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Singer Peggy Lee, a Jazz Legend, is Dead
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All About Jazz
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 22 — Peggy Lee, the singer-composer whose smoky, insinuating voice in such songs as “Is That All There Is?” and “Fever” made her a jazz and pop legend, died Monday. She was 81. Lee died from a heart attack at her Bel Air home, said her daughter, Nicki Lee Foster. Lee repeatedly battled injury and ill health, including heart trouble, in a spectacular career that brought her a Grammy, an Oscar nomination and sold-out houses worldwide.
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Ralph Sutton: Consummate Stylist with Roots in Stride
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All About Jazz
Ralph Sutton was a consummate stylist with a complete technical command of his instrument, an individual style, and a wide-ranging musical vocabulary which went well beyond his roots in stride piano. His characteristic style, heavily influenced by the stride pianists of the 1920s and 1930s, led by Fats Waller, James P. Johnson and Willie "The Lion" Smith, was probably best appreciated in solo performances, but he was equally at home in a group setting throughout his ...
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