. The album was released on 25 March 2003 by Denon Music (DEN 17185), part of the Savoy Label Group. Armatrading plays all the instruments on the album apart from drums, and brass on two of the tracks. Containing fourteen songs and running at nearly 51 minutes, the album is the longest studio album Armatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HuffPost
''HuffPost'' (formerly ''The Huffington Post'' until 2017 and sometimes abbreviated ''HuffPo'') is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions. The site offers news, satire, blogs, and original content, and covers politics, business, entertainment, environment, technology, popular media, lifestyle, culture, comedy, healthy living, women's interests, and local news featuring columnists. It was created to provide a progressive alternative to the conservative news websites such as the Drudge Report. The site offers content posted directly on the site as well as user-generated content via video blogging, audio, and photo. In 2012, the website became the first commercially run United States digital media enterprise to win a Pulitzer Prize. Founded by Andrew Breitbart, Arianna Huffington, Kenneth Lerer, and Jonah Peretti, the site was launched on May 9, 2005 as a counterpart to the Drudge Report. In March 2011, it was acquired by AOL for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All Music Guide and AMG) is an American online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands. Initiated in 1991, the database was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne. History AllMusic was launched as ''All Music Guide'' by Michael Erlewine, a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as the dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard. After buying it he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan, he founded ''All Music Guide' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Show Some Emotion (album)
''Show Some Emotion'' is the fourth studio album by British singer-songwriter Joan Armatrading, released in 1977 on A&M. It reached No. 6 on the UK Albums Chart, No. 52 on the US ''Billboard'' 200 albums chart, and No. 18 on the Australian Kent Music Report albums chart. Armatrading's 1979 live album '' Steppin' Out'' contains two tracks from ''Show Some Emotion'', "Mama Mercy" and "Kissin' and a Huggin'". Reception In a review for AllMusic, Dave Connolly wrote that he did not enjoy the album as much as her previous self-titled album, declaring that much of it was "like outtakes from that effort". He criticised the lyrics and arrangements, as well as the track placement. However, he praised "Show Some Emotion" and "Willow" as highlights. Robert Christgau, on the other hand, called Armatrading "sometimes funny, always real, and never ever pretentious", but wrote that "most of the meaning of the ordinary-plus lyrics is conveyed by stance and nuance". ''Trouser Pre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bass Guitar (magazine)
''Bass Guitar'' is a UK-based music magazine established in 2003 and continuing to the present day. The magazine was originally a bi-monthly publication until 2009 when it became monthly. The magazine has featured articles and tuition columns from a long list of world-renowned bassists, including Nick Beggs, pop and progressive rock veteran; Jeff Berlin, jazz legend; Steve Lawson, solo artist; Alex Webster of Cannibal Corpse; Suzy Starlite of the Starlite Campbell Band; Paolo Gregoletto of Trivium; Michael McKeegan of Therapy?; Ruth Goller, jazz educator and session bassist; and Paul Geary, session bassist with George Michael, Lisa Stansfield, Westlife and many others. In 2016, the magazine was bought by Future Publishing, which acquired the American Bass Player magazine ''Bass Player'' is a magazine for bassists. Each issue offers a variety of artist interviews, lessons, and equipment reviews. The magazine was founded in 1988 as a spinoff of ''Guitar Player'' magazine, wi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Scottish Daily Express
The ''Daily Express'' is a national daily United Kingdom middle-market newspaper printed in tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid format. Published in London, it is the flagship of Express Newspapers, owned by publisher Reach plc. It was first published as a broadsheet in 1900 by Sir Arthur Pearson, 1st Baronet, Sir Arthur Pearson. Its sister paper, the ''Sunday Express'', was launched in 1918. In June 2022, it had an average daily circulation of 201,608. The paper rose to become the largest circulation newspaper in the world under Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook, going from 2 million in the 1930s to 4 million in the 1940s. It was acquired by Richard Desmond's company Northern & Shell in 2000. Hugh Whittow was the editor from February 2011 until he retired in March 2018. In February 2018 Trinity Mirror acquired the ''Daily Express'', and other publishing assets of Northern & Shell, in a deal worth £126.7 million. To coincide with the purchase the Trinity Mirror group changed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
