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Candy Dulfer: Prodigy Turned Pro

Read "Candy Dulfer: Prodigy Turned Pro" reviewed by Mikayla Gilbreath


It's an age-old question--What's the secret of success? For Candy Dulfer, arguably the most commercially successful female saxophonist ever, the answer seems to include first-rate musicianship combined with a healthy dose of stage presence. To those attending their first Candy Dulfer concert, she must seem somewhat of an enigma. When she first takes the stage, tall, ...

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News: Performance / Tour

Aretha Franklin Among Performers at King Concert

Aretha Franklin Among Performers at King Concert

A free concert featuring Aretha Franklin will be held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington to pay tribute to the Reverend Martin Luther King Junior. The show is being sponsored by the performing arts center and Georgetown University. It will take place on January 19, which is Martin Luther King ...

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Aretha Franklin at the House of Blues

Aretha Franklin at the House of Blues

Aretha Franklin, the long-reigning Queen of Soul, is a benevolent and generous monarch. On top of every other accolade that's been laid at her feet over the last half-century, a prestigious collective of musicians, writers and music industry heavyweights just placed her at the top of Rolling Stone magazines ranking of the 100 greatest singers of ...

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Jazz Moods

Label: Sony Music
Released: 2005
Track listing: Just for a Thrill; What a Difference a Day Makes; God Bless the Child; When the World Was Young; Misty; All Night Long; Skylark; But Beautiful; Only the Lonely; Drinking Again; It Will Have to Do Until the Real Thing Comes Along; For All We Know; Nobody Like You; Without the One You Love.

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Collections

Label: Hallmark Records
Released: 2005

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Article: Album Review

Aretha Franklin: Jazz Moods

Read "Jazz Moods " reviewed by Jim Santella


What a difference a day makes. Aretha Franklin made her first recordings at age fourteen as a gospel artist in Detroit. And in no time she was sitting on top of the world, pleasing audiences everywhere with soulful anthems like the tender reveries that have been grouped together for this moody “midnight" compilation. The ...

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Article: Interview

Carla Cook: Just a Swingin' and a Groovin'

Read "Carla Cook: Just a Swingin' and a Groovin'" reviewed by Mathew Bahl


On the question of categories, Carla Cook will say this much: “I'm definitely a jazz singer in that I like to improvise and I like to swing." Beyond that, the subject doesn't interest her. “I don't spend a lot of time haggling with the word “jazz,?" she explains. “I let the “Jazz Police" handle that. I ...


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