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MUSICIAN of the MONTH ALLEN
"ROBOT"
VAN WERT
guitar BOBBY
FERRARA guitarist, shredder BOBBY
KEYS saxophone CHRIS
FEENER solid
electric guitar DAVE
CAREY
drummer - vocalist
DAVE KOZ saxophone DEWEY
REDMAN
tenor saxophone DICK
WAGNER solid electric guitar FRANCESCO
FARERI multi-guitarist,
shredder FRANK
MARINO
solid electric guitar GEORGE
LYNCH
electric guitar GUS
ISIDORE guitar JAMES
JAMERSON electric bass JAMES
JAMERSON JR
electric bass JEFF
PEVAR
multi guitarist JEROME
RIMSON electric bass JIMI
HENDRIX solid electric guitar JOHN
BRYSON EULENBERG pioneer JON
FADDIS
trumpet LES
PAUL solid electric guitar LINDA
WILLIAMS songwriter/singer/guitarist
MICHAEL
HEDGES acoustic guitar NORMAN
WATT-ROY electric bass OLLIE
HALSALL guitar/vibes OMAR
HAKIM
drums  PAULINHO
DA COSTA percussion RENE
NETTO clarinet/saxophone RANDY
COVEN lead bassist RANDY
THURMAN
guitar/artist/poet RON
ROESING drums ROOSEVELT
SYKES
pianist SAM
LIGHTNIN' HOPKINS guitar STEVE
GADD drums TERRY
KATH electric guitar TOMMY
ALDRIDGE drums WILLIAM
GALISON harmonica WINARD
HARPER
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Our
Thoughts Go Out To Michael Jackson's
Family
And May He Rest In Peace
Michael
Joseph Jackson
August 29th 1950 ~ June 25th 2009
The musical legend,
King of Pop, Michael Jackson has tragically and unexpectedly died of
a cardiac arrest at his home in Bel Air at the age of only 50. He is
survived by a large loving family and his three children, Prince
Michael Jr, Paris and Prince
Michael II

The
"King of Pop",
American recording artist, entertainer and
businessman, born in Gary, Chicago, Indiana, he was the seventh of nine
children. His siblings are Rebbie, Jackie, Tito, Jermaine, La Toya,
Marlon, Randy and Janet. His father Joseph Jackson, who physically and
emotionally abused Michael as a child, often performed in an R&B
band called The Falcons and Michael was raised as a Jehovah's Witness
by his mother. In 1964, he and his brother Marlon joined the Jackson
Brothers, a band formed by brothers Jackie, Tito and Jermaine, as backup
musicians playing congas and tambourine, respectively. Soon he began
performing backup vocals and dancing; then at the age of eight, he and
Jermaine assumed lead vocals, and the group's name was changed to The
Jackson 5. They extensively toured the Midwest from 1966 to 1968 and
frequently performed at a string of black clubs and venues collectively
known as the "chitlin' circuit", where they often opened for
stripteases and other adult acts. Michael's first brake came in 1966,
when the band won a major local talent show with renditions of Motown
hits and James Brown's "I Got You (I Feel Good)", led by himself,
after which The Jackson 5 recorded several songs, including "Big
Boy", before signing with Motown Records in 1968. The group set
a chart record when its first four singles "I Want You Back",
"ABC", "The Love You Save" and "I'll Be There"
reached No.1 on the Billboard Hot 100. Starting in 1972, Jackson released
a total of four solo studio albums with Motown, among them Got to Be
There and Ben, which produced successful singles such as "Got to
Be There", "Ben" and "Rockin' Robin". The Jackson
5 left Motown in 1975. It was in 1978 while Michael was working on the
film musical The Wiz, an all-black retelling of the Wizard of Oz - in
which he played the Scarecrow to Diana Ross's Dorothy - that he met
music producer, composer and arranger, Quincy Jones, the man who would
turn him into a superstar and transform the world of popular music,
taking Michael's raw talent and moulding it into an awesome new sound,
producing albums with massive world sales, such as Off The Wall: 19m,
Thriller: 65m, Bad: 28m, Dangerous: 29m, HIStory: 18m, Invincible: 8m.
As well as being a double-inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame,
once as a member of The Jackson 5 in 1997 and later as a solo artist
in 2001, throughout his career Michael has received numerous honors
and awards, including the World Music Awards' Best-Selling Pop Male
Artist of the Millennium, the American Music Award's Artist of the Century
Award and the Bambi Pop Artist of the Millennium Award. He was also
an inductee of the Songwriters Hall of Fame in 2002. His awards include
multiple Guinness World Records, eight in 2006 alone, 13 Grammy Awards,
13 number one singles in his solo careermore than any other male
artist in the Hot 100 era and the sale of over 750 million albums worldwide,
making him the world's best selling male solo pop artist. In recent
years, Michael has been plagued by money problems and shielded himself
from public view. Arrested
in 2003 on charges of molesting a 14 yearold boy, after a gruelling
five-month trial, which took it's tole on Michael, he was cleared in
June 2005. After which he moved for a while to the Middle East surrounded
by rumours of bankruptcy. He befriended the king of Bahrain's son, Sheikh
Abdulla Bin Hamad Bin Isa Al-Khalifa, who helped fund Michael's lavish
lifestyle. But the sheikh later sued Michael for £4.7m ($7m),
saying the star had reneged on a music contract that would have been
used to pay back loans. The pair settled out of court last year. He
was due to begin a sold-out comeback 50 date residency, starting in
London next month. Hundreds of fans queued at the O2 arena as tickets
went on sale to the public and more than a quarter of a million people
queued online, around 750,000 tickets were sold for the 50-date residency,
which he had billed his "final curtain call". Rehearsals for
the show were under way when Michael suffered a cardiac arrest at his
home in Bel Air. He was later pronounced dead at the UCLA medical centre
in Los Angeles
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the first ever book on
the history of British black gospel music
British Black Gospel:
The Foundations of This Vibrant UK Sound

Author:
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Gospel
music includes a whole range of subgenres incorporating Soul, Jazz,
R n B, Funk,
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Calypso, classical music, hip hop and praise and worship which form
part of this colourful and inspirational market. Author Steve Smith
traces the roots of modern black gospel from 19th Century Black pioneers
such as Thomas Rutling and the Fisk Jubilee Singers, who performed for
Queen Victoria.
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