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Jazz Musicians Who Sang
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Besides Louis Armstrong, Nat King Cole, Dizzy Gillespie, Chet Baker and many pianists like Shirley Horn, Matt Dennis and others who played and sang at clubs, a good number of jazz musicians could sing quite well. Here are eight: Here's trombonist Jack Teagarden playing and singing It's All in Your Mind... Here's pianist Oscar Peterson singing Orange Colored Sky... Here's drummer Grady Tate singing Suicide Is Painless, the theme to M*A*S*H... Here's trumpeter Kenny Dorham singing Angel Eyes... And here's ...
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The Man Who Sang, Played and Smiled
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Michael Ricci
One of the hardest parts of writing a biography is finding a fit subject, but sometimes theyre in plain sight. Despite his incalculable contributions to American culture, there has never been a fully adequate narrative biography of Louis Armstrong. Terry Teachout now fills that void with Pops. He begins by suggesting how this omission came to be, then persisted for so long. No one disputes that Armstrong revolutionized music, helped popularize jazz throughout the world and created countless imitators. Even ...
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Marie Knight Dies at 84; Gospel Vocalist Sang with Sister Rosetta Tharpe
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Michael Ricci
Marie Knight was best known for her gospel duets with Sister Rosetta Tharpe, including “Up Above My Head" and “Didn't It Rain." She toured with the gospel legend in the late 1940s and made a late-in-life comeback as a solo artist.
Marie Knight, a gospel singer who came to fame singing duets with gospel-music star Sister Rosetta Tharpe in the late 1940s and made a noteworthy late-in-life comeback as a solo artist, has died. She was 84.
Knight died Sunday ...
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Remembering Odetta, Who Sang of Freedom
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Michael Ricci
The poet Maya Angelou sat perched on a tall stool along with Pete Seeger in Riverside Church in Manhattan on Tuesday night, both mimicking and remembering the folk singer Odetta, her longtime friend, who died on Dec. 2 at 77.
“We were both tall black ladies with attitude, and most people were really scared of us,” Ms. Angelou told a crowd that filled the pews and balconies as Pete Seeger warmed up offstage. “To be in the ’50s, black and ...
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Olga San Juan Actress Sang and Danced with Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire Passes
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Michael Ricci
She was known as the 'Puerto Rican Pepperpot.' Olga San Juan, the actress dubbed the “Puerto Rican Pepperpot" for singing and dancing roles alongside stars that included Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, has died. She was 81.
San Juan died late Saturday at Providence St. Joseph Medical Center in Burbank of kidney failure stemming from a long-term illness, said her son-in-law Barry Adelman, executive producer of the Golden Globe Awards.
San Juan was born March 16, 1927, and ...
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Mary Ann Russo: 1933-2008 - Vocalist Sang with Jazz and Big Bands
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All About Jazz
Mary Ann Russo, 75, a Toledo jazz band singer whose career began in childhood, died Monday in the Hospice of Northwest Ohio, Perrysburg Township. Her death followed a nine-month battle with lung cancer, her daughter, Lisa Young, said. Ms. Russo, of Sylvania, sang with many area jazz and big band groups and performed through nearly every decade of her life, starting at age 6 when she became a regular on WSPD-AM’s Kiddies Karnival program. While in her early teens, she ...
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