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News: Performance / Tour

A Tour Through Motown, Disco

May 23, 2010

Diana Ross was all smiles, glitter and efficiency at Radio City Music Hall on Wednesday night, a part of a nationwide tour straightforwardly devoted to her hits. “Tonight is truly, truly about memories," she announced. Segments of her career, from the 1960s into the 1990s, were each marked with a shiny dress (and some feathered capes), ...

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News: Recording

Diana Ross-Touch Me in the Morning

January 1, 2010

It's a mistake for jazz fans to compare Diana Ross to jazz vocalists. Ross' intonation, timbre and roots all come from a completely different place. Her Lady Sings the Blues (1972) drew praise from jazz circles, and it was a big seller. But to me, Ross as Billie Holiday always felt inconceivable and forced. Too much ...

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Blue

By Diana Ross

Label: Motown
Released: 2006
Track listing: What A Diff'rence A Day Makes; No More; Let's Do It; I Loves Ya Porgy; Smile; But Beautiful; Had You Been Around; Little Girl Blue; Can't Get Started With You; Love Is Here To Stay; You've Changed; My Man (Mon Homme); Easy Living; Solitude; He's Funny That Way; T'Aint Nobody's Bizness If I Do.

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Article: Album Review

Diana Ross: Blue

by Samuel Chell
July 15, 2006

This album is an eye-opener, especially after all the negative press and peer criticism that followed the R&B queen's starring role in the 1972 film Lady Sings the Blues: her portrayal of America's foremost tragic jazz diva, as well as her impersonation of a music persona of cult-like proportions in the inner, exclusive circles of the ...

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Article: Album Review

Diana Ross: Blue

Read "Blue" reviewed by R. Emmet Sweeney

by R. Emmet Sweeney
May 27, 2006

In late 1971, after Diana Ross completed filming the Billie Holiday bio-pic Lady Sings the Blues, Motown put her in the studio to record an album of jazz standards to coincide with the movie's release. The material was shelved after the producers decided to keep Ross on the pop-star track, which soon produced the #1 hit ...

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