Greatly influenced by Stevie Wonder's recordings of the 1970s, young Rahsaan Patterson showed much promise on his self-titled debut album of 1997. While it's impossible to miss Wonder's considerable influence on slow- and medium-tempo offerings like 'Tears Ago,' 'My Sweetheart,' and 'Spend the Night,' the R&B singer/composer never comes across as a clone and sounds like he's intent on being his own man. One thing Patterson (who was named after jazz innovator Rahsaan Roland Kirk) won't be accused of is favoring style over substance -- when many of his contemporaries in the urban contemporary market were heavily into gimmickry, Patterson kept things honest and straightforward on a disc that isn't breathtaking, but is heartfelt and satisfying. ~ Alex Henderson.

Hoodlum: Music Inspired By The Motion Picture is the 1997 soundtrack album to the film starring Laurence Fishburne. This was released on 12 August, 1997. Soul, R&B, and hip-hop for a movie set in the early 1900's?

And the elaborate dance programming makes the music highly, well, programmable. Bond shine 2002 download for windows. Leadoff track 'Allegretto' was quickly tapped for an upscale television commercial, a mark of success in this market previously achieved by the likes of Moby. 'Strange Paradise' is a much modified version of the same theme from Borodin's 'Polovetsian Dances' in his opera Prince Igor that became the show tune and pop hit 'Stranger in Paradise' from the musical Kismet; 'Kashmir' is the Led Zeppelin song; 'Libertango' comes from Astor Piazzolla; the bonus track, 'Bond on Bond,' is, inevitably, Monty Norman's James Bond movie theme; and 'Space' sounds like the theme from every movie ever set in a Middle Eastern desert (although here it sounds like it comes from a Middle Eastern disco). Here and there among the oddly familiar melodies are actually identifiable ones.