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Heikki Sarmanto: Counterbalance

by AAJ Italy Staff
July 6, 2009

Il pianista-compositore Heikki Sarmanto è stato il primo musicista finlandese ad entrare nel Berklee College of Music di Boston. Era il 1968 e il giovane finnico si trovò a studiare con Charlie Mariano, Herb Pomeroy e Margaret Chaloff. Quasi immediatamente fece amicizia con il giovane chitarrista americano Lance Gunderson (di chiare origini scandinave) e dal di ...

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Orange Apples

By Ozone Player

Label: Motown
Released: 2008

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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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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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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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