Warren Michaels Interviews UK Talent Donna Fullman

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Based in the sunniest spot of the United Kingdom, lives independent singer songwriter Donna Fullman. Quietly penning songs for her next release: a full length album ‘Inner World’ which follows her debut EP ‘Happiness + Victory’.

Whilst working as a graphic designer she honed her writing skills developing personal accounts of prose, poetry and lyrics. With only vocal melody to lean on she was urged to find her instrument, eventual...ly picking up the guitar. She continued to develop her voice and guitar playing whilst resisting performing for many years. In 2004 she applied to the Brighton Institute of Modern Music to study Songwriting and was offered a place based purely on the lyrics she presented.

“I still prefer to use vocal melody. It’s more honest” . Donna Fullman discussing her writing techniques in September 2010.

She graduated with distinction, a few ‘bedroom’ recordings and new band members in tow, collectively hitting the gigging circuit of London and the South.

“I realized that performing was vital to getting my music out there, to connect, which is at the heart of everything I do.”

With musical influences steeped in the heady 60s and 70s she notes John Lennon, Joni Mitchell and Bob Dylan as key influences. Inspired by the epic creations of Ennio Morricone and lyrical works of Patti Smith, Leonard Cohen and Jim Morrison. The combination is a powerful blend of poetry and artistry she is dedicated to.

Listen to this Live interview of Von Babasin - Tuesday April 19, 11pm EDT

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Playing bass since he was 17 years old, recording in original bands since 1983. From 1976-1983, Von worked with special effects crews for Universal Studios on such films as Airport '77 and '79, Jaws II,

The Incredible Shrinking Woman, and John Carpenter's The Thing. Also as a screen credited Grip on the movie, La Bamba. '83-'86, Von was under a
recording contract with a band called Uranus, with an indie label who also signed me as... the production manager/director of their music video division.

In 1986, Von started a new band with guitarist Robb Howell called the RH Factor, who Von was with for a decade. They released two albums, wrote, recorded and performed the movie soundtrack for the film "Forever: A Ghost of a Love Story", and even opened the first annual Long Beach Jazz Festival.
When that group broke up, the drummer, Dave
Goode, and Von joined with guitarist Don Lake to form ONOFFON, who he has been with for the last 14 years. They have released three critically
acclaimed albums, with our most recent, Bridge to Presage, earning the Best Album honors at the 2006 International Online Music Awards.

 

Concurrently,Von has been in pre-production on a documentary film he is producing about his father called, Harry Babasin's Jazz In Hollywood. He was one of the greatest bassist/producers in jazz history and one of the major definers of the west coast jazz movement of the 40's and 50's.

Warren Michaels Talks live with Jazz Master Bassist Don Miller

WARREN MICHAELS 

"LIVE" 

INTERVIEW

DON MILLER- BASSIST

COMPOSER/BAND LEADER

April 12th 2011

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Bassist/Composer Don Miller has spent much of the past three decades performing, recording, and traveling throughout the United States and the world with such artists as Dizzy Gillespie, Tony Bennett, Ramsey Lewis, George Benson, Dr. Lonnie Smith, Lou Donaldson, Clark Terry, Ira Sullivan, Buddy DeFranco, Richie Cole, Frank Wess, Nat Adderly, Larry Coryell, Mark Murphy, Freddy Cole, Frank Foster, David Amram, Dakota Staton, and literally too many others to list.

Warren was lucky enough to land an interview with the one and only "Mickey Cash" First cousin to "Johnny Cash". Along with playing several of Mickey's Songs Warren and Mickey will be discussing her past,present and future in the Music Industry. Mickey seems to have inherited the right genes and isn't wasting any time putting them to work.





Listening to her latest Video of Mr. BoJangles you can tell she comes from a long line of Passionate musicians and singers. If I were you I wouldn't miss this interview for anything, Drop everything and check it out. It will prove to be the best 30 minutes you spent all day

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      Mickey Cash Stylizes Mr Bo Jangles

                                                                                  The Making of the Video

Genre	Alternative Country/ Americana
Members	Mickey Cash
Hometown	Richmond,VA
Record Label	Indie
About	Now Mickey’s working on a new album. She’s traveling America’s east coast with her song and spirit. Her music – a blend of Americana, country and Motown - tells the story of a tough life, dreams loved and lost, and making big decisions.

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A little Bit of Country, a little bit of Motown and a little bit of Bluegrass

Biography

Mickey Cash’s tambourine flutters down in a shake, just above her hip. She raises her other hand to the microphone and sings. “On the backwoods from the bottom of the south, there’s a place called Pleasant Grove. There’s a young man there who never did grow up. Some say he’s 100 years old.” There’s something about her deep, soulful voice, the strong, sexy jawline and pensively set eyes that hint to bluegrass and country fans where her family history lies. Cousin to The Man in Black, Johnny Cash, and daughter to The Osbourne Brother’s guitarist Gordon Cash, Mickey sings the same way she lives her life: with everything she’s got. Now Mickey’s working on a new album. She’s traveling America’s east coast with her song and spirit. Her music – a blend of Americana, country and rock n’ roll - tells the story of a tough life, dreams loved and lost, and making big decisions. Mickey grew up in a swampy, small town near Richmond, Virginia. After graduating from New Kent High School, she married her sweetheart, traveling as far as California for her husband’s job. Fate would eventually lead Mickey and music manager/vocal coach Leonard Reed (producer for Marvin Gaye and inventor of the Shim Sham Shimmy dance) to the same hotel poolside in Los Angeles, where Mickey sang. Reed asked the young songstress if he could put her to work, and so her story with fame began. She was reaching new heights quickly and raising her girls Rachel and Samantha. But times were still hard, and so when her husband said, it’s the music or me, Mickey chose her family. She became an interior designer and started her own business, only to end up in divorce years later. A single mom, she sent one child to college, and settled down with the other on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Diagnosed with blood cancer soon after, Mickey fought for her life with the help of her mother Dorothy, who introduced the singer to organic foods and healthy eating. Mickey recovered, looking and feeling better than ever. “I know my future doesn’t have to be my history,” said Mickey, who sees herself as a believer in God, a mother, a musician, and a survivor.

Warren Michaels & Ashford Gordon Discuss his career and listen to his music

Ashford Gordon

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Dont Miss this interview We are talking to Jazz Legend Ronnie Cuber

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We are talking to Jazz Legend 

Ronnie Cuber

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Thursday,March 24th ,2011--11pm EDT

Born: December 25, 1941 | Instrument: Sax, baritone

Ronnie Cuber is a baritone sax player strong enough to bring out the lyricism of the weighty instrument. While he plays traditional jazz in the style of Pepper Adams and Nick Brignola, Cuber also has led Latin sessions and appeared on dozens of pop recordings as an in-demand sideman. Cuber was born on Christmas, 1941, in New York. When he was 18, he appeared in Marshall Brown's Newport Youth Band at the Newport Jazz Festival. Three years later he was in Slide Hampton's groups and spent the 1960s working with Maynard Ferguson, George Benson, Lionel Hampton, Woody Herman and Lonnie Smith.During the next decade, Cuber performed on a slew of recordings and embraced distant ends of the woodwind family by playing flute and baritone sax on Eddie Palmieri's 1973 record, Sun Of Latin Music. While working with Lee Konitz in the late '70s, Cuber featured the clarinet and soprano sax alongside the baritone in his arsenal. He recorded his own Cuber Libre in 1976 and released a succession of traditional jazz records in the '80s and '90s, such as Live At The Blue Note and The Scene Is Clean (Milestone). In the 1980's he was a member of the Saturday Night Live Band for 5 years. The slew of pop musicians who have recruited easy-going Cuber for sessions include Chaka Kahn, Paul Simon. In 1998, Cuber played on and arranged The Three Baritone Saxophone tribute disc, Plays Mulligan on Dreyfus Records, and has arranged and recorded on 6 Mingus Big Band cd's for Dreyfus Records. Aaron Cohen/Downbeat