Maxwell plots first stage of musical return

R&B creative person Maxwell [ ] resurfaces for his first live shows in six eld this fall with a run of dates ahead of his planned "Black Summers' Night" trilogy.

The singer, who hasn't performed since supporting his last studio album, 2001's chart-topping "Now," has lined up a 24-city trek kicking off Oct. 8 in Boston. The picnic, which runs through recent November, besides features dates in New York City (10/9), Chicago (10/18) and Los Angeles (11/1). The complete itinerary is listed below.

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Maxwell described the turn in a press statement as a "pre-party tour celebration" for the forthcoming "Black Summers' Night," a trilogy of studio albums that the artist expects to release over the next tercet years. The first instalment, titled "Black," is due out sometime this year on Columbia, and streaming audio of the showtime track from the set, "Pretty Wings," can be heard at Maxwell's MySpace page.

"Maxwell's still working with Sade's band, his tried and true team," Columbia exec Kyambo "Hip-Hop" Joshua told Billboard last year. "He took some clip off and now he's ready."

The singer's previous record album, "Now," has sold more than 1.7 copies in the US alone, according to Nielsen SoundScan.



[Note: The undermentioned tour dates have been provided by artist and/or tour sources, who verify its accuracy as of the publication time of this chronicle. Changes english hawthorn occur earlier go on sale. Check with official artist websites, ticketing sources and venues for tardy updates.]

October 20088 - Boston, MA - Opera House 9 - New York, NY - Radio City Music Hall10 - Wallingford, CT - Chevrolet Theater14 - Cincinnati, OH - Taft Theater 15 - St. Louis, MO - Fox Theater 17 - Indianapolis, IN - Murat Theater 18 - Chicago, IL - Chicago Theater 19 - Detroit, MI - Fox Theater 21 - Minneapolis, MN - Orpheum Theater 22 - Omaha, NE - Music Hall 23 - Kansas City, MO - Uptown Theater 25 - Denver, CO - Paramount Theater 28 - Oakland, CA - Paramount Theater 31 - Las Vegas, NV - Pearl November 20081 - Los Angeles, CA - Shrine Auditorium6 - Houston, TX - Verizon Theater 8 - Dallas, TX - Majestic Theater 10 - Birmingham, AL - BJCC Hall 11 - Memphis, TN - Orpheum Theater 12 - Atlanta, GA - Civic Center 14 - Greensboro, NC - War Memorial 15 - Richmond, VA - Landmark Theater 17 - Washington, D.C. - Constitution Hall 21 - Philadelphia, PA - Susquehanna Center

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Birth Defect Three To Four Times More Likely For Infants Born To Diabetic Women, Study Says

�Pregnant women with diabetes are trio to four times more likely to give birth to an infant with a nativity defect than other significant women, according to a CDC cogitation scheduled to be published in the American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, the AP/San Jose Mercury News reports.



According to the AP/Mercury News, the study -- which used hospital data from 1997 to 2003 in 10 states -- provides the most detailed information on the kinds of conditions experienced by infants of diabetic women. The CDC researchers who conducted the study listed nearly 40 kinds of birth defects found to be significantly more than likely infants born to diabetic women than other infants.



The study compared 13,000 births that involved a major mar and compared them with 5,000 randomly selected births that did not involve a major defect. Researchers asked pregnant women if they had been diagnosed with diabetes earlier or during their pregnancies.



Janis Biermann -- senior frailty president for education and health furtherance at the March of Dimes -- said the list of defects was longer than previously understood, adding, "It adds more information around the specific types of birth defects associated with pre-gestational diabetes and gestational diabetes" (Stobbe, AP/San Jose Mercury News, 7/30).




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