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On April 25, Explore The Life And Times Of A Singular Jazz Icon With 'Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got', Winner Of The 1986 Oscar For Best Documentary, Now Restored In 4k
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Michael Krause
Outspoken, manipulative, independent thinking and oftentimes controversial, Artie Shaw (1910-2004) was one of the most popular stars of the Swing Era, who famously broke the color barrier by hiring the legendary Billie Holiday, Hot Lips Page and Roy Eldridge for his bands. His complex love-hate relationship with his own celebrity caused him to walk away from performing almost as many times as he walked away from his marriages. Winner of the 1986 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature, Artie Shaw: ...
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Ray Charles - Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles (2011)
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Something Else!
Ray Charles, sightless and orphaned by age 15, led a life that sounded like a blues song. But the range and scope of his talent could never be contained within one genre, no matter its lasting joys. A gifted performer on the piano, organ, clarinet and alto sax, Charles dabbled at first in Nat Cole-esque trio-jazz, then earned wide accolades while at Atlantic for blending in R&B and gospel influences—perhaps most memorably on his salacious rewrite of “This Little Girl ...
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Ray Charles' "Singular Genius" Compiles 106 Hits and B-Sides
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conqueroo
106 recordings on five compact discs totaling 53 singles are housed in handsome linen- textured collectors' box LOS ANGELES, CA: With the release of Ray Charles' Singular Genius: The Complete ABC Singles, on November 15, 2011, Concord Records will make available for the first time the artist's collection of ABC-Paramount singles during this prolific period (1960-1972). The digitally remastered deluxe 106-song collection presents the A and B sides of 53 singles, including 11 #1 hits, such Grammy Award winners “Hit ...
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"Singular" Portico Quartet Add Stateside Dates; Watch Hypnotic Live Video
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Michael Ricci
“SINGULAR AND TALENTED" (TIME OUT LONDON) PORTICO QUARTET ADD DATES TO FIRST EVER NORTH AMERICAN TOUR UK's Portico Quartet have added new dates to their first ever North American tour supporting Isla (Aug 31/ Real World Records), including stops in Cambridge, MA, Kent, OH, and Montreal. Watch this live footage of Portico Quartet performing “Line" on 'Band on the Wall' in Manchester to see their “Steve Reich mathematics, Radiohead dread, African desert grooves and ECM northern melancholy" (MOJO) in action ...
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Slow Down Music Fans for Singular Visionaries
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Michael Ricci
KNOXVILLE, Tenn. The rule of programming music festivals is to specialize but go lateral. As the organizer, youre usually dealing with that smoky, powdery idea, a scene.
The cosmos around a single artist, or the musical culture of a time and place, or an aesthetic mind-set. You start with particulars, the hooks to hang it on, and then you spread outward.
One obvious example is Bonnaroo, the annual four-day outdoor festival in central Tennessee. The core participants of that festival, ...
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Premiere Performances, Singular U.S. Appearances by International Artists and Unique Productions Highlight 2008 Savannah Music Festival
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All About Jazz
PREMIERE PERFORMANCES, SINGULAR U.S. APPEARANCES BY INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS AND UNIQUE PRODUCTIONS HIGHLIGHT 2008 SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL Stewart Copeland, Blind Boys of Alabama, Audra McDonald, Wycliffe Gordon, Porter Wagoner & Marty Stuart, Angelique Kidjo, Emerson String Quartet, Cherryholmes, Derek Trucks Band, Beaux Arts Trio, Bla Fleck, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with Garrick Ohlsson, Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby and others contribute to Georgia's largest musical arts event Savannah, Georgia - The Savannah Music Festival (SMF) unveiled its ambitious ...
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Premiere Performances, Singular U.S. Appearances by International Artists and Unique Productions Highlight 2008 Savannah Music Festival
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All About Jazz
PREMIERE PERFORMANCES, SINGULAR U.S. APPEARANCES BY INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS AND UNIQUE PRODUCTIONS HIGHLIGHT 2008 SAVANNAH MUSIC FESTIVAL
Stewart Copeland, Blind Boys of Alabama, Audra McDonald, Wycliffe Gordon, Porter Wagoner & Marty Stuart, Angelique Kidjo, Emerson String Quartet, Cherryholmes, Derek Trucks Band, Beaux Arts Trio, Bla Fleck, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra with Garrick Ohlsson, Ricky Skaggs & Bruce Hornsby and others contribute to Georgia's largest musical arts event Savannah, Georgia - The Savannah Music Festival (SMF) unveiled its ambitious ...
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