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Usher at the Apollo Theater

Usher at the Apollo Theater

Source: Michael Ricci

In the Hands of a Pro, the Moves Meet the Grooves Usher Friday night with hits, splits and a handstand. “It's been about four years since we last met," Usher said addressing a sold-out audience as a single acquaintance. “I wanted it to be here at the Apollo."

He let that notion sink in a moment, implicitly evoking a roll call of legendary performers at the Apollo Theater, like James Brown and Marvin Gaye. Then he asserted his ...

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Usher Scores Second Best Sales Debut Of 2008

Usher Scores Second Best Sales Debut Of 2008

Source: All About Jazz

Four years after his Confessions rocked the charts, Usher returns to The Billboard 200 at No. 1 with Here I Stand.

With 433,000 U.S. copies sold, according to Nielsen SoundScan, the LaFace/Zomba album is the second biggest debut this year behind the 463,000 start of Mariah Carey's E=MC2.

Here I Stand was led by the single Love in This Club featuring Young Jeezy, which was No. 1 for three weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. Usher's Confessions started at the ...

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Usher Closing in on No. 1 Album Debut

Usher Closing in on No. 1 Album Debut

Source: All About Jazz

Usher's Here I Stand continues to charge its way towards a No. 1 debut on next week's Billboard 200 album chart, as it will once again lead Nielsen SoundScan's Building chart when it is released later today (May 30).

Unweighted sales of Stand through the close of business Thursday (May 29) were 267,000. Depending on weekend sales, Usher has a chance to meet or possibly exceed the year's best sales week -- when Mariah Carey's E=MC2 bowed with 463,000 in ...

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Usher's Here I Stand CD

Usher's Here I Stand CD

Source: All About Jazz

USHER 2.0/ One of the Last Big Pop Stars Tries Adulthood. No catharsis here: Usher has stripped out the pain audible in the work of so many great male soul singers. Usher's new album, Here I Stand, is the work of a newlywed. The challenge here is to convince us that he is a married and responsible man--grown and sexy, as R. & B. for people over thirty has come to be called--without sacrificing the louche, frictionless sense ...

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Don Lusher's Memorial Service

Don Lusher's Memorial Service

Source: All About Jazz


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Trombonist Don Lusher Passed Away Wednesday, 5th July

Trombonist Don Lusher Passed Away Wednesday, 5th July

Source: All About Jazz

Don Lusher, the jazz and big band trombonist best known for leading the Ted Heath Jazz Band, passed away on Wednesday afternoon, his wife said. He was 82 years old.

In a career spanning more than 60 years, he played with a number of groups and was twice president of the British Trombone Society.

Lusher was honoured in the 2002 New Year's Honours list with an OBE for services to the music industry. Born in Peterborough in 1923, he joined ...

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