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Colin James And The Little Big Band II
''Colin James and the Little Big Band II'' is a swing-jive album by Canadian musician Colin James, released in 1998. ''Colin James and the Little Big Band II'' earned James the 1999 Juno Award for Best Producer. The album was certified Platinum in Canada. Track listing # "Jumpin' from Six to Six" – 2:54 # "Safronia B" – 2:15 # "Mary Anne" – 3:34 # " Let's Shout (Baby Work Out)" – 3:12 # "You Know My Love" – 3:27 # "I'll See It Through" – 3:46 # "C'mon with the C'mon" – 2:57 # "Rocket to the Moon" – 3:42 # "Think" – 3:52 # "Somethin's Goin' On in My Room" – 2:35 # "I'm Lost Without You" – 3:04 # "Tin Pan Alley" – 4:27 # "Triple Shot" – 3:59 # "Bring It On Home" – 3:55 Personnel * Colin James - vocals, guitars * Greg Piccolo - tenor and alto saxophones * Kaz Kazanoff - baritone and tenor saxophones * Brian Casserly - trumpet, vocals * John Wolf - trombone, bass trombone, vocals * Reese Wynans Reese Wynans (born November 28, 1947) is an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colin James
Colin James (born Colin James Munn; August 17, 1964) is a Canadian blues rock singer and songwriter. James has been very successful in Canada, having attained seven Gold-certified albums in Canada during his career, including four Platinum albums and two Double Platinum albums. Biography Early years James was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. His grandfather was Serbian. James quit school in Grade 10. James got his break in his music career opening for Stevie Ray Vaughan in Saskatoon in 1983. When the scheduled opening act did not show, he only had a few hours' notice to put together a set of blues standards with members from the local Regina band "Flying Colours". Vaughan invited James to perform with him during the encore, and then join his tour as a permanent opening act. He and his band The Hoodoo Men opened for Vaughan for several tour dates in the United States. According to legend, Vaughan himself suggested the stage name "Colin James", because when announced over ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jump Blues
Jump blues is an uptempo style of blues, jazz, and boogie woogie usually played by small groups and featuring horn instruments. It was popular in the 1940s and was a precursor of rhythm and blues and rock and roll. Appreciation of jump blues was renewed in the 1990s as part of the swing revival. Origins Jump blues evolved from the music of big bands such as those of Lionel Hampton and Lucky Millinder in the early 1940s. The typical jump blues lineup consisted of 5-7 members including sax, bass, drums and piano and/or guitar. The genre produced musicians such as Louis Jordan, Jack McVea, Earl Bostic, and Arnett Cobb. Jordan was the most popular of the jump blues stars; other artists who played the genre include Roy Brown, Amos Milburn, and Joe Liggins, as well as sax soloists Jack McVea, Big Jay McNeely, and Bull Moose Jackson. Hits included singles such as Jordan's " Saturday Night Fish Fry", Roy Brown's " Good Rockin' Tonight" and Big Jay McNeely's "Deacon's Hop". One ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swing Revival
The swing revival, also called retro swing and neo-swing, was a renewed interest in swing music and Lindy Hop dance, beginning around 1989 and reaching a peak in the 1990s. The music was generally rooted in the big bands of the swing era, swing era of the 1930s and 1940s, but it was also greatly influenced by rockabilly, boogie-woogie, the jump blues of artists such as Louis Prima and Louis Jordan, and the theatrics of Cab Calloway. Many neo-swing bands practiced contemporary fusions of swing, jazz, and jump blues with rock music, rock, punk rock, ska, and ska punk music or had roots in punk, ska, ska punk, and alternative rock music. History The roots of the swing revival are generally traced back to 1989, which saw the formation of several of the scene's most prominent figures: Los Angeles' Royal Crown Revue and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, who often stuck close to playing traditionally-styled jump blues and rockabilly; San Francisco's swing scene included Lee Presson and the Nails who ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Warner Music Canada
Warner Music Canada is the Canadian division of Warner Music Group. The label previously operated as WEA Music of Canada, Ltd. (French: ''WEA Musique du Canada, Ltée''), often shortened to WEA Canada, the Canadian subsidiary of WEA International, which later changed its name to Warner Music International in 1990. It was founded in 1967 as Warner Reprise Canada Ltd. Current artist roster This list is for artists signed directly to Warner Music Canada. * 54-40 *Big Wreck * Billy Talent * Blue Rodeo *Buck 65 * Carys * Corey Hart * Corneille * Courage My Love * Die Mannequin * Divine Brown * Eleven Past One * Lindsay Ell * Great Big Sea * Greg Keelor * Hot Hot Heat * Meaghan Smith *Modern Space * Myles Castello * Scott Helman * Spirit of the West * Sarah Slean *Philip Sayce * The Abrams * The Balconies * The Cliks * The Sheepdogs * The Waking Eyes * Tomi Swick Canadian artists on Warner Music Group affiliates This list is for Canadian artists currently signed to other Warner Music ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Craig Northey
Craig Northey (born February 9, 1962) is a Canadian musician and film and TV composer. He is one of the founding members of the band Odds, which released four albums between 1991 and 1996. They were best known for the radio singles " It Falls Apart", " Eat My Brain", "Heterosexual Man" and " Someone Who's Cool". Career Like many musicians, Northey praises the Tragically Hip's generosity to up-and-coming bands, specifically the Odds: "Last year, they paid for us to come down to Seattle to see them play and then play ourselves...then, they invited us to play with them on Canada Day at Molson Park in Barrie. It really paid off for us." In 1996, Northey composed his first score for a feature film, The Kids in the Hall's '' Brain Candy''. In 1997, Northey wrote the entrance music for Bret Hart after he joined WCW. After the breakup of Odds in 1999, Northey embarked on several other ventures, including working with Colin James, Rosanne Cash, Glen Phillips, Bruce McCulloch and many ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Steel (album)
''National Steel'' is a blues album by Canadian musician Colin James, released in 1997. The album was recorded at Rat's Ass Studios and Mushroom Studios in Vancouver, British Columbia, and mastered at MasterDisk in New York City. James teamed up with his longtime friend Colin Linden to record a predominantly acoustic album running the gamut from delta blues, to jug band and Chicago blues. The album covers songs written by some of the greatest bluesmen including Otis Redding, Robert Johnson, Muddy Waters, and Willie Dixon. The album is titled after the resonator guitar made by the National guitar company, also pictured on the album's cover. ''National Steel'' earned James the 1998 Juno Award for Best Blues Album. Track listing # "Shout Baby Shout" (Yank Rachell) – 3:15 # " Rollin' Stone" (Muddy Waters) – 3:21 # "National Steel" (Colin James, Daryl Burgess, Christopher Ward) – 4:52 # "These Arms of Mine" (Otis Redding) – 4:44 # "Going Up to the Country" (Taj Mahal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fuse (Colin James Album)
''Fuse'' is the seventh studio album by the Canadian blues/rock musician Colin James, which was released in 2000. Track listing # "Hide" – 4:48 # "Mystery to Me" – 4:25 # "Stop Bringing it Down on a Perfect Day" – 3:47 # "Carried Away" – 4:53 # "Getting Higher" – 4:22 # "Something Good" – 3:48 # "It Ain't Over" – 3:56 # "Of All the Things to Throw Away" – 4:08 # "Big Bad World" – 4:37 # "Hate It When I See You Cry" – 4:57 # "Get to the Bottom" – 3:21 # "Going's Good" – 4:17 Personnel * Colin James Colin James (born Colin James Munn; August 17, 1964) is a Canadian blues rock singer and songwriter. James has been very successful in Canada, having attained seven Gold-certified albums in Canada during his career, including four Platinum alb ... - guitars, vocals * Pat Steward - drums, percussion References External links Fuse Colin James albums 2000 albums {{2000-rock-album-stub ... [...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] |
Swing (genre)
Swing or swinging may refer to: Apparatus * Swing (seat), a hanging seat that swings back and forth * Pendulum, an object that swings * Russian swing, a swing-like circus apparatus * Swing ride, an amusement park ride consisting of suspended seats that rotate like a merry-go-round Arts, entertainment, and media Films * Swing (1938 film), ''Swing'' (1938 film), an American film directed by Oscar Micheaux * Swing (1999 film), ''Swing'' (1999 film), an American film by Nick Mead * Swing (2002 film), ''Swing'' (2002 film), a French film by Tony Gatlif * Swing (2003 film), ''Swing'' (2003 film), an American film by Martin Guigui * Swing (2010 film), ''Swing'' (2010 film), a Hindi short film * Swing (2021 film), ''Swing'' (2021 film), an American film by Michael Mailer Music Styles * Swing (jazz performance style), the sense of propulsive rhythmic "feel" or "groove" in jazz * Swing music, a style of jazz popular during the 1930s–1950s Groups and labels * Swing (Canadian band), a Cana ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Canadians
Canadians () are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their being ''Canadian''. Canada is a multilingual and multicultural society home to people of groups of many different ethnic, religious, and national origins, with the majority of the population made up of Old World immigrants and their descendants. Following the initial period of French and then the much larger British colonization, different waves (or peaks) of immigration and settlement of non-indigenous peoples took place over the course of nearly two centuries and continue today. Elements of Indigenous, French, British, and more recent immigrant customs, languages, and religions have combined to form the culture of Canada, and thus a Canadian identity and Canadian values. Canada has also been strongly influenced by its linguistic, geograph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Juno Award
The Juno Awards (stylized as JUNOS), or simply known as the Junos, are awards presented by Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences, the Canadian Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences to recognize outstanding achievements in Canada's music industry. The Grammy Awards are the United States' equivalent of the Juno Awards. Alongside the Canadian Screen Awards, they are considered one of the main annual Canadian entertainment award shows. New members of the Canadian Music Hall of Fame are also inducted as part of the awards ceremonies. History The Juno Awards were originally called the RPM Gold Leaf Awards named after RPM Magazine. The winners would be announced in RPM magazine before awards night. The first ceremony was held on February 23, 1970 to honour the musical accomplishments of performers for the year 1969, and the trophy resembled a metronome. But the name was changed in honour of Pierre Juneau, the first president of the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mary Ann (Ray Charles Song)
"Mary Ann" is a song written and performed by Ray Charles and released in 1956 as a single on the Atlantic Records label. It was the fourth Ray Charles song to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Best Selling Rhythm & Blues chart. The song is set to a Latin beat, but switches into a swing rhythm, an alternation that adds fun for the dancers. It has been described as "a sexy blues," and "a lightly lascivious tune." The song was written about Mary Ann Fisher (1923–2004), a singer who had recently joined Charles band as a featured vocalist in his touring shows. Despite Charles' marriage, the two became lovers, and Fisher appears on a number of his Atlantic recordings. Fisher left Ray Charles in 1958 after he had added the Raelettes, formerly the Cookies The Cookies were an American R&B girl group active in two distinct lineups, the first from 1954 to 1958 which later became the Raelettes, and the second from 1961 to 1967. Several of the members of both lineups were members ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
