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Twenty (The Rippingtons Song)
''20th Anniversary'' is The Rippingtons' fourteenth album, which was released in 2006. As the title states, this album commemorates the band's 20 years performing together. Track listing Packaged with the album is a DVD which contains a 25-minute retrospective, as well as four music videos: #"Tourist in Paradise" (from '' Tourist in Paradise'') #"Curves Ahead" (from '' Curves Ahead'') #"High Roller" (from '' Live in L.A.'') #"I'll Be Around" (from ''Sahara The Sahara (, ) is a desert spanning across North Africa. With an area of , it is the largest hot desert in the world and the list of deserts by area, third-largest desert overall, smaller only than the deserts of Antarctica and the northern Ar ...'') References The Rippingtons albums 2006 albums {{2000s-jazz-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Rippingtons
The Rippingtons are an American contemporary jazz group, mainly relating to the genres smooth jazz, jazz fusion, jazz pop, and crossover jazz. Formed in 1985 by guitarist and band leader Russ Freeman, their career has spanned more than three decades. With a revolving door of musicians, Freeman has been the only consistent member. Many of their songs have been featured in the "Local on the 8s" forecast segments on ''The Weather Channel''. The band's mascot is a grinning, sunglasses-wearing jazz cat, which appears in the artwork of all the band's releases and on their official website. Current members * Russ Freeman — guitar, keyboards and programming *Dave Karasony — drums *Bill Heller — pianoRico Belled— bass * Brandon Fields — saxophone Past members have included bassists Kim Stone, 1990–2008, Steve Bailey and Bill Lanphier; saxophone players Jeff Kashiwa, Paul Taylor, Eric Marienthal, Kenny G, Kirk Whalum, and Nelson Rangell; pianists/keyboard players Dave K ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Modern Art (Rippingtons Album)
''Modern Art'' is the Rippingtons' fifteenth album, released in 2009. The album is the first Rippingtons album to not feature a hand percussion player. Guitarist/bandleader Russ Freeman cited a desire to explore the possibilities of a smaller ensemble.Archived aGhostarchiveand thWayback Machine Track listing All songs composed by Russ Freeman, except where noted. #"Modern Art" - 4:17 #"Paris Groove" - 3:39 #"Black Book" - 3:59 #"Pastels on Canvas" (Freeman, Yaredt Leon) - 4:54 #"One Step Closer" - 4:41 #"I Still Believe" (Freeman, Leon) - 4:38 #"Body Art" - 4:40 #"Age of Reason" - 4:28 #"Sweet Lullaby" (Freeman, Leon) - 4:22 #"Jet Set" - 4:14 #"Love Story" - 4:03 #"Twist of Fate" - 3:27 (iTunes only) Personnel The Rippingtons * Russ Freeman – keyboards, guitars, electric sitar, bass and rhythm programming * Bill Heller – keyboards, accordion * Rico Belled – bass * Dave Karasony – drums * Jeff Kashiwa – saxophones, EWI With: * Rick Braun – trumpet (11) P ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sahara (Rippingtons Album)
''Sahara'' is the eighth album by American Jazz group The Rippingtons, released in 1994 on the GRP label. The album reached number two on ''Billboard'''s contemporary Jazz chart. It is also the first of two studio albums to be released under the name ''Russ Freeman & The Rippingtons'', with the next being ''Brave New World''. Track listing All tracks written by Russ Freeman except where noted. #"Native Sons of a Distant Land" – 4:47 #"True Companion" – 4:26 #" I'll Be Around" (Phil Hurtt, Thomas Bell) – 4:04 #"Principles of Desire" – 4:41 #"Sahara" – 5:01 #"'Til We're Together Again" – 5:17 #"The Best Is Yet to Come" – 4:59 #"Journey's End" – 3:13 #"Girl With the Indigo Eyes" – 4:49 #"Porscha" – 4:49 Personnel The Rippingtons * Russ Freeman – keyboards, acoustic guitars (1, 2, 5, 6), electric guitars (1, 2, 5-7, 9), 12-string guitar (1, 2, 5), mandolin (2), bass (2-4, 9), guitars (3, 4, 10), rhythm programming (3, 4, 9), baritone guitar (5, 8), percuss ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live In L
Live may refer to: Arts, entertainment, and media Films * ''Live!'' (2007 film), 2007 American film * ''Live'' (2014 film), a 2014 Japanese film * ''Live'' (2023 film), a Malayalam-language film *'' Live: Phát Trực Tiếp'', a Vietnamese-language film * ''Live'' (Apocalyptica DVD) Music *Live (band), American alternative rock band * List of albums titled ''Live'' Extended plays * ''Live EP'' (Anal Cunt album) * ''Live EP'' (Breaking Benjamin EP) * ''Live'' (Roxus EP) * ''Live'' (The Smithereens EP) *''CeCe Peniston (EP Live)'' *''Ozzy Osbourne Live E.P.'', 1980 *''Live EP (Live at Fashion Rocks)'', by David Bowie * ''Live EP'' (The Jam EP) Songs * "Live" (Russian song) * "Live" (Superfly song) * "Live" (The Merry-Go-Round song) *"Live", by B'z from ''Highway X'', 2022 Radio *BBC Radio 5 Live *CILV-FM, branded LiVE 88.5, a radio station in Ottawa, Canada Television * ''Live'' (South Korean TV series), a 2018 South Korean television series *''Live'' (Danish TV series) *Live! ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curves Ahead
''Curves Ahead'' is the fifth album by the American Jazz group The Rippingtons, released in 1991 for the GRP label. This album reached #1 on ''Billboard'''s contemporary Jazz chart. Track listing All tracks written by Russ Freeman. #"Curves Ahead" - 5:39 #"Aspen" - 5:28 #"Santa Fe Trail" - 5:14 #"Take Me With You" - 5:34 #"North Star" - 5:24 #"Miles Away" - 5:17 #"Snowbound" - 4:51 #"Nature of the Beast" - 6:21 #"Morning Song" - 4:09 Personnel The Rippingtons * Russ Freeman – keyboards, acoustic guitar (1, 3, 6, 7), electric guitar (1, 2, 5-8), guitar synthesizer (1, 8), horn arrangements (1, 3), bass (3-7), classical guitar (4, 9), steel-string guitar (9) * Mark Portmann – acoustic piano (2, 4, 9), keyboards (8) * Kim Stone – bass (1, 2, 8) * Tony Morales – drums (1-4, 6, 7, 9) * Steve Reid – congas (1, 3-9), blocks (1, 4), udus (1), shakers (1, 2, 4, 6, 7, 9), Chinese bells (1), Japanese bells (1), jingle stick (1), caxixi (1, 8), toys (1, 3, 6, 8, 9), pe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tourist In Paradise
''Tourist in Paradise'' is the third album by the American Jazz group The Rippingtons, released in 1989 for the GRP label. The album is primarily the work of Russ Freeman, who acted as producer, arranger, and composer. Tourist in Paradise reached #4 on ''Billboard'''s Jazz chart. Track listing All tracks composed by Russ Freeman except where noted #"Tourist in Paradise" - 5:39 #"Jupiter's Child" - 5:17 #"Aruba!" - 4:15 #"One Summer Night in Brazil" - 6:28 #"Earthbound" - 4:37 #" Let's Stay Together" ( Willie Mitchell, Al Green, Al Jackson) - 4:47 #"One Ocean Way" - 4:19 #"Destiny" - 5:40 #"The Princess" - 3:08 Personnel The Rippingtons * Russ Freeman – synthesizers, acoustic guitar, electric guitar, guitar synthesizer, programming, Linn 9000 drum programming, arrangements * Steve Bailey – bass * Tony Morales – cymbals and hi-hat (1-3, 5, 6, 8), drums (4, 7, 9) * Steve Reid – percussion, soundscapes * Brandon Fields – alto saxophone (1, 2, 5-9), soprano sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'll Be Around (The Spinners Song)
"I'll Be Around" is a song recorded by the American R&B vocal group The Spinners (known as "Detroit Spinners" in the UK). It was co-written by Thom Bell and Phil Hurtt and produced by Bell. Recorded at Philadelphia's Sigma Sound Studios, the house band MFSB provided the backing. The production of the song gives it a smooth, mid-tempo feel, with the signature guitar riff (in octaves) played by Norman Harris at the forefront and punctuation from female background singers, the MFSB horns & strings and conga-playing from Larry Washington. Bobby Smith handles lead vocals on the song. The song was included on the group's 1973 self-titled album on Atlantic Records, their first album release for the label. It was initially released as the B-side of the group's first single on Atlantic Records, with " How Could I Let You Get Away" being the A-side. Radio deejays, however, soon opted for "I'll Be Around" which led to Atlantic flipping the single over and the song became an unexpected ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AllMusic
AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG) is an American online database, online music database. It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on Musical artist, musicians and Musical ensemble, 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 compact discs (CDs) replaced LP record, LPs and cassette (format), cassettes 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 res ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wild Card (Rippingtons Album)
''Wild Card'' is The Rippingtons' thirteenth album, which was released in 2005. Track listing Personnel The Rippingtons * Russ Freeman – keyboards, guitars, rhythm programming, arrangements (1-7, 9-13) * Bill Heller – keyboards, acoustic piano * Kim Stone – bass * Dave Karasony – drums * Scott Breadman – percussion * Eric Marienthal – saxophones Additional personnel * Bill Reichenbach Jr. – trombone * Gary Grant – trumpet * Jerry Hey – trumpet * Ralph Sutton – arrangements (8) * Lloyd Talbot – arrangements (8) * Albita Rodriguez – lead vocals (3) * Asdru Sierra – backing vocals (3) * Sheffer Bruton – backing vocals (3) * Willy Chirino – lead and backing vocals (6) * Chanté Moore Chanté Torrane Moore (born February 17, 1967) is an American singer, songwriter, record producer, television personality, and author. The first signee with record executive Louis Silas, Jr.'s Silas Records, she rose to prominence with her debu ... – le ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smooth Jazz
Smooth jazz is commercially oriented crossover jazz music. Although often described as a "genre", it is a debatable and highly controversial subject in jazz music circles. As a radio format, however, smooth jazz radio became the successor to easy listening music on radio station programming from the mid-1970s through the early 1990s. History Smooth jazz may be thought of as commercially-oriented, crossover jazz which came to prominence in the 1980s, displacing the more venturesome jazz fusion from which it emerged. It avoids the improvisational "risk-taking" of jazz fusion, emphasizing melodic form, and much of the music was initially "a combination of jazz with easy-listening pop music and lightweight R&B." During the mid-1970s in the United States, it was known as "smooth radio"; the genre was not termed "smooth jazz" until the 1980s. The term itself seems to have been birthed directly out of radio marketing efforts. In an industry focus group in the late 1980s, one pa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Wexler
Mark Simon Wexler (born 1955) is an American documentary filmmaker and photojournalist. Family His father, Haskell Wexler, was a cinematographer and filmmaker who won two Oscars. His mother, Marian Witt-Wexler, was a painter. Wexler's half-brother Jeff Wexler is an Oscar-nominated sound mixer. Actress Daryl Hannah and film director Tanya Wexler are cousins via his uncle Jerrold Wexler, a Chicago Real Estate Developer. Personal life Wexler was born in Chicago, but grew up in Hollywood, California. He majored in cultural anthropology in college. People Magazine named him one of America's 100 Most Eligible Bachelors. The Washington Post dubbed him "our latter-day Phileas Fogg" following publication of his Los Angeles Times article "True Confessions of a Mileage Maniac" about his 30-day global circumnavigation, entirely financed with Frequent Flier miles. The accompanying self portraits were published in The Smithsonian Air & Space Magazine. Wexler was interviewed live on The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Steve Sykes
Steve is a masculine given name, usually a short form (hypocorism) of Steven or Stephen. Notable people A–D * Steve Abbott (other), several people * Steve Abel (born 1970), New Zealand politician * Steve Adams (other), several people * Steve Addabbo, American record producer, songwriter and audio engineer * Steve Agee (born 1969), American comedian, actor, writer and musician * Steve Agnew (born 1965), English football coach and former professional football player * Steve Alaimo (1939–2024), American singer, record & TV producer, label owner * Steve Albini (1961–2024), American musician, record producer, audio engineer, and music journalist * Steve Allen (1921–2000), American television personality, musician, composer, comedian and writer * Steve Allrich, American screenwriter and painter * Steve Alten (born 1959), American science-fiction author * Steve Anthony (born 1959), Canadian former broadcaster * Steve Anthony (wrestler) (born 1977), America ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
