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Next is an American R&B musical group, popular during the late 1990s. They are best known for their hit singles "Too Close", "Wifey", and "I Still Love You".

History[link]

Fronted by founding members R. L. Huggar, brothers Terry Brown and Raphael Brown, the group was founded together by the Brown family's uncle, who was a local gospel choir director. They began performing under the name "Straight4ward." For commercial appeal, the name "straight4ward" was changed to "Next" with the assistance of producer Lance "LA" Alexander. The group trained under and was managed for a time by Ann Nesby from the gospel group Sounds of Blackness. Next was introduced in their home town of Minneapolis, Minnesota to producer and DJ artist KayGee from Naughty By Nature. They, subsequently, signed with KayGee's newly formed Divine Mill record label, which at the time was distributed through Arista Records.

Music[link]

1997-1999: Rated Next[link]

Next's debut album, Rated Next, was released in September 1997. The album featured appearances by R&B singer Adina Howard, Koffee Brown, Castro and an appearance by Naughty By Nature. Their debut single, "Butta Love" became a top five (#4) R&B hit, while going top twenty (#16) Pop, in the fall of 1997. Their second single "Too Close" peaked at number one on both Billboard's Hot 100 and R&B Singles chart, the former for five weeks, and was named the number one song of 1998 by Billboard Magazine. "I Still Love You," the album's third and final single, went top twenty (#14) Pop and was RIAA-certified Gold. Also in 1998, Next recorded "Whatever You Want" (which featured Curtis Conway) for the NFL Jams compilation album.

In addition to this, Next topped the Billboard Year-End Charts as the "Top New Pop Artist," "Top Hot 100 Singles Artist - Duos/Group," "Top R&B Artist - Duos/Group" (singles & albums), "Top New R&B Artist," "Top Hot R&B Singles Artist," "Top Hot R&B Singles Artist - Duos/Group," and with the Top Hot 100 Single, Top Hot R&B Single, and Top Hot R&B Single Airplay. Rated Next was certified double platinum, and the group was nominated for an American Music Award for "Favorite Soul/R&B Band/Duo/Group." ^[1]

In 1999, Next also appeared on Destiny's Child recorded "If You Leave" for their second album The Writing's on the Wall and contributed "Nobody" to the Violator compilation with rapper Mysonne. Also, the same year, group member R.L. dueted with Deborah Cox on her top ten hit "We Can't Be Friends". In October of that year, R.L. collaborated with Case, Ginuwine and Tyrese for the song "The Best Man I Can Be" for the soundtrack for the film, The Best Man.

[edit] 2000-2001: Welcome II Nextasy

Next's second album Welcome II Nextasy was released in 2000; featured guests included: Beanie Sigel, Lil' Mo, G-Wise (Talk Box on "Cyber Sex") reggae artist Red Rat, Renee Neufville (from Zhane), as well as a then fledgling 50 Cent. The album's first single "Wifey" (Raj Saund) topped the R&B Singles chart, while peaking at number seven on the Hot 100. The followup single "Beauty Queen," however, peaked at a modest number forty-eight R&B, while failing to chart on the Hot 100 at all. Subsequently, while the album was Gold certified, it failed to ultimately mirror the success of their debut. Next, however, was nominated for a Soul Train Music Award for "Best R&B/Soul Album; Group, Band or Duo" and a Blockbuster Entertainment Award for "Favorite Group - R&B." Next also collaborated at this time with new labelmate Jaheim on his single "Anything" (also appearing in the music video), and provided backing vocals on several tracks on his album Ghetto Love. In March of the following month, R.L. recorded the song, "Good Love" on the soundtrack to the 2001 film, The Brothers.

After the run of their second album album Next transferred from Arista to J Records to continue to work under the guidance of former Arista head Clive Davis upon his leaving the label and launching J. Next also appeared on the soundtrack to Bad Company with the song "Tonite."

2002-2003: The Next Episode[link]

In early 2002, while Next was on hiatus, R.L.'s solo debut album, RL: Ements, was released to modest success and acclaim. Later in the year, Next returned with their third album, The Next Episode. Prior to the recording of the album, group member T-Low underwent throat surgery, which caused the concern that he may not be able to sing again. There were rumors of turmoil within the group springing from R.L.'s various outside endeavors, as well as with group member Tweet's own solo aspirations. The first single from the album was "Imagine That", which was relatively tame compared to the group's known penchant toward raunchier material. The album, however, failed to chart well. Shortly thereafter, the group's contract with J Records was dissolved. Whether due to sales, or if other factors were involved was not made clear. In 2003 RL also did work around the Minneapolis area with several artists including Kooke, an up and coming rapper from Hit Kid Records. Their single "Holla Back", which included Mr. Cheeks and Jackyson Bazile of the platinum rap group, The Lost Boyz, made noise in the Minneapolis area.

After J Records[link]

In late 2005, Next was briefly signed to G-Unit/Interscope Records. According to reports, award-winning producers Jermaine Dupri,Jackyson Bazile, Rich Harrison, Kenneth "Babyface" Edmonds and Jon Bryant were to be involved in the production. Before any of this transpired, though, Next departed Interscope for unknown reasons.

In 2006, while still under the G-Unit/Interscope label, the group produced two mixtapes with G-Unit DJ "Whoo Kid", The Moisture Mixtape and The Next Level under the moniker "The New Next". Later, a song by Next emerged on YouTube called "Hater In You",^[2] which some interpreted as a slant on other groups, although Huggar claimed that this was not true, and that the song was simply an expression of frustration for the politics of the music industry.

Current activity[link]

In 2006, Next signed to Mathew Knowles' Music World Entertainment label. On April 2, 2007, R.L. revealed on the Frank Ski & Wanda Morning Show on V-103 in Atlanta, that their new album would be entitled Sex Toy. The title has since been changed to Next, Lies, & Videotape and will be released early next year.^[3] R.L. is also said to be working on his second solo album. Group member Raphael “Tweet” Brown left the group due to having problems with his bandmate R. L. Huggar and wanting to become more spiritual and serve the Lord. They later made up but decided to pursue a solo career. The new album set to be released sometime in 2011 will feature R.L., T-Low, & Tweet. Tweet however has returned to the group and all original members are back. The title of the new album, Next, Lies, & Videotape, has been changed to Music 101. RL, Tweet, & T-Low are about to embark on a tour.

Discography[link]

Albums[link]

Singles[link]

Awards and nominations[link]

• American Music Awards
  • 1999, Favorite Soul/R&B Band, Duo or Group: (Nominated)
  • 1999, Favorite New Soul/R&B New Artist: (Nominated)

• Soul Train Awards
  • 2001, Best R&B/Soul Album by a Band, Duo or Group: Welcome II Nextasy (Nominated)
  • 1999, Best R&B/Soul Single by a Band, Duo or Group: "Too Close" (Winner)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Billboard.com - Biography - Next
• Next on Myspace
• Next in London, UK 29th April 2010

• [1]

Look up next in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Next can refer to:

Film and stage[link]

• Next (2007 film), an American film starring Nicolas Cage
• Players (film), a Bollywood film produced under the name Next
• Next (play), by Terrence McNally
• NEXT: A Primer on Urban Painting, a documentary film released in 2005
• "Next", an animated short film by Barry Purves

Music[link]

• N.EX.T, a 1990s/early 2000s Korean rock band
• Next (group), a late 1990s/early 2000s American musical group
• Next (Journey album)
• Next (The Necks album)
• Next! (Seeed album)
• Next (The Sensational Alex Harvey Band album), 1973
• Next (Sevendust album)
• Next (Soulive album)
• Next (Vanessa Williams album)
• "Next", an instrumental piece by Béla Fleck and the Flecktones from their album Little Worlds
• "Next", a song by Raven-Symoné

Publications[link]

• Next Media, a pro-democracy publishing company based in Hong Kong, China
• Next Magazine (Santa Monica), a music industry trade publication based in Santa Monica, California, USA
• Next (novel), a techno-thriller by Michael Crichton
• Next: The Future Just Happened, a 2001 non-fiction book by Michael Lewis

Science and technology[link]

• NeXT, a 1980s computer company later bought by Apple Inc.
• NEXT (ion thruster), a xenon ion thruster being developed at NASA Glenn Research Center
• NEXT, in electronics, an acronym for Near End Crosstalk
• New X-ray Telescope (NeXT), a Japanese hard X-ray observatory planned for launch in 2013
• Stadler NExT, a Swiss commuter train
• NExT, the secondary mission of the Stardust space probe
• Project NExT, a professional development program for mathematicians
• Yahoo! Next a showcase of some of Yahoo!'s newest and upcoming projects

Television[link]

• Next (TV series), a dating television show on MTV
• "Next" (Desperate Housewives episode)

Fashion[link]

• NEXT Model Management, a modeling agency
• Next (clothing), a British clothes retailer

Miscellaneous[link]

• Next (cigarettes)
• NeXT (demogroup), a French demogroup
• Next (store), a Indian electronics retail chain
• NEXT (bicycle company)
• Next (restaurant)

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Look up group in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

A group is a number of things or persons being in some relation to one another.

Mathematics[link]

• Group (mathematics), a set together with a binary operation satisfying certain algebraic conditions
  • Group theory, the study of groups
  • Group action, a way of describing the symmetries of objects using groups
  • Group isomorphism, a one-to-one correspondence (function) between two groups which respects the given group operations
  • Group object, a kind of generalization of a group which is built on more complicated structures than sets

Science[link]

Chemistry

• Functional group, a functional entity consisting of certain atoms whose presence provides a certain property to a molecule
• Group (periodic table), a column in the periodic table of chemical elements

Biology

• Cultivar group, a formal classification category in the International Code of Nomenclature for Cultivated Plants (ICNCP)
• Group selection, in evolutionary biology, the idea that alleles can become fixed or spread in a population because of the benefits they bestow upon groups of organisms

Cosmology

• Galaxy groups and clusters, a small number of galaxies near each other
  • Local Group, the group containing the Milky Way Galaxy

Other

• Group delay and phase delay
• a set of lenses stacked together
• Group (stratigraphy), in geology, a lithostratigraphical unit; a group consists of formations, or rock strata.

Business[link]

• Business group, a legal entity comprising several companies

Sociology[link]

• Social groups, a description of various human groups
  • Peer group
  • Working group
  • Interest group
• Group action (sociology)
• Group affective tone
• Group aggression
• Group attribution error
• Group behaviour
• Group cohesiveness
• Group conflict
• Group development
• Group dynamics
• Group guilt
• Group narcissism
• Group polarization
• Group psychological abuse
• Group scapegoating
• Group-serving bias

Computing and the internet[link]

• Group (computing), a collection of users or other objects
  • Group identifier (Unix)
• Group editor, a program that allows many people to edit a shared document over a computer network
• Usenet newsgroup

Military[link]

• Army group
• Group (air force), an air force formation
• Group Captain

Other uses[link]

• Breed Groups (dog), the group or category to which breeds of dogs are assigned by kennel clubs
• Group (auto racing), a category of car allowed to compete in auto racing.
• Group insurance covering people with common characteristics
• A musical ensemble:
  • Boy band
  • Girl group
  • Groupies

See also[link]

• Grouping (disambiguation)
• The Group (disambiguation)
• Functional group (disambiguation)

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Angie Miller is a recording artist who was produced by Mickie Most in the early 1970s on his RAK Records label. She had singles with the songs "Born To Be Loved By You" (RAK 209, 1975) and "Stardust In Your Eyes," (RAK 151, 1973; EMI/Columbia 1C 006-94 545 (Germany)) and released an album "A Woman's mind." (SRAK515, 1975)^[1]

According to a 2006 article in the Coventry Telegraph, Angie joined the "New City Sounds" as "Angie O'Keefe", and that band won in two appearances on BBC's Opportunity Knocks program. Angie soon after left the band, and started recording under Mickie Most.^[1]

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Kurt Rosenwinkel
Background information
Born	(1970-10-28) October 28, 1970 (age 41) Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Genres	Jazz
Occupations	Bandleader, composer, guitarist, artist
Instruments	Guitar, piano
Years active	1990–present
Labels	Fresh Sound New Talent, Criss Cross Jazz, Verve, artistShare, Wommusic
Website	http://www.kurtrosenwinkel.com

Kurt Rosenwinkel (born October 28, 1970) is an American jazz guitarist and keyboardist who came to prominence in the 1990s.

Biography[link]

He attended the Berklee School of Music for two and a half years before leaving in his junior year to tour with Gary Burton, the dean of the school at the time. Subsequently, Rosenwinkel moved to Brooklyn, where he continued to develop his jazz guitar skills by performing with Human Feel, Paul Motian's Electric Bebop Band, Joe Henderson Group, and the Brian Blade Fellowship. During that time he began using a Lavalier lapel microphone fed into his guitar amplifier ^[1] that blends his vocalizing with his guitar and has become a trademark of his sound, both live and in the studio.

In 1995 he won the Composer's Award from the National Endowment for the Arts and was eventually signed by Verve Records. Since then, he has played and recorded as both a leader and sideman with fellow-alumni such as Mark Turner and Brad Mehldau as well as many others. During Rosenwinkel's tenure with Verve he collaborated with Q-Tip of A Tribe Called Quest, who co-produced his studio album Heartcore (2003) that featured bassist Ben Street, drummer Jeff Ballard and saxophonist Mark Turner and was a departure from the usual compositional process for Rosenwinkel, blending elements of jazz, rock, hip hop and electronica. He would further collaborate with Q-Tip, performing guitar on the latter's albums The Renaissance (2008) and Kamaal/The Abstract (2009).

Rosenwinkel has since released a double live album as band leader. The album is entitled The Remedy - Live at the Village Vanguard (2008) and features Mark Turner, Aaron Goldberg, Joe Martin and Eric Harland. On November 10, 2009, Rosenwinkel released a trio recording, Standards Trio: Reflections (2009), which features Eric Revis on bass and Eric Harland on drums. On September 7, 2010, Rosenwinkel released his ninth album as a leader, entitled Kurt Rosenwinkel & OJM: Our Secret World (2010) and featuring OJM an 18-piece big band from Porto, Portugal.

Originally from Philadelphia, Kurt Rosenwinkel currently resides in Berlin, Germany, raising his two sons Silas and Ezra and serving as professor of jazz guitar at the Hochschule für Musik Hanns Eisler.

Style[link]

Rosenwinkel in a performance in 2011

Rosenwinkel is known for his distinct sound and style of improvisation. He describes his influences as artists as diverse as Allan Holdsworth, George Van Eps, Duke Ellington, John Coltrane, Bud Powell, and Elmo Hope and The Notorious B.I.G.^[2]

Equipment[link]

Kurt Rosenwinkel simultaneously utilizes a wide variety of effects units, each with a very specific function and effect on the guitar's sound. He has used many pedals including: Pro Co RAT distortion, TC Electronic Nova Reverb, Lehle D. Loop Effect-loop/Switcher, Strymon Blue Sky Reverb, Strymon El Capistan dTApe Echo, Malekko Echo 600 Dark, Old World Audio 1960 Compressor, Electro-Harmonix HOG Polyphonic Guitar Synthesizer, Empress ParaEq Equalizers, Eventide TimeFactor Delay, Xotic X-Blender Effects Loops, Empress Tremolo, Lehle Parallel line mixer, TC Electronic SCF stereo chorus flanger, and Boss Corporation OC-3 octave, among many others. Most often seen playing his D'Angelico New Yorker semi-hollow guitar, he also plays a Sadowsky semi-hollow, a cherry red Gibson ES-335, and more recently two custom guitars made for him by Italian guitar-maker and master luthier Domenico Moffa.

Discography[link]

Leader[link]

• 1996 - Kurt Rosenwinkel Trio - East Coast Love Affair - (Fresh Sound New Talent)
• 1998 - Kurt Rosenwinkel Quartet - Intuit - (Criss Cross)
• Unreleased - Kurt Rosenwinkel - Under It All
• 2000 - Kurt Rosenwinkel - The Enemies of Energy - (Verve Records)
• 2001 - Kurt Rosenwinkel - The Next Step - (Verve Records)
• 2002 - Jakob Dinesen / Kurt Rosenwinkel - Everything Will Be Alright - (Verve Records)
• 2003 - Kurt Rosenwinkel - Heartcore - (Verve Records)
• 2005 - Kurt Rosenwinkel - Deep Song - (Verve Records)
• 2008 - Kurt Rosenwinkel - The Remedy: Live at the Village Vanguard - (Wommusic)
• 2009 - Kurt Rosenwinkel Standards Trio - Reflections - (Wommusic)
• 2010 - Kurt Rosenwinkel & OJM - Our Secret World - (Wommusic)

Collaborator[link]

• 1994 - Human Feel - Scatter
• 1994 - Human Feel - Welcome To Malpesta
• 1995 - Human Feel - Speak To It
• 2000 - Metta Quintet - Going To Meet The Man
• 2007 - Human Feel - Galore

Sideman[link]

• 1990 - Mimmo Cafiero Quintet - Moon and Twenty Five
• 1992 - Gary Burton - Six Pack
• 1993 - Seamus Blake - The Call (Criss Cross Jazz 1094 CD)
• 1994 - Mark Turner - Yam Yam (Criss Cross Jazz 1160 CD)
• 1994 - Paul Motian - Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band (JMT)
• 1995 - Once Blue - Once Blue
• 1995 - Perico Sambeat - Ademuz
• 1996 - Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band - Reincarnation of a Love Bird
• 1996 - Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band - Flight of the Blue Jay
• 1996 - Larry Goldings - Big Stuff
• 1997 - Chris Cheek Quartet - I Wish I Knew
• 1998 - Myron Walden - Like a Flower Seeking the Sun
• 1998 - The Chris Potter Quartet - Vertigo
• 1998 - Paul Motian and the Electric Bebop Band - Play Monk and Powell
• 1998 - Mark Turner - In This World
• 1998 - Jochen Rueckert - Introduction
• 1999 - Seamus Blake - Stranger Things Have Happened
• 1999 - George Colligan - Unresolved
• 1999 - Jakob Dinesen Quartet - Around
• 1999 - Chris Cheek - Vine
• 1999 - Mark Turner - Ballad Session
• 1999 - Marcy Playground - Shapeshifter
• 1999 - Tim Hagans - Animation - Imagination
• 1999 - Jill Seifers - The Waiting
• 1999 - Brian Blade Fellowship - Perceptual
• 2000 - Noah Becker - Where We Are
• 2000 - Wax Poetic - Wax Poetic
• 2000 - Danilo Pérez - Motherland
• 2000 - Matthias Lupri Group - Same Time Twice
• 2000 - Brian Blade Fellowship - Perceptual
• 2001 - Rebecca Martin - Middlehope
• 2001 - Matt Penman - The UnQuiet
• 2001 - Barney McAll - Release the Day
• 2001 - Mark Turner - Dharma Days
• 2002 - Jorg Kaaij Quintet - Downtown Daze
• 2002 - Kris Bauman Quartet feat. Kurt Rosenwinkel
• 2002 - Phil Grenadier - Playful Intentions
• 2003 - Eli Degibri Quintet - In the Beginning
• 2003 - Perico Sambeat - Friendship
• 2005 - Charlie Peacock - Love Press Ex-Curio
• 2005 - Joshua Redman Elastic Band - Momentum
• 2006 - Barney McAll - Mother of Dreams and Secrets
• 2006 - Aaron Goldberg - Worlds
• 2006 - Joel Miller - Mandala
• 2006 - The Miles Donahue Quintet - In The Pocket
• 2007 - Barney McAll - Flashbacks
• 2007 - Charlier / Sourisse - Heritage
• 2007 - Daniel Szabo Trio - Frictions
• 2007 - Rebecca Martin - The Growing Season
• 2008 - Brian Blade and the Fellowship Band - Season of Changes
• 2008 - Jakob Bro - The Stars are All New Songs Vol.1
• 2008 - Q-Tip - The Renaissance
• 2009 - Brian Blade - Mama Rosa
• 2009 - Roman Ott - Seeing People
• 2009 - Jason Lindner - Now vs. Now
• 2009 - Q-Tip - Kamaal/The Abstract
• 2009 - Alain Apaloo's Apipo - Flood Gate

Arranger[link]

• 1999 - Guillermo Klein - Los Guachos II

Producer[link]

• 1997 - Chris Cheek Quartet - I Wish I Knew
• 2007 - Rebecca Martin - The Growing Season

TV appearances[link]

• 2005 - SOLOS: the jazz sessions (Bravo! Canada)
• 2009 - Appeared with The Roots and Questlove (Late Night With Jimmy Fallon on October 1, 2009)

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official site
• Criss Cross Jazz artist page
• State of Mind - Conversation with Kurt Rosenwinkel - 2008
• "In Conversation with Kurt Rosenwinkel" by Ted Panken (Jazz.com)
• Download Kurt Rosenwinkel concert on NPR Music
• jazzreview.com interview with Kurt Rosenwinkel