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Latin Jazz Conversations: Alexa Weber Morales (Part 1)
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The Latin Jazz Corner by Chip Boaz
We all have natural predispositions towards certain activities and they often have a way of working their way into our everyday lives. It's hard to predict where a person will go when they are exploring the world as a child, but it's easy to say that the things that repeatedly fall in their path will have some effect. In some cases, these things are a reflection of their parents' interests that squeeze through to their children. Other times a child ...
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Kurt Elling Puts Jazz Spin on Classic Rock With Producer Don Was
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All About Jazz @ Spinner
The first time we came across Kurt Elling was in June of 1997 during a guerilla campaign of gigs in the Northeast over a six-week stretch. It was towards the end of that run and the singer was walking with crutches after a hiking mishap. His iconoclast reputation as a divinity school dropout (one credit short of his Masters degree) only seemed to be heightened by the incongruent idea of a jazz singer performing in a dingy East Village rock ...
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Gretchen Parlato Finds "Peace of Mind" as a New Breed of Jazz Diva
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All About Jazz @ Spinner
Gretchen Parlato is not your stereotypical jazz diva. You won't see this singer up on stage dressed in a prom dress, and her beautiful voice doesn't have the impressive range of other some singers out there. With a short asymmetrical haircut and a hip fashion sense, her look is her own. Nonetheless, it is Parlato's voice that stands out. She has singular ear for rhythm and phrasing, texture and subtlety. Her sweet spot is a breathy whisper that beckons with ...
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Bridge over Troubled Water
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JazzWax by Marc Myers
Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel don't get enough credit for their contribution to American music. Their recordings from the '60s are rarely played today, never covered and largely viewed as adolescent folk-rock relics from days gone by. They weren't as dramatic as John and Paul, not nearly as menacing as Mick and Keith, not as angry or as cryptic as Bob, not as sexy as Sonny and Cher or as swingy as Denny, John, Michelle and Cass. In listening back, ...
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Brooklyn Jazz Hall Of Fame & Museum Induction & Awards
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LeTang Jazz/Blues/ Tango Promotion
Something Else! Featured Artist: Alan Parsons Project
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Something Else!
The What-ing What Project? Never, perhaps, has a figure in rock music been simultaneously so famous and so ... anonymous. Alan Parsons, after all, was engineer on Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon and Paul McCartney's Red Rose Speedway; producer for the Hollies' “The Air That I Breathe," Pilot's “Magic" and Al Stewart's “Year of the Cat," among others; a hitmaker in his own right with tracks like “Eye in the Sky" and “Games People Play"; and a guy ...
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