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CALGARY HERALD Saturday, December 22, 2007 CU Calgary's Top 10 Music Source: SoundScan ENTERTAINMENT Country Alternative Current Hard Rock Last This Last Tfe Last jfe Last This Last week National Artist week week National Artist week National Artist week Meek fjg Artist week week National Artist week 1 1 2rthi2ks 113 Feist 1 1 1 Joshrban 1 1 1 Led Zeppelin 1 1 1 Alicia Keys 1 UltunateHits Reminder Noel Mothership As I Am 2 2 CameUmlerwood 2 2 5 Colbie Caillat 2 2 3 Anne Murray 3 2 3 FooFighters 2 2 2 Rihanna 2 Carnival Ride Coco i Duets. Friends Legends Echoes Silence Patiences, Grace Good Girl Gone Bad 3 3 Keith Urban 3 3 2 Hedtey 3 3 2 Celine Dion 2 3 2 Daughtry 5 3 3 Timbaland 3 Greatest Hits Famous Last Words Taking Chances Daughtry Timbaland Presents Shock Value 4 4 HantKrauss 5 4 1 AvrilLavigne 8 4 9 Garth Brooks 4 4 4 UnkinPark 4 4 5 Wu-Tang Clan Raising Sand Best Damn Thing Ultimate Hits Minutes To Midnight The 8 Diagrams 5 5 6 5 4 Sarah McLachlan 4 5 6 Paul Potts 5 5 5 Godsmack 3 5 6 KayneWest 4 Still Feels Good Wintersong One Chance Good Times Bad Times: Ten Graduation 6 12 4 6 6 OneRepublic 7 6 11 BoneyM 7 6 8 Finger Eleven 7 6 4 Justin Timberlake 5 Horse Soldier! Horse Soldiert Dreaming Out Loud Christmas With Boney Them Vs. You Vs. Me FuturesexAove Sounds 7 6 817 8 FooFighters 6 7 5 Alicia Keys 6 7 6 Nickelback 10 7 9 Amy Winehouse Heoa Duets Echoes Silence Patience Grace As I Am All The Right Reasons Back To Black 8 7 TaylorSwrft 7 8 10 Barenaked Ladies 1 8 8 Andrea Bocelli 10 8 12 Bonjovi 8 14- 2Pac 8 Taylor Swift Barenaked For The Holidays Best Of Andrea Bocelli- Vhere Cross Road Best Of 2Pac-Partt Thug 9 15 9 9 7 Daughtry 9 7 LedZeppelin 13 19 Nine Inch Nails 9 9 15 2Pac 7 12 More Hits Daughtry Mothership Y34rz3r0r3mix3d Best Of 2Pac PartZ Life 10 8 Johnny Reid 10 10 9 LinkinPark 10 1 19 Carrie Underwood 8 1 10 10 Seether 6 10 8 Chris Brown 9 Kicking Stones Minutes To Midnight Carnival Ride Finding Beauty In Negative Spa Exclusive Jazz star trumpets Charlie Brown tune A always loved the music. There was something about it Oj What appealed to you when you were a kid? The melodies are timeless.

They're very simple yet complex, complex yet simple. I think there's so much heart and spirit in what was done, how the songs are written and the way that Vince Guaraldi played, that you cannot help but feel good after hearing the music. Many years later, I still feel the same way when I hear it What was the impetus to perform this music? I remember one day when I walked into a record store and I heard music from A Charlie Brown Christmas and I literally stopped in my tracks. I bought the record. Later, I had the chance to interpret the music in the 50th year of Charles Schultz doing the Peanuts cartoon when I was with Atlantic records.

When they said A Charlie Brown Christmas, I just lit up. When I thought about it some more, I realized it was my introduction to jazz. So it holds a very special place in my being. 1 1 MUSIC Blige aims to keep growing STEVE JONES USA Today Mary J. Blige says she's still a work in progress.

Her 2005 album, The Breakthrough, was a commercial and artistic triumph, and married life has given her unprecedented personal happiness. But as her new Growing SPOTLIGHT Pains attests, she Mary J. Blige's still sees room for Growing Pains is improvement, in stores now "Once you climb to another level, you have to figure out how to sustain it," says Blige, 36. "I'm not just talking about musically that's a God-given blessing but the work on your spirit." It has been a long climb for Blige to reach a point where she could sing on her Grammy-nominated new single that her life is Just Fine. The Bronx native grew up in poverty, and her early career was marked by bad relationships, substance abuse and low self-esteem.

For 15 years, she has charted her pain and evolution through her music, helping to heal others while healing herself. On Growing Pains, she stresses the importance of self-love, the need for patience, commitment and empathy in relationships, and a recognition that things will not always be easy. Blige mapped out these themes before putting the album together with songwriters such as Sean Garrett, The Dream, Ne-Yo, Johnta Austin and Brian Sledge, and such producers as Bryan Michael-Cox, the Neptunes, C. (Tricky) Stewart, Jazze Pha and Syience. "I look at myself as every woman out there because I know what she's been through because I've been through it too," Blige says.

"I've just been growing right along. It's painful, but it's a great pain, and I like suffering for great results. It's like going to the gym. It hurts really bad at first, but after a couple of months and after that diet, you're looking so hot." Blige was anointed queen of hip-hop soul after her 1992 debut, What's the 411, but her fan base has steadily broadened. The Breakthrough was Scott Gries, Getty Images Soul hip-hop bestseller Mary J.

Blige says she's finally found stability in her once-tumultuous personal life. mm In addition to Just Fine, she is also Grammy-nominated for Disrespectful, a duet she did for Chaka Khan's Funk This! The singer, who married Kendu Isaacs in 2003 and is stepmother to his two youngest children, Jordan, 8, and Nasir, 7, says the role has given her a different perspective on what's important. "They have really made me see that it is not all about me and my issues," she says. "It's about trying to make sure that these kids stay beautiful, because they came into my life as beautiful kids." just that, on several levels. It helped her rebound from the relatively lukewarm reception of 2003's Love Life by selling nearly three million copies.

She received eight Grammy nods and won three, doubling her career total. It also raised her corporate profile. She has had ads for Chevrolet and Apple's iPod, which features Growing Pains' second single, Work It. On that song, "I speak for the chick that is dying to look like the chick in the magazine but doesn't. You've got what you've got and if you believe in it, everybody else will believe in it, too." GOLDEN careers advice MM GLOeE flOmiriEE i DEST ACTOR BEST0AL1 MARKSTRYKER Detroit Free Press There are lots of reasons why A Charlie Brown Christmas has become an enduring classic since its TV debut in 1965: its gentle wit and wisdom, its slyly subversive message about consumerism and the true meaning of Christmas.

But don't discount the buoyant jazz score, written by pianist Vince Guaraldi (1928-'76) and now instantly recognizable to millions. Cyrus Chestnut, a leading jazz pianist who is known for his swinging, gospel-tinged conception, has loved the music since he was a kid and was even known around high school as the guy who could play Charlie Brown. He recorded it a few years ago. When did you first hear the music from A Charlie Brown Christmas? I remember Charlie Brown at the age of 6. It could have been younger.

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