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Tuesday
My dear friend Solitaire Miles...an Op Ed
My friend Jazz vocalist, Solitaire Miles, has a story to tell...
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Monday
Film Clips, Yula Beeri, fighting for Independence, on four fronts!
...as we move on with my film, 'StreetcredMusic', Yula (Yulix) Beeri, will show you how to fight a battle on four fronts...
The arsenal Yula has at her command is unmatched by most 'Indie' Artists.
The legions of talented people she surrounds herself with, well....here's what I mean...
these clips give you a pretty good idea...
...this footage is from a show at the Bowery Ballroon, where Yulix, combined the wonderful sounds of her a -capella group Hydra .....(Rima Fand & Sarah Small)
....with her Romantic/Punk sounding... "Yula & the eXtended Family"
Front number three for this amazingly talented lady is....'Kiss Slash Crooked Smile/YULIX
Urban Dictionary:
YULIX: is a caring and loving person who knows how to make people smile and happy. They enjoy themselves even through rough times and think positive. A girl who is not afraid to tell you the truth and will go the extra mile to help a friend. Has an awesome laugh and is a very funny person. If you know a Yulix then she is unique and you should make that friendship last as long as it can.
...here they are as we filmed them at Caffe Vivaldi....on guitar and back up vocals is Assaf Spector.
Front number four is a project that Yula has give her maximum energy to since I know her.
It's a project that I love too, it's, The Hive NYC.
The Hive has this blog's total support, because it does 'all things good'.
It creates, develops, inspires, innovates, and embraces all forms of the arts!!
Give the Hive a Buzzzz, it's an inspiring group that is flourishing, in the 'Garden Spot of America'
Brooklyn, NY!!
It too, like this blog is TOTALLY, non profit!
...that's Yula...she all in!!
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The arsenal Yula has at her command is unmatched by most 'Indie' Artists.
The legions of talented people she surrounds herself with, well....here's what I mean...
these clips give you a pretty good idea...
....with her Romantic/Punk sounding... "Yula & the eXtended Family"
Front number three for this amazingly talented lady is....'Kiss Slash Crooked Smile/YULIX
Urban Dictionary:
YULIX: is a caring and loving person who knows how to make people smile and happy. They enjoy themselves even through rough times and think positive. A girl who is not afraid to tell you the truth and will go the extra mile to help a friend. Has an awesome laugh and is a very funny person. If you know a Yulix then she is unique and you should make that friendship last as long as it can.
...here they are as we filmed them at Caffe Vivaldi....on guitar and back up vocals is Assaf Spector.
Front number four is a project that Yula has give her maximum energy to since I know her.
It's a project that I love too, it's, The Hive NYC.
The Hive has this blog's total support, because it does 'all things good'.
It creates, develops, inspires, innovates, and embraces all forms of the arts!!
Give the Hive a Buzzzz, it's an inspiring group that is flourishing, in the 'Garden Spot of America'
Brooklyn, NY!!
It too, like this blog is TOTALLY, non profit!
...that's Yula...she all in!!
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Wednesday
Surprise, Surprise! All time hit leaders for StreetcredMusic, the blog
WOW, what a change since the last time I looked at the All Time 'Hit' leaders on my blog!
...thanks to all the artists and the readers, for making this the success it is!
Most Hits...
Album Reviews: #1 MaryC..."Right On Time" 6,037
#2 Emily Wolf "Nevermine" 4,903
#3 Gio Moretti "Meeting Point" 3,977
Individual Features, (personal stories, not an album review)
all hits on all stories of any kind, 'all time'. Including Top 10
Sexy Pianists and Guitarists.
#1 Yula Beeri 13,987
#2 Gio Moretti 13,777
#3 Nana Schwartzlose 10,998(from one post!!)
Most hits from a single post...(other than an album review)
#1 Nana Schwartzlose 10,998
#2 Ivete Sangalo 8,344
#3 Lara Fabian 7,231
#4 Gio Moretti 4,998
#5 Clara Lofaro 4,222
With all do respect, I must mention the artists who have been with me from the start..
When I would only get 40-50 hits a day, they were the ones who created this 'monster' I now have.
Some of the newer artists have had the benefit of 2,000 to 3,000 readers a day so the numbers are much greater now..
Here are the 'Pioneers' of StreetcredMusic...
The one and only, 'Angel from Rome' who got me started... Greta Panettieri ...
also:
Kalen ... Tammy Scheffer... Emily Wolf ... Jazz Man Joe Alterman ...Nadia Ackerman
Amy Regan ... Eleanora Bianchini ... World Class Artist Jennie Booth ...
Kristin Hoffmann ... Nikki Yanofsky ... Jessica Marciel and
Kaissa
AND a woman who I have never done a story on, but one is coming. She has given me 'people'....
like, Yula Beeri, Tamar Meir, Naaran Barzilay, Adam Halfi, Shayfer James, The Hive, The XFM...and she puts a smile on my face every time we are together....an artist, creator, teacher...
Thanks everybody!
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...thanks to all the artists and the readers, for making this the success it is!
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| MaryC |
Album Reviews: #1 MaryC..."Right On Time" 6,037
#2 Emily Wolf "Nevermine" 4,903
#3 Gio Moretti "Meeting Point" 3,977
Individual Features, (personal stories, not an album review)
all hits on all stories of any kind, 'all time'. Including Top 10
Sexy Pianists and Guitarists.
#1 Yula Beeri 13,987
#2 Gio Moretti 13,777
#3 Nana Schwartzlose 10,998(from one post!!)
Most hits from a single post...(other than an album review)
#1 Nana Schwartzlose 10,998
#2 Ivete Sangalo 8,344
#3 Lara Fabian 7,231
#4 Gio Moretti 4,998
#5 Clara Lofaro 4,222
With all do respect, I must mention the artists who have been with me from the start..
When I would only get 40-50 hits a day, they were the ones who created this 'monster' I now have.
Some of the newer artists have had the benefit of 2,000 to 3,000 readers a day so the numbers are much greater now..
Here are the 'Pioneers' of StreetcredMusic...
The one and only, 'Angel from Rome' who got me started... Greta Panettieri ...
also:
Kalen ... Tammy Scheffer... Emily Wolf ... Jazz Man Joe Alterman ...Nadia Ackerman
Amy Regan ... Eleanora Bianchini ... World Class Artist Jennie Booth ...
Kristin Hoffmann ... Nikki Yanofsky ... Jessica Marciel and
Kaissa
AND a woman who I have never done a story on, but one is coming. She has given me 'people'....
like, Yula Beeri, Tamar Meir, Naaran Barzilay, Adam Halfi, Shayfer James, The Hive, The XFM...and she puts a smile on my face every time we are together....an artist, creator, teacher...
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| SARAH ZAR |
Thanks everybody!
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Tuesday
The making of 'StreetcredMusic' ..Clara Lofaro & Bekka Lindstrom
Clara Lofaro preparing to write a song for the film 'StreetcredMusic' the tune is "Hurricane"
CLo will be performing the song live for the first time... July 25th, at the Canal Room.
The making of 'StreetcredMusic' the doc film....
.....That really is Craig Wilson...songwriter/performer.
on the screen is award winning writer...David Browning, in Nashville.
....Watch Clara here and you'll see why I love her...
she's ALWAYS laughing at me!!
This clip is one of my favorites!!! Bekka, Gio, me, Donna Jean, Clara Lofaro....is the voice you hear.
"The Mortuary"....we are leaving Bekka and DJ's apartment to go to see Yula at the Bowery Ballroom!
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CLo will be performing the song live for the first time... July 25th, at the Canal Room.
The making of 'StreetcredMusic' the doc film....
.....That really is Craig Wilson...songwriter/performer.
on the screen is award winning writer...David Browning, in Nashville.
....Watch Clara here and you'll see why I love her...
This clip is one of my favorites!!! Bekka, Gio, me, Donna Jean, Clara Lofaro....is the voice you hear.
"The Mortuary"....we are leaving Bekka and DJ's apartment to go to see Yula at the Bowery Ballroom!
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Artists in New York, Part IX, Sonia Montez
It's been a while but I want to bring back a very popular feature here on 'Streetcred', the artists in New York series.
Sonia Montez, is a wonderful young lady I have been trying to catch up with for a while. Finally Clara Lofaro, introduced me to her at a birthday party and I got to hear as Clara put it "her big ass voice".
At age 6, in San Juan, Sonia studied voice and violin. Not cool, so she taught herself how to play her mom's guitar!
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Sonia:
As for New York and Brooklyn:
I moved to Brooklyn in '98, and spent most of my youth hopping through NYC's subcultures. I've lived here half of my life; this is a beautiful city that way, it has had the unique ability to allow me to expand my higher consciousness, free of judgement or constraint. It cradles that sort of thought process while at the same time letting me fall on my ass more times than I care to remember. It's also the place where I feel most comfortable taking all of my creative influences, no matter how absurd or silly, and experimenting with them, because, whether I ultimately consider myself successful or not it's a constant learning experience. Where else could I sing backup in a rock show, then play in an all female mariachi, then do one of my own shows, followed by singing salsa and Merengue in a Latin group, then do a corporate top 40 tunes band gig, then do a jingle spot for a company in Asia, and compose a score for a film. I'm simply never bored, musically speaking, and I love taking on challenges.
I asked Sonia the two questions I ask everyone..
Q: If you were leaving the planet and you could only take one album with you which would it be?
Sonia:
Oh, that's mean... I've always been partial to Pinkerton by Weezer, it's such a raw "fuck it all" album. It would probably be really cool to blast Getchoo while going through a wormhole, which I'm assuming is the way I would be traveling, possibly from alien invaders.
Q: If you could perform with anyone who would you choose?
Sonia:
She's passed, but Mercedes Sosa, all the way. I've given this a lot of thought, actually. The power and pure emotion in her voice is so embedded in my brain, even though I never got see her live, just to stand next to her while she sang, I think, would've been amazing. I've never heard anyone sing songs about revolution and love and life the way she sang them. It's like she had the strength and sadness of all the indigenous people in the Americas within her larynx.
Sonia:
I think I've played a bit of everywhere in NY, and not a lot of everywhere else. In the 90's I played The Bottom Line and The Baggot Inn (which both closed a while back), some other now closed hip venues, and, of course Sidewalk Cafe. Then, as a freelancer in my 20's I played Highline Ballroom, SouthPaw, The Blue Note, Union Pool, etc. I've also played Rockwood (of course) and The Living Room, Parkside Lounge, Trash Bar, Puppets Jazz Bar (which I think might have closed too). Last summer I played the acoustic stage at a music festival in Southampton with Chairlift, Best Coast, and Patti Smith (Escape 2 NY).
Sooooo....NYC, here is another Indie Artist, talented, creative, experienced, that you need to get out and support!
My thanks to Sonia for taking the time to share a bit of another New York Experience with us!!
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Sonia Montez, is a wonderful young lady I have been trying to catch up with for a while. Finally Clara Lofaro, introduced me to her at a birthday party and I got to hear as Clara put it "her big ass voice".
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| Sonia.. |
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Sonia:
As for New York and Brooklyn:
I moved to Brooklyn in '98, and spent most of my youth hopping through NYC's subcultures. I've lived here half of my life; this is a beautiful city that way, it has had the unique ability to allow me to expand my higher consciousness, free of judgement or constraint. It cradles that sort of thought process while at the same time letting me fall on my ass more times than I care to remember. It's also the place where I feel most comfortable taking all of my creative influences, no matter how absurd or silly, and experimenting with them, because, whether I ultimately consider myself successful or not it's a constant learning experience. Where else could I sing backup in a rock show, then play in an all female mariachi, then do one of my own shows, followed by singing salsa and Merengue in a Latin group, then do a corporate top 40 tunes band gig, then do a jingle spot for a company in Asia, and compose a score for a film. I'm simply never bored, musically speaking, and I love taking on challenges.
Q: If you were leaving the planet and you could only take one album with you which would it be?
Sonia:
Oh, that's mean... I've always been partial to Pinkerton by Weezer, it's such a raw "fuck it all" album. It would probably be really cool to blast Getchoo while going through a wormhole, which I'm assuming is the way I would be traveling, possibly from alien invaders.
Q: If you could perform with anyone who would you choose?
Sonia:
She's passed, but Mercedes Sosa, all the way. I've given this a lot of thought, actually. The power and pure emotion in her voice is so embedded in my brain, even though I never got see her live, just to stand next to her while she sang, I think, would've been amazing. I've never heard anyone sing songs about revolution and love and life the way she sang them. It's like she had the strength and sadness of all the indigenous people in the Americas within her larynx.
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| Sonia Montez |
Sonia:
I think I've played a bit of everywhere in NY, and not a lot of everywhere else. In the 90's I played The Bottom Line and The Baggot Inn (which both closed a while back), some other now closed hip venues, and, of course Sidewalk Cafe. Then, as a freelancer in my 20's I played Highline Ballroom, SouthPaw, The Blue Note, Union Pool, etc. I've also played Rockwood (of course) and The Living Room, Parkside Lounge, Trash Bar, Puppets Jazz Bar (which I think might have closed too). Last summer I played the acoustic stage at a music festival in Southampton with Chairlift, Best Coast, and Patti Smith (Escape 2 NY).
Sooooo....NYC, here is another Indie Artist, talented, creative, experienced, that you need to get out and support!
My thanks to Sonia for taking the time to share a bit of another New York Experience with us!!
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Monday
Joe Alterman, The CD is 'Give Me The Simple Life'
I knew when I met Joe Alterman about two years ago he would be one of the hottest jazz pianist in New York soon. His career was just taking off. However the take off was more of a blast off, he is now one of the best around.
His first CD, 'Give Me The Simple Life' will be released today!!
This CD for me is perfection. The choice of tunes, the charts, and the musicians involved is a work of art in itself.
Joe is a musician who is deep in tradition, he lives jazz and always treats it with reverence, respect and presents the classics in his own way, but never loses the intent of the composers he admires.
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The perpetrators of this perfection along with Joe are Houston Person, no explanation needed, one of the best, (tenor sax) the man who makes the bass talk, James Cammack, and as solid as you can get with drummer Herlin Riley.
This CD is a blend of what Joe does best, take the standards, treat them with love, and add his own personal touch.
This wonderful quartet seems to have one goal in mind, to give the listener a treat. A treat to the wonderful array of music that is in the Great American Songbook.
They do it with excellence, in that they take liberties with the classic melodies, but never loose you, they enhance it, and make you remember just how much music there is in jazz, and as musicians you do not have to change the world to be great.
This CD is as good for jazz as any I have heard this year.
The classics on this work: Georgia On My Mind (Joe is from Atlanta) Give Me The Simple Life, The First Night Home, Pure Imagination, An Affair To Remember, I Guess I'll Have To Dream The Rest, Kelly's Blues, Why Try To Change Me Now, Why Do I Love You, Biscuits, They Say It's Spring, and I'm Yours. each done to perfection!
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His first CD, 'Give Me The Simple Life' will be released today!!
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| Joe Alterman |
Joe is a musician who is deep in tradition, he lives jazz and always treats it with reverence, respect and presents the classics in his own way, but never loses the intent of the composers he admires.
**********
The perpetrators of this perfection along with Joe are Houston Person, no explanation needed, one of the best, (tenor sax) the man who makes the bass talk, James Cammack, and as solid as you can get with drummer Herlin Riley.
This CD is a blend of what Joe does best, take the standards, treat them with love, and add his own personal touch.
This wonderful quartet seems to have one goal in mind, to give the listener a treat. A treat to the wonderful array of music that is in the Great American Songbook.
They do it with excellence, in that they take liberties with the classic melodies, but never loose you, they enhance it, and make you remember just how much music there is in jazz, and as musicians you do not have to change the world to be great.
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| me and Joe..http://joealtermanmusic.com/live/ |
This CD is as good for jazz as any I have heard this year.
The classics on this work: Georgia On My Mind (Joe is from Atlanta) Give Me The Simple Life, The First Night Home, Pure Imagination, An Affair To Remember, I Guess I'll Have To Dream The Rest, Kelly's Blues, Why Try To Change Me Now, Why Do I Love You, Biscuits, They Say It's Spring, and I'm Yours. each done to perfection!
get, "Give me The Simple Life" here!
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Sunday
Top Ten Sexiest Guitarists, #1, Yula (Yulix) Beeri
Fate, by chance, meant to be...however it happened Historians put the date somewhere around the Fall of 2010, AD. I was suppose to be miles away from Allen Street, but a series of unpredictable events lead me there, where I met Yula Beeri, #1.
here is Yula doing: Promise
Yula is a being, a special being. Musician, composer, artist, actress, vocalist, leader, creator, and all of that does not tell her story.
She seems to me to exist on a level I wish I could explain. Spreading love, caring, encouraging others, always positive, and making all around her better.
Combine all that with her intellect and beauty, and you have one 'Super Lady'.
As far as her performances, they are bursting with wonderful music, and an affection from the stage...
but really, seeing Yula perform is an act of intimacy, between her and everyone in the audience.
...here is Yula creating, bringing a unique imagery to her audience, along with her wonderful style and that energetic intimacy I spoke of....
Enjoy: Yula &XFM~'RedLipstick'
She has made me a better person....
#1, The 'Angelic' Yula Beeri
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| Yulix |
Yula is a being, a special being. Musician, composer, artist, actress, vocalist, leader, creator, and all of that does not tell her story.
She seems to me to exist on a level I wish I could explain. Spreading love, caring, encouraging others, always positive, and making all around her better.
Combine all that with her intellect and beauty, and you have one 'Super Lady'.
As far as her performances, they are bursting with wonderful music, and an affection from the stage...
but really, seeing Yula perform is an act of intimacy, between her and everyone in the audience.
Enjoy: Yula &XFM~'RedLipstick'
She has made me a better person....
#1, The 'Angelic' Yula Beeri
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Thursday
Top Ten Sexiest Guitarists, #2, Gio Moretti
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...every once in a while you see a performer and you know their music will be a part of ...your life ...forever...
...it just hits you, a combination of the melody, the lyrics and the presentation...Giovanna!
Gio Moretti, Sexiest Guitarists #2.
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| Gio, giomorettimusic.com |
'Princepessa' 'Passione', and 'Animale' were the names I had for Gio Moretti, when I first came to know her.
All were based on how her music affected me. The voice of a Princess, the passion of her compositions, and the stage presents of an 'animale'.
An accomplished oboe player, and a jazz background, Gio has developed her own sound in 'AnimAcusticA' her wonderful CD.
A blend of rhythms, Latin and as she calls it acoustic soul. They won me over as a lifetime fan.
Here is a taste of that marvelous sound; "When You Love Somebody"
This video expresses Gio's passion for her craft...It's all here...including the 'spirit' that takes over her being when she performs..
Which makes her a special artist...ENJOY!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d8e8W_EJGs8&feature=relmfu
#2, The 'passione' of Gio Moretti.
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