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Whitfield was born in Lindenhurst, New York.He has worked with Jack McDuff, Jimmy Smith, Courtney Pine, Nicholas Payton, and Chris Botti. [1]In 2000, Whitfield released an instructional guitar video titled Mark Whitfield: Star Licks Master Sessions [2] for Star Licks Productions.
His sound is a blend of these jazz, pop and rhythm and blues influences, forming a potpourri of sweet contemporary music original to only him. [1] Klugh's first recording, at age 15, was on Yusef Lateef's Suite 16. [4] He played on George Benson's White Rabbit album and two years later, in 1973, joined his touring band. [5]
The mid- to late-1970s included songs "Breezin'" as performed by another smooth jazz pioneer, guitarist George Benson in 1976, the instrumental composition "Feels So Good" by flugelhorn player Chuck Mangione, in 1978, "What You Won't Do for Love" by Bobby Caldwell along with his debut album was released the same year, jazz fusion group Spyro Gyra's instrumental "Morning Dance", released in ...
In June 2001, after the bursting of the dot-com bubble, Yahoo! acquired LAUNCH Media, which was facing financial difficulty, for $12 million. [1] [2] [3] In addition to a website with music news and videos, it provided an Internet radio service that allowed users to create personalized Internet radio stations by rating songs selected by a recommender system.
A third single, "Smooth Operator", was released from the album with a video directed by Julien Temple. The single became its first US hit in spring 1985, propelling the album in the US Top Ten. Also in 1985, the band were nominated for two MTV Video Music Awards—"Best Female Video" and "Best New Artist".
The term "The Lick" was coined by an eponymous Facebook group in the 2010s and popularized by a YouTube video assembled from clips from the group by professor Alex Heitlinger in 2011. [5] " The Lick" was not first seen in jazz, as examples of classical music, such as The Firebird by Igor Stravinsky , include tonal sequences similar to "The Lick".
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His father, Ulpio Minucci, was a concert pianist and composer who wrote the music to the 1955 song "Domani." [3]Chieli Minucci started Special EFX in 1982 with George Jinda, a drummer from Hungary. [4]