Brian Hyland Blue Christmas CD

Buzzsaw guitars and steady rhythms support upbeat tunes that are a pure feelgood experience. The title track kicks ass. Rounding out the band are Alex Pilson (drums) and Tim Hill (guitar). This EP will whet the appetite of many for the band's next full-length release...(Rating: 4++++)--------------The Yum Yum Tree was spawned in Atlanta, GA with roots reaching deep into the South. One Texas girl and two southern boys complete the band's family tree, which branched from 4-tracks to regular radio rotation in only 8weeks. Described as "one of Atlanta's brightest lights in the foggy pop ...

Michael Gold, Ph.D. has been working as a jazz bassist since the mid 1970's. While working in the NYC jazz scene he performed with Lee Konitz, Warne Marsh, Al Cohn, Sheila Jordan and Tal Farlow. In 1995, while running the jazz program at Vassar College, Michael received a National Endowment for the Arts grant to teach professional orchestral musicians how to improvise jazz. He is the president of Jazz Impact, LLC. Jazz Impact (tm) is a learning and development program that uses jazz as a metaphor to help people learn how to maximize their collaborative potential in the context of a rapidly changing world. You can learn more about Jazz Impact at http:// jazz-impact ...

html/ ). But it's pretty expensive to go that route, so we're forced to wait until the time is right for another full staging. But we can play it as a rock concert, and as a rock concert, it plays like the devils and the angels that inspired it. As a rock concert, we play all 16 songs, with a narration. Thus without having to schlepp every prop in creation, we attain a lightness of being that lets us concentrate on lean and mean in this, our anthem to hurt and hope, sacrifice and release, and the truth of love that it can never die. Take a look and a listen to the live performances at http:// nine3 /ConcertHARRIER ANGEL is about survival at this late date in the career of western civilization, when free people can only watch and hope and pray there will come a voice, and that voice will carve out a new way -- a way to BE that makes it possible to keep independence and creativity (and. especially, procreativity) alive even at the edge of chaos threatening to roll in, so that free humans may fight to prevail and thrive in a better world."Harrier Angel" reminds people that most of the dogmas of the world can be used, and are being used, as tools for the manipulation of people and events in the lawless swirling of contending natural forces warring for power. The idea of a warrior angel riding in a thunderhead, directing the storm may be sublime, but again it may also be just so much pomposity. Which is it? In the midst of roiling is found a tongue like "Rocky Horror" -- licking hungrily to take up all the sweetness of a temporal, human existence, yet somehow also sticking out in derision, planted firmly in cheek, crying in frustration, and singing like an angel in Dante's chorus of the blessed souls forming an eagle in the sky -- and defying categorization unless through the understanding of some ancient cliche that in western civiliazation we have chosen to call "Organicism" -- that is, of a construction where form always follows function."Harrier Angel" is a mother, a vindicator, a gadfly visionary, and a fearless advocate for self-realization of the individual as the path to true consciousness of the living id, the unseparated part, exonerated in the end, and -- like the phoenix -- incinerated in the end, in the transitional flame of rebirth, in the light of knowledge."Harrier Angel" is a rock remedy for the post Vietnam-era "me" generation, for the "X" and "Y" generations (all of which may turn out to have been "de" generations), and also for the "re" generation that sleeps and dreams, unfurling ...