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Genres & History
5/26/2009
"Go Away Little Boy" (in its opposite-sex guise of "Go Away Little Girl") hit the top of the pop charts twice - once by Steve Lawrence and again by Donny Osmond. Marlena Shaw takes the song in a …
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5/26/2009
The marriage between jazz and vocals hasn't always been a happy one, as many jazz compositions don't really lend themselves to lyrics, while other songs tailor-made for voice aren't considered "true ja …
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Genres & History
5/26/2009
A piano is a melodious mirror of a jazz player's soul, and there are as many pianistic voices to be heard in the jazz universe as there are sets of fingers falling across the keys. Panamanian piano pri …
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Genres & History
5/26/2009
Anything can happen when a jazz master slides behind those ivories and lets the river of imagination flow through the fingers and out over the keys. From the low A to the high C, the whole piano-jazz s …
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Artist Essentials
5/26/2009
Ani Difranco's her own woman, make no mistake. Assertively bisexual, tatted, pierced, and occasionally shaved, she has plowed an audacious path in the punk-folk field, catering neither to mainstream mo …
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Artist Essentials
5/26/2009
The Doobie Brothers are a band of two halves, split between the California boogie of their early days and the slick, white funk of their second, Michael McDonald-led incarnation. After attracting a loy …
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Artist Essentials
5/26/2009
The Lovin' Spoonful embodied the magical, pre-Woodstock rock era in which optimism ruled. During a two-year hot streak from 1965-66, the band notched ten consecutive Top 20 singles, all characterized b …
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Artist Essentials
5/26/2009
He may be genuinely mad (supposedly guzzling tape-deck cleaning fluid ain't normal), but Lee "Scratch" Perry productions reveal a true genius. The stunted bass lines of "People Funny Boy" mistakenly in …
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Artist Essentials
5/26/2009
They say that big things come in small packages. Take Tears for Fears, the Bath, England, duo behind some of the most majestic sounds of the '80s. Seriously, what would MTV have been without staples li …
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