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79Nina Simone: A Savage Grace
Listening to Nina is like standing inside of a wind tunnel of sorrow, raw passion, savage imaginings.
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62Good-bye Anca
It was in spring 1987 when I traveled to Romania to attend the Sibiu Jazz Festival, the biggest festival in the country, and the only one with international participation. The year before I had met one of the...
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53The Lady Could Sing!
Bessie Smith was a rough, crude, violent woman. She was also the greatest of the classic Blues singers of the 1920s. Bessie started out as a street musician in Chattanooga. In 1912 Bessie joined a traveling...
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71The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Hollywood: An Epic Greek Tragedy
The Rise and Fall of the Golden Age of Hollywood: An Epic Greek Tragedy "The American cinema is a classical art, so why not then admire in it what is most admirable-I.E., not only the talent of this or...
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52Cyd Charisse Died And Took A Piece Of Me With Her
These are the times when I feel my age. When I realize that I'm no different than a lot of other people who were in their forties when I was turning twenty and laughing at them. With my Sony Walkman firmly...
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65Anna Rodriguez talks about being a jazz singer
Please introduce yourself and say a bit about your background in music. How did you get started as a singer? My name is Anna Rodriguez, and I’m a jazz singer. I started singing before I could speak...
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46Audra McDonald is a Versatile Singer and Actress
Audra McDonald was born in 1970 in Germany and grew up in Fresno, California. She studied voice at Julliard and is a premier classical concert singer, opera, jazz and ballad singer. Her voice is clear as a...
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65An Amazing Composer and Song Writer--Neil Diamond
Neil Diamond has always had a place in my heart. I was amazed at his entertainment and singing since a young girl. He is just so talented with the songs that he writes and his perfomances of them. When...
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59Blues Today, Blue Forever
The word blues is said, and people's reactions are instantaneous. In this world few subjects are as understandable as the blues, with the raw personality involved. We do not all share the same troubles,...
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57Back To Black, Amy Come Back
I~ ~© Universal Republic // Photo credit: Mishca Richter 've been listening to "Back to Black" by Amy Winehouse for about three days now. I must confess I bought the ‘Clean' version, just a personal...
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