African American music

Issued Nov. 10 on Jean's own Carnival House Records through Megaforce/Sony Music, the EP bows at No. 36 this week on Billboard's Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. Hosted by DJ Drama, the set of all-new material features Timbaland , Eve , Lil Kim and an electrifying collaboration with Cyndi Lauper . "When you get to a certain point in your career, people forget where you came from," Jean says of the EP's concept.  

Dr. Dre gave a press conference at a New York City Best Buy yesterday with Monster Cable (the makers of his Beats By Dre headphones) and Interscope Records to promote Beats by Dre and Club Beats (which will bring more DJ-themed products to Best Buy stores). He answered a bunch of questions about his beef with 50 Cent and The Game, plus when fans can finally expect his new album the Detox to come out (aka the Chinese Democracy of Hip Hop).  

Keys said her mission is "to give people beautiful, unique pieces with messages that ignite them to find the best within" and that she has long wanted to get involved in accessories. "Jewelry is a great first step," said Keys, who recently started AK Worldwide, a company that will focus on her nonmusical endeavors. "I think accessories are exceptional, because it is a simple way for people to express their own style."  

After all, the trumpet player has movie star-handsome looks, hangs out with cool people like Sting, Yo-Yo Ma and Andrea Bocelli (all of whom have played on his albums) and jets around the world, playing in front of adoring fans at clubs, theaters and halls. Botti, who will perform with his band Saturday night at Hershey Theatre, understands his good fortune. He knows there are few instrumentalists, especially jazz players, who can claim the commercial success he's achieved.  

15 (tie). D.J. Cinema and D.J. Mello-The Commission (a.k.a.-B.I.G. and Jay-Z, The Album that Never Was) (2005-Mixtape) and Bobb Deep-Queensbridge (200?-DJ Swindle) . These are both "blends," but they're the two best blend tapes I've ever heard.  

A cursory Wikipedia search tells me that the City of Sherman has at least a little musical history--well more than I was a aware, at least--as the hometowns of Big Band and Jazz Hall of Fame saxophone player Buddy Tate and country music icon Buck Owens. But, the Owens-hosted Hee Haw and his 21 No. 1 Billboard country music hits aside, I think you'd be hard-pressed to find a much more successful week of music news in the city's history than the seven days town just experienced. Last Thursday night, bef  

 

From Torch 's perspective, his crew is following the same pattern he did back in the late 1980's. "You notice it's the people that always say 'Hip-Hop is dead,' they ain't got no [money]," Torch explained in an interview. "And to top it all off, it's like, hip-hop is dead but when they had their run, the same people that say these things, they be in pictures with AK's, they forget all that now. You need your track record, do your homework and the same record that peole are pointing their fingers, you go  

The Union County Performing Arts Center (UCPAC), 1601 Irving Street in Rahway, NJ, presents five concerts on one night for one low price at the World Jazz Summit on Saturday, November 21, from 6:00 - 11:00 pm. The evening will feature Randy Weston, Cedar Walton, Lionel Loueke, Stefon Harris and Emilio Valdes in a wide-spectrum of musical settings from African rhythms to Cuban funk to American jazz vibes. The evening's concert, produced by Jim Luce of WorldPianoSummit.com, is sponsored in part by Northfi  

THINK globally, act virally. Like a cartoon thought bubble, that notion seems to hang in the mild afternoon air here, as school lets out early on parent-teacher conference day at Alexander Hamilton High School. At two o'clock precisely, students flood from a 1930s brick building evocative of Andy Hardy movies.