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Icon Hank Williams Receives Pulitzer Citation
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All About Jazz
Hank Williams, the country pioneer who is among the most influential singer- songwriters in music, was given a special Pulitzer Prize citation. The Pulitzer board awarded the late singer for his lifetime achievement, based on a confidential survey of experts in popular music. “I don't think any country artist cast a longer shadow than he does, both as a songwriter and a performer," Jay Orr, vice president of museum programs at the Country Music Hall of Fame, said Monday. (A ...
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Jazz Musicians Throw Concert to Pay for Their Health Coverage
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Michael Ricci
Get Breaking News Alerts * Share * Comments 188 Thirteen years ago, 68-year-old jazz guitarist Calvin Keys underwent a life-saving quadruple bypass surgery. Keys, a notable Bay Area musician who recorded and toured with Ray Charles in the '70s, says he would not have been able to afford that surgery if he hadn't been covered under his wife's health insurance. “I don't know what would have happened if I wasn't married," said Keys, who never had health coverage until he ...
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Dr. Yes Will Hear You Now
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Michael Ricci
Tall, white-whiskered and dressed in a tailored suit, Bruce Lundvall is sitting at his desk in the Manhattan headquarters of EMI Music. Framed platinum discs and photographs on the wall mark the pop, rock and jazz triumphs of a half-century: discovering best-selling artists like Norah Jones and Richard Marx; supporting the careers of Bruce Springsteen and Willie Nelson; reissuing recordings by John Coltrane and Thelonious Monk. Mr. Lundvall's story has many chapters. Most recently, he was chief executive of the ...
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The Barriers of Music Consumption: Past and Present
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HypeBot
Kyle Bylin, Associate Editor -- Edited by: Refe Tuma of Creative Destruction
There was a time when songs were songs. When there were the albums that you owned and those that you did not. When there was a distinct difference between the music that you liked and the artists that you didn't care for at all.
There was a time when the music you that collected was actually a physical thing; it represented your identity and served as ...
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Vatican Makes Peace with the Beatles
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All About Jazz
The Vatican has finally made peace with the Beatles, saying their drug use, “dissolute" lives and even the claim that the band was bigger than Jesus are all in the past -- while their music lives on. Vatican newspaper L'Osservatore Romano paid tribute to the Fab Four in its weekend editions, with two articles and a front-page cartoon reproducing the crosswalk immortalized on the cover of the band's album “Abbey Road." The tribute marked the 40th anniversary of the band's ...
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Should the Beatles Have Worked It Out?
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All About Jazz
Looking back after 40 years, that seems like a ridiculously short lifespan for a band as important as the Beatles, who were, from left, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Ringo Starr and George Harrison.
Seven years and seven months. That's how long the world officially knew the Beatles as a recording act, spanning from the date they released their first single in England to the day their breakup was announced on April 10, 1970. Looking back after 40 years, that seems ...
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Happy Jazz Day -- 7 Ways to Celebrate; Tampa Bay Area Shows to See
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Between the Grooves with Philip Booth
Today is Jazz Day, as established last year in a proclamation made by the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
That organization proclaimed, in part, that “jazz has spoken eloquently of freedom for people in the United States and abroad, and has become an international language that bridges differences and brings people of all races, ages, and backgrounds together.
I couldn't have said it better myself.
Hizzoners and Herhonners from all over the U.S. encourage mayors everywhere to plan jazz related activities ...
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