Nice Guys (album)

For the 2005 film of the same name, see Nice Guys

Nice Guys is a 1979 album by the Art Ensemble of Chicago, their first to appear on the ECM label. It features performances by Lester Bowie, Joseph Jarman, Roscoe Mitchell, Malachi Favors Maghostut and Don Moye.

Reception

The Allmusic review by Al Campbell awarded the album 4½ stars noting that "Nice Guys was the first Art Ensemble of Chicago album released after a five-year recording hiatus and the group's first for the ECM label. During those five years, the Art Ensemble toured Europe and continued to expand its compositional, improvisational, and theatrical jazz fundamentals, captured abundantly on Nice Guys... the album reveals how the AEC managed to turn individual compositions into a fully realized, surprisingly accessible, avant garde group collective".Down Beat critic Art Lange writes that Nice Guys, while not the Art Ensemble's best album, "is possibly their most representative, a variegated showcase illustrating much of what they do best."The Penguin Guide to Jazz awarded the album 3 stars out of 4 stating "'much of the music seems almost formulaic, the improvisation limited".

Revenue Retrievin': Night Shift

Revenue Retrievin': Night Shift is the twelfth studio album by American rapper E-40. It was released on March 30, 2010, which was the same day that E-40's Revenue Retrievin': Day Shift was released.

Night Shift features 19 tracks including guest appearances from Snoop Dogg, Too Short, Ya Boy, Bobby V, Keak da Sneak, San Quinn and many others. With this album, E-40 was the first hip hop artist to release two major studio albums on the same day since Nelly released Sweat and Suit in 2004.

Music videos have been filmed for the songs "Over the Stove", "Nice Guys", "Can't Stop the Boss" featuring Snoop Dogg, Too Short, and Jazze Pha, "Show Me What You Workin' Wit'" featuring Too Short, "He's a Gangsta" featuring Messy Marv, The Jacka of Mob Figaz, and Kaveo, "Spend the Night" featuring Laroo, the DB'z, Droop-E, and B-Slimm, and "The Server". The latter would be released as a promo single on February 23, 2010 to iTunes.

Commercial performance

In its first two weeks Revenue Retrievin': Night Shift sold 57,000 copies. It has sold 106,000 copies as of May 3, 2010.

High Hopes (2006 film)

High Hopes also billed as Nice Guys is a 2006 film directed by Joe Eckardt.

Plot

Hollywood hopeful Tom Murphy and his posse of pals conspire to get into the big leagues. Pinning their hopes of industry success on Tom's famous girlfriend starring in their first feature, falls to pieces when she dumps him. Tom and his pals learn of another possibility and devise a plan to steal a fenced case of government issued marijuana, return it to the FBI and use the reward money to finance their movie. Little do they know a scorned girlfriend and her deaf mute brother have other plans.

Cast

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Nice

Nice (/ˈniːs/, French pronunciation: ​[nis]; Niçard Occitan: Niça [classical norm] or Nissa [nonstandard], Italian: Nizza or Nizza Marittima, Greek: Νίκαια, Latin: Nicaea) is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, and it is the capital of the Alpes Maritimes département. The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits, with a population of about 1 million on an area of 721 km² (278 sq mi). Located in the Côte d'Azur area on the south east coast of France on the Mediterranean Sea, Nice is the second-largest French city on the Mediterranean coast and the second-largest city in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region after Marseille. Nice is about 8 miles (13 km) from the principality of Monaco, and its airport is a gateway to the principality as well.

The city is called Nice la Belle (Nissa La Bella in Niçard), which means Nice the Beautiful, which is also the title of the unofficial anthem of Nice, written by Menica Rondelly in 1912.

Únice

Únice is a village and municipality (obec) in Strakonice District in the South Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic.

The municipality covers an area of 5.58 square kilometres (2.15 sq mi), and has a population of 57 (as at 28 August 2006).

Únice lies approximately 7 kilometres (4 mi) north-west of Strakonice, 59 km (37 mi) north-west of České Budějovice, and 95 km (59 mi) south-west of Prague.

References

Nice (The Nice album)

Nice was the third album by The Nice; it was titled Everything As Nice As Mother Makes It in the US after Immediate's distribution changed from Columbia to Capitol. Nice had been initially released in the US with a slightly longer version of Rondo 69 not available on the UK or on the Capitol distributed US versions. The first US version of Nice was briefly reissued in 1973 by Columbia Special Products.

Continuing The Nice's fusion of jazz, blues, and rock, this album consists of studio (1–4) and live (5–6) tracks, the latter having become firm favourites in the band's live performances.

The album reached number 3 in the UK Album charts.

Track listing

Side one

Side two

Notes

The UK version of the album came in a gatefold sleeve, showing photographs of the band relaxing at an unknown location, the interior of which featured handwritten notes by Keith Emerson: Interesting to note that Keith was not at all happy with the album photos - they were not the ones he wanted them to use (In fact, he spent around 1 hour slamming his toilet door in his Drayton Gardens flat in sheer frustration!)