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Genres & History
1/4/2011
They say a decade doesn't really define itself until about two-thirds of the way through, and that's sure how things turned out in the '90s. By 1997, the techno sounds of the Chemical Brothers and the …
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Genres & History
1/4/2011
Willie Hutch is probably best known for writing such smashes as "I'll Be There" for the Jackson 5. But he turned his mad performance skills loose on the soundtrack to the Blaxploitation film The Mac …
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Genres & History
1/4/2011
It seemed like the entire country was in the throes of Saturday Night Fever: three-piece white polyester suits everywhere, glowing almost supernaturally under the disco's black lights and mirror …
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Artist Essentials
1/4/2011
In our Deep Cuts, we've managed the impossible: to condense Frank's massive career into three bite-sized pieces. Nelson Riddle's bold and brassy horns swing with a ritzy Vegas glitz in "Nice 'N' Easy," …
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Artist Essentials
1/4/2011
From the hard-scrabble slums of Hoboken to the gilt-edged palaces of the Vegas Strip, nobody - but nobody - defined the word style like Francis Albert Sinatra. At every step - King of the …
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My Groove
1/4/2011
The sweetly nostalgic version of "Ritmo, Tambor y Flores" by Celia Cruz and Johnny Pacheco is from the 1976 LP Recordando El Ayer - a tribute to vintage tropical music. Sonora Ponce±a's "Noche C …
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Artist Essentials
1/4/2011
Whether it was on account of his highly developed harmonic hipness, or simply his penchant for slipping riffs in between the cracks of the ivories, Lester Young always had a special rapport with piano …
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Artist Essentials
1/4/2011
Name a major development in jazz in the first half of the 20th century - odds are Lester Young was in on the ground floor. Even as a young man in the '30s, playing with Count Basie, he was at the heart …
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Artist Essentials
12/28/2010
The simple facts: 1) Teena Marie's life and career were cut way too short, and 2) the decades that Lady T spent making music produced far too many great tracks for hits collections alone. Our Teena Mar …
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