A true dance experience as much as a fitness experience, Luscious is beginner level, but it offers you a perspective of challenge and growth. The workout consists of 7 sections, each building consistently upon the dance vocabulary covered in the previous sections through its own series of combinations. The combinations include classic bellydance transitions between steps to help you create the muscle memory to ingrain dance in your body.

Luscious is an instructional workout. It introduces the dance vocabulary in a careful, systematic way and contains an extensive tutorial section breaking down each move used in the workout.

If this is one of your first steps in bellydance, this program will be a fun introduction to all the basic groups of bellydance moves and transitions. If you are a dancer, it s a great way to practice the core of the bellydance technique and vocabulary through functional drills performed in the context of dance combinations and transitions creating an extra layer of muscle memory that isolated drills do not provide.

Workout duration - 45 min.

Tutorial section - 50 min.

The Circles section explores circular bellydance moves. It follows a slow-to-moderate tempo, working both the lower and upper body through isolations.

Next is the Infinity Loops section. Together with the stretching and toning impact of every move in this section, infinity loops are the ultimate exercise in fluidity.

Undulations maintain flexibiilty of your spine and help develop deep awareness of your core. They are also a challenging full-body muscle-conditioning exercise.

The bellydance hipwork section exercises your thighs, glutes, and abdominal muscles. In the Hip Accents section we ll perform traditional bellydance hip moves and then weave them together with the fluid movements: circles, infinity loops and undulations. Hipwork is what gives bellydance such vibrancy and party appeal - these steps look great on any dance floor.

The Shimmy - that effortless shaking of the hips - is actually hard work! Join us to shake your way through a few styles of shimmy, and enjoy the wide range of shimmy flavors.

The Body Line section is built of moves involving your total body. It shifts focus from working individual body parts to dance steps that offer the most stretching and give you a dancerly posture and carriage.

The last section is a short dance routine choreographed entirely of the bellydance moves featured in the workout.

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• Melody Gardot

• Worrisome Heart
• All That I Need Is Love
• Gone
• Sweet Memory
• Some Lessons
• Quiet Fire
• One Day
• Love Me Like A River Does
• Goodnite
• Twilight

". . . in a place where Billie Holiday meets Tom Waits . . . has moments that recall pieces of Nina Simone, early Rickie Lee Jones, and even the sophistication of Cole Porter. " - Business Week

Although there are elements of jazz, blues and folk in her music, it is simultaneously all of those things and none of them. Her engaging songs and sultry controlled vocals possess a timeless quality that places them in the tradition of the great female vocalists on Verve, whose work have also not been confined to any one genre or style

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• Herbie Hancock

• Court and Spark featuring Norah Jones
• Edith and the Kingpin featuring Tina Turner
• Both Sides Now
• River featuring Corinne Bailey Rae
• Sweet Bird
• Tea Leaf Prophecy featuring Joni Mitchell
• Solitude
• Amelia featuring Luciana Souza
• Nefertiti
• The Jungle Line featuring Leonard Cohen
• All I Want featuring Sonya Kitchell (Exclusive Bonus Track)
• A Case of You (Exclusive Bonus Track)

The legendary pianist and innovator Herbie Hancock explores the words and music of another musical pioneer, Joni Mitchell, on his first new studio recording for Verve since 1998's GRAMMY® award-winning Gershwin's World.

Inspired in equal parts by Mitchell's poetic lyrics and unique melodies, Hancock and saxophone giant Wayne Shorter play with a restraint and elegance that achieves a perfect balance between the adventurous aesthetics of jazz improvisation and the emotional directness of the finest Adult Pop music.

Hancock builds upon his (and Shorter's) previous collaborations with Ms. Mitchell to create a sound that will appeal not only to fans of both artists, but to the listener familiar with the work of Norah Jones, Corinne Bailey Rae and the other brilliant guest vocalists featured on this session. River: The Joni Letters is the perfect CD for the music fan looking for something new that's based in the familiar.

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• Esperanza Spalding

• Ponta De Areia
• I Know You Know
• Fall In
• I Adore You
• Cuerpo y Alma
• She Got To You
• Precious
• Mela
• Love In Time
• Espera
• If That's True
• Samba Em Preludio

Esperanza is joined in the studio by a crew of A-list session players, including flamenco guitar virtuoso Niño Josele, percussionist Jamey Haddad, drummer Horacio "El Negro" Hernández, saxophonist Donald Harrison and several other seasoned talents - all of whom collectively serve as further evidence of the kind of creative energy and magnetism that she radiates.

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• The Dave Brubeck Quartet

• Blue Rondo a La Turk
• Strange Meadow Lark
• Take Five - Dave Brubeck, Desmond, Paul
• Three to Get Ready
• Kathy's Waltz
• Everybody's Jumpin'
• Pick Up Sticks

• Gordon Goodwin's Big Phat Band

• Hit the Ground Running
• Watermelon Man
• September
• Yesterdays
• Senor Mouse
• Punta Del Soul
• Act Your Age
• Chance Encounters
• Backrow Politics
• East Coast Envy
• El Macho Muchacho
• Gumbo Street
• Floating Home (Bonus Track)

Bonus DVD includes:

o 5.1 SURROUND-SOUND VERSIONS OF ALL 12 TRACKS FROM THE CD/PHOTO GALLERY
o SOLO TRANSCRIPTIONS
o LIVE CONCERT FOOTAGE from New Hampshire 5/31/08. * "Hit The Ground Running" * "Watermelon Man" * "Licksmanship."
o TRACK BY TRACK COMMENTARY/PHOTO GALLERY
o A CONVERSATION WITH LEE RITENOUR, GORDON GOODWIN & DAN SAVANT/PHOTO GALLERY
o BIG PHAT JAM WINNERS from The Phat Pack online music contest
o MAKE YOUR OWN MIX of Hit The Ground Running and Gumbo Street o ON-SCREEN LINER NOTES o INDIVIDUAL BAND MEMBER BIOS

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• Chris Botti

• The Christmas Song - Chris Botti, Torme, Mel
• Ave Maria - Chris Botti, Schubert, Franz
• Winter Wonderland - Chris Botti, Bernard, Felix
• The First Noel - Chris Botti, Traditional
• Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! - Chris Botti, Cahn, Sammy
• Hallelujah - Chris Botti, Cohen, Leonard
• I Really Don't Want Much for Christmas - Chris Botti, Lubbock, Jeremy
• Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas - Chris Botti, Martin, Hugh
• Santa Clause Is Coming to Town - Chris Botti, Coots, Fred
• Silent Night - Chris Botti, Traditional
• Little Drummer Boy - Chris Botti, Davis, Katherine
• O Little Town of Bethlehem - Chris Botti, Traditional
• I'll Be Home for Christmas - Chris Botti, Ram, Buck

• Ella Fitzgerald

• Jingle Bells
• Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
• Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
• What Are You Doing New Year's Eve?
• Sleigh Ride
• The Christmas Song
• Good Morning Blues
• Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
• Winter Wonderland
• Rudolph, The Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Frosty The Snowman
• White Christmas
• The Secret Of Christmas
• Medley: We Three Kings Of Orient Are/O Little Town Of Bethlehem
• Christmas Island
• The Christmas Song
• White Christmas (Alternative Take)
• Frosty The Snowman (Alternative Take)

• Brian Setzer Orchestra

• Nat King Cole

• The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) - Nat King Cole, Tormé, M.
• Deck the Hall - Nat King Cole, Traditional
• Adeste Fideles - Nat King Cole, Reading, J.
• God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Nat King Cole, Traditional
• O Tannenbaum - Nat King Cole, Traditional
• O Little Town of Bethlehem - Nat King Cole, Redner, L.H.
• I Saw Three Ships - Nat King Cole, Traditional
• O Holy Night - Nat King Cole, Adam, A.
• Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - Nat King Cole, Mendelssohn, Felix
• A Cradle in Bethlehem - Nat King Cole, Bryan, A.
• Away in a Manger - Nat King Cole, Mueller, C.
• Joy to the World - Nat King Cole, Watts, Isaac
• The First Noel - Nat King Cole, Traditional
• Caroling, Caroling - Nat King Cole, Burt, Alfred
• O Come All Ye Faithful - Nat King Cole, Reading, J.
• Silent Night - Nat King Cole, Gruber, F.
• The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) - Nat King Cole, Tormé, M.
• The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas to You) - Nat King Cole, Tormé, M.
• Toys for Tots - Nat King Cole,
• Happy New Year - Nat King Cole, Jenkins, G.

Domestic
Genre: XMAS VOCAL

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