blogs.laweekly.com–
Lots of folks know almost nothing about jazz, but condensing the hundred some odd years of the genre into ten albums is not easy, something akin to asking someone to describe the history of baseball in ten games …
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Jazz
rollingstone.com–
With Living Colour currently off the road, guitarist Vernon Reid has assembled a jazz-rock/fusion supergroup called Spectrum Road; the group will release a self-titled LP on June 5th through Calabro Music Media. …
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Jazz, Rock
Popped by
Ghost
15 days ago
billboard.com–
After playing a handful of dates on the west coast in 2011, System of a Down have plotted two weeks of east coast tour dates with Deftones, beginning on Aug. 2 in Philadelphia. However, frontman Serj Tankian -- who …
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Jazz
commercialappeal.com–
Longtime Memphis musician and Stax Records veteran Charles "Skip" Pitts -- the guitarist known for his signature wah-wah sound on Isaac Hayes' "Theme from Shaft" -- died at Methodist Hospital …
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Soul, Jazz, R+B
huffingtonpost.com–
Wonderful, wonderful Copenhagen is known for Hans Christian Andersen, the Little Mermaid statue, its many bicycles and, of course, cool jazz. Every year, the two-week Copenhagen Jazz Festival in July, warms the hearts …
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Jazz
nytimes.com–
From its earliest days, when the pianist Jelly Roll Morton spoke of a “Spanish tinge,” jazz has been extraordinarily open to international influences. Now it’s official. Last fall Unesco — the United Nations Educational …
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Jazz, Politics, Industry
huffingtonpost.com–
Whatever you choose to call him, Clinton is a true music legend, and stopped by What's Trending live on Wednesday sporting a new look without his trademark hairdo.
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Jazz
huffingtonpost.com–
A live recording of Louis "Satchmo" Armstrong playing his trumpet for one of the last times is being released to the public for the first time.
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Jazz
Garrett Yaeger
Memphis Rains
Smokey Desperado
Eleanor Pryor
Rachel
Athletics
Lydia Sherwood
Pietro Crespi
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