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The more they know about you, the more they feel like they're there with you.' His friend and former A&R rep named Kawan 'KP' Prather thought the album would let the public know Usher personally, as Kawan 'KP' Prather speaks, ' The music has never been the question, but people tend to buy into the artist. One of Usher's first steps of recording Confessions was deciding to reveal ' his own little secrets'. Diddy and The Neptunes during one of those sessions but were not released. He went on recording a few more tracks with help from fellow Atlantian's Lil Jon and Ludacris.Įventually, the team was able to produce songs like 'Red Light' and 'Yeah!'. Usher was displeased with the decision and he felt that returning to the studio was the hardest part & needed to re-motivate himself. Reid, who listened to the record however, they thought something was missing in it, ' You know what, there's like one or two more records that we just gotta get.' Initially, he submitted the album to his record label, Arista. With forty recorded songs, Usher felt the album had already been completed. The album features productions by Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis, Just Blaze, R. You gotta look for something different.'ĭupri also invited his frequent collaborator Bryan-Michael Cox. In spite of his vision, Usher stated, ' With this album I chose some new producers who I figured would definitely allow me to really articulate myself in a different way. Production began between Usher and Jermaine Dupri, who produced his last two albums My Way (in 1997) and 8701 (in 2001). When he began recording 'Confessions' in 2003, Usher claimed that he did not want to work with any new producers.

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New 2022 Avant-Garde & Free Improv Albums.New 2022 3rd Stream & Chamber Jazz Albums.New Re-issue and Archival Albums for 2022.New Vocal Jazz & Pop Jazz Albums for 2022.2 days ago More videos New JMA Jazz Forum Topics.If you were to hear any of these instrumental tracks by themselves on the radio, you would probably have no idea about Tina’s intentions. Taken on its own merits, “Left, Right, Left” is a fine collection of contemporary jazz, but one can’t help but wonder, if Tina really wanted to make an impact, why didn’t she include songs with lyrics and vocals. Two standout tracks include the hard swinging “White Flight”, possibly the best number for straight ahead energy, and the inventive “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, that Lande gives an almost 12 tone treatment that recalls Charles Ives’ avant-garde work with traditional American songs. All three musicians are brilliant, but Lande steals the show with his inventive playing that moves from lyrical to abstract, sometimes within the same track. “Lift Every Voice and Sing” is gospel, while the rest more or less falls into a contemporary post bop vein, but no two tracks seem similar. “Union Maid’ and “Saigon Bride” are pretty ballads, while “The Fiddle and the Drum” and “Battle Hymn of the Republic” are borderline avant-garde. It’s a varied smorgasbord of styles and tunes that greet us on “Right, Left, Right”. Smith also contributed two politically themed originals to help fill out the album. To help her with these musical portraits, Tina enlisted two highly skilled musicians, bassist Putter Smith and pianist Art Lande. The CD title itself refers to the political divide in the US, often strongly amplified by an overly hyped media, that is more than happy to point out that the coasts of the US tend to represent left leaning politics, while the heartland represents the right. The end result is the CD “Left,Right Left”, a collection of instrumental protest songs and patriotic songs. Finding a way to voice their disappointment and frustration may have been difficult for many, but for drummer Tina Raymond, the solution became obvious, and that was to record her first album and have it reflect her concerns about her country in the present, as well as her hopes for the future. Certainly a lot of people were upset at the outcome of the last US presidential election.

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