breedingground develops collaborative projects in a variety of disciplines, and in doing so, foster a community of independent artists. They choose their projects and collaborators on the basis of passion, intelligence, committment, and the desire for an evolving dialogue with our audience. Their mission is to create an artists’ breedingground that transcends financial limitation and provides exceptional minds with opportunities to take creative risks.

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Free Time, a (mostly) quartet set from emerging saxophonist Nick Bisesi, offers a fresh helping of modern jazz spanning the range from edgy funk to all-out free. Bisesi’s talents as a player are remarkable: he takes advantage of his firm, lean tone to construct solos with vision and clarity. The saxophonist got started in New York City with lessons from Dave Liebman (who guests here on a couple of tracks, adding an extra edge without stealing the show). While Bisesi retains barely discernable evidence of his mentor’s fluid improvisational style, he has personalized his sound to achieve a more spare and angular approach.

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Sunday Morning Lounge offers up catchy sing-along rock that showcases great melodies, inspirational guitar work, groovy rhythms and memorable choruses. Cofounders Francis DAngelo and Roderick Cabahug banded together in the summer of 2000 in Laguna Beach, Ca. Drawing on their travels, tribulations, love for music and the ocean, SML is dedicated to making music closes to their emotions and expanding the karmic musical journey. Everybody has a story to write, SML documents its first with the “Money is a God” EP, their debut release on FatZebra Records. SML blends together aspects of rock, punk, jazz and pop to effectively establish a new movement of alternative music. The lyrics are true to the heart, offered up with poise and candor. The songs speak to anyone who knows that to welcome the future, you must know your past.

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COUNCIL is a world-leader in language learning and cultural exchange services. Over the years, many hundreds of thousands of satisfied students and parents have benefited from CIEE’s range of services.

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Since Mojo Nixon now makes albums only every few years, his comments on current events can be somewhat dated. It wasn’t until 1995’s Whereabouts Unknown that he took on the 1991 Gulf War, and it wasn’t until 1999 that record buyers could hear his thoughts on the O.J. Simpson murder trial (“Orenthal James [Was a Mighty Bad Man]“) and the death of Princess Diana (“Drunk Divorced Floozie [The Ballad of Diana Spencer]“). Not that you couldn’t imagine what his outraged and outrageous opinions would be. Of course, some issues remained current, such as his dislike of the computer age (“I Don’t Want No Cybersex,” “Machines Ain’t Music/I Got My Mojo Workin’”), Disney and McDonald’s (“Disney Is the Enemy”), and the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (“Rock N’ Roll Hall of Lame”). Basically, Nixon would borrow a tune from Muddy Waters or Chuck Berry and let fly, and as usual he was funny, but like most provocative comedy, the record was more fun to talk about, and play for your friends, than to listen to yourself more than once.

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Barnes & Noble has been ranked the No. 1 retail brand for quality in America for the last five consecutive years by Harris Interactive®. Between our stores and online operations, Barnes & Noble sells almost 445 million books per year. They are committed to carrying a vast selection of titles from many publishers, large and small.

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