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Chris Barber: A Trailblazer’s Legacy Due Out July 23rd On Last Music Co.
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The Last Music Company
On March 2nd, the world mourned the passing of Chris Barber OBE. A British Jazz pioneer who performed for over seven decades until his retirement in 2019, Barber was a transformational figure in the UK music scene. He unlocked the door for a new generation of renowned musicians who in turn, continue to inspire on a global scale. Many paid tribute, among them, Bill Wyman, who said, “Without Chris Barber, the Stones and The Beatles would not be where they ...
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Brian Wilson Feted as Trailblazer
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All About Jazz
ASYM honors music legend Brian Wilson June 10th
The American Society of Young Musicians is set to fete music legend Brian Wilson with its 2009 Trailblazer award at the 17th annual spring benefit concert on June 10 in Hollywood.
The org, which awards scholarships to students of accredited music schools and programs, will induct Wilson into its hall of fame following the awards presentation.
Past attendees of the benefit have included ASYM committee members Quincy Jones, John Mellencamp and Chaka ...
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Trailblazers Selling a Romantic Kind of Love
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Michael Ricci
Has any pop song evoked a generation's romantic self-infatuation more hauntingly than Joni Mitchell's “Woodstock"?
Sheila Weller, in her book Girls Like Us: Carole King, Joni Mitchell, Carly Simon -- and the Journey of a Generation (Atria Books), which weaves the biographies of these singer-songwriters into a post-feminist history, writes: “It was the first line of the chorus -- 'We are stardust, we are golden' “ -- that “conveyed the impression of hundreds of thousands of people speaking as one." ...
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