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81Modern Jazz Standards: Music with Culturally Converging Melodies, Harmonies and Riffs
SIDE B Slave music was an especially distinctive cultural form. Africans did not draw a clear line between secular and sacred music and , like many of their ancestors in Africa, sang a a great variety of...
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73What A Wonderful World - Instrumental
The classic Louis Armstrong tune is a perennial favourite on the Karaoke circuit, as old and young alike are familiar with it. It's one of those songs that can reach across the generations, and will continue...
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73Django Reinhardt - Guide to the World's Best Guitarists
Guitars and gypsies go hand in hand... The original rock'n'roll drifter, he travelled around France with gypsies as a young man, learning to play guitar—as well as banjo—from them. Musicians as diverse...
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70My ten favourite love songs
When I began this article I was just going to make it about love as in romantic love. Then it occurred to me that love means different things to different people . So although my list is primarily aimed at...
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62Who Stole Luis Russell and Why?
I’ll give you the answer to the 'who' right away. Louis Armstrong did it. The Hello Dolly & What a Wonderful World guy. That Louis Armstrong. Yes, he did it and he even admitted it. So Armstrong...
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7312 Songs That Changed My Life
The Long and Winding Road by the Beatles This song still gets to me, even after all these years. Bridge Over Troubled Waters by Simon and Garfunkel If I had a personal National Anthem, this would be...
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67Research and the Fascination of.
This article was requested of me, sometime ago, and I apologize for the length of time that it has taken to respond. Tamarii , this hub is for you, thank you for asking. The timing of writing has not been...
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63Louis Armstrong & Fats Domino Two Great New Orleans Musicians
At age 81, Fats Domino recently played what was billed as his last concert, a Katrina fundraiser for own neighborhood, the 9th Ward in New Orleans. The concert at Tipintina's in New Orleans was broadcast...
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75Celebrity drug busts raguett's top 20
The tabloids love a good celebrity drug bust and over the last half century or more there have been plenty of stars busted for dope. Here is my top twenty list, some you probably will have heard of and some...
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73Anna 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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