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Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young

For individual discographies, see main entries on David Crosby, Stephen Stills, Graham Nash, and Neil Young.
See also Crosby & Nash and Stills-Young Band for duo discographies.

updated 2012-04-18 18:43:03

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Dierks Bentley Grammy Presenter

Dierks Bentley was born on November 20, 1975 and grew up in Phoenix, Arizona. At 19, he moved to Nashville to pursue a career in country music. He grew disheartened when he failed to attract any significant public or professional interest. He secured a job at the Nashville Network doing research on classic country performances. 

In 2003, Capitol Records heard Dierks' music, signed him, and released his self-titled debut album Dierks Bentley. In 2005, his second album, Modern Day Drifter, became a Top Ten hit. Since then, Dierks Bentley has released four more albums, Long Trip Home in 2006, Greatest Hits: Every Mile a Memory in 2008, Feel That Fire in 2009, and Up on the Ridge in 2010 which has been nominated for Best Country Album for the 2011 Grammy awards. 

http://www.cmt.com/artists/az/bentley_dierks/bio.jhtml  http://www.grammy.com/nominees 

updated 2011-02-11 22:36:10

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Bob Porter (record producer)

Bob Porter is an American record producer, discographer, writer, radio disc jockey and sound engineer. He has been responsible for remastering many classic blues and jazz recordings, and in 2009 was inducted into the Blues Hall of Fame.

He has five Grammy nominations, and has won two Grammy Awards. Bob Porter's first Grammy Award was in 1980 for his liner notes for The Complete Charlie Parker on the Savoy Records label. Bob Porter's second Grammy Award was in 1986 as Re-issue producer for Atlantic Rhythm & Blues. He is a past member of the nominating committee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He has been a Master of Ceremony at the Chicago Blues Festival since 1990.

Bob Porter has written liner notes for more than three hundred albums of jazz and blues. He has published articles in a wide variety of magazinees including Down Beat and Cash Box. He has also contributed expertise to organizations including the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences.

Since the 1960s he has produced more than 200 albums of jazz and blues music. He first worked as a reissue producer for Savoy Records, 1975-80, and then Atlantic Records, 1986-91.Profile at Jazz88 FM He has subsequently worked for many other record labels. It has been said that "The result of his painstaking efforts is the restoration of much of the 20th century's most indelible music, now preserved for future generations and sounding better than ever before."

In 1981 he started ...

updated 2010-07-16 23:35:23

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Ronnie Milsap

updated 2010-07-17 20:34:52

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Toots and the Maytals

Covers

• The Clash, Jack Johnson, The Specials, Robert Palmer (on the album of the same name), and The Oppressed, have all covered "Pressure Drop". Izzy Stradlin also recorded a version of the song with his sometime band, the Ju Ju Hounds.
• The Specials, Reel Big Fish, Los Pericos, Big D and the Kids Table, Amy Winehouse, Melt Banana, No Doubt and Ore Ska Band have all covered "Monkey Man".
• The Australian musician Xavier Rudd covered "Famine".
• "54-46 That's My Number" was covered by Sublime, Ernest Ranglin and Fermín Muguruza, plus the chorus is often played live by The Trews, in an extended version of their own song, "Tired of Waiting".
• 311 covered "Reggae Got Soul" on the soundtrack to the animated film, Surf's Up.
• "Bam Bam" has been covered by several artists, including Chaka Demus.

Samples

• The Manchester based band Sonic Boom Six sampled "Funky Kingston", for their song "Monkey See, Monkey Do", on the 2005 Champion Edition of their album, Sounds to Consume.

Soundtrack appearances

• "Bam Bam" featured on the soundtrack to the film, CountrymanAmazon.co.uk - Countryman soundtrack
• "Reggae Got Soul" was featured on the soundtrack to Surf's Up.
• "Funky Kingston" and "Pressure Drop" were featured on the reggae radio station, K-JAH Radio West in the video game, Grand Theft Auto San Andreas, released in October 2004.
• "Funky Kingston" was also featured in the video game, Scarface: The World Is Yours.
• Shane Meadows 2007 film, This Is England, featured the songs "Louie Louie ...

updated 2010-07-18 00:50:37

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Mary Mary

List of awards and nominations received by Mary Mary

updated 2010-07-17 14:52:41

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Julie Andrews Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award

In 1964, Andrews won a Grammy award for Best Recording For Children. She received the award for her performance as the lead character in Mary Poppins.http://www.grammy.com/news/lifetime-achievement-award-julie-andrews 

Mary Poppins was released by the Walt Disney Studios in California.  The movie also starred Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson and Glynis Johns.  In addition to Julie Andrews' Grammy, the movie Mary Poppins also won a Grammy for Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television Show.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0058331/awards   

updated 2011-02-14 03:43:01

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Randy Brecker

As leader

• Child Is Father To The Man - Blood Sweat & Tears (1968) Columbia
• Score (1969) Blue Note
• In Pursuit Of The 27th Man - Horace Silver Quintet (1972) Blue Note
• Berlin - Lou Reed (1973) RCA
• Get Your Wings - Aerosmith (1974)
• The Brecker Brothers (1975) Arista
• Back To Back - The Brecker Brothers (1976) Arista
• Don't Stop The Music - The Brecker Brothers(1977) Arista
• The Atlantic Family Live In Montreaux (1977)
• Heavy Metal Bebop The Brecker Brothers (1978) Arista
• Invitation - Jaco Pastorius(1979)
• Detente - The Brecker Brothers (1980) Arista
• Straphangin' - The Brecker Brothers (1981) Arista
• Amanda(1985) Passport
• In the Idiom (1986) Denon
• Live at Sweet Basil (1988) GNP Crescendo
• Toe to Toe (1990) MCA
• Return Of The Brecker Brothers - The Brecker Brothers (1992) GRP
• Out Of The Loop - The Brecker Brothers (1994)GRP
• Into the Sun (1995)Concord Jazz
• A Prescription For The Blues - Horace Silver Quintet (1997) Impulse!Verve Music Group - Artists
• Katewalk - Lew Del Gatto (1997) Naxos Jazz
• Hangin' in the City (2001) ESC
• 34th N Lex (2003) ESC
• Some Skunk Funk" (2006) BHM
• Some Skunk Funk - with Michael Brecker (2005) Telarc
• Box Of Photographs (2005) - Johnny Rodgers & The Johnny Rodgers Band
• Unprecedented Clarity - Pitch Pine Project with Randy Brecker (2007) Challenge Records
• Randy in Brasil (2008) Summit/MAMA Records

As sideman

With Arkadia Jazz All Stars

• Thank You, Joe!

updated 2010-07-17 19:47:00

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Eric Idle

Idle in recent years has been criticised for commercializing the legacy of Monty Python. In Slate, Sam Anderson wrote in the article "And Now For Something Completely Deficient" that though Idle "has earned a spot in Comedy Heaven for his Python days...his jokey "exposure" of his own exploitation (he has called tours "Eric Idle Exploits Monty Python" and "The Greedy Bastard Tour") is more irritating than funny." Of Spamalot, Anderson opined that "Python was formed in reaction to exactly the kind of lazy comedy represented by Spamalot — what Michael Palin once described as the 'easy, catch-phrase reaction' the members had all been forced to pander to in their previous writing jobs".

Spamalot has had mixed reactions from the other Python members. Terry Jones described it as “utterly pointless and full of air”. Cleese lent his support by voicing God in a recorded performance that was integrated into the musical. Palin observed: "It's a great show. It’s not ‘Python’ as we would have written it. But then, none of us would get together and write a ‘Python’ stage show." Terry Gilliam displayed a mixed reaction to the show, calling it "Python-like".Terry Gilliam Quick Stop Entertainment Interview

In 1998, Idle appeared in the lead role in the film Burn Hollywood Burn. The film was nominated as 'Worst Picture of the Decade' in the Golden Raspberry Awards (known as the Razzies) — and was awarded five Razzies including 'Worst Picture of the Year'.

In 2000 The AV Club gave the ...

updated 2010-07-17 04:33:33

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