Primetime [CD-single]

1. Primetime

2. And Weldon Irvine Jr. Moves on..

3. Finite Number of Starz

4. Reasons Being Cheerful #0001: The Bottom

Primetime,Moodswingaz,Beatz to Go,5"CD Singles,Pop,Rap & Hip-Hop,Underground Rap

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hound out

Hound Out
Primetime
Manufacturer: South Coast Music
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
Pop Rap | Rap & Hip-Hop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000055ZCX
Release Date: 2000-12-12

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hound out.......2002-08-21

it was tight to me but other people migth disagree with me but the cd was all that and some the way he talk about lil wayne

Dinner on the Diner: Original Music from the PBS Primetime Series

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The old question of a soundtrack score standing on its own
The old question of a soundtrack score standing on its own

Dinner on the Diner: Original Music from the PBS Primetime Series
Randy Armstrong
Manufacturer: Ellipsis Arts
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Television Soundtracks | Soundtracks | Indie Music | Stores | Music
ASIN: B00004SYD2
Release Date: 2000-05-16

Tracks:

Spain: Baile De Gitano (Gypsy Dance)
Spain: La Alma Desperta (The Soul Awakens)
Spain: Spanish Skies
Spain: Phoenix De Amor
Spain: Romance
Spain: Viaje De Vuelta (Journey Home)
Spain: Al Andalus
Spain: Train To Granada
Spain: Tarifa
Spain: Meditacion
South Africa: Train Across The Savannah
South Africa: South African Sunrise
South Africa: Capetown: The Changing Sands Of Time
South Africa: Prayer For South Africa
South Africa: Singabahambayo
South Africa: Thula Klizeo
South Africa: Ise Oluwa
South Africa: Akiwowo (Chant To The Trainman)
South Africa: Prayer For South Africa, Refrain

Tracks:

Scotland: In And Out The Harbour/Devil In The Kitchen
Scotland: I'm O'er Young
Scotland: I'm O'er Young
Scotland: Cha Till MacCrumein
Scotland: MacPherson's Lament
Scotland: Haslam's Hornpipe
Scotland: The Mathematician
Scotland: Laird O'Drumblair
Scotland: In And Out The Harbour/Devil In The Kitchen
Scotland: My Bonnie Moorhen
Scotland: Honest Poverty
Scotland: New Day Dawning
Southest Asia (Thailand/Malasia): Train Journey North: Singapore To Bangkok
Southest Asia (Thailand/Malasia): Suling
Southest Asia (Thailand/Malasia): Variation On 'Khamen Sai Yok'
Southest Asia (Thailand/Malasia): Kaen
Southest Asia (Thailand/Malasia): Treasure Hunt
Southest Asia (Thailand/Malasia): Buddhist Temple
Southest Asia (Thailand/Malasia): Japanese Railway: Bridge Over The River Kwai
Southest Asia (Thailand/Malasia): Chiang Rai
Southest Asia (Thailand/Malasia): River Journey

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Elegant dining, elegant music: that's the idea behind this intriguing package, a two-CD set featuring the music accompanying the PBS prime-time series Dinner on the Diner.

The series features famous chefs whipping up delicious meals as their train speeds through Spain, Scotland, South Africa, and Southeast Asia. Composer Randy Armstrong was given the task of writing music true to each of these cultures. Cofounder of the Do'a World Music Ensemble, Armstrong has a collection of more than 200 instruments from around the world. By utilizing his own playing experience and carefully researching the indigenous music of the respective countries, Armstrong has put together a respectful and pleasant soundtrack, each section reflecting a distinct region.

The colorful booklet details each of the musical pieces--how they originated and how they sync up with the visual images--and even includes recipes. The music is both suggestive and unobtrusive. It can stand on its own, though, and will serve as a pleasant reminder of the series itself. Its safe, mildly exotic sound perfectly mirrors the cloistered realm of a dining car traveling through wild lands. --Wally Shoup

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The old question of a soundtrack score standing on its own.......2000-05-30

The trouble with most soundtrack albums is that the music seldom "works" out of context. Travelogues, on the other hand, do not quite have that problem since the music seldom is chosen to support a dramatic situation but rather to create a mood. So when PBS planned a series called , which is centered around "the biggest names in cooking preparing exquisite regional recipes aboard the dining cars of beautifully restored, historic trains" (as per the press release) a score had to be devised to create the auditory essence of the locales and of the recipes.

Naturally the audio-visual tie in is lost on the 2-CD box set put out on the Ellipsis Arts label (CD 3680). The score was "composed, produced, performed, and selected" by Randy Armstrong, known to many for his connection with the Do'a World Music Ensemble. How much you will enjoy hearing the music of the series depends on your taste for the music of Spain, South Africa, Scotland, and Southeast Asia. Depending on my own tastes (and whose taste can one depend on?), I found myself greatly enjoying the Spanish and Scottish segments, while reacting less to the rest, which is quite catchy but (to me) too repetitious to be fully satisfying. I am sure that even that small percent is going to be very effective in the visual context; but a CD must stand on its own merits.

An attractive booklet accompanies the CDs and helps you visualize what will be on your screen. My wife read the four recipes and thought (a) they were too complicated for your average cook and (b) the fat content was far too high. Also p. 20 has some sort of ink stain that blots out part of the text. Oh, well.

The old question of a soundtrack score standing on its own.......2000-05-24

Naturally the audio-visual tie in is lost on the 2-CD box set put out on the Ellipsis Arts label (CD 3680). The score was "composed, produced, performed, and selected" by Randy Armstrong, known to many for his connection with the Do'a World Music Ensemble. How much you will enjoy hearing the music of the series depends on your taste for the music of Spain, South Africa, Scotland, and Southeast Asia. Depending on my own tastes (and whose taste can one depend on?), I found myself greatly enjoying the Spanish and Scottish segments, while reacting less to the rest, many of which are quite catchy but (to me) too repetitious to be fully satisfying. I am sure that even that small percent is going to be very effective in the visual context; but a CD must stand on its own merits.

But as far as the music is concerned, many will love all or certainly most of it, based on their own tastes. So whatever a critic says has to be taken with a grain of salt--or 8 lbs of rock salt, as the first recipe demands.

Primetime
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Primetime

Manufacturer: WORD
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD
ASIN: B0001VQKC0

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10 Tracks - see picture

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The Primetime Heroes
The Primetime Heroes
Manufacturer: Noisome Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

General | Rock | Styles | Music

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B0002JP24I
Release Date: 2004-06-01

Tracks:

Politics
Punk Rock Kid
Honesty
Through The Window
Carry On
Father's Day
Crowded Lonely Night
I Should Have Went To College
88mph
My Sweet
Feeling Down
She Said
Sunday
Broken Hearts & Bad Analogies

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Skip Heller plays it safe?
this is not jazz, nor is it genius
Fake is truthfully terrific
First rate eclectic guitar-organ-sax jazz

Fakebook
Skip Heller
Manufacturer: Sin-Drome Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

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Career Suicide: Essential Skip Heller 1994-2001

ASIN: B0001EFU82
Release Date: 2004-02-24

Tracks:

The Yodel
Sophisticated Savage
Never Can Say Goodbye
Chinatown
Arriverderci, Roma
Monk's Mood
Cold Duck Time
Sometimes It Snows In April
(Just) Squeeze Me
Powerhouse
The Man In Me

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Skip Heller plays it safe?.......2006-12-04

While not his best or most daring effort, Fakebook is Skip Heller at his most traditional. He is also at his most cautious here, which takes some of the fun out of a Heller record, which is usually a rollercoaster ride. But the unusual choice of material coupled with a solid groove organ combo base is the kind of thing that wins over the sort of jazz people who don't enjoy the forays into bluegrass, surf, klezmer, and other styles that make his guitar style so interesting. If your taste is more traditional jazz, this is the perfect starter. But if you're into jazz outside the box, you'd do better with Mean Things Happening In This Land or Bear Flag.

this is not jazz, nor is it genius.......2006-10-21

Someone has to say it, and I guess it has to be me: This music does not qualify as jazz -- it desperately tries to imitate it. As a result, despite the many accolades I have read before pursuing Mr. Heller's music, this album, as well as other mp3's I have checked out by the artist, are woefully overrated.

Heller's most obvious influence is Grant Green -- an influence he wears on his sleeve. Green's organ trio/quartet albums of the mid-1960s are the drawing point for Heller's slew of pedestrian organ-guitar outings which sounds more like a Green parody than an homage, and dangerously tread the line where the sound approaches elevator music, with none of the hard-swinging soul of Green, nor the intelligence, restraint, and awesome musicianship of the Larry Goldings Trio, another band which Heller shamelessly plunders and attempts to imitate. The album sounds nice and pleasing on the surface, but repeated listenings betray a very amateurish sensibility.

On top of this all is Heller's guitar playing, which has a decent vintage tone, but could only pass for jazz in a co-ed watering hole. His sense of line and phrasing is non-existant; he plays almost nervously, never giving his solos a single chance to breath; he nervously twiddles around with nothing more than the minor pentatonic scale; there is hardly any chromaticism at all, and a complete lack of the altered-dominant sound, which is par for the course in any type of jazz playing. With the exception of a few very-learned and often-repeated II-V-I licks, Heller's playing is timidly diatonic, and his sense of time tends to nervously rush the tempo; he's always either a little bit ahead of the rhythm section, or totally lost in space.

Putting it simply, I don't like this album at all. The organ trio idea has been resurrected to far greater effect by many other artists with one heck of a lot more talent and musical sensibility. To my ears, this album sounds like jazz played by people without the discipline to bother learning the language of the genre -- it's only an imitation.

Fake is truthfully terrific.......2004-05-09

The immensely talented Skip Heller may not have originally composed these songs, but it doesn't mean he doesn't know how to interpret them. Skip is one of the rare musicians who excels in a variety of musical styles - country, jazz, rockabilly, American classic (in the vein of Sammy Cahn and Jule Styne), to classical Mahler symphonies, but "Fakebook" concentrates on what could loosely be termed jazz - specifically, classics into which Skip and ensemble breathe imaginative and ingenious fresh air. Yet the musical vision on this CD seems to create its own genre which can't be neatly packaged with a single term.

The song, "Chinatown" showcases the incredible talent of Robert Drasnin who solos on the sax, which sings so smoothly and so seemingly effortlessly that you just want to close your eyes and allow the music to breathe for you. In the same vein, "Monk's Mood" is a beautiful and dreamy secret that's whispered in your ear through Skip's guitar.

Fake was recorded after a five-day tour of the Northwest, when the band was at its zenith for creativity and exuberance. The ears clearly concur that the songs do indeed amplify that energy. In fact, two of the songs, "Arriverderci Roma" and "Sometimes It Snows In April" are live performances from that tour.

Each song is executed beautifully with nary a throwaway in the mix. It's difficult to choose a favorite, but my vote must go to Les Baxter's "Sophisticated Savage." It's as if every sweet note helps pave a path to a gorgeous dream from which you never wish to wake. The song is soft and sensual with an occasional very light rumble from the organ, threatening to break up the smooth clouds circling around your light head.

A lot of criticism about music today involves a lack of innovation, aptitude, and simple engagement of the senses. Skip Heller's "Fakebook" is a perfect retort to those accusations and a wonderful promise of what is yet to come from this vivacious and enterprising musician.

First rate eclectic guitar-organ-sax jazz.......2004-03-15

For all of its promises of eclecticism, jazz can be a frustratingly ossified music. Musicians get in a groove and stay there, and audiences are more than happy to let them. But the best musicians in jazz --in any genre-- are akin to explorers: they want to find new songs, new styles, new means of expression; they know where to look for great songs and inspiration; and they revel in taking their audiences along for the ride.

Which brings me to guitarist Skip Heller and his CD FAKE BOOK, a set which is, on its surface, a simple guitar-organ-sax combo disc in the tradition of great rockin' roadhouse jazz records by Wild Bill Davis or Jimmy Smith. But the song selection should tip you off that there's something a little bit different going on here: in the space of twelve tracks we go from Les Baxter ("Sophisticated Savage") and Jerry Goldsmith (the theme from the film "Chinatown") through Thelonious Monk ("Monk's Mood"), Prince ("Sometimes It Snows In April") and Duke Ellington ("Just Squeeze Me") before coming out in the end with Raymond Scott's "Power House" (in Skip's words, "(the) one song every American knows but doesn't know the name of or who wrote it") and a stark version of Bob Dylan's "The Man In Me."

Such eclecticism is admirable, but of course anyone with a CD burner and a decent record collection can make a quirky mix CD. It takes a talented musician like Heller and his top-notch band (organist Joe Doria, reed player Robert Drasnin, and drummer John Wicks) to take all of the disparate stylistic elements and voices, and unite them so seamlessly that you wonder why the pieces were never connected before by someone else.

Heller and compadres play with feeling and urgency (as in "You've gotta HEAR this song...") that makes their repertoire sound new and fresh and alive. And that is the essence of great jazz... of great music, period.

If justice is served, Skip Heller should be a major voice in the jazz world by the time you read this. If not, buy this CD, play it, and pass the word on.

Songs That Will Never Win a Grammy
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Songs That Will Never Win a Grammy

Manufacturer: Corporate Blob
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Pop Rock | Pop | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAH02Y
Release Date: 2005-05-17

April Fool
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April Fool

Manufacturer: Zen Bastards
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Avant Garde & Free Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music
General | Jazz | Styles | Music
ASIN: B000CAGGYM
Release Date: 2003-12-09

Tha Jam Riddim Series#1: Knockout and Primetime
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Tha Jam Riddim Series#1: Knockout and Primetime
Various Artists
Manufacturer: Tha Jam Records
ProductGroup: Music
Binding: Audio CD

Dance Hall | Reggae | International | Styles | Music
General | Reggae | International | Styles | Music
General | Reggae | Compilations | International | Styles | Music
ASIN: B00008OTWA
Release Date: 2003-03-10