Kenny G: Going Home

Kenny G has created so much great music, here are some favorites:
Going Home


My Heart will Go On


How Can I Suppose to Live Without You

Love story by Andy Williams

Theme song "where do I begin" from the great movie Love Story.

Yanni's music

Yanni--another popuar pianist/musician in East Asia

Nightingale:
The concert took place in Forbidden City , Beijing China. The Beautiful Chinese flue was played by solo flautist Pedro Eustache. This Chinese flute (Dizi) was made of black jade which is different from bamboo or wooden flutes.


Within attraction (live at the Acropolis)


Playing by Heart:

"At Last"-sang by Alice Tan Ridley at AGT

A stunning performance at America's got talent this week by Alice Tan Ridley (Actress Gabby" Sidibe's mom) singing Etta James' "At Last"

Cheater

When you browse Michael Jackson's Ultimate Collection, you will find some not that popular or well known but very good songs. Cheater is one of them. It is a demo (the video was made by a fan, vocal by Michael Jackson)

"You don't know me"

One of the best performances in America's got talent: Michael Grimm's singing of "you don't know me"

Lala is shuting down

Apple has announced that the service will be shut down on May 31st, 2010. Apple will not be accepting new users, and existing users will be able to log in only until the end of next month. A cloud-based iTunes.com replacement presumably will be lunched in summer.Read more at Tech Crunch

Come Together--new cover by crystal bowersox

Listen to the newest cover version of Come together by American Idol front runner Crystal Bowersox , what do you think?

We are here to change the World

"We are here to change the world" is one of two songs featured in Michael Jackson's Disney film "Captain EO" first released in 1987. The second song is "Another part of me", which is more popular because it was included in Jackson's Bad album while "we are here to change the world" appeared much later in "The Ultimate Collection" album (limited edition) in 2004. "Another part of me" was also included in the Moonwalker movie. Surprisingly the dance moves (including the Moonwalk) with "we are here to change the world" in captain EO are comparable to those in Thriller.

And Captain Eo returned to Disneyland on Feb. 2010.



Here is the part 2 of full version of Captain Eo, which includes these two songs.

Speed Demon

Michael Jackson never stops surprising people. Watched a short video of Speed Demon before but first time watched this longer version from the Jackson' movie Moonwalker. Children would love this mini cartoon, along with many other favorite parts in this movie. This film seemed overshadowed by other Jackson's hits after his death. It definitely is one of Jackson's fine works

"Come Together"--notable cover versions

"Come together" was written by John Lennon and originally recorded and played by Beatles (1969-1972); American hard rock band Aerosmith performed one of the most successful cover versions of "Come Together" in 1978. Michael Jackson's cover version of "come together" was another successful one (in 1987?). Many other notable artists covered the song also such as Dianna Ross, Tina Turner, Elton John and more. This song became one of the most covered songs of all time.

Here are some most famous cover versions. Which one do you like it better?
By John Lennon/Beatles:


By Michael Jackson:


By Aerosmith/Steve Tyler


By Elton John

We Are The World: three versions so far

Watch this new version of We are the World by not famous singers around the world, WOW


Here is the original version, the best one! This video is with each artist's name and lyrics, NICE!


We Are The World 25 for Haiti version, the one was much criticized artistically

Michael Jackson Thriller named to U.S. film registry

Michael Jackson's Thriller video was one of 25 films to be included for preservation in the 2009 National Film Registry of the Library of Congress-the world's largest archive of film, TV and sound recordings. It's the first music video named to the registry. The registry was established by the Congress in 1989. There are now total 525 films in the registry. The films were selected not as the "best" American films but instead for their enduring importance to U.S. culture. They have to be "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant to be selected. The public nominated the film titles, the library selected those that met the criteria by consulting with the National Film Preservation Board.

Google added music "one box" search feature

You probably already used or are using this feature, but here is the official announcement from Google, and commentary news coverage from Matt McGee

However, it doesn't come out as "One Box" for some other musicians such as Michael Jackson. I was puzzled. If anybody knows please point out?

10 music technology trends next decade

Matt Rosoff's article "10 music-tech trends that will shape the next decade" reminds people of the power of technology on music-both production and consumption. It is fresh and makes you THINK though you may not agree with all the trends listed in the article. Here are the ten trends the author summarized: songs instead of albums; streams instead of downloads; in the cloud rather than on hard drives; fidelity rather than file size (quality over file size); production rather than consumption (In another 10 years, everybody will be a musician--or at least a recording artist?); suggestions rather than searches (personalized services become more important than search); spectacle rather than personality (entertaining over singing and playing); festivals rather than big concerts; and so on

Your gudie to music on the Web II

Your guide to music on the web part I by Orli Yakuel covered covered music recommendation sites, Web radio, independent music sites, playlists, and music visualizations. Here is PART II that covers music search engines, Web players, ways to share music on Twitter, and music mixing apps. There are plenty of music wen search engines and players listed. Currently I am using lala and plenty others added by readers. What an amazing music world on the web!

Michael Jackson Fan This Is It photo mosaic

Check out Michael Jackson's This Is It Mosaic, which is entirely composed of MJ fans' pictures. Zoom in and then click and drag fan's image to move around.

Cut fat by following Michael Jackson's moves

Nobody sits without moving when watching Michael Jackson's music videos, so you may kill two birds with one stone--while enjoy the music and dance, cut your fat by following moves in the videos(If you don't hate Michael Jackson). Some complicated dance moves may be hard to follow like moon walk, but many moves we can imitate, not necessarily to be fancy, eloquently or fast. Many or almost all of Micheal Jackson's videos we can follow, like Thriller, Beat it, Bad, Billie Jean, Black or White, Who is it, Ghost and so on , and so on. You can watch and follow different videos, or just watch one of your favorites several times. Many of MJ's videos are classic videos, you won't get bored by watching them multiple times.

Sam Tsui and Kurt Schneider's Michael Jackson medley video-Amazing

Sam Tsui and Kurt Schneider's Michael Jackson medley video became a web hit. Sam Tsui performed, Kurt Schneider arranged a video of a medley of Michael Jackson songs six times over. The video is a seamless mash-up of Jackson songs including "Smooth Criminal," "Billie Jean," "I'll Be There," "Man in the Mirror", "Beat it" and "Thriller." Sam Tsui and Kurt Schneider are students at Yale University.Kurt majors in mathematics.

How to moon walk like Michael Jackson

A step-by-step video to teach you how to moon walk like Michael Jackson.