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BMI Songwriters Monty Criswell, Wade Kirby & Rodney Clawson Celebrate I Saw God Today

2008-06-09 19:20:00 by Editor in News
 
...Monty Criswell and Wade Kirby celebrated their first no. 1 hit Wednesday, June 4 amidst friends and family in the organizations Music Row lobby. The pair wrote George Strait s I Saw God Today with friend and fellow BMI hit-maker Rodney Clawson , whose résumé includes no. 1 hits Why by Jason Aldean and Lost in this Moment by Big & Rich A...
 
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Monty Alexander At Blues Alley

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2008-10-03 07:03:08 by Rifftides in Rifftides
...Monty Alexander has arrived at Washington, DC's Blues Alley for a four-night stand. If the US is looking for a source of renewable energy, we need seek no further than the bandstand in that venerable Georgetown jazz joint Gesturing to the wall behind the piano, Alexander told the opening night audience that he was happy to return to Blues...
 
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eBay of the day: Moog Vocoder used by Monty Python

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2008-08-14 13:59:00 by Tom Whitwell in Music Thing
...Monty Python on their 'Contractual Obligation' album. The seller promises 'more collectable audio gear from our Monty Python collection'. Somehow, it's not quite as attractive as Kraftwerk's original vocoder , which sold on eBay for $12,500 in 2006 BONUS: Get extra Music Thing updates at: http://twitter.com/MusicThing or in the sidebar at...
 
Tags: monty python, ebay, monty python collection, moog vocoder, ebay item, collectable audio gear, seller promises, extra music, contractual obligation
 
 
 
 
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DEJF: Yardena @ DC JCC; Monty Alexander @ Blues Alley

2008-10-03 16:32:13 by Michael J. West in Black Plastic Bag
 
...Monty Alexander is an underappreciated pianist: He has a heavy, percussive touch; a love of thick chords; and a vast rhythmic sense encompassing swing, funk, and the Caribbean islands (Alexander is Jamaican). But last night at Blues Alley he was practically a sideman in his own trio His drummer was Herlin Riley , a New Orleans native and...
 
Tags: monty alexander, alexander, monty alexander trio, blues, blues alley, trio, yardena, riley, sad love song
 
 
 
 
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Now's the Time: Monty Alexander

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2008-05-09 09:01:00 by Happy In Bag in Plastic Sax
 
...Monty Alexander will be spectacular in a trio format Saturday night at the Folly Theater. He's an incredibly agile pianist. Still, it's his reggae-oriented work that has most excited me in recent years. Check out the way Alexander breaks it down at the 2:20 mark in this live video. Amazing. And how about the audience's response? Tito Puente...
 
Tags: alexander, monty alexander, alexander breaks, incredibly agile pianist, miss joe klopus, live video, similar reaction, tito puente, folly theater
 
 
 
 
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Sviatoslav Richter Skit from Monty Python

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2008-10-13 00:00:00 by newmusicrebloggers in New Music reBlog
 
Monty Python's skit of pianist and escape artist Sviatoslav Richter playing the Tchaikovsky First Piano Concerto edburner.com/~f/TheCollaborativePianoBlog?a=ydswM
 
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Tonight and Friday: Eric Idle with the Houston Symphony

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2008-07-17 11:00:55 by Chris Gray in Houstoned Rocks
...Monty Python troupe and ace Beatles parody band the Rutles. Idle's latest whimsy is the comic oratorio "Not the Messiah," where he and Spamalot collaborator John du Prez riff on both Handel and Python's 1979 film Monty Python's Life of Brian . An L.A. resident for the past 15 years, the genial Idle spoke with the Press last week while...
 
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Lame Stunt: Clay Aiken in Spamalot

2008-01-17 02:35:35 by HASH0x875e6e4 in Houstoned Rocks
 
...Monty Python and The Holy Grail I received an e-mail from a good friend of mine the other day. A rather anguished e-mail containing only one word and an internet link. The message went like this NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO And this is the link For those of you too lazy to click the link, the story is this: Clay Aiken, who until recently...
 
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Natalie Cole can bite me!

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2008-02-11 10:09:00 by Tonegent in Tonegents
...Monty Alexander doing a bouncy Reggae/Jazz take on the Al Green classic, complete with some nice guitar playing, too Monty Alexander - Love And Happiness (ysi Smooth. And here's an awesome fact about this song from Rolling Stone Guitarist Hodges wrote the urgent, romantic "Love and Happiness" one morning in between having sex with his...
 
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Musical Comedy at Tribute Island

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2008-04-03 13:15:56 by Elrik Merlin in Radio Riel