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<title>Frank Sinatra</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Frank Sinatra transformed popular music. Often cited as the single finest interpreter of American standards, he influenced generations of vocalists such as Nat King Cole and Carmen McRae by focusing on phrasing and matching narrative nuance and emotional naturalism with amazing breathing control. In the 1930s, Sinatra starting bringing back "old" songs by such masters as Cole Porter while he was still a Big Band singer. He became a national institution in the '40s, and even though Ray Charles has praised the flawless technique of this Columbia period, Sinatra kept evolving. Starting in the '50s he concentrated on groundbreaking concept albums and a fresh Big Band sound with master arranger Nelson Riddle. Sinatra explored every nuance of emotion on these Capitol and Reprise albums and influenced the work of Ella Fitzgerald and Peggy Lee. Beginning in the '70s, when rock ruled, his voice and output became erratic but some brilliant work remains. Though Sinatra always viewed himself as a popular singer, jazz musicians hold his work in the highest esteem. Miles Davis and Lester Young often interpreted standards through his versions and avant-gardist John Zorn has said that in his own way, Frank Sinatra was as much a jazz improviser as Charlie Parker.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Nat King Cole</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Nat King Cole's great piano work with his jazz trio got overshadowed by his massive vocal success in the 1950s yet each phase of his career offers up so many riches that it proves that the lines between jazz and popular music just don't matter. Cole's easygoing vocals during the '40s matched his piano style charm for charm and his "lock-handed" approach and supple arrangements influenced everyone from Oscar Peterson to Diana Krall. But by the early 1950s, Cole weaned himself from the trio when his orchestrated and Big Band records sold in the millions. Thankfully, Cole's dreamy vocals just kept getting better and better when he didn't have the keyboard to preoccupy him and his concept albums for Capitol rank up there with Frank Sinatra's and Peggy Lee's in complete perfection. "Perfection" may just be the only word that can describe the true King's music.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Louis Armstrong</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA["The Reverend Satchelmouth is the beginning and the end of music in America." So said Bing Crosby and how right he was because Armstrong is the single most important figure in twentieth century popular music. If there's an artist who wasn't directly influenced by his astounding improvisations, and most importantly, his phrasing, then he was influenced by those who were. Armstrong did more with time, nuance, and personality than whole armies of musicians. But forget about influencing others -- if his music doesn't fill you with tingles of joy and delight then you just may be dead. And don't fret if you are six feet under; Pops will be serenading you in heaven. For how can there be a heaven without Louis?
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Billie Holiday</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:57 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Long since gone, Lady Day still casts a spell. Like her musical alter ego, Frank Sinatra, interest in her personal life threatens to overshadow her importance to jazz and pop. Forget the tragedy, listen to the music. Holiday's attention to phrasing has influenced generations of singers and players. With her trademark gardenia in her hair, she advanced the art of singing by adding personal nuance and detail to each number. She practiced a subtle craft, telling a story with each lyric...her story. But even if all you speak is Esperanto, she has enough musicianship to duet with the likes of Lester Young and Ben Webster. Like them, her music dazzles with emotion, not empty gymnastics.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Glenn Miller</title>
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<category>Classic Swing</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:06:59 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Glenn Miller put a whole nation "In the Mood." Miller led the most successful big band of the Swing era -- not a bad accomplishment considering that a strong sense of swing was the only thing this trombonist lacked. Thankfully, Miller corralled a wonderful group of musicians and arrangers and had hit after deserving hit during the War years. The era of Bobby Soxers and rationing may be over but "Moonlight Serenade," "Pennsylvania 6-5000," and the evergreen "In the Mood" have been embraced by the new generation of Lindy Hoppers. The man himself died when his plane was shot down over the English Channel, but his band continues in one form or another to this day. Critics still debate whether Miller was a jazz musician or not, but nobody ever questions how good he was at what he did.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Duke Ellington</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The contributions Edward Kennedy "Duke" Ellington has made to American music cannot be overstated. Ellington led an earthshaking big band with musicians that helped shape jazz and his charts influenced countless arrangers. He wrote dozens of what are now considered standards while he continued to explore and experiment with longer suites. Ellington could produce a great swing song, then a ballad, and then follow it up with an avant-garde orchestral piece -- all of equal quality. On his own, Ellington was a powerhouse who used members of his orchestra like a painter uses colors and optimized the talents and sounds of each musician. When Billy Strayhorn joined him as a co-arranger, songwriter and piano player, their combined talents led the orchestra to even greater heights. When Duke Ellington was asked to define jazz he replied, "there are only two kinds of music, good and bad." The Duke just may have created more "good" music than anyone in history.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Dinah Washington</title>
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<category>Pop Standards</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:57 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A great jazz and pop vocalist who excelled at the blues, Dinah Washington had a sharp, powerful voice that she wielded with knife-like precision. Washington's open and direct (yet smartly controlled) style was extremely popular throughout the 1950s with black audiences, and by the late-'50s she had crossed over to the white pop market with big hits such as "What A Diff'rence A Day Makes," which combined a jazz and blues feel with Nashville-style arrangements. Washington loved after hour jam sessions, and also released a stellar series of jazz albums on Mercury (now Verve Records) that included many of the greatest musicians of the day. Known for her full figure, strong personality, hard-living lifestyle, and multiple marriages, Washington was something of an Elisabeth Taylor/Marilyn Monroe for the African-American community: always in the news, she was almost as famous for newspaper headlines, funny quips, and her fun fashion sense as she was for her music. She died of an accidental overdose while going on a crash diet in December 1963. Washington rightly remains extremely popular in jazz and vocal circles, and she's a major influence on R&B in general and artists such as Ray Charles, Etta James and Aretha Franklin in particular.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Benny Goodman</title>
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<category>Swing</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:06:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[OK, Benny Goodman looked like a nerdy accountant. So what? Listen to his music...he always swung like Jayne Mansfield in capri pants. Goodman's cutting-edge clarinet chops were so strong that they propelled him to stardom in 1935 and officially launched the swing scene in popular culture. An all around tough cookie (and reputed to be difficult to work with), Goodman nevertheless hired interracial groups, working with the finest musicians (Lionel Hampton, Gene Krupa, Teddy Wilson, Charlie Christian), and blazed a trail for big bands and small jazz outfits through his various incarnations. In the late '40s, he incorporated Bop into his sound and continued to grow, working with such modernists as Herbie Hancock. Swing revivalists take note: Goodman makes Brian Setzer sound like Guy Lombardo.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Django Reinhardt</title>
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<category>Classic Swing</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:50:05 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jazz was forever changed when Django Reinhardt heard his first Louis Armstrong record. Reinhardt, a Belgian born Gypsy, revolutionized jazz guitar playing after losing the use of two fingers in a fire (try that at home, Joe Satriani). He invented the harmonically intense but joyous gypsy jazz style that captivated the public and influenced generations of musicians -- even Western Swing tips its hat to him. Americans like Duke Ellington, Coleman Hawkins and Benny Carter were lining up to play with him, but violinist Stephane Grapelli was his greatest collaborator. They fed off of each other's solos and constantly inspired one another. Towards the end of his short life, he continued to experiment by embracing Bop and the electric guitar. Stephane Grapelli and such soundtracks as Steve Martin's <i>L.A. Story</i> kept his sound alive through out the decades. He was the first non-American jazz innovator and he remains the greatest.
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<title>Count Basie</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:01:01 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Setting the stage with just a 'plunk' or two from his piano, Count Basie's big band in the '30s swung harder than any other, giving the world such talents as Lester Young, Buck Clayton and "Sweets" Edison. That trio, along with the Count himself, created a freewheeling beast featuring sizzling improvs and solos. Basie's 'Testament' bands of the '50s operated like soulful, well-oiled machines, and were reliant on arrangers like Neal Hefti, Quincy Jones and Frank Foster. The vocal platform was perfectly suited to Basie's '50s sound -- he had great success with superstar singers Joe Williams, Frank Sinatra, and Ella Fitzgerald.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Tommy Dorsey</title>
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<category>Swing</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:50:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[During the Swing era, there were jazz bands, dance bands, and sweet bands: Dorsey had the finest, most sugarcoated dance band that nevertheless swung like Roger Maris. They had almost 200 hit singles between 1935 and 1953. As a trombonist, Dorsey had amazing breath control that was studied by jazz musicians as well as by his star singer, the young Frank Sinatra. Aside from the Voice, Dorsey employed Sy Oliver, Buddy Rich, and Jo Stafford in his band during the early '40s, each of whom ultimately went out and struck it big in his or her own right.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Louis Prima</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Every generation seems to re-discover Louis Prima. Disney fittingly turned him into a jovial primate for <i>The Jungle Book</i> in 1967, David Lee Roth did a note-for-note cover of "Just a Gigolo/I Ain't Got Nobody" in 1985 and most recently, Brian Setzer and other Swing revivalists have used his sound as a template. Prima was a longtime veteran of the jazz scene who struck gold in the 1950s by mixing his Louis Armstrong influences with swinging jazz, throbbing Jump Blues, early R&B and Neapolitan zaniness. Just by itself, his music was unforgettable; but when combined with his hilariously brash sense of showmanship, Prima became unstoppable. Backed by saxophonist Sam Butera's band and a succession of straight-faced female foils (the finest being the angelic Keely Smith, who went on to achieve major success as a solo artist), Prima literally had "the wildest show in town" while also penning such standards as "Sing Sing Sing," and "A Sunday Kind of Love." His bawdy act excited the sex-starved masses of the Eisenhower era, earned respect from jazz hepcats, and was studied and appreciated by greasy-haired teenagers growing up on rock 'n' roll. While Prima's recorded output suffered when he left Capitol Records for supposedly greener pastures, he remained a very popular live act well into the '60s.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:24:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Art Tatum was a genius. His rapid-fire piano runs still dazzle. Decades ahead of his time, he could entertain the audience while leaving his fellow musicians' jaws hanging open with harmonic improvisations that didn't seem to have any precedent. Legally blind, he thrived in trio settings but really broke free when he played solo. Tatum was studied by legions of pianists and set the stage for Charlie Parker and the Bop revolution of the '40s.
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<title>Ben Webster</title>
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<category>Classic Swing</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:31 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When Ben Webster joined Ellington in 1939 he quickly became the Duke's star tenor saxophonist. Webster's style was simultaneously gruff and lyrical; he looked and sounded like a tough man with a sensitive, poetic soul, and he could go from wild blues to a stirring ballad at the bat of an eye. In the 50s, Webster moved to L.A. where he worked with his own groups and in the studios. Like Lester Young and "Sweets" Edison, Webster's sax was the perfect foil for vocalists. He was a hero to Gerry Mulligan and their 1959 collaboration <I>Meets Gerry Mulligan</I> contains the single most beautiful rendition of "Chelsea Bridge" ever cut. During the era of John Coltrane, Webster moved to Europe to find steady employment and respect. We've learned from our mistakes; the music Ben Webster made is timeless and he is once again considered the King of the Tenors.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Coleman Hawkins</title>
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<category>Classic Swing</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:05:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Without Coleman Hawkins, the saxophone may never have made it out of the marching band. While playing with Fletcher Henderson's outfit in the 1920s, Hawk did more than put the saxophone on the map; it just didn't sound like it does now until Hawkins came along. When a young trumpeter/cornet player named Louis Armstrong joined Henderson in 1924, Hawkins immediately took notice; by the following year, Hawkins' sax playing had been completely transformed. Like a cliched wine description, his style was fluid, smooth and mellow, yet very robust and masculine -- indeed, it swung into next week. He inspired a legion of very different players, such as Johnny Hodges, Charlie Parker, Lester Young, and Sonny Rollins. Hawkins' 1939 recording of "Body and Soul" remains renown today and is the subject of a Manhattan Transfer song that incorporates his astounding solo into their lyrics.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Big Bad Voodoo Daddy</title>
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<category>Swing Revival</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:21:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The 1996 film <i>Swingers</i> brought the West Coast swing revival to the rest of the country. Big Bad Voodoo Daddy were the house band for the Brown Derby club in the film, and they were quickly signed to a major label as a result. Like other retro bands -- Cherry Poppin' Daddies, for instance -- their sound seems to owe as much to old cartoons, rock 'n 'roll, and Oingo Boingo as to '40s (or even '50s) swing music.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Jo Stafford</title>
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<category>Pop Standards</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 2 Dec 2009 11:07:02 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Artie Shaw</title>
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<category>Classic Swing</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 13:05:23 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Artie Shaw is easily one of the finest jazz clarinetists of all time, with a smooth and swinging style all his own. Shaw had great success beginning in the late 30's and continuing into the 40's, when he was a major star respected by teenagers and jazz fans alike. Shaw always hired the best musicians -- Buddy Rich, Billy Butterfield and Zoot Sims, for example -- and even led one of the finest mainstream Bop bands around during the mid-50s. Then at the peak of creativity Shaw stopped making music, greatly saddening Benny Goodman, his equally hotheaded clarinet rival. Throughout his career he had made a periodic habit of quitting music (and marrying movie stars such as Lana Turner and Ava Gardner) so people were sure Shaw would be back when he hung up his horn for good in 1955. But such a sudden departure from the scene certainly did nothing to lessen his future legend and Ken Burns' jazz series proved that the man is still as honest and outspoken as ever.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Harry James</title>
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<category>Classic Swing</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:44 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[At the tender age of twenty-one, Harry James and his thundering trumpet sound rose to fame with Benny Goodman. James started his own band in 1939 and, although he endured a period of hardship, ultimately caught fire by sweetening his hard swinging style; soon after, he became the preeminent bandleader of the '40s. James always employed top musicians (Buddy Rich, "Stuff" Smith) and vocalists (Frank Sinatra, Dick Haymes, Helen Forrest), and became a Hollywood presence after marrying the leggy actress Betty Grable. As big bands were dropping left and right in the '50s, James wisely chose to toughen his sound, a move which ensured additional success in the age of Bop. Through career ups and downs he remained a great horn player.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Erroll Garner</title>
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<category>Jazz Piano</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:03:45 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Put on an Errol Garner record and you can't help but get "Misty." The emotional world his music inhabited was the perfect mix of elation and sadness. Garner was one the finest jazz musicians to ever find enormous and long-lasting public success. His Swing-meets-Bop style is immediately recognizable -- complex introductions segue into a rhythm play between left and right hands, the right hand playing behind the beat set by the left. This approach was so solid and complete that Garner was his own portable orchestra, and he rarely performed in any group larger than a trio. Though he recorded prolifically, there are also a lot of shoddy Garner re-issues out there in terms of sound quality. Start with <i>Concert By the Sea</i> (1955), a brilliant live document that is one of the essential jazz albums. Musicians loved Garner's playing as much as the public, but his style was so completely individual that other pianists mainly emulate it in tribute to him. The groundbreaking Hammond B-3 master Jimmy Smith, however, has repeatedly mentioned that he adapted Garner's keyboard approach to the organ and in the process, revolutionized the instrument. Listening to Errol Garner remains one of life's most sublime pleasures.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Woody Herman</title>
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<category>Big Band</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:56 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[If you see Woody Herman's toothy grin on a CD cover, do yourself a favor and snatch it up. Herman's big band combination of Swing and Bop sounds just as good today as it did when his various ÃÂHerdsÃÂ originally stampeded in the '40s. Herman played clarinet and saxophone and sang in a charming, bluesy voice. He assembled crackerjack bands that featured the likes of Ben Webster, Red Norvo, Stan Getz and Shorty Rogers. Count Basie took arranger Neil Hefti from Herman and invented his ÃÂAtomic sound.ÃÂ Ray Charles loved Herman's group so much, he used another of Herman's arrangers, Ralph Burns, to launch his own big band. Herman, adored by musicians as a true gentleman, had a tragic end. A crooked business manager was stealing from him, and had not been paying taxes for the entire band over a period of many years. Herman became a slave to the IRS and was forced to tour and play until he died in 1987.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Lester Young</title>
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<category>Cool/West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:18 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[When Lester Young joined Count Basie's band in the '30s, he instantly attained star status. Young's unique tenor saxophone style was magnificently laid-back, and his feathery tone influenced the formation of Bop and Cool Jazz. Rather than setting a clear separation point between melody and improvisation, his incredible improvisations kept focused on the melody, and "the Pres" loved singers like Billie Holiday and Frank Sinatra -- he even made his sidemen memorize lyrics -- and he staunchly believed that the most important thing to communicate in music was emotion. Though his career was often erratic, Young left an indelible mark on jazz with his deeply evocative, adventurous playing, his hipster vocabulary, his sense of style, and even the way he held his saxophone.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Joe Williams</title>
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<category>Vocal Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:03:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the few great male jazz singers in history, Williams got his start in the late 1930s in Chicago. But it wasn't until the '40s, and his sessions with renowned vibraphonist Lionel Hampton, that he rose to national stardom. In the '50s, Williams sang for Count Basie's big band, where he recorded his first hit, "Every Day I Have the Blues," in 1951. Unlike his flute-voiced predecessor in Basie's band, Jimmy Rushing, Williams sang in a buttery-smooth, dark baritone. His naturalistic phrasing -- inspired by Frank Sinatra -- combined with his subtle slides in pitch make his voice sound warm and comfortable. And his vibrato states its presence without dominating. Williams' greatness stems in part from his versatility as a singer. Tunes such as "Boogie Woogie (I May Be Wrong)" showcase his considerable talent as a blues singer. His scatting on "How High the Moon" reveals a keen, bebop-influenced sense of melody, while "Getting Some Fun Out of Life" demonstrates his understated yet sensitive treatment of ballads.
- Noah Enelow]]></description>
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<title>Stan Kenton</title>
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<category>Big Band</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Stan Kenton led one of the most successful big bands from the end of the Swing era through the counterculture revolution of the 1960s. Kenton's vision was unique and he often favored bombast and experimentation over the pulse of Swing. Oddly, the musicians he hired were the swingin'est around. Art Pepper, Anita O'Day, Shelly Manne, Shorty Rogers, Maynard Ferguson, June Christy and countless others all became stars with Kenton and went on to successful solo careers. If pretension often got the best of him, much of Kenton's music was great. Songs like "23 Degrees North - 82 Degrees West," -- which incorporated Latin rhythms without conga drums -- are still amazingly vital, while such albums as <I>City of Glass</I> remain cutting edge Third Stream works. Kenton's reputation suffered at the hands of latter day critics who complained that his music wasn't "black" enough. Today, people are waking up to the fact that his music was special because it sounded like no one else's.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>T-Bone Walker</title>
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<category>Texas Blues</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:43:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[As one of the first Electric Blues guitarists, Texas-born T-Bone Walker influenced the course of blues history with his direct, emotional, single-note lead guitar. Along with a few other players (such as jazz pioneer Charlie Christian), Walker plugged his guitar in to make it stand out among the other instruments of his band. Sustaining bends, stinging yet elegant licks, fast-picked single notes -- each has their roots in Walker's fluid playing. His singing was powerful and versatile as well, effortlessly delivering a soft ballad as easily as leading some steamy Jump Blues. Among the artists who have cited him as a primary influence are none other than B.B. King, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown and Albert King. These three musicians -- and basically every rock and blues artist -- exhibit elements of Walker's style, elaborating on his pioneering runs. The song "They Call it Stormy Monday (But Tuesday's Just as Bad)" is a certified classic, while many of Walker's other songs are regularly covered as well.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Stephane Grappelli</title>
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<category>Swing</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 5 Nov 2009 12:40:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Stephane Grappelli</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[To most of the public, Stephane Grappelli defines jazz violin. This French maverick met the perfect foil when he teamed up with Gypsy guitarist Django Reinhardt in the 1930s and '40s. After Django's death, Grappelli spent the '50s and '60s as a respected European musician before re-emerging as a global superstar in the 1970s. Grappelli has made stellar recordings with such European bopsters as Michel Legrand and George Shearing and such Americans as Oscar Peterson and McCoy Tyner. He made beautiful music that lived completely out of time, ignoring fads and trends without succumbing to gilded nostalgia. When he died in 1997, nobody thought of him as a great French jazz musician -- he was remembered as a gifted jazz musician, period, who was a tireless musical ambassador for the music that he never stopped loving.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Richard Stoltzman</title>
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<category>Swing Revival</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:53 -0700</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Richard Stoltzman</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[Stoltzman keeps the torch of early Swing burning bright, playing sunny clarinet lines in the tradition of Benny Goodman. As if that weren't enough, he also dabbles in Latin Jazz and contemplative new age.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Dave Pell</title>
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<category>Cool/West Coast Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:01:15 -0800</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Dave Pell</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[Saxophonist Dave Pell led one of the coolest of the West Coast Cool bands. His light, floating octet featured superior musicians such as Zoot Sims, Paul Smith and Benny Carter playing the charts of Shorty Rogers, Marty Paich and Bill Holman. His own saxophone style was appealing, but when L.A. started treating jazz like the silent screen starlet of <i>Sunset Boulevard</i>, Pell joined the ranks of sunglass-sporting rock producers. He returned to jazz in the late '70s, balancing bop and cool with the big band swing he started with.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Louis Jordan</title>
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<category>Jump Blues</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:43 -0800</pubDate>
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<rhap:artist xmlns:rhap="rhap">Louis Jordan</rhap:artist>
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<description><![CDATA[Louis Jordan was one of the biggest musical stars of the 1940s, and his swinging small combo sound cut across racial and genre lines. He and his band were an important influence on the development of rock 'n' roll as well as R&B. The band swung with diamond-hard precision, peppering Jordan's hip, funny songs with sophisticated instrumental work. Jordan was a magnificent frontman who switched effortlessly from singing to blowing sharp, pithy solos on saxophone. His magnetism led the band to be featured in numerous short films geared towards black audiences, as well as a couple of major Hollywood musicals. Jordan had an unprecedented run of chart success, selling millions of records from the early '40s to the early '50s. Many of his songs such as "Caledonia" and "Choo Choo Ch' Boogie" have become standards and have been covered numerous times. Jordan stayed active, playing until his death in 1975 at the age of 67.
- Tom Heyman]]></description>
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<title>Les Paul</title>
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<category>Vintage Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Every modern guitarist and record producer should worship at Les Paul's altar. This brilliant innovator changed the course of popular music -- and he had one heck of a good time doing so. An excellent jazz guitarist who jammed with the cream of the Swing and Bop crop, Paul's hollow sound was aided by his own inventions: a series of solid-bodied electric guitars that were adopted by the industry and became rock 'n' roll standard issue. Paul's solo style was crammed with ideas, but he soon began over-dubbing his guitar parts and wife Mary Ford's vocals, resulting in recordings (such as "How High the Moon") that ruled the charts in the late '40s and early '50s. Even after a serious 1948 car accident left him with a crippled arm, Paul remained a one-man band after having his shattered arm reset in the "play" position; now, that's what we call dedication. All his efforts -- from his '30s Decca sides to his late '70s sessions with Chet Atkins to his current NY club appearances -- have resulted in wonderful sounds.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Don Byas</title>
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<category>Classic Swing</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:33 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Don Byas was one of the pioneers of Swing saxophone. His 1940s performances with Count Basie rival those of Coleman Hawkins' but after he moved to France in the late '40s Byas was largely forgotten by the American public. But Byas made a fine living in Europe and visiting artists Stan Getz and Art Blakey were lining up to play with him. Like Ben Webster and Johnny Hodges he never updated his style after the Bebop explosion because he never had to -- his recordings from the late '60s are as sublime as those made decades earlier.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Cherry Poppin' Daddies</title>
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<category>Swing Revival</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:50:53 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Since they starting performing in the Pacific Northwest during Nirvana's early '90s heyday, the Cherry Poppin' Daddies can't be accused of jumping on the Retro-Swing bandwagon. Like most of their peers, the Daddies mix Jump Blues, Rockabilly, and a dash of Ska with a big beat sound that complements the modern dance floor. Like the Stray Cats in the '80s, CPD create a new sound based on vintage ideas. Their compilation album <i>Zoot Suit Riot</i> stormed up the charts in 1998.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Ronnie Earl</title>
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<category>Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:49:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Performing with Roomful of Blues and on his own, Ronnie Earl has always proved to be one of the top modern blues guitarists, equally able to swing and to play soulful single note blues in the tradition of T-Bone Walker.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Cab Calloway</title>
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<category>Jump Blues</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:44 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Cab Calloway led one of the top bands of the Swing era and became one of America's first black superstars. Calloway ruled the Cotton Club, was featured in cartoons, had movie roles, and even played Sportin' Life, the very character that Gershwin based on him in <i>Porgy and Bess</i>. Calloway was a master showman with fine musical instincts who nurtured such jazz greats as Dizzy Gillespie, Doc Cheatham and Milt Hinton and paved the way for the Jump Blues style. Calloway's orchestra didn't survive the end of the Big Band era, but the man himself endured well into old age. Still decked out in his trademark white tuxedo and wild hairdo, Calloway saved the day at the end of <i>The Blues Brothers</i> by singing his signature song, "Minnie the Moocher."
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Duke Robillard</title>
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<category>Modern Blues</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:49:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Duke Robillard has been involved in almost every kind of blues-derived music since he first formed the seminal group Roomful of Blues in 1967. Pulling licks from a seemingly inexhaustible arsenal of blistering guitar riffs, Robillard has shown the same roots-reverent brilliance in everything from Rockabilly to slick city blues to his current fascination with swinging Jazz Blues. In the frequently over-glitzed and all too often generic world of whiteboy blues, this consummate guitar stylist stands out, garnering critical praise as well as a fervent legion of fans.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Lionel Hampton</title>
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<category>Big Band</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:30 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lionel Hampton is one of the true giants of American music. He was an innovator on the vibes, coming to prominence in the 1930s in Benny Goodman's band before forming his own orchestra and scoring a massive hit in 1942 with "Flying Home." Like Louis Armstrong, he was a wonderful entertainer as well as a musician, and this has kept him in the public's hearts long after most jazz artists revert to cult status. Even though he had Swing in his blood, the hard-driving Hampton worked well with Bop and Cool artists, and he had a hand in forging R&B. His good humor pours out of his playing and his exuberant vocal style.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Vaughn Monroe</title>
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<category>Good Old Days</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 17 Oct 2009 12:39:57 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Vaughn Monroe led a sweet big band during the '40s -- a rarity for a vocalist at that time. His baritone croon sent a heap of recordings onto the charts but his vocal style was so unswingingly square that he made Perry Como sound like a feverish hepcat. During the '50s he made a surprising about-face and successfully retooled himself as a Country singer. Like such cowboy converts as Bing Crosby and Dean Martin, Monroe really sounded like he was sitting around a campfire singing to his horse under a canopy of stars.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Scott Hamilton</title>
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<category>Swing</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 1 Nov 2009 12:39:29 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott Hamilton came on the scene during the 1970s, when Disco and Fusion ruled the jazz landscape. His tenor saxophone style completely bypassed that era and looked back to the time when Swing and Bop musicians such as Charlie Parker, Ben Webster and Lester Young played side by side. Hamilton hasn't changed his approach over the past twenty-five years, and he really doesn't need to. Like pianist Oscar Peterson, Hamilton plays at a consistent level of excellence. He is something of an institution on the Concord Jazz label, playing with Benny Carter, Gerry Mulligan, Cal Tjader and countless others.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Roomful of Blues</title>
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<category>Jump Blues</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:13:12 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Steaming band takes the horn-filled approach to its limits. Guitarists Duke Robillard and Ronnie Earl were both members at one time, borrowing from Swing to create an energetic type of blues.]]></description>
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<title>Ruth Brown</title>
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<category>Classic R&amp;B</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:24:58 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The incredible Ruth Brown helped create R&B, and she rode to the top of the charts during the 1950s. Brown had wanted to be a jazz chanteuse, so she brought a level of sophistication to her powerhouse R&B and scorching blues. She never saw most of her profits, and ended up cleaning houses when rock took over. But in the late '70s, her career slowly built up momentum again. A master entertainer, she has found work on TV, film, and radio. Yes, that was Brown as the funkily wise record store owner in <i>Hairspray</i>.
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<title>Keely Smith</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The wonderful Louis Prima lived up to his leering stage persona by discovering the teenage, swimsuit-clad Keely Smith. Luckily for us, Smith had a voice as beautiful as anything seen on the beach that day. She played "straight man" to Prima during his wild stage shows and was given plenty of solo opportunities to spellbind audiences with her pure but swinging voice -- comparisons to the hipper side of Doris Day or a non-scatting Ella are apt. When Prima signed with Capitol records, Smith started on her solo career. Capitol gave Smith the full glamour treatment without exploiting her Native American heritage like other labels did. Smith sailed to the top of the charts by recording excellent albums with Sinatra's main Big Band arrangers Nelson Riddle and Billy May. "I Wish You Love," a French tune she liked, became a smash and went on to become a standard. While a couple of her post-Capitol albums are beneath her, Keely has started recording and performing again with sterling jazz and big band backing.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Johnny Mercer</title>
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<category>Pop Standards</category>
<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:00:57 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The "Huckleberry friend" to every jazz singer, Mercer wrote lyrics to "Moon River," "Blues in the Night" and literally hundreds of other standards. He was also a top, Southern fried Swing-era vocalist.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Memphis Slim</title>
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<category>Piano Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:15 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Recognized as one of the greats among Piano Blues artists, Memphis Slim is probably best known for penning the now standard "Every Day I Get The Blues," a song that's been performed at one time or another by just about every blues artist since it hit in 1940. Cutting his own swathe in the teeming blues scene of post-WWII Chicago with a mixture of boogieing barroom blues and uptown jazzy vocals, Memphis Slim effectively bridged the gap between down-and-dirty blues and more socially acceptable forms of jazz. That means white people liked it. His classy, city-slicker-with-a-fifth style gave birth to a host of similar-minded blues pianists.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Red Elvises</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:09 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Communist clowns suck down everything trashy about American culture and spit it back out with such spazzy retro cool, they got themselves on <i>Melrose Place</i>. They play balalaika along with guitars and say they sing "in English and Russian (not at the same time)."
- Tim Quirk]]></description>
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<title>Dick Hyman</title>
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<category>Jazz Piano</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:47 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The suggestively named Dick Hyman is best known to moviegoers as Woody Allen's main musical man -- he frequently gets to show off his Traditional Jazz piano chops on Allen's soundtracks. Mastering every style from Stride to Swing to Bop to Avant-Garde, Hyman is also loved by Lounge loafers for his bizarre, but always interesting, Moog and synth work of the late 1960s.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Sister Rosetta Tharpe</title>
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<category>Folk/Traditional Gospel</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:39:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Born in Cotton Plant, Ark., in 1915, Sister Rosetta Tharpe was a uniquely influential force in American South, the first superstar of recorded gospel music. She was revered for her groundbreaking fusion of rock 'n' roll with traditional praise music, which she sang with a roof-raising voice accompanied by a virtuosic electric guitar, and she delivered charisma to spare. During a time of racial segregation and deep divisions between secular and sacred music, Tharpe blurred every boundary. She had the ear of both traditional gospel audiences and secular soul and RnB artists, and she made the most of the developing mediums of radio and, later, television. But Tharpe's biggest impact might have been felt near the end of her life, when the younger generation of musicians who grew up listening to her on the radio founded their own groundbreaking labels, like Stax and Sun, and birthed American rock and roll. Tharpe made records until her death by stroke in 1973. She died on the eve of a recording session.]]></description>
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<title>Benny Carter</title>
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<category>Swing</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:30 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The fact that Benny Carter has played a sublime alto saxophone (and sometimes trumpet, piano, and clarinet) since the 1920s has obscured his other accomplishments. Carter has written great standards (When Lights are Low among countless others), arranged for bands and singers (like Peggy Lee); led groups that contained such peers as Ben Webster, Milt Jackson, and Miles Davis; and has written arrangements for feature films since the '40s. But Carter does indeed play a beautiful saxophone, and along with Johnny Hodges, he was considered the role model on the alto sax. Once Charlie Parker came along, Carter's style (fluid, pure, and romantic) still seemed current. Indeed, every revolution in jazz, from Bop to Cool to Soul Jazz has had a place for him. Benny Carter performed, wrote and recorded well into his nineties, finally passing over to the next world in 2003
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Lavern Baker</title>
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<category>Classic R&amp;B</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Laverne Baker was a sexy Jump Blues belter whose sizzling style helped pave the way for rock 'n' roll in the 1950s. She had a string of R&B and Pop hits, including "I Cried a Tear" and "See See Rider." Often juggling novelty tunes with uptown orchestral and Blues Jazz albums, Baker was out of the limelight for decades. She was rediscovered in the 1990s and basked in Broadway's light with the hit show <I>Black and Blue</I>. She recorded again with a newfound sophistication before passing away in 1997.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Les Brown</title>
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<category>Big Band</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:42:49 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[A mainstay of the Swing scene, Les Brown led a dance band that was highly successful and had strong jazz musicians on its roster. Brown's Band of Renown enjoyed even more popularity when a talented young canary named Doris Day came on board in the mid-Â40s. He kept his band together well into the rock era by backing up Bob Hope. Ken Burns brought Brown's "Joltin' Joe Dimaggio" out of mothballs for his baseball documentary, and along with Simon and Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson," the song was later played on radios and televisions to eulogize the Yankee Clipper when he passed away in March 1999.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Dave McKenna</title>
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<category>Jazz Piano</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 10 Oct 2009 10:13:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dave McKenna formed his Bop-tinged Classic Swing piano style back in the '50s playing with such lyrical modernists as Stan Getz, Woody Herman, and Zoot Sims (whom he continued to collaborate with over the years). But his solo career didn't really start cooking until he joined the Concord label in 1979. Like so many artists on their roster, McKenna is a masterful musician who stays firmly in the acoustic mainstream while remaining a fresh and exciting pianist. Like Oscar Peterson and Cedar Walton, McKenna is a expert soloist who can step back as a sensitive accompanist with ease.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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