Various Artists: Droppin' Science: Greatest Samples from the Blue Note Lab

Untangled samples make for mellow delights Ironically, it probably would’ve been too expensive for legendary jazz imprint Blue Note to license the hip-hop tracks that sampled from its catalog. Still, for 13-song collection Droppin’ Science, it would have been nice, instructive and musicological to have the label’s late-’60s/early-’70s jazz-funk mellowness adjacent to the equally vintage hip-hop it mutated into via De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest and others. Collected alone, one ...

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08:47 on September 28 2008

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Reissue of Miles Davis' 'Kind of Blue' Reignites the Debate: Greatest Jazz Record Ever?

All About Jazz — Kind of Blue was just 3 years old in 1962, but Miles Davis was already fed up with the spotlight that album and its successors were shining on him. "It bugs me, because ... more info

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13:44 on September 28 2008

Sophie Monk @ The Whiskey Blue

The Newsroom — Australian star, Sophie Monk talks to Young Hollywood about her life in the limelight. more info

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14:20 on September 29 2008