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38-475: Allmusic gave the album 4½ stars, stating, "Guitarist Pat Martino's debut as a leader finds the 22-year-old showing off his roots in soul-jazz organ groups while looking ahead at the same time...Martino primarily plays a straight-ahead set but already displays a fairly distinctive sound". The authors of the Penguin Guide to Jazz Recordings stated that, although El Hombre "depend[s] on blues-base formulas" and

76-505: A private investment firm that specializes in U.S. companies in the distribution, logistics, food, retail, consumer, hospitality, entertainment, sports, and light industrial sectors. Yucaipa has executed grocery-chain mergers and acquisitions involving supermarket chains including Fred Meyer , Ralphs , and Jurgensen's, and once owned stakes in about 35 companies, including the grocery chains A&P and Whole Foods Market , before their respective demise and takeover. Burkle's net worth

114-616: A venture capital fund founded by D.A Wallach and Chris Hollod . Inevitable Ventures's investment include Picnic Health, 8i , Thrive Market , and Wiser Care. In January 2012, Burkle invested in Artist Group International, a concert-booking firm whose clients include Billy Joel, Metallica, and Rod Stewart. In March 2013, Burkle invested in a branded entertainment company, Three Lions Entertainment, which focuses on branded entertainment events and cross platform marketing. In 2014, he bought Artist Group International and, through

152-553: A Stater Bros. clerk and great-grandniece of the aviation pioneers, the Wright brothers . They had three children together. Burkle parlayed a $ 3,000 investment in American Silver and another metals company into $ 30,000 and began investing in and flipping undervalued grocery stores. He made at least one deal with the assistance of junk bond financier Michael Milken . Burkle was promoted to store manager at Stater Bros. and later became

190-400: A Yucaipa global fund focused on foreign companies. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal , then-U.S. Senator Hillary Clinton (D-NY) expressed concern that such investments could be used by foreign governments as "instruments of foreign policy." In 2009, Bill Clinton ended his relationship with Yucaipa due to potential conflicts of interest . Following "months" of negotiations,

228-925: A chain of hotels and private members’ clubs. In 2019, Burkle sold a 50% stake in the Sydell Group to MGM Resorts International. He maintains ownership stakes in a number of other hotel properties. Burkle's investments and transactions include: Burkle has personally contributed millions of dollars to the Democratic Party and raised an estimated $ 100 million at celebrity-studded fundraising events he hosted for Democratic Party candidates at his Green Acres Estate in Beverly Hills, California . Burkle has hosted fundraisers for Bill and Hillary Clinton , John Kerry , Cory Booker , and Terry McAuliffe , as well as former Republican California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger , among others. In January 2011, he hosted

266-464: A database engineer, Vladimir Bogdanov , to design the All Music Guide framework, and recruited his nephew, writer Stephen Thomas Erlewine , to develop editorial content. In 1993, Chris Woodstra joined the staff as an engineer. A "record geek" who had written for alternative weeklies and fanzines, his main qualification was an "encyclopedic knowledge of music". 1,400 subgenres of music were created,

304-467: A feature that became central to the site's utility. In a 2016 article in Tedium , Ernie Smith wrote: "AllMusic may have been one of the most ambitious sites of the early-internet era—and it's one that is fundamental to our understanding of pop culture. Because, the thing is, it doesn't just track reviews or albums. It tracks styles, genres, and subgenres, along with the tone of the music and the platforms on which

342-521: A fundraiser to support efforts to overturn Proposition 8 , California's ban on same-sex marriage . In 2004, Burkle helped finance the launch of Al Gore's Current TV , which was sold in January 2013 to Qatar -based cable news channel Al Jazeera . During Bill Clinton's presidency, Burkle was a key fundraiser and they became close friends. In 2002, Burkle hired Clinton as a senior advisor on two Yucaipa domestic investment funds. Clinton invested in

380-510: A move for which he received praise. He has served as chairman of the board and controlling shareholder of numerous companies, including Alliance Entertainment, Golden State Foods , Dominick's , Fred Meyer , Ralphs , and Food4Less . He has been a corporate board member of the boards of Occidental Petroleum Corporation , KB Home , and Yahoo! Burkle is often seen as a businessman who maintains close relationships with labor unions and works with unions to solve business problems. Burkle

418-522: A series of publications about various music genres. It was followed by the Required Listening series, and Annual guides. Vladimir Bogdanov is the president and the main editor of the series. In August 2007, PC Magazine included AllMusic in its "Top 100 Classic Websites" list. Ron Burkle Ronald Wayne Burkle (born November 12, 1952) is an American businessman. He is the co-founder and managing partner of The Yucaipa Companies, LLC ,

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456-432: A vice president at Petrolane, Inc., Stater's parent company. When he was 29, Petrolane decided to sell Stater Bros. Burkle secretly organized a leveraged buyout with Charles Munger , vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway , who agreed to put up half of the equity. Burkle made his bid to Petrolane's board that was 20% lower than Petrolane's internal valuation. The board rejected Burkle's offer and fired him. Burkle's portfolio

494-400: Is "typical of the genre... Martino's maturing style... is good enough to transcend the settings." Writing for PopMatters , Will Layman commented: " El Hombre is an organ-drenched speedfest that shows off this Philly kid's ability to play soulfully, spinning out seemingly endless solos shot through with blue notes, flatted fifths, and thirty-second runs. It was Martino's calling card, and this

532-754: Is a trustee of The Scripps Research Institute , The Carter Center , the National Urban League , Frank Lloyd Wright Building Conservancy and AIDS Project Los Angeles . He is a past board member of the J. Paul Getty Trust , the Los Angeles County Museum of Art , the Los Angeles Music Center , John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts , and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles . Burkle hosts fundraising events for

570-698: Is part owner of the Pittsburgh Penguins of the National Hockey League , although his stake in the team is unknown. In 1999, he helped save the team by partnering with former Penguin Mario Lemieux to bring the team out of bankruptcy . Burkle played an active part in negotiations to construct the PPG Paints Arena for the Penguins. Burkle's strong ties to union work also led him to be one of

608-754: The AFL-CIO Murray Green Meany Kirkland Community Service Award and the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor Man of the Year. In 1997, Burkle donated $ 15 million for the construction of Walt Disney Concert Hall . Burkle is founder and chairman of The Ronald W. Burkle Foundation. The foundation's stated mission is to "positively influence people around the world and their communities" by supporting programs that "strengthen international understanding, foster worker's rights, empower underserved communities, nurture

646-668: The COVID-19 pandemic in California . This move placed Sacramento expansion hopes in doubt. In January 2021, Lisa Baird , the commissioner of the National Women's Soccer League (NWSL), announced that an expansion team in Sacramento , led by Ron Burkle and in conjunction with Sacramento Republic FC's expansion bid into Major League Soccer, would join the NWSL in 2022. However, Burkle never confirmed

684-666: The 1930s and expanded in the 1950s by John Elgin Woolf , for $ 15 million in 2017. In December 2013, Burkle purchased an Olympic gold medal won by Jesse Owens at the 1936 Berlin Games for $ 1.4 million and owns William Faulkner's Nobel Prize for Literature . Burkle owns the Mediterranean-styled mansion overlooking the bluffs of Black's Beach on a nearly six-acre plot in the La Jolla Farms neighborhood of San Diego, California. It

722-604: The Paradigm Talent Agency, partnered with London's CODA Music Agency and X-ray Touring. That same year, Burkle acquired a minority stake in Independent Talent through Yucaipa fund. In 2018, Burkle's investment firm Yucaipa acquired a minority stake in the Spanish music festival Primavera Sound . In 2020, Burkle made a major investment in the musical festival production Danny Wimmer Presents . On April 5, 2023 it

760-411: The arrival of a great talent and a distinctive voice." All tracks are written by Pat Martino except where noted Production Allmusic AllMusic (previously known as All-Music Guide and AMG ) is an American online music database . It catalogs more than three million album entries and 30 million tracks, as well as information on musicians and bands . Initiated in 1991, the database

798-475: The arts and architecture, engage children in learning and advance scientific research." Burkle serves as co-chairman of The Ronald W. Burkle Center for International Relations at UCLA , to promote "research on and promotes discussion of international relations, U.S. foreign policy, and complex issues of global cooperation and conflict." The Center has hosted UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon , and former U.S. presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter . Burkle

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836-502: The dominant format for recorded music, Erlewine purchased what he thought was a CD of early recordings by Little Richard . After buying it, he discovered it was a "flaccid latter-day rehash". Frustrated with the labeling, he researched using metadata to create a music guide. In 1990, in Big Rapids, Michigan , he founded All Music Guide with a goal to create an open-access database that included every recording "since Enrico Caruso gave

874-621: The industry its first big boost". The first All Music Guide , published in 1992, was a 1,200-page reference book, packaged with a CD-ROM, titled All Music Guide: The Best CDs, Albums & Tapes: The Expert's Guide to the Best Releases from Thousands of Artists in All Types of Music . Its first online version, in 1994, was a text-based Gopher site. It moved to the World Wide Web as web browsers became more user-friendly. Erlewine hired

912-566: The music is sold. It then connects that data together, in a way that can intelligently tell you about an entire type of music, whether a massive genre like classical, or a tiny one like sadcore ." In 1996, seeking to further develop its web-based businesses, Alliance Entertainment Corp. bought All Music from Erlewine for a reported $ 3.5 million. He left the company after its sale. Alliance filed for bankruptcy in 1999, and its assets were acquired by Ron Burkle 's Yucaipa Equity Fund. In 1999, All Music relocated from Big Rapids to Ann Arbor , where

950-710: The news publicly before exiting the Sacramento Republic's ownership group. Instead, on June 8, 2021, the NWSL announced San Diego as the location for an expansion team owned by Burkle, which began play as San Diego Wave FC in the 2022 NWSL season . Burkle has invested in technology startup companies through A-Grade Investments , a venture capital fund he founded with Ashton Kutcher and Guy Oseary . As of 2020, A-Grade's investment portfolio includes SeatGeek , SoundCloud , Uber , Warby Parker , Spotify , Foursquare , and Airbnb . He has also invested in technology startup companies through Inevitable Venture,

988-755: The non-profit Share Our Strength and its No Kid Hungry campaign, which focuses on helping end childhood hunger in the United States. Burkle also hosts events for The Rape Foundation at his Greenacres Estate. Burkle is a fan of historic architecture. In 2011, he purchased the partially restored Ennis House , a Los Angeles landmark designed by Frank Lloyd Wright . In 2019, Burkle sold the house for $ 18 million. Burkle owns Greenacres , an estate built for Harold Lloyd . Burkle owns two of entertainer Bob Hope 's properties, acquiring his John Lautner -designed Palm Springs home for $ 13 million in 2016 and Toluca Lake, CA home, originally designed by Richard Finkelhor in

1026-594: The owners helping Commissioner Gary Bettman negotiate an end to the 2012–13 NHL lockout . The Penguins, under the ownership of Burkle, are the only North American sports team with ties to private equity that has won a championship. On January 22, 2019, Burkle was announced as the new lead investor of Sacramento Republic FC . On February 26, 2021, Burkle announced that he was pulling out his interests in Major League Soccer expansion club in Sacramento due to

1064-517: The sale, and as Rovi from 2009 until 2016). In 2012, AllMusic removed all of Bryan Adams ' info from the site per a request from the artist. In 2015, AllMusic was purchased by BlinkX, later known as RhythmOne . The AllMusic database is powered by a combination of MySQL and MongoDB . The All Media Network produced the All Music Guide: The Definitive Guide (at first released as The Experts' Guide ), which includes

1102-407: The staff expanded from 12 to 100 people. By February of that year, 350,000 albums and two million tracks had been cataloged. All Music had published biographies of 30,000 artists, 120,000 record reviews and 300 essays written by "a hybrid of historians, critics and passionate collectors". In late 2007, AllMusic was purchased for $ 72 million by TiVo Corporation (known as Macrovision at the time of

1140-467: The time Whole Foods Market , a natural-foods grocer, agreed to pay $ 565 million for Wild Oats, Burkle was the largest shareholder of Wild Oats. Burkle sold his majority stake in supplier Golden State Foods to St. Louis-based Wetterau Associates for about $ 110 million. Golden State, one of McDonald's biggest suppliers, operates 11 distribution centers in the United States and abroad and two U.S. processing plants. In 2014, Burkle acquired Soho House ,

1178-687: The two were not able to agree on a final payment for Clinton's advisory services, estimated at up to $ 20 million, and Clinton "walked away" from the potential payout. Burkle's honors and awards include the Los Angeles County, California Boy Scouts Jimmy Stewart "Good Turn" Award, the AIDS Project Los Angeles Commitment to Life Award, and the Los Angeles Urban League Whitney M. Young Award. He has received numerous honors and awards from labor including

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1216-614: Was announced that Burkle along with Anthony Kiedis and Bob Forrest had formed the production company Said and Done Entertainment. Their first project will be an animated series for TBS called Hellicious which is based on the comic book of the same name. Burkle, Kiedis and Forrest will also serve as executive producers on the series. Wild Oats Markets was an operator of natural foods stores and farmers' markets in North America. Burkle started buying Wild Oats stock in February 2005. By

1254-465: Was by then worth some $ 5 million, and during the next five years, he continued to invest in stocks and oversaw his family's rental properties. In 1986, Burkle founded Yucaipa Companies , a private equity firm which invests in U.S. companies in the hospitality, sports, entertainment, logistics, food, consumer, light industrial, retail, manufacturing, and distribution. During the 1992 Los Angeles riots , Burkle refused to close his inner-city stores,

1292-970: Was estimated at US$ 2 billion on February 12, 2018. He had been ranked No. 633 on Forbes' list of "The Richest People on The Planet 2014." Burkle is an activist and fundraiser for the Democratic Party . Ron Burkle was born on November 12, 1952, the elder of two sons, to Betty and Joseph Burkle in Pomona, California . Joseph worked seven days a week, managing a Stater Bros. grocery store in Pomona and investing his savings in apartment buildings. To see his father, Burkle stocked shelves in his father's store with bread and corralled shopping carts. By age 13, Burkle had joined United Food and Commercial Workers Union Local 770. At age 16, he graduated from high school and entered California State Polytechnic University, Pomona to study dentistry. Less than two years later, Burkle dropped out. At age 21, he married Janet Steeper,

1330-458: Was first made available on the Internet in 1994. AllMusic is owned by RhythmOne . AllMusic was launched as All-Music Guide by Michael Erlewine , a "compulsive archivist, noted astrologer, Buddhist scholar and musician". He became interested in using computers for his astrological work in the mid-1970s and founded a software company, Matrix, in 1977. In the early 1990s, as CDs replaced LPs as

1368-569: Was formally naturalized on November 25, 2019 , making him the third Serbian billionaire after Philip Zepter and Miroslav Mišković , according to Forbes' list. On January 6, 2020, Burkle's son Andrew was found dead in his Beverly Hills Home. In December 2020, Burkle, a former family friend of Michael Jackson , purchased Jackson's former Neverland Ranch property for $ 22 million as a "land banking opportunity." In April 2006, Burkle accused New York Post columnist Jared Paul Stern of attempting to extort money from him in exchange for stopping

1406-427: Was his party. And it is, appropriately, a good time... El Hombre deserves to be heard by new fans as well as old ones. Many a young guitarist today will be stunned and jealous, I'm sure, of how fresh this... music still sounds." In an article for All About Jazz , Ian Patterson wrote: "There are any number of truly great Martino solos throughout this swinging straight-ahead session... An auspicious debut that announced

1444-619: Was purchased on February 5, 1999, for $ 15.3 million and the current tax assessment is $ 34 million. Burkle has worked with Novak Djokovic , world No.1 tennis player at the time, on strategic marketing and charitable initiatives. In December 2018, the Serbian Government opened a consulate in Montana and Burkle was named honorary consul of Serbia in the US. On account of that, he applied for Serbian citizenship, which Serbian Government accepted and he

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