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5/21/2008
Kansas City was a freewheeling frontier town where the fastest guns in jazz came from afar (like New York City slicker Count Basie) to try their hands against homegrown quick-draw kings, such as Charli …
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5/21/2008
"The Sound of Young America" was what Motown main man Berry Gordy dubbed the fruits of his Detroit music empire - and that's precisely what he created over the course of the '60s. The Motor City …
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5/21/2008
The haunted howl of Charley Patton, the angelic croon of Blind Willie McTell, the weary growl of Son House - Delta blues blossomed all along the Mississippi River in the '20s and '30s. Echoes of Africa …
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5/21/2008
Before there was bebop, or even big-band swing, Dixieland started up a hot-jazz hurricane in New Orleans, with bits of ragtime, blues, and brass bands soaring through its slipstream. When Sidney Bechet …
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5/21/2008
They came from the churches of the South, shouting for salvation with angelic voices raised high - old-school jubilee-quartet-style gospel groups like Swan Silvertones, Sensational Nightingales, Dixie …
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5/21/2008
Funk burst onto the Bay Area scene at the tail end of the '60s, when old-school R&B beefed up its attack and put some bounce in its bottom end. The rainbow-colored profile of bands like Tower of Power …
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5/21/2008
Back in the day of pompadours and tailfins, Los Angeles was an R&B inferno, with Larry Williams and Roy Milton cutting platters for Specialty Records - revved up sides with a rock `n' roll heart - and …
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5/21/2008
P-Funk- and Zapp-fortified beats were the pistons that powered gangsta rap's engine as it dragged its gleaming 6-4 frame up and down the West Coast. N.W.A. and Ice-T spoke straight at the street strugg …
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5/21/2008
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