http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EthDcimDksg Luis Bravo El Idolo 1962
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvZ4I5XAqm4&feature=fvwrel Ricky Nelson Teenage Idol 1962
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLnhghhwSm4 Porter Wagonner The Green Green Grass Of Home 1972
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PqKV3iJ9aHo Ricky Nelson My One Desire 1962
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymxpwiJe1yw Stray Cats My One Desire 1981
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvUQcnfwUUM&feature=fvwrel
Mientras Cuba estaba con la mal denominada Zafra en [1969-1970] y esperando una supuesta invasión de EEUU, el grupo de rock ingles Mungo Jerry logro una zafra en EEUU con la canción dedicada al verano “In The Summertime”.
La gente se enamoró de la canción por su melodía contagiosa. La canción se convertido en el himno de verano en EEUU y Europa. Gracias Mungo Jerry.
Vanessa Peters: “The Christmas We Hoped For” [Christmas Legend for the year 2011 and Beyond]
The Christmas period is beginning and the artists release their yearly Christmas albums. Vanessa Peters recorded and released a Christmas album destined to be a classic.
“The Christmas We Hoped For” is becoming a legend and [in my opinion] is superior to other Christmas albums recorded this year. I Invited Vanessa Peters and she accepted to be interviewed concerning “The Christmas We Hoped For”. The rest is history.
1. What was the inspiration behind recording “The Christmas We Hoped For”?
We just wanted to do an fun, low-stress project. I’ve always wanted to do an album of cover songs, and somehow, in the middle of summer, we got the crazy idea to do Christmas songs.
2. What inspired you to choose the songs for “The Christmas We Hoped For”?
I chose my favorite Christmas songs, but I also wanted a good balance of traditional hymns and more secular, classic songs. I could have easily filled another EP with hymns, but I wanted the album to have a more universal and balanced feel to it.
3. Will you be recording videos for these timeless songs in your album?
I don’t know. I guess it depends on whether we have time! We’re working on my new record of originals right now, so I am not sure we’ll get around to doing a video. But if we get some good wintry weather, maybe I’ll put on my snow boots and make a video or two. 
4. How long did it take you to record “The Christmas We Hoped For”?
We worked on it throughout the summer… maybe about two months total? We would work on an arrangement, record that song, and then move on to the next one. The album took shape as we went along – we didn’t start out with a specific number of songs that we wanted to have. At first I thought we’d only do an EP. But it was so much fun that we just kept going.
5. Where can people buy “The Christmas We Hoped For”?
Just about anywhere that music is sold online! You can find it at CD Baby, iTunes, Amazon, and BandCamp.
6. Will you do any concerts to promote your Christmas album?
I’m doing the CD release party in Dallas on Dec 10th. Other than that, I’m laying pretty low this Christmas.
7. Who did the artistry in the album?
We did the artwork – we built a diorama at home and photographed it. My friend Haley Adam did the layout.
8. Do you have any Christmas messages to share with the world?
I just hope that everyone finds the joy in this time of year. I know that for many people, the holidays can be so hectic and stressful, but I hope that everyone finds a way to feel peace and love within themselves and just enjoy the company of their friends and family and loved ones.
Vanessa, I would like to thank you for the time spent with us and for “The Christmas We Hoped For”. I like the album very much especially your interpretation of “All I Want For Christmas Is You” which for me is one of the true meaning of Christmas.
Welcome to another Christmas special of “El Noticiero Alvarez-Galloso” [The Alvarez-Galloso News Hour]. We have as an invited guest the Queen of Latin Folk Music for the 21st Century. Her name is Gina Chavez.
Gina Chavez recently returned from a concert in Japan where she was given a great reception. Gina Chavez has a new album called “Hanging Spoons”. The interview was conducted via E Mail between Florida and Texas.
We will continue with the rest of the interview.
How did you get started in the music business?
I’ve always loved to sing. I was fortunate to have great choir teachers in middle school and high school who taught me how to sing life into notes on a page. But it was when I saw Toni Price with Casper Rawls and Scrappy Judd at the Continental Club when I was 18 that I pulled my dad’s 1954 Martin guitar out of the closet and began writing songs. Since then, God has placed incredible people and opportunities in my path and gently but firmly shoved me into recording albums and pursuing music as a career.
Who were you your musical idols and what did you learn from them (or their music) to form a style that is Gina Chavez?
I’m not really sure I have idols, but I remember nearly wearing out three cassettes as a child (yes, cassettes!): Lyle Lovett’s Pontiac, Michael Jackson’s Thriller, and The Essential Little Richard. Later, Patty Griffin and Ani Difranco gave heart and fight to my songwriting, while the rhythmic poetry of Mercedes Sosa, Silvio Rodriguez and Jorge Drexler now bridge my passion for song to my longing for a connection to my Latin roots.
If The Texas Rangers win the World Series, will you do a special concert in honor of them?
Oh, how I wish they’d thrown a strike and won Game 6! Don’t remind me…
But yes, of course, WHEN they win, I will most definitely raise my voice in their honor.
Your latest release “Hanging Spoons” has been a success in the USA and parts of the world. What do you attribute the success of “Hanging Spoons”?
Hanging Spoons was a blast to work on! The producer, Stephen Miller, and I spent 10 months recording and loved every second of it. It’s a simple album from a young songwriter and remains a collection of songs that I am proud of and can still listen to and enjoy. I’ve heard it’s a great album to cook to, hehe, but I guess you’ll have to take a listen and tell me what you think.
How long did it take you to record the album ”Hanging Spoons”?
10 months and lots of do-overs, haha.
What was the concept behind “Hanging Spoons”?
Essentially, it’s a collection of the most meaningful songs I’d written as a young songwriter. I spent another month of two trying to name the album since I’m not a big fan of self-titled first albums. Hanging Spoons came to me after reading that KT Tunstall titled her debut album Eye to the Telescope after a beloved pasttime she shared with her father. Since my family has always been my most amazing support, I named the album Hanging Spoons to honor one of our favorite pasttimes, namely seeing how many spoons one can hang on one’s face.
You participated in Austin 4 El Salvador. What is Austin 4 El Salvador?
In 2009, I left Central Texas for Central America where I lived with nuns and taught English to 300 girls in Soyapango, a gang-dominated suburb of San Salvador for 8 months. Upon return, my mission partner and I decided to start a college scholarship fund for four of the senior girls that we’d lived with and come to love as sisters. With the help of amazing Austinites, two of the girls, Marta and Xiomara, are finishing up the second semester of their freshman year at Don Bosco University, a private Catholic college in their neighborhood. A donation of $10 or more gives our girls an otherwise unaffordable education, a priceless opportunity to positively change their world. To learn more, visit www.crowdrise.com/austin4elsalvador
What is your advice to those who seek a musical career?
Keep singing and playing and writing. Always! The career requires that you learn business, but keep your heart in the art of it and know that you have a song that no one else can sing but you.
Do you have any message for the world?
How bout a question? …Does knowing the right answer help you to love more or cause you to love less?
Thank You Gina for taking the time to be interviewed by “El Noticiero Alvarez-Galloso”. I would like to wish you the best in your career and newest album “Hanging Spoons”
I want to invite the readers of “El Noticiero Alvarez-Galloso” to add Gina Chavez and her latest album “Hanging Spoon” to your Christmas Wish List. Gina Chavez and her music are out of this world.
Now You Can Get The Kind of Exciting Jazz CD That Attracted You To This Music In The First Place!
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At the present time this CDs debut on the national airplay charts was at #52 during the 1st week of its release. The second week it rose to #34 and is presently #27 during its 3rd week. Read the following reviews to see how the press is reacting:
OCTOBER 2011 OVERALL RATING 5 STARS VALUE FOR THE MONEY 5 STARS NEW MIKE LONGO JAZZ CD IS A SPECIAL OCCASION It is a special occasion when a new Mike Longo album comes out because we get to hear fresh, innovative jazz exploration at its finest — all-acoustic music recorded live in the studio with top players and great interaction between the musicians. Plus, on this one, half the tunes feature his piano trio and the other half have two great horn-players added. It does not get any better than this. All five players are top-notch, first-rate jazzsters. Jazz lovers should take a listen to the new Longo CD, TO MY SURPRISE, to hear some of the best straight-ahead jazz around. Here is a listening hint. This jazz master likes to explore the subtleties of the internal rhythms possible in jazz. The first tracks that will jump out are the two uptempo hold-onto-your-hat numbers — the Longo-composed “A Picture of Dorian Mode” and Herbie Hancock’s “Eye of the Hurricane.” But live with the music a bit and some of the slower tunes rise to the surface. Dive deep into this music and you will hear subtle surprises as the music unfolds (hint #2: Longo named the album TO MY SURPRISE because he says that even he was surprised at times where the music went while they were recording).
World’s #1 Music Forum! OCTOBER 2011 OSCAR PETERSON’S STUDENT AND DIZZY GILLESPIE’S PIANIST HAS NEW CD If you get a chance, take a listen to the great new Mike Longo jazz CD, TO MY SURPRISE (info at jazzbeat.com). Half the disc he plays with his trio and the other half with a quintet (two horns added). Jazz buffs will recognize the players from countless liner credits — trumpeter Jimmy Owens, bassist Bob Cranshaw, saxophonist Lance Bryant and ubiquitous drummer Lewis Nash. Longo studied early on with Oscar Peterson, and then played regularly with Dizzy Gillespie for a quarter of a century. But Longo has gone on to become a respected solo artist in his own right (his last album, STING LIKE A BEE, went to #3 on the premier JAZZ WEEK chart). This is an album of deep jazz exploration with tight interactivity between the musicians. It is an exquisite CD for anyone who loves to hear great charts interspersed with very tasty soloing. A few highlights stand out like the funky “New Muse Blues” with a catchy, quirky melody as well as a Longo piano solo that is all over the place, like he is teasing us. Also, I cannot believe that his acoustic trio ties into Herbie Hancock’s electric-large-band “Eye of the Hurricane” and completely pulls it off. I also enjoyed Longo’s solo on “Still Water” and the horn solos on “To My Surprise.” Listening to online excerpts of this music will not do it justice, so perhaps you should take a flyer, invest a dollar on a download, pick any track at random, live with it in your computer or ipod for a week, and see if it inspires you to go ahead and buy the whole durn thing…Review Center
OCTOBER 2011 To My Surprise Mike Longo Trio + 2 To be released October 24, 2011 on CAP Records. A review written for the Folk & Acoustic Music Exchange by Mark S. Tucker
That name should ring more than a few bells and provoke an instant recognition of the prospect of top-flite jazz, ’cause Mike Longo’s been at the game for a long time, starting out as Diz’s pianist in ’66 after being discovered as a teenager by Cannonball Adderly and later studying with Oscar Peterson in what was one of the the most grueling and rewarding periods of his life. That apprenticeship shows everywhere in this latest disc, To My Surprise, a CD loaded up with nothing but first-rung talent: Bob Cranshaw on bass, Lewis Nash on drums, Jimmy Owens on trumpet and flugelhorn, and Lance Bryant on tenor sax. That’s it. No guest sit-ins other than that ‘+2′. No sweetening. Just a quinteted-up trio playing its extremely sophisticated brains out. What you get is straight-up classic jazz. Not acid jazz. Not jazz lite. Certainly not a drop of The Wave’s gooey saccharine breathily cloying sentimentality. Just good honest killer jazz, and God knows there’s never enough of that. Owens and Bryant make a great horn section, bringing to the table a full slate of improv chops well based in the melody while sliding witty little embellishments all over the place, the kinda stuff that makes a grooved-out listener grin and softly exclaim “Yeahhhhhhhhh!!” And when they get through, Longo jumps right in, and I’m not sure I can properly categorize his style. You can definitely hear the Oscar in there as well as a quite decent amount of Herbie, but there are also touches of Evans and the swing of Guaraldi. Bob Cranshaw’s bass is the most rock steady of the group, buoying the gents with ample space and rhythm for their work while Nash is icy cool with his kit, complicated and engrossing without sacrificing duties to Cransahw in co-nailing the rhythm section down. And speaking of Herbie, these guys really do frantic justice to his Eye of the Hurricane, an unusually timed ditty of ever-changing shapes and outlines, twisting narrative and skewed linearity, Longo’s left hand almost coming from another body, chordally jumping all around the right’s dancing figurations. Appropriate, then, that the CD should close out with a bit of a tipsy take on In the Wee Small Hours as the bar closes down, we stagger to the door, and take a nice deep breath of the evening air, dreamily smiling at the good fortune of such a spate of excellent tunes. And, heh-heh-heh!…A Picture of Dorian Mode. Chuckle! Good one, Mike, good one. Took me a minute to get it properly. Gettin’ a little wild on Wilde and musical modalities. Nice! Track List: A Picture of Dorian Mode (Mike Longo) Still Water (Mike Longo) New Muse Blues (Mike Longo) Limbo (Wayne Shorter) Alone Again (Mike Longo) I Hadn’t Anyone ‘Til You (Ray Noble) Old Devil Moon (Lane / Harburg) Magic Bluze (Jimmy Owens) To My Surprise (Mike Longo) You’ve Changed (Carey / Fischer) Eye of the Hurricane (Herbie Hancock) In the Wee Small Hours (Mann / Hilliard)
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El mundo latino en los Estados Unidos de Norteamérica incluyendo los Estados de Texas e Idaho está de fiesta. La razón es la llegada de un artista con su granito de arena hacia la música tejana: Linna Martínez.
Linna Martínez merece ser elogiada por mantener sus raíces tejanas a pesar de haber nacido y criado en Blackfoot Idaho. Ella vio la luz en ese bendito pueblo el 3 de agosto de 1980.
Linna Martínez [desde pequeña] aprendió la música tejana de sus antepasados y comenzó su carrera como cantante. Linna Martínez grabo su primer disco “Sin Explicación” a la edad de 15 años en Edinberg, Texas.
Linna Martínez cosecho éxitos con su primer disco y regreso a Idaho para formar el conjunto “Estilo”. Ella hizo conciertos de música tejana con “Estilo” y la respuesta fue aplausos y alabanzas hacia la joven cantante.
En el año 2004, Linna Martínez regreso a Texas para grabar su segundo álbum con el título “Corazoncito”. Ella grabo el álbum en la ciudad de San Antonio en el mismo estado.
La respuesta hacia “Corazoncito” fue abrumadora en el mundo tejano. Linna Martínez acepto ofertas para promover el álbum en distintos lugares en Texas incluyendo la TTMA Conciertos de los que Apoyan la Música.
Durante su carrera musical, Linna Martínez soñaba [como cualquier artista] tener una familia. Es algo intrínseco en la vida de un ser humano pues como dice la canción “El Ídolo” [Teenage Idol] interpretado por los cantantes Luis Bravo [Español] y Ricky Nelson [Ingles], las mejores glorias es tener una familia.
Linna Martínez se alejo del escenario para criar una familia y tener esa paz con tranquilidad. Después de un tiempo, Linna Martínez comenzó el año 2011 firmando con la casa disquera Q-Vo de Chente Barrera para grabar su último álbum “Enamorada”.
He tenido el honor en escuchar este álbum con ideas frescas con un estilo de Tejano/Idaho. El álbum trataba de los varios aspectos de amor como la despedida, estar enamorado/a, y viviendo la vida.
Las canciones preferidas del autor en este álbum son “Enamorada” que se trata del amor y “Cada Día Te Extraño Mas”. “Enamorada” se trata de una decepción amorosa pero existe el fondo alegre para achicar la herida.
La canción “Cada Día Te Extraño Mas” es una canción de una pareja separada por la distancia y/o la ruptura. Es una canción que me hace pensar en aquellos tiempos cuando extraño algo o alguien que quiero [o quería] en un pasado.
Linna Martínez es un artista que merece todo lo mejor en el mundo por su trayectoria. Por eso y mucho mas, Linna Martínez es la Reina De La Música Tejana/Idaho y su álbum “Enamorada” merece un 100% en mi escala musical.
Roberto Carlos Alvarez-Galloso
Miami Florida
22-Octubre-2011
PD: Invito al público a visitar la página de Linna Martínez para comprar su nuevo disco “Enamorada”. Gracias.
The world of Tejano Music is celebrating with the arrival of Linna Martinez and her new album titled “Enamorada” or “Falling In Love”. The people of Texas, Idaho, and the world cannot get enough of Linna Martinez and her Idaho Flavored Tejano Music.
What is the driving force behind Linna Martinez? The answers lie in her life story and review of her musical career.
Linna Martinez was born in Blackfoot, Idaho on August 3, 1980 to parents from South Texas. The grandparents of Miss Martinez are also from South Texas. The basis for her music originated in the roots of southern Texas.
Ms. Martinez excelled in everything she put her mind into and decided that the time was ripe for a musical career. Linna Martinez recorded her first album titled “Sin Explicacion” or “Without Explanation” at the age of 15 in the town of Edinberg, Texas.
She was inspired after the recording to return to Idaho and form the band known as “Estilo”. Linna Martinez and the band toured Idaho and played at different venues within the state.
Linna Martinez was able to capitalize on her success in Idaho and return to record her second album titled “Corazoncito” or “Little Heart”. She recorded her second album in San Antonio, Texas in the year 2004.
The album was another success with Linna Martinez and Estilo performing in different venues around San Antonio, Texas. Ms. Martinez even performed at the TTMA Fan Fair Performance with people praising her Idaho flavored Tejano Music.
While “Corazoncito” was a great success, something was missing in the life and times of Linna Martinez. Ms. Martinez took time off to become a mother and raise a family.
In the year 2011, Linna Martinez signed a record deal with Q-Vo Records which is owned by the famed Tejano artist Chente Barrera. Ms. Martinez went to work recording her latest album “Enamorada”. The CD “Enamorada” became another huge success for Linna Martinez.
I had the pleasure and honor of listening to “Enamorada” and the songs are great. The song “Cada Dia Te Extrano Mas” or “Every Day I Miss You” is a gem which deals with separation and how it brings together the hearts of those who suffer from it.
Linna Martinez is one of the greatest musicians in the world who deserves praise for her music. Linna Martinez via her music and personality has earned the title of Queen of Idaho Tejano Music.
