Pollstar is a concert tour industry's leading trade publication that gets its information primarily from the agents, managers and promoters who are producing concerts.^[1] Founded in 1981, it is based in Fresno, California and has an office in London with correspondents in six countries. Pollstar is also a member of the Associated Press (AP). Its services are subscription based, distributed worldwide and include the weekly magazine as well as the online databases.^[2] Pollstar also held an award ceremony annually to honor artists and professionals in the concert industry.^[3][4][5]

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Pollstar at WorldCat

This music magazine or journal-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. v t e

Andrew Dice Clay (born Andrew Clay Silverstein; September 29, 1957) is an American comedian and actor^[1] who played the lead role in the film The Adventures of Ford Fairlane.^[2]

Clay has been in several movies and has released a number of stand-up albums. He is the only comedian in history to sell out Madison Square Garden two nights in a row, a feat he accomplished in 1990.^[3][4][5]

Early life[link]

Clay was born in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, New York, the son of Doris and Fred Silverstein, who worked in real estate sales.^[6] Clay is of Jewish heritage.^[7][8][9] Clay was doing impressions and entertaining his family in the living room by the time he was 5. He was a fairly proficient drummer at James Madison High School, and played bar mitzvahs and casual dates as "Clay Silvers."

Career[link]

In 1978, he auditioned at Pips, a local comedy club in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn, doing comedic impressions, then headlined there the following week as "Andrew Clay." His act at the time included an impression of John Travolta in Grease and Jerry Lewis as The Nutty Professor. Clay graduated to the major Manhattan comedy clubs, including Budd Friedman's The Improv, Catch a Rising Star and Dangerfield's. His move to Los Angeles came in 1980. He was "adopted" there by Mitzi Shore, owner of the famed Comedy Store. His work at the Store led to sitcom appearances on M*A*S*H and Diff'rent Strokes. He later landed roles in movies such as Making the Grade (1984) and Pretty in Pink (1986).^[10]

He had a regular role on Crime Story from 1986 – 1988.^[11] He eventually turned from acting to pursue a career in stand-up comedy, focusing on the character "Dice" from Making the Grade. His big break came in 1988 when he did a seven-minute set at Dangerfield's during the Rodney Dangerfield special "Nothing Goes Right." It was there that he met his agent Dennis Arfa and later got his first HBO special.^[12]

Later works[link]

Clay retreated from the media spotlight for several years. For several years he ran a fitness gym in Brooklyn. 1995 saw him try to reclaim his fame with the broadcast of the HBO special Assume the Position. The special failed to reignite Clay's career.

In 1998, Clay released the triple-live album "Filth" via the Internet. Soon afterward, Clay aligned himself with New York City-based talk program The Opie and Anthony Show.

To coincide with the release of 2000's "Face Down, Ass Up," Opie and Anthony teamed up with Clay to allow him to perform at Madison Square Garden.

In 2005, Clay signed a deal with Sirius to produce and broadcast his own show, Out of the Cage.

In 2007, he attempted a comeback with the reality TV series Dice: Undisputed on VH1, which lasted seven episodes.^[13]

He appeared as a part of NBC's The Celebrity Apprentice 2 and was the first celebrity to be fired, after he openly entertained the idea of quitting while in Donald Trump's presence. On The Howard Stern Show, Clay stated that the show was edited to exclude situations where Trump treated Clay poorly based on his comic treatment of women rather than his accomplishments.^[14] Clay deserves credit for goading Trump into bringing snacks into the War Room. Throughout the season, each celebrity was raising money for a charity of their choice; Clay had selected StandUp For Kids.^[15]

In July 2011, Clay was featured in the eighth and final season of Entourage as Johnny Drama's co-star in the fictional program Johnny's Bananas.^[16] He also appeared in an episode of Raising Hope as himself which aired on November 29, 2011

In May of 2012, Clay appeared on The Joe Rogan Experience podcast.

Controversy[link]

Clay is known for a style of comedy that has sparked controversy and much media coverage. He is loved by some and reviled by others, who feel that his act is crude, misogynistic, racist, homophobic and degrading. Clay has been widely opposed by women's rights groups and he has been banned from many radio and television shows for his explicit language and socially and politically charged humor. MTV banned him for life in 1989 for reciting what he called "adult nursery rhymes" during the annual Video Music Awards ceremony (September 6, 1989).^[17] In 2011, he was unbanned by MTV. The Biography Channel refuses to produce a biography of him.^[18]

In 1990, Clay was invited to guest host the weekly comedy TV show, Saturday Night Live. Cast member Nora Dunn declared her refusal to ever appear on the same broadcast as Clay and did not participate in the episode of his guest appearance (May 12). Invited musical guest Sinéad O'Connor also boycotted Clay's appearance.^[19]

Personal life[link]

In 2002, he divorced his wife and focused in part on raising his two sons.^[20] One of his sons, Max, has since followed his father into stand-up comedy,^[21] and occasionally opens for him on tour.^[22]

Discography[link]

• ADC: The Mixtape That Hates You, 1988
• Dice, 1990
• The Day the Laughter Died, 1990
• Dice Rules, 1991
• 40 Too Long, 1992
• The Day the Laughter Died, Part II, 1993
• No Apologies (Video), 1993^[23]
• Filth, 1999
• Face Down, Ass Up, 2000

Filmography[link]

• M*A*S*H, Cpl. Hrabosky in "Trick or Treatment" Episode (1982)
• Diff'rent Strokes, recurring character, named Larry, in Willis and Kimberly's high school (1982–83)
• Wacko (1982)
• Night Patrol (1984)
• Making the Grade (1984)
• Private Resort (1985)
• Pretty in Pink (1986)
• Amazon Women on the Moon (1987)
• Casual Sex? (1988)
• Crime Story (1986–1988)
• The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)
• Dice Rules (1991)
• Brainsmasher... A Love Story (1993)
• No Contest (1994)
• Bless This House (1995)
• National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins (1995)
• Hitz (1997)
• Foolish (1999)
• My 5 Wives (2000)
• One Night at McCool's (2001)
• Dice Undisputed (2007)
• Entourage (2011)
• Raising Hope (2011)

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Andrew Dice Clay

• Official website
• Andrew Dice Clay at the Internet Movie Database
• Andrew Dice Clay at AllRovi
• Andrew Dice Clay on Myspace
• Rotten.com: Andrew Dice Clay biography
• Vegas Video Network: Awkward Silence 2.1 Interview with Andrew Dice Clay

This biographical article needs additional citations for verification. Please help by adding reliable sources. Contentious material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libelous or harmful. (September 2010)

Matt Schofield (born 21 August 1977, Manchester, England)^[1][2] is an English blues guitarist and singer. His band, The Matt Schofield Trio, play their own material, which is a blend of blues, funk, and jazz, along with covers of blues classics such as Albert Collins' "Lights Are On, But Nobody's Home".

Influences[link]

Schofield's guitar playing is often likened^[3] to Robben Ford in reference to his melodic and fluid style, and jazzy lines. However, Schofield was also influenced by B.B. King, Freddie King, Albert King, Muddy Waters, Eric Clapton, Albert Collins, Jimi Hendrix, Billy Gibbons, Stevie Ray Vaughan and Jimmie Vaughan.^[4]

Career[link]

Recordings[link]

Schofield has four studio albums and two live albums. The first of the live discs, The Trio, Live was recorded at the Bishop's Blues club at The Half Moon, Bishop's Stortford in 2004 and, funded and released by Richard Pavitt on his Nugene record label, gave the band their first breakthrough.^[2] The first studio album, Siftin' Thru Ashes was released in 2005. This album showcased Schofield as a songwriter, writing or co-writing eight out of eleven of the tracks. AllMusic called Schofield's approach "an enjoyable demonstration of what can happen when blues-rock and blues-jazz are united". The second live album, Live At The Jazz Cafe! was recorded at the London Jazz Cafe in April 2005, and was made available as a web only release. Schofield is one of only two living British artists to be given a four star (excellent) rating in the Penguin Book of Blues Recordings.^{[citation needed]}

The release of The Trio, Live prompted Schofield to be featured in a Guitarist magazine article, listing the nine notable up and coming blues guitarists, Schofield being the only non-American. Of the album they said "britblues meets jazz via N'Orleans - all played with the kind of sizzling guitar that just does not often surface in Fairford, Gloucestershire".^{[citation needed]} In 2007, Guitar & Bass Magazine picked Schofield as one of the "Top 10 British Blues Guitarists of All Time". In August 2009, Schofield released Heads, Tails, & Aces, his third studio effort. The next year (2010) the band collected the Album of the Year award at the British Blues Awards for this album.^[5] Matt won the British Blues Guitarist and Jonny Henderson won the British Keyboard Player award, and they both won these awards in 2011, too. ^[6]

In 2011, the trio released their fourth album Anything but Time, with Kevin Haynes on drums and John Porter as producer. ^[7] Guitarinstructor.com, a part of the Hal Leonard organization, has this album as No 5 in their top 10 albums of 2011, while Mojo magazine picked up as No 1 of Blues albums of 2011.

Band[link]

Schofield performs with an organ trio (guitar, organ, and drums).^[2] Organ trios are mostly associated with the 1950s and 1960s U.S. jazz groups led by organists such as Jimmy Smith. Blues bands more commonly use trios of guitar, bass and drums, quartets (guitar, keyboards, bass, and drums) or quintets (guitar, rhythm guitar, keyboards, bass, and drums). In Schofield's organ trio, organist Jonny Henderson plays a Hammond organ, performing basslines using his left hand, and playing chords and lead lines with his right hand. The trio's drummer is Evan Jenkins. Jeff Walker played bass on the final track of Siftin' Thru' Ashes. In 2009, as of the recording of Heads, Tails & Aces, The Matt Schofield Trio became The Matt Schofield Band, a four-piece, featuring Jeff 'The Funk' Walker on bass, and also replacing Evan Jenkins with Alain Baudry. At a concert at the Swindon Arts Centre on 22 October 2009, the band reverted to a trio. In June 2010, Kevin Hayes, replaced Evan Jenkins in the band.

Discography[link]

This section may need to be wikified to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. Please help by adding relevant internal links, or by improving the article's layout. (November 2011) Click [show] on right for more details. No reason has been cited for the Wikify tag on this article.You can insert a reason using the |reason= parameter, like this: {{Wikify|reason=Your reason here}} Please replace HTML markup with wiki markup where appropriate. Add wikilinks. Where appropriate, make links to other articles by putting "[[" and "]]" on either side of relevant words (see WP:LINK for more information) and check that your links work as expected. Please do not link terms that most readers are familiar with, such as common occupations, well-known geographical terms, and everyday items. Format the lead. Create or improve the lead paragraph. Arrange section headers as described at Wikipedia:Guide to layout. Add an infobox if it is appropriate for the article. Clean up / format the references and footnotes, using citation templates when appropriate. Remove this tag.

• 2004: The Trio, Live (NUG601)

Uncle Junior

Everyday I Have The Blues

Bloody Murder

Treat Me Lowdown

Cissy Strut

Travellin' South

Sittin' On Top Of The World

Hippology

• 2005: Live at the Jazz Café (NUG503)

All You Need

Uncle Junior

Lights Are On, But Nobody's Home

Travellin' South

Cissy Strut

On My Way

It's Your Thing

• 2005: Siftin' Thru' Ashes (NUG501)

All You Need

Siftin' Thru Ashes

Djam

Lights Are On, But Nobody's Home

The Letter

Back At Square One

People Say

How I Try

On My Way

Middle Ground

Hard Lines

• 2007: Ear To The Ground

Pack it Up

Troublemaker

Ear to the Ground

Heart Don't Need a Compass

Once in a While

Room at the Back

Someone

Searchin'

Move Along

Cookie Jar

When it all Comes Down

• 2009: Heads, Tails & Aces

What I Wanna Hear

Live Wire

War We Wage

Betting Man

Lay It Down

Can't Put You Down

Woman Across the River

Nothing Left

I Told Ya

Stranger Blues

Not Raining Now

• 2011: Anything But Time

Anything But Time

See Me Through

At Times We Do Forget

Shipwrecked

Dreaming of You

Wrapped Up in Love

Where Do I Have to Stand

One Look (and I'm Hooked)

Don't Know What I'd Do

Share Our Smile Again

• Other albums featuring Matt Schofield
  • Swagger - Ian Siegal - produced by Schofield
  • Meat And Potatoes - Ian Siegal - co-produced by Schofield
  • My Day Is Just Beginning - The Lee Sankey Group
  • She's Not Alone - The Lee Sankey Group
  • Two Timing Lover Boy - Dino Baptiste
  • A Different Picture - Earl Green
  • Driving Savage Groove - Harmonica Posse
  • Staying Power - Dana Gillespie
  • Experienced - Dana Gillespie
  • Songs Of Love - Dana Gillespie
  • Back To Blues - Dana Gillespie

References[link]

External links[link]

• Matt Schofield official website
• Nugene Records
• British Blues Awards

Jake Shimabukuro (born November 3, 1976 in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi) is a ukulele virtuoso known for his complex finger work.^[1] His music combines elements of jazz and rock.^[2]

History[link]

Shimabukuro's mother gave him an ukulele at age four and he quickly took an interest in the instrument. A fifth generation Japanese-American,^[3] Shimabukuro initially gained attention in Hawaii in 1998 as a member of Pure Heart, a trio with Lopaka Colon (percussion), and Jon Yamasato (guitar). Shimabukuro was working at a music store in Honolulu when the group released its eponymous first album, featuring a sound and style somewhat similar to the Kaʻau Crater Boys. Their first album won them four Na Hoku Hanohano Awards (the Hawaiian counterpart of the Grammy Awards): Island Contemporary Album of the Year, Most Promising Artist(s), Album of the Year and Favorite Entertainment of the Year, the latter determined by unrestricted public vote. Jake also gained attention on his YouTube page, gaining several subscribers with videos of him playing popular songs on his ukelele.

The following year, they released Pure Heart 2, which earned them another Hoku award for Island Contemporary Album of the year. Yamasato informed the others that he was quitting the group via a newspaper story that ran in the Honolulu Advertiser on Thanksgiving Day, and Shimabukuro and Colon formed another group, Colon, which they named in honor of Colon's father, famed percussionist Augie Colon. The new guitarist was Guy Cruz, younger brother of the Kaʻau Crater Boys' Ernie Cruz, Jr., and John Cruz. Colon won the Hoku Award for Favorite Entertainer of the Year in 2001, after which Shimabukuro decided to pursue a solo career.

As a solo artist after the break-up of Colon he experimented with using effect pedals to make new sounds that few would associate with an ukulele. He has released an instructional DVD called Play Loud Ukulele, and in 2006, composed the music to the Japanese film Hula Girls, which featured hula dancing and a Hawaiian spa resort as its primary theme and setting respectively.

Shimabukuro also performed on stage with Jimmy Buffett and his group, The Coral Reefer Band and is featured on Buffett's CD/DVD release, Live in Anguilla.

In November 2009, Shimabukuro accompanied fellow Hawaiian-born Bette Midler at the Royal Variety Show. They performed a rendition of the Beatles song "In My Life" as the first of Midler's three-song set.

Jake is the key spokesman for the "Music is Good Medicine" organization, which uses community outreach programs - and visits to schools, senior centers, and hospitals - to emphasize the importance of a healthy life and mind as well as promoting music and the arts.

Performing in Stockholm during JazzFest'09

Jake was featured on a January 15, 2012 episode of CNN's The Next List. ^[4]

Instruments[link]

Shimabukuro plays a custom-made 4 string tenor ukulele from Kamaka Ukulele. He uses a Line 6 Pod XT Live.^[5]

Discography[link]

Studio Albums:

• Sunday Morning, (2002)
• Crosscurrent, (2003)
• Walking Down Rainhill, (2004)
• Dragon, (2005)
• Gently Weeps, (2006)
• Hula Girls film soundtrack, (2007)
• My Life, (2007)
• Annon, 2009
• Peace Love Ukulele, (2011)

Another album is to be released on 2 October, 2012.^[6]

References[link]

• The 1999 Hoku Award
• Pure Heart member changes
• Jake Shimabukuro Interview

1. ^ http://www.musicplayer.com/article/jake-shimabukuro/Sep-05/13510
2. ^ Official biography
3. ^ Virtuoso more than a novelty act
4. ^ Belsky, Joshua. "Sneak Peek: Peace, love and ukulele with Jake Shimabukuro Sneak Peek: Peace, love and ukulele with Jake Shimabukuro". CNN. http://whatsnext.blogs.cnn.com/2012/01/10/sneak-peek-peace-love-and-ukulele-with-jake-shimabukruo/. Retrieved 22 February 2012. 
5. ^ http://www.musicplayer.com/article/jake-shimabukuro/Sep-05/13510 Interview with Shimabukuro
6. ^ http://jakeshimabukuro.com/home/. Retrieved 28 May, 2012.

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Jake Shimabukuro

• Official website
• YouTube clip of live collaboration with beatboxer Jason Tom
• Jake in Concert on midnight ukulele disco
• Jake Shimabukuro collection at the Internet Archive's live music archive
• Interview with Jake Shimabukuro 2009
• 2006 Shimabukuro Interview from Modern Guitars Magazine
• 2006 Shimabukuro Interview on NPR
• 2006 Shimabukuro Interview from AsiaXpress.com
• [1] - Photos from live show
• Jake Shimabukuro featured at the Waikiki Shell, Hawaii Romance Festival, May 2008
• Jake Shimabukuro feature by the Pacific Citizen newspaper, Oct. 2009