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The next installment in the WOW Gospel series, the double disc WOW Gospel Christmas 2007 (EMI Gospel), features 30 top holiday songs from perennials Kirk Franklin, Smokie Norful, Cece Winans, Donnie McClurkin, Israel Houghton and more. In the spirit of Christmas and to celebrate the release, WOW label contributors and Feed the Children have partnered to create a 30-minute Christmas TV special which BET will air on Thanksgiving weekend. The album is sure to get your soul ready for caroling this Christmas!    
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The credits scream "Tim Berne music" but the music itself more suggests "George Russell" or "Carla Bley." This is the initial impression I got from Drew Gress' newest offering released last month, The Irrational Numbers.Modern jazz composer/bassist Drew Gress is one of those New York City "improvised music" cats that we've covered on this space with some regularity. One of his bass playing peers, William Parker, is a more recent member of that talented bunch to get spotlighted here. Gress himself has run around a lot in sax player Tim Berne's crowd, in particular as a member of one of Berne's numerous side projects, the whack jazz trio Paraphrase with drummer Tom Rainey.
(Full article in Music Review: Drew Gress - The Irrational Numbers…)

BEVERLY HILLS, California — With “Margot at the Wedding” marking his first starring role in a dramatic film, Jack Black has some very weighty issues on his mind these days.

“What was a great mustache?” Black pondered. “Tom Selleck’s is the most famous mustache probably. … Burt Reynolds … it’s kind of a ’70s, early ’80s thing. Maybe I’m bringing the mustache back in this movie.”

The manic movie star is talking about the facial hair of his character Malcolm, an unemployed artist engaged to Jennifer Jason Leigh’s troubled Pauline, in “Wedding.” The newly released film also stars Nicole Kidman as Margot, Pauline’s cynical sister who finds their family’s quirky issues being worked out over one very long weekend.

(Full article in Jack Black Grows A Mustache, Drops Trou For ‘Margot At The Wedding’…)

Paramore have extended their UK tour adding three more dates due to overwhelming demand from fans. They will now play extra shows in Manchester, London, and Birmingham to add to the previously announced nine shows.
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Just one week after the death of his mother Donda from a cosmetic surgery “complication”, Kanye West began his European tour with an emotional performance at Paris’s Le ZГ©nith. Having been onstage for an hour, the rapper choked up when it came to playing Hey Mama, his dedication to his mother from 2005’s Late Registration. Le Parisien journalist Meddy Magloire told people.com, “He said the word, ‘Mother,’ and just couldn’t go any further. A back-up singer, the DJ and a guitar player came over to console him. It looked like he might collapse. He just couldn’t continue.
(Full article in International News: Kanye’s teary tour return…)