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Spinner.com (Free subscription) | 17 hours ago
Filed under: Concerts and Tours Since capturing the attention of Gang Starr MC Guru in the early nineties, the widely-respected hip-hop lyricist Bahamadia has lent her smooth-flowing rhymes to the likes of Roni Size, the Brand New Heavies and Sade . The philanthropic Philly native sat down to talk with Spinner about what inspires her to write, dealing with doppelganger fans, and her survival plan...
Jazz & Blues Music Reviews (Free subscription) | yesterday
I was really surprised and excited when I saw a used copy of this extensive boxed set on sale at the Princeton Record Exchange for the princely sum of $24.99. The discs were scuffed and the labels were starting to bubble just a bit, but the discs are still very playable, so it was an amazing bargain. Trumpeter Clifford Brown was like a short lived comet that flashed across the jazz skies in the first...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 13/03/2010
Bill Mays has spent much of his career as a first-call studio pianist in Hollywood, accompanying singers like Sarah Vaughan and Al Jarreau , and playing on movie soundtracks. Moreover, his most recent CDs have involved his innovative third-stream group, The Inventions Trio, with trumpeter Marvin Stamm and cellist Alisa Horn. As a result, Mays's profile may be a bit lower than some who spend more time...
All About Jazz (Free subscription) | 06/03/2010
Bill Mays Solo! s/r 2009 Bill Mays At the Movies Steeplechase 2009 Bill Mays is a veteran artist with an extensive musical resumA(C), having taken part in all kinds of session work, ranging from movie soundtracks to jazz, backing vocalists and even working with Frank Zappa! Mays paid his dues as a sideman with Sarah Vaughan, Bud Shank and Gerry Mulligan while he also played with Benny Golson, Bud Shank,...
PrairieMod (Free subscription) | 04/03/2010
Frank Lloyd Wright's 100-year-old Robie House is going to be in the spotlight quite a bit this year—with good reason. The iconic design is held-up as one of his greatest contributions to architecture and is in the home-stretch of a complete renovation. The Frank Lloyd Wright Preservation Trust is offering several opportunities to experience Robie in new and exciting ways this month. Find out...
Rifftides (Free subscription) | 23/02/2010
Jazz At Lincoln Center has just announced the artists posthumously inducted into its Nesuhi Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame for 2010. They are Bill Evans, Bud Powell, Billy Strayhorn and Sarah Vaughan. Those honored are chosen by vote of...
Cultural Offering.com (Free subscription) | 23/02/2010
Some artists sound great live - Sinatra, Cheap Trick and The Kinks. Others, not so much. The Cars, Foreigner, Alan Parsons Project and Electric Light Orchestra are best heard on studio recordings. Here are my unreserved recommendations for great live recordings. At Mister Kelly's - Sarah Vaughan. Covered in a previous post but well worth the repeat. Perhaps my favorite live album. Sinatra At The Sands...
E. Mc Morrow Illustration (Free subscription) | 21/02/2010
Job done. Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald.. accompanied by Sarah Vaughan.. and Nancy Sinatra.. LAMP and Carlotta Dale
Thoughts From The Road (Free subscription) | 17/02/2010
The Faroe Islands must be one of the most beautiful places in the world. Devan McGlamery was fascinated by the fact that the Faroese eat whale. Inevitably the locals took this as challenge so after the show we were served...
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 15/02/2010
Love is in the air at Valentines Day. And Googlers of United States are trying to remember the golden past. When we think of the words “past” and “golden” together, we only and only mean “Send in the Clowns,” the song by Stephen Sondheim from the 1973 musical A Little Night Music, an adaptation of [...] Related posts: Send in the Clowns- Send in the Clowns lyrics:...
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 15/02/2010
Sure, you've seen Rolling Stone's picks and Pitchfork weighed in and even the Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll has published its results. But it's...
darkblack (Free subscription) | 14/02/2010
Sarah Vaughan with the Count Basie orchestra , Until I Met You , 1961. The John Coltrane quartet (Elvin Jones, Jimmy Garrison and McCoy Tyner), I Want To Talk About You , 1962. Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong , Tenderly , 1966. Rosemary Clooney and the Duke Ellington orchestra , Mood Indigo , 1956. Charles 'Yardbird' Parker , with Miles Davis , Tommy Potter , Duke Jordan , and Max Roach , My Old...
Views From the Back Row (Free subscription) | 14/02/2010
This isn't the version I was looking for, and neither of these guys individually do I care for, but this song is, by far, the finest Valentine's Day song ever. Extremely intimate, a tad humorous, and one of my favorite songs of all time. If you're interested, you can check out the Michelle Pfeiffer version (surprisingly good!), the Tom Jones version, the Miles Davis version, or the Sarah Vaughan version....
AMERICAN DIGEST (Free subscription) | 13/02/2010
Gratuitous violence, smooth haircuts, unflappable attitude, sharp suits, and sleek cars. Smoking, drinking cocktails, making out with torch singers, and modern jazz. Long gone now, Peter Gunn, a PI played by Craig Stevens , defined cool before cool was cool in the golden age of television. These six and a half minutes distill why that was so. Check it out. [HT: Reader Mikey NTH] Long after the Peter...
Entertainment and Showbiz! (Free subscription) | 12/02/2010
Over the course of her illustrious singing career, Anita Baker has widely been held in league of some of the headiest musical stalwarts of all times. Indeed, the Grammy winning crooner has been counted as one of those definitive names, when it comes to soulful love ballads, and what has essentially made her kind of singing [...] Related posts: Lady Gaga: Lady Gaga’s gig leaves audience ‘speechless’...
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