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Lynne Arriale's Biography

By lynne, 2009-06-08

Motema Music proudly announces the release of LYNNE ARRIALE’S “NUANCE – The Bennett Studio Sessions” – featuring RANDY BRECKER, GEORGE MRAZ and ANTHONY PINCIOTTI, on-sale May, 2009. In a departure from her ten previous trio recordings, leader/composer/arranger Arriale is collaborating with an extraordinary new lineup of iconic musicians: Grammy winning Randy Brecker on trumpet/flugelhorn; jazz legend George Mraz on bass; and critically-acclaimed Pinciotti on drums. More information @ <a href="http://www.motema.com/">www.Motema.com</a>, and at <a href="http://www.lynnearriale.com/">www.lynnearriale.com</a>. 
The project was recorded at the multi-Grammy and Emmy Award winning BENNETT STUDIOS, just outside New York City, and includes video documentation of “behind the scenes” footage of the CD recording, a bonus DVD program of a live, private, “in-studio” audience concert, and up-close and personal interviews with each artist. The release displays a new creative direction for Arriale, as she continues her illustrious musical journey which began with a ten year run of her celebrated trio and continues to garner praise as ‘one of the most empathetic’ groups in jazz.  This release, with iconic jazz masters Brecker and Mraz, brings even more heightened originality to Arriale’s sound as evidenced in her six powerful, new compositions and uniquely inspired arrangements of covers by composers as disparate as Sting, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie and Tommy Wolf. 
“This is music that really transports the listener into the wondrous world of Lynne’s imagination,” said Jana Herzen, President of Motéma Music. “I’m proud to say it is really like no other jazz record I have ever heard.  What I find most interesting is, if you check out the DVD interviews, Randy and George - these iconic jazz stars who have recorded over 1000 records between them -  are so taken with Lynne’s completely singular approach to composing and recording. I believe this will be a very powerful record for the label and look forward to sharing it with the world.”  
“It’s all about the ‘Nuance,’ and that’s what we went for,” said Randy Brecker, working with Arriale here, for the first time. “She knows how to tug at the heartstrings (and) I don’t think I can compare her to anyone…her music transcends jazz. It’s just pure music.” 
The full track list for Nuance, a CD & DVD set, includes: Wrapped Around Your Finger (Sting); I Mean You (Thelonious Monk); Longing (Lynne Arriale); Crawfish & Gumbo (Lynne Arriale); Ballad of the Sad Young Men (Tommy Wolf); Carry On (Lynne Arriale); La Noche (Lynne Arriale); Yada Yada Yada (Lynne Arriale); I Hear A Rhapsody (J. Baker, G. Fragos & D. Gasparre); A Night In Tunisia (Dizzy Gillespie) and A Gentle Soul (Lynne Arriale).  
Arriale has been capturing the imaginations of jazz and mainstream music lovers with her outstanding CD / DVD recordings and sold out performances for nearly 20 years. She has been critically acclaimed as having a ‘singular voice’ as a pianist, leader, composer, arranger and for “putting the heart back into jazz” (London Times). Arriale’s consistently excellent recordings have topped every notable jazz chart. With back to back #1 Jazz Week radio hits, a #17 debut on Billboard’s Jazz Chart, the top ten “Best Of” lists for The New Yorker, United Press International and a two time winner of The German Record Critics Association, Arriale has earned her place among elite international artists. Further evidence of her increasingly mainstream status includes her being featured on the PBS nationally televised program, Profile of a Recording Artist, and on multiple NPR programs including Weekend Edition, Jazz Set, and Piano Jazz with Marion McPartland. 
Arriale’s last release, LIVE (Motéma), recorded by BR-TV at Germany’s oldest and most prestigious jazz event, The Burghausen Jazz Festival, won the 2007 German Record Critics Award for best jazz CD/DVD recording. She has toured Japan with the legendary “100 Golden Fingers” group, sharing the stage with jazz legends Hank Jones, Tommy Flanagan, Kenny Barron, Cedar Walton, Ray Bryant, Junior Mance, Harold Mabern, Roger Kellaway and Monty Alexander. 
In 1993, she earned first place at Jacksonville’s prestigious Great American Jazz Piano Competition. Arriale continues to perform such internationally acclaimed venues as The Spoleto Arts Festival, Ireland’s Cork Jazz Festival, The Montreux Jazz Festival, North Sea Jazz Festival, Pori Jazz Festival, the Burghausen and Stuttgart Jazz Festivals, The Montreal Jazz Festival, The Kennedy Center, Lincoln Center, The Folly Theater, The Gilmore Festival, The Jacksonville Jazz Festival, The San Francisco Jazz Festival, 
the Monterey Jazz Festival and numerous other festivals, concerts and clubs throughout Germany, Switzerland, France, Spain, Italy, Poland, Romania, Norway, The Czech Republic, Ireland, the UK and Australia.
Leading up to the release, Lynne will tour internationally in the United Kingdom, Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Norway, Poland, Austria, and The Netherlands. RANDY BRECKER, who plays flugelhorn and trumpet on NUANCE, has recorded for more than three decades with the likes of Frank Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Steely Dan, James Taylor, David Sanborn, George Benson, Chaka Khan, and Frank Zappa.  GEORGE MRAZ (bass) has recorded and performed with Dizzy Gillespie, Oscar Peterson, Hank Jones, Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Chet Baker, Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton and Tommy Flanagan. ANTHONY PINCIOTTI is a rising star and drum master who is a first-call sideman for such jazz luminaries as James Moody, John Abercrombie, Kenny Werner, Pat Metheny, Mike Stern, Gary Bartz, Marcus Belgrave, Ira Sullivan and Frank Foster. 
Deeply committed to jazz education, Lynne Arriale is currently Assistant Professor of Jazz Piano and Director of the Jazz Combo Program at The University of North Florida at Jacksonville. She also conducts master classes, clinics and workshops internationally for professionals, students and communities at large.
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Motéma Music, founded in 2003 in San Francisco, is now based in Harlem, New York. The company is a division of the Motéma Foundation, a private foundation that is dedicated to promoting excellence and humanity in jazz and other creative art forms that promote harmony and enrich the world around us.  For more information visit <a href="http://www.motema.com/">www.Motema.com</a>.
This CD recording was produced by Lynne Arriale and Suzi Reynolds.  The DVD was produced by Suzi Reynolds of Suzi Reynolds & Associates, LLC. and was made possible, in part, by a grant from Women in Jazz, Inc.
Press Contact:
Patrick Paris – Fifteen Minutes Public Relations
(212) 601-9345 – <a href="mailto:Patrick@fifteenminutes.com">Patrick@fifteenminutes.com</a>

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Charnett Moffett's Biography

By charnett, 2009-06-08

Throughout his 25 years on the scene, Charnett Moffett has been a man on a mission. As he states,"I'm trying to bring people together on the planet through music. That's part of my calling here in life." That sentiment, coupled with his extraordinary virtuosity on the bass, has resulted in a string of superb outings as a leader as well significant contributions to stellar recordings by such jazz luminaries as Ornette Coleman, McCoy Tyner, Herbie Hancock and Wynton Marsalis. On The Art of Improvisation, his 10th as a leader, Moffett explores his creative muse with a pure, free-spirited approach on his three chosen instruments -- upright bass, fretless electric bass guitar and piccolo bass. "Each is a separate voice," explains the innovative, multi-directional bassist and prolific composer. "And when I incorporate the bow or a wah-wah or distortion effects, I can channel even more voices."  Moffett is joined by different special guests from track to track throughout The Art Of Improvisation, including drummers Will Calhoun and Eric McPherson, keyboardist Scott Brown, guitarists Pat Jones and Steve Barnes and trumpeter Robert Joseph Avalon. Angela Moffett appears on the stirring rendition of  "Dreams," reciting the inspiring words of poet Langston Hughes. His son, Charnett Max Moffett, also appears on drums on "Dreams" while the father-son duo is showcased on "Swing Rock" and on the dynamic closer, an electrifying, Hendrix-inspired interpretation of "The Star Spangled Banner."   "I'm just trying to be true to form," Moffett says of this highly eclectic outing. "All you can do is be who you are anyway, so you might as well go ahead and play all of the music that you enjoy. There's a lot of great music out here on the planet. We should use all of it."  Charnett explains that the opening free jazz blowout "Dreams" was inspired by Ornette Coleman's double quartet on the landmark recording Free Jazz. "I wanted to create an atmosphere on that piece which was similar to what I had experienced with him in his Sound Museum band. The other idea behind the piece is you really try to dream whatever your mission is in life, to make the atmosphere work in a more cohesive place. As jazz artists we all have a responsibility, just as doctors and politicians have their responsibilies. It's our job to make sure we're continuing to stimulate the thought process for human beings so that we enlighten our awareness and challenge ourselves to new horizons through different elements of sound." He adds that the spoken word piece from the Langston Hughes poem in this tune is a message "about being tied into the American Dream and to continue to dream as a human being regardless of who you are."  On "Call for Peace," Moffett colors his arco work with wah-wah pedal in a stirring duet with Tibetan vocalist Yun Chen Lhamo. "She's highly respected in many countries and it was an honor to be able to have a musical dialogue with her," says Charnett. "She exemplifies the extraordinary excellence of what I would say is natural purity in a voice without it being superficial or affected in any way. The way she sings and phrases, she's in and out of all the keys at the same time. And when you're playing a fretless instrument that allows you to experiment with those possibilities, you can really get some other nuances and subtleties that you can't accomplish with an instrument like the piano. Because you're bending the notes, which comes from a whole other spectrum of music that is not necessarily Western orientated."  On the title track, a daring solo bass excursion on upright bass, Charnett incorporates an unorthodox technique which has become one of his signatures. By tapping the strings with the bow down by the bridge while fingering notes on the neck of the bass with his left hand, he is able to achieve a tonal percussive effect that is not unlike the Brazilian berimbau or African diddly-bow. "That's originally a classical technique, except they deal with a different part of the bow," he explains. "I just deal with what's comfortable for my hand." He adds that the tune "The Art Of Improvisation" has become an audience favorite in concert. "It's a good expression piece, and I find that when I play it, people always respond to it very positively. It's music for healing, it's a stress-buster. It's more of an organic expression to release a tension, like  meditation, in an abstract way. "  "The Awakening" is a trio piece with pianist Scott Brown and guitarist Pat Jones that features more virtuosic bowing by Charnett on the upright. "On this tune with Scott and Pat it's kind of like a trade that 's going on, like a circle where one guy takes over the line and is expressing his ideas while the others are complementing. So we're going around, supporting each other based off of the theme of the melody. That's inspired by some of the stuff that I heard Stanley Clarke do with Jean-Luc Ponty and Al Di Meola. I guess instinctively it's in me somewhere."  "We Pray" has Charnett creating a low-end choir by layering three separate bass parts and Calhoun supporting with supple brushwork. It's an effect inspired by his recent work with Ornette Coleman. "I was coming off a tour with Ornette where we had three bassists -- me on the upright wah-bass, Al McDowell on fretless electric and Tony Falanga doing some brilliant arco work on upright bass. And this particular tune reflects that whole experience with Ornette. It's my composition with the three different instruments that I like to express my voice in."  "Moses" is a Middle Eastern flavored trio number with pianist Brown and drummer McPherson that features Charnett's considerable slapping-popping technique on fretless electric bass guitar while "Swing Rock" is an energized romp with his son Charnett Max on drums. "That's a real treat," says Charnett of his duo jam with his 20-year-old son. "It's just stuff that we've been doing for years based on the concept freedom and discipline, which is kind of an old philosophy and how we grew up playing in the Moffett Family Band. So for me, that was like having dessert after dinner."   "Enlightenment" is a two-part suite that opens with a graceful, introspective solo bass statement on piccolo bass guitar before heading into a wah-wah-soaked, raga influenced jam on the same instrument with drummer Calhoun in Part 2. "Elements of Life" is a solo upright bass piece that showcases Charnett's formidable pizzicato technique while on "The Story," an explosive duet piece with drummer Will Calhoun, he bears down on the upright with extreme intensity, tapping the strings percussively with the bow while simultaneously utilizing the wah-wah pedal. "I see the wah-wah like the bow," says Charnett. "My bow is a part of my sound. The wah-wah is an extension of my sound and it's close to a voice, especially when you bow it."  The collection closes on a raucous note with an edgy rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" played on fretless electric bass with distortion pedal set on stun and wah-wah pedal fully engaged. It features Moffett's son Charnett Max on drums. "People think I'm playing the anthem for political reasons or whatever, but I just like the song. So it's become my own personal standard and I'm always interested in trying to figure out how many different ways I can interpret it. I've been doing it on the upright but this time I tried to challenge myself and do it on the fretless electric bass, in the tradition of Jaco Pastorius' version of 'America The Beautiful,' where he really had that Hendrix element happening."  Regarding the indelible hookup with his son Charnett Max on The Art Of Improvisation, Moffett says, "It's a real blast playing with him. He seems like he's gotten a lot from his grandfather, which I'm really enjoying. It's like playing with my old man again. The way his whole groove is and everything, it's just amazing how much it reminds me of my dad. There's a lot of telepathy happening there, for obvious reasons, and a deep spiritual connection between us. He keeps such a great legacy going from the musical family which I come from."  On using the three different basses throughout The Art Of Improvisation, Moffett says, "It really freed me up in a lot of ways. I don't think a lot of people realize it but I was actually a trumpet player before I was a bass player. I played trumpet for three or four years before I even picked up the bass so I guess that's where my piccolo bass appetite comes from. The upright is the foundation and my fretless electric bass is dead center from the sounds of the piccolo bass and the upright bass. And when I use wah-wah, I'm just trying to express a voice, like when Miles Davis put his mute in his trumpet. It's just an extension of expressing myself and I'm hearing more of that these days."  Born on June 10, 1967, Charnett's name is a contraction of his father's name (jazz drummer Charles Moffett) and jazz icon Ornette Coleman (whom Charles Moffett played with from 1965-1967). As a child prodigy he started playing bass in the Moffett Family Band at the age of seven and appears on their 1974 self-titled recording LRS Records. One year later he toured Japan with the Moffett Family Band. "Growing up in a musical family has been quite an experience," says Charnett. "My first teacher was my dad. He shared the gift of music with all of us kids. My first instrument was drums, then trumpet, and by age eight I found myself playing the bass with the Moffett Family Band on a tour to the Far East. And it's been an incredible journey since then."  Charnett attended Fiorello H. La Guardia H. S. for the Music and Arts in New York City and later studied at Mannes College of Music and the Juilliard School of Music. In 1983, he played on Branford Marsalis' debut as a leader, Scenes in the City, and the following year he joined the Wynton Marsalis quintet, appearing on 1985's acclaimed Black Codes (From the Underground). During the '80s, he also worked with Stanley Jordan, appearing on the innovative guitarist's 1985 Blue Note debut, Magic Touch, as well as with the Manhattan Jazz Quintet and legendary drummer Tony Williams, appearing on two of the late great drummer's Blue Note recordings, 1987's Civilization and 1988's Angel Street. In 1987, Moffett signed with Blue Note Records and debuted as a leader that year with Beauty Within, which featured his father Charles on drums, older brothers Codaryl on drums and Mondre on trumpet, Kenny Garrett on alto sax and Stanley Jordan on guitar. He followed that up with 1988's Net Man, featuring Michael Brecker, Al Foster, Kenny Drew Jr. and Jordan and in 1991 with Nettwork, his swan song for the label.   In 1993, Charnett recorded Rhythm & Blood for Sweet Basil's Apollon Records. A savvy mix of jazz and pop, it placed high on the music charts in Japan that year. Moffett would subsequently score artistic triumphs on the Evidence label with 1994's Planet Home  (which featured his audacious, electronically enhanced rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" in tribute to Jimi Hendrix's Woodstock showstopper) and 1997's Still Life featuring keyboardist Rachel Z and drummer Cindy Blackman. In 1996, Moffett appeared on two simultaneous releases by Ornette Coleman's Sound Museum -- Hidden Man and Three Women. Another 1997 recording, Acoustic Trio for Teichiku Records, showcased Charnett's innovative acoustic bass playing.  Three other '90s recordings for the Sweet Basil/Evidence label were done under the collective name of General Music Project and featured former Miles Davis alto saxophonist Kenny Garrett, pianists Geri Allen and Cyrus Chestnut and father Charles Sr., who passed away before the group could tour together. Another Charnett recording from 1995, Moffett & Sons, is a collaboration father Charles that also includes appearances from pianist James Williams, saxophonists David Sanchez, Joshua Redman and Bill Pierce, and trumpeters Wallace Roney and Philip Harper. In 2001, Charnett released a potent trio recording with pianist Mulgrew Miller and drummer Lewis Nash, Mr. J.P (a tribute to Jaco Pastorius), for the now-defunct Sweet Basil label in Japan.  In 2003, Charnett played on McCoy Tyner's Telarc recording, Land of the Giants. He has also performed and recorded with such jazz greats as Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Herbie Hancock, Joe Henderson, Frank Lowe, Ellis Marsalis, Mulgrew Miller, Wallace Roney, Pharoah Sanders, Arturo Sandoval, Sonny Sharrock and David Sanborn. He has also performed on various movie soundtracks, including The Last Boy Scout, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Visit and was a featured soloist for The Score. In 2004, he released For The Love Of Peace on Piadrum Records and followed up in 2006 with  Internet on that label. And now comes The Art Of Improvisation, his personal manifesto for the bass and one of his most eclectic outings to date. "I'm just trying to be true to form," says Charnett. "All you can do is be who you are anyway, so you might as well go ahead and play all of the music that you enjoy."

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Painted on Water

By painted, 2009-05-27

PAINTED ON WATER, the self-titled album project by the duo of vocalist Sertab Erener and composer/guitarist Demir Demirkan, is more than a breath of fresh air – it’s one of the year’s unexpected pleasures, a unique excursion through jazz, rock and the duo’s own Turkish musical and cultural heritage. The album is released on Motema Music June 9, 2009.
 
Produced in Los Angeles and Istanbul by Painted on Water’s Demirkan and nine-time Grammy winner Jay Newland (Norah Jones, Herbie Hancock, Charlie Haden, Michael Brecker), PAINTED ON WATER moves in a warm, fluid, and organic way between jazz, modern rock, and pop-flavored vocal compositions featuring Erener’s sensual, evocative lead, and fusion-jazz instrumentals anchored by Demirkan’s guitar.  Each of the album’s songs is inspired by the melodies of Turkish Anatolian classical and folk music, with English lyrics written by Demirkan and by veteran No. 1 songsmith Phil Galdston (Madonna, Celine Dion, Vanessa Williams).  
 
Album opener “Blue” was written by Demirkan for Grammy-winning guest guitarist Al DiMeola, while distinctly modern alternative-rock notes are sounded in the vividly emotional “Nothing But To Pray,” “Love We Made,” and “Before the Night.” The whimsical “One Shot” and “Mad Love” connect folk songs to blues and funk. A suite of instrumentals concludes the album, the swing-influenced “Shehnaz on Shiraz,” “Aegean Bride,” inspired by the reflections of a bride’s father, and the minimal, hypnotic “Habudiyar,” an experimental interpolation of folk material.   
 
Naming their band and the album after the traditional Turkish marbled-paper art known as Ebru, created by floating dyes on the surface of water, PAINTED ON WATER demonstrates the shifting, tangible and intangible qualities of music, emotion and art. The duo’s upcoming American appearances promise to be rich and involving multi-media events, accompanied by a live projected display of Ebru art, created onstage by the master paper-marbling artist Hikmet Barutcugil. Imbued with its many historic sources, the ethos of the album is at once Turkish, and universal: “You and me is a long, long lost story, painted on water,” is a key lyric, notes Demirkan. The concept also expresses that “life is like water, and you put the colors onto it,” adds Erener.
 
“Making Anatolian melodies accessible with English lyrics, and having world-class eastern and western musicians -- these were the fundamentals of the album,” says Demirkan. “Because in Turkish music, all the instruments are playing the same melody, it has no harmony, no chord progressions. We wrote new melodies to harmonize the material, and completed the melodies in a western verse/chorus form. Phil Galdston interpreted the feel of the village dance songs into a contemporary lyric.” 
 
The album’s all-encompassing concept has already been mightily refreshing to long-time followers, says Erener. “We’ve performed twice as Painted On Water for the Turkish audience. They felt this familiar melody, but couldn’t put their finger on the song right away, because of the English lyric.” There’s a feeling of renewal in this new collaboration of longtime partners, adds Demirkan. “Previously, I was Sertab’s songwriter and producer. We set our pop and rock background aside, and this is the first result – not Sertab, or Demir, but a new band.” 
 
Erener and Demirkan are among Turkey’s most celebrated musicians. Erener’s 12 albums have sold in the millions in Turkey, and as far away as Japan. Guitarist, composer and PAINTED ON WATER album co-producer Demirkan became one of Turkey’s true rock stars in the Istanbul heavy metal band Pentagram. He has released three solo albums and two film scores. He and Erener co-wrote the 2003 international hit, “Every Way That I Can,” Turkey’s first and only winner in the history of the Eurovision Song Contest. 
 
Demirkan sums up:  “I believe that we all spoke the same language sometime in the past. Music still has that quality, in melody and rhythm. I think everyone shares that, and it’s the basis of PAINTED ON WATER.”
 
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introduction

By bbf affilliation, 2009-05-20

We're the bbf affilliation the group is made up of a dynamic duo of (rude dee)david walker & rashad (shadi gunn)conners artist and owners of independent label Pinnacle Ent.Our motto is topnotch & hiphop and plan on liveing up to that fully.We use catchy hooks witty hardcore lyrics, hypnotic melodies and trunk rattleing baselines that will make you feel something, depending on what we talking about.we're both in our late twenties,we've been writeing and recording music for over twelve years.we're a totally self contained label that just started at the end of 2007.We're polished performers, professional work ethic and our potential is second to none.

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Project Cure - Better Days

By MagretOB, 2009-05-15

5/15/09 Hello all.  "Better Days" is now available for purchase at www.projectcuremusic.org as part of a benefit CD of 13 artists.  The project will donate all proceeds to: The Immune Deficiency Foundation, National Ataxia Foundation and the United Mitochondrial Disease foundation.  Good causes and hopefully, some folks will be helped by these songs and the money.  Thanks!

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"One More Day" Climbing the charts!

By JayHollis, 2009-05-11

My new single "One More Day" is moving up the Texas music charts! Please visit www.JayHollisMusic.com to read my new blog, see videos and pictures from my radio tour, and to get updates of my tour schedule! You can also find me on Myspace, I-Meem, I-Like, and Twitter!
Jay Hollis

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Donald Norris, Jr. teams with A&R Select

By donaldnorrisjr, 2009-05-02

Los Angeles, CA – To further expand the already growing fan base for his July 2008 album "Good Old Times," songwriter Donald Norris Jr. has joined hands with Los Angeles' premier A&R firm, A&R Select.
 
Donald has released "Good Old Times" to publicize his songwriting and with A&R Select's team and vast industry resources at his disposal, his album is expected to draw attention from all quarters.
 
The album's titular single is a definitive anthem for Norris' songwriting. With a moving mix of Spartan purity and space-filling power, the simple mix of guitar and voice resonates with emotional complexity. On every level, the song "Good Old Times" is a harkening back to the past – but without sacrificing relevance to today's intelligent listener. Yet even in its acoustic element, it boasts hooks and melodies to lure even hi-energy radio pop fiends from the bang of their club beats to Norris' heart-filled powerhouse.
 
Lyrically, the song is rooted in nostalgia. "It expresses how things used to be and brings back memories," says Norris. Stylistically, it also points to an era when songwriting was able to captivate attention without the distraction and sparkle of dance hall textures and loud metal riffs.
 
And the song's honesty and good-naturedness also stand in juxtaposition to the way many artists find self-expression in our post-modern times. The song, says Norris, is making a statement about traditional values and manifests itself "in a way that doesn't present anger, hatred or vulgar language."
 
Norris has been writing music since 2006 and has composed more than 120 songs, five of which have been recorded thus far. "Far Apart" was written in 2006 and recorded and produced by Paramount Group in 2007. "The Hard Life" and "The American Way" were recorded and produced by Paramount Group in 2007, as well. The latest single, "Good Old Times," was recorded in 2008 by Nashville Song Service.
 
Norris is currently seeking publishing and licensing for his music. While an excellent performer in his own right, he also aims to write music for other artists. More information is available by visiting <a href="http://www.msplinks.com/MDFodHRwOi8vd3d3LmFyc2VsZWN0LmNvbQ==">www.arselect.com</a> and www.promofm.com.

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Version 2, CROW!

By Nana_baBa_jaH-aYe, 2009-04-28

....NEW VERSION Crow! here.....
Nana/Stan

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First Album - Catharsis Gallery

By Belizer, 2009-04-24

Well finally it is finished and soon will be available on iTunes, Rhapsody, eMusic, Amazon MP3, Napster, Verizon V-Cast, Liquid Digital Media, PayPlay, AudioLunchbox, GroupieTunes, Ruckus

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Promo Tour Week 1

By JayHollis, 2009-04-12

I am very happy with the way my very first radio promo tour went this last week. I traveled through Texas and Oklahoma hitting radio stations and doing interviews and gave away some free shirts, CD's, and I-Pods! Thank you to the stations and DJ's that were so friendly to me on this tour and allowed me to come and visit. I had a great time. Stop by my website at www.jayhollismusic.com to see pictures and videos from my tour and to see upcoming dates so you can hear me on your radio station. My single is called "One More Day" and I would appreciate your requests!

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