Star Trek - Nimoys Ode To Larger Ladies

STAR TREK star-turned snapper LEONARD NIMOY is rallying against the unrealistic portrayal of women in the media - with a new book of photographs of fuller-figured women.

The 77-year-old, who has launched a successful second career as a photographer, hopes The Full Body Project will help larger ladies come to terms with their bodies, and resist the pressure to slim.

He writes in the preface, "The average American woman weighs 25 per cent more than the models wearing the clothes marketed to her.

"There is a huge industry built up around selling women ways to get their bodies closer to a fantasy ideal.

"The women in these pages are proudly wearing their own skins. They accept and respect themselves and I hope that my images convey that feeling to others."

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R. Deckard

   
Artist: R. Deckard

   Genre(s): 
Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Healing Therapy Music: Reiki

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 4

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John Wetton and Manzanera

   
Artist: John Wetton and Manzanera

   Genre(s): 
Rock
   

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Discography:


   
 One World

   Year: 1997   
Tracks: 1

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Usher: 'My Son Shares My Name Because He Looks Like Me'

Usher is tired of the constant accusations citing he is an egomaniac for naming his baby son after himself, and has hit back at critics who have been mocking him.

The dancefloor demon welcomed his first child, Usher Raymond V, in November with his wife Tameka Foster.

And the star is angered his son's name has provoked such a negative reaction.

He says: "He's called Usher because he looks so much like me. He looks so much like me it would have been hard to call him anything else.

"It was the obvious choice. It's really changed me for the better, he's a great kid."

Do you think naming a baby after yourself is self-indulgent? Be sure to leave your comments below.

Transceive

   
Artist: Transceive

   Genre(s): 
Electronic: Progressive
   

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Discography:


   
 Intrigue

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 9

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Lloyd Cole

The Faint line up summer tour

The Faint have lined up a string of dates in the US and Canada, kicking off July 27 in Des Moines, IA.

The Omaha, NE natives will hit the road to support their brand-new album �??Fasciination�??, slated to be released August 5.

The album is the sixth from the band and is the follow up to their 2004 �??West From Birth�??.

The dates are:

Des Moines, IA People�??s Court (July 27)
Sioux Falls, SD Ramkota Annex (28)
Denver, CO Ogden Theatre (29)
Salt Lake City, UT In The Venue (30)
Boise, ID Knitting Factory (31)
Vancouver, British Columbia Commodore Ballroom (August 1)
Seattle, WA The Showbox (2)
Portland, OR Crystal Ballroom (3)
San Francisco, CA The Fillmore (4, 5)
Los Angeles, CA Henry Fonda Theatre (7, 8)
San Diego, CA Soma (9)
Austin, TX La Zona Rosa (11)
Dallas, TX Palladium Ballroom (12)
Atlanta, GA Variety Playhouse (14)
Carrboro, NC Cat�??s Cradle (15)
Washington, DC 9:30 Club (16)
Philadelphia, PA Trocadero (17)
New York City, NY Terminal 5 (18)
Worcester, MA The Palladium (20)
Toronto, Ontario Opera House (21)
Chicago, IL Vic Theatre (22)
Omaha, NE Sokol Auditorium (23)

--By our New York staff.
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Andrew Hill

   
Artist: Andrew Hill

   Genre(s): 
Jazz
   Pop
   Folk
   Vocal
   Other
   

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Discography:


   
 Time Lines

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 8


   
 Smoke Stack

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 11


   
 Pax

   Year: 2006   
Tracks: 7


   
 Judgment!

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 7


   
 Andrew!!!

   Year: 2005   
Tracks: 8


   
 Dance With Death

   Year: 2004   
Tracks: 7


   
 Passing Ships

   Year: 2003   
Tracks: 7


   
 Grass Roots

   Year: 2000   
Tracks: 10


   
 Point of Departure

   Year: 1999   
Tracks: 8


   
 Divine Revelation

   Year: 1994   
Tracks: 6


   
 But Not Farewell

   Year: 1990   
Tracks: 7


   
 Complete Blue Note Sessions (1963-66) CD5

   Year: 1963   
Tracks: 9


   
 Complete Blue Note Sessions (1963-66) CD3

   Year: 1963   
Tracks: 8


   
 Complete Blue Note Sessions (1963-66) CD2

   Year: 1963   
Tracks: 10


   
 The Complete Blue Note Andrew Hill Sessions Disc 4

   Year:    
Tracks: 1


   
 Complete Blue Note Sessions CD7

   Year:    
Tracks: 8


   
 Complete Blue Note Sessions CD6

   Year:    
Tracks: 7


   
 Complete Blue Note Sessions CD1

   Year:    
Tracks: 11

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Andrew Hill was a majuscule and even groundbreaking composer and piano player, yet the comparatively circumscribed scale of his innovations mightiness take in the beginning caused him to get befuddled in the scuffle of the '60s dislodge jazz revolution. While many of his contemporaries were all jettisoning the rhythmic and harmonical techniques of boP and concentrated federal Bureau of Prisons, Hill worked to protract their possibilities; his was a revolution from inside. Much of the most compelling '60s jazz was intimately aleatoric; Hill, on the other hand, exhibited a determined command of his materials, however abstract they might sometimes be. His composed melodies were labyrinthian, and rhythmically and harmonically coordination compound tunes like "Young Monastery" from his Point of Departure record album exhibit a sophism born of subordination, non hazard or contingency. As a piano player, Hill had a flowing melodicism and an elastic sense of time. Like his composing, Hill's playing had an ever-present air of spontaneousness and was nigh totally barren of cliché.


He began playing the pianoforte at about the age of 13. As a nipper in Chicago, Hill was encouraged by pianist Earl Hines. Jazz composer Bill Russo also took an interest, and introduced Hill to the famed classical composer Paul Hindemith, with whom Hill studied from 1950-1952. While in his teens, he gigged with large jazz musicians passing through and through the Midwest, Miles Davis and Charlie Parker among them. In 1955, he recorded So in Love with the Sound of Andrew Hill for the Warwick label. He affected to New York in 1961 to play with singer Dinah Washington. After a brief foray to Los Angeles with Rahsaan Roland Kirk's band in 1962, Hill affected back to New York, where he began his transcription career in businesslike.


He made several records for Blue Note from 1963-1969, both as loss leader and sideman. Hill's Blue Note play featured some of the c. H. Best and brightest post-bop musicians of the clarence Day, including Eric Dolphy, Joe Henderson, Woody Shaw, Tony Williams, and Freddie Hubbard. Like many jazz musicians, Hill eventually sour to academia to make a living. He received his doctor's degree from Colgate University and served as the school's composer in residence from 1970-1972. Hill relocated to the West Coast, education in public schools and prisons in California. He finally landed a teaching place at Portland State University, where he established the school's Summer Jazz Intensive. In summation to his teaching, Hill continued to perform and record in the '70s and '80s, making records for the Arista-Freedom and Black Saint/Soul Note labels. In 1989 and 1990, Hill recorded doubly more for Blue Note, Endless Spirit and Simply Not Farewell.


Hill moved back to the New York area in the '90s; a serial of performances and new recordings helped piazza him endorse in the wind spot. Hill formed a new Point of Departure Sextet for the Knitting Factory's 1998 Texaco Jazz Festival. The band included saxophonists Marty Ehrlich and Greg Tardy, trumpeter Ron Horton, bassist Scott Colley, and drummer Billy Drummond. The band went on to play New York golf club engagements to much herald. In 2000, Palmetto Records released Twilight, which was named the best album of 2001 by Down Beat and Jazz Times magazines. It was followed by A Beautiful Day in 2002, Passage Ships in 2003, and Black Fire in 2004, as well as a solid series of Blue Note reissues of his '60s solve that included bonus tracks and modern liner notes. His 2006 album, Time Lines, reunited him with both herald Charles Tolliver and the Blue Note label. Hill too participated in a 17-piece great dance orchestra, and a January 2002 engagement at New York's Birdland was filmed and recorded by Palmetto for future broadcast. After battling lung cancer for many days, Hill succumbed to the disease on April 20, 2007, going away behind a stunning bequest of work.