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<title>Nina Simone</title>
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<category>Vocal Jazz</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Singer Nina Simone's music has gone from gospel to jazz to pop to R&B and blues to a raging black protest that moved her off the supper-club circuit and into political rallies and soul concerts. Known since the late '50s as the "High Priestess of Soul," she enjoyed a renaissance in her sixth decade with the publication of her autobiography and the exposure given her music in a popular American film. Taking her stage name from French actress Simone Signoret, she epitomizes the soul diva.
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Simone began singing in church and taught herself piano and organ by the time she was seven. She took classical keyboard lessons and attended New York's Juilliard School of Music, then began playing East Coast clubs and concerts. Her first hit was a 1959 gold record of Gershwin's "I Loves You, Porgy."
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In the '60s she moved toward R&B, recording Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You" and "Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood" (a subsequent hit for the Animals). This led to sizable popularity in England, where she had hits with "Ain't Got No/I Got Life" (from <i>Hair</i>) in 1968 and the Bee Gees' "To Love Somebody" in 1969.
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By then she had become a black-power activist (her first protest song, "Mississippi Goddam," mourned the death of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers), and politically oriented tracks like "Four Women" (on an out-of-print Philips album) alienated her white audience. She became even more intense and unpredictable in concert, and despite continuing critical acclaim, she gradually lost her commercial standing. Financially, she fell upon hard times, and she divorced her manager/husband (her first marriage had also failed). In 1974 Simone quit the music business.
Leaving the States, Simone took up residence in Switzerland, Liberia, Barbados, France, and the U.K. in the mid-'70s. By 1978, however, she had returned to music, releasing <i>Baltimore</i> and touring the U.S. again. While the early '80s were a fallow period, Simone experienced a comeback in 1987 when a television commercial for Chanel No. 5 perfume used her early recording "My Baby Just Cares for Me." Her candid 1991 autobiography, <i>I Put a Spell on You</i>, and an appearance on Pete Townshend's <i>Iron Man</i> boosted her revival. In 1993, with her music featured in the film <i>Point of No Return</i> and with a new studio album, <i>A Single Woman</i>, Simone gained a new audience for her fiercely elegant fare. In 1995 Simone was ordered to pay a $4,600 fine for shooting at two teenaged boys whom she maintained were disturbing her peace while she was gardening; that year also, she was fined $5,000 for leaving the scene of a car accident that had occurred in 1993. The '90s concluded, however, on a happier note, as her music was presented again in a number of well-crafted anthologies. In 2003, Simone died at age 70 after a lengthy battle with breast cancer.]]></description>
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<title>Edith Piaf</title>
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<category>Europe</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:28:46 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Edith Piaf still looms large as France's biggest singer. She was known as "the waif sparrow" -- an apt description for someone who projected a seemingly contradictory air of fragile toughness. Like Billie Holiday, she overcame grim, Dickensian beginnings, only to wallow in dark torch songs that somehow projected strength instead of self-pity. Besides romance, she sang about sex, death and drug addiction in a straightforward fashion that still seems shocking even in these desensitized times. Her taboo subject matter ensured that many of her songs would be banned from the radio, but even that failed to tarnish her star through out the 1930s, '40s and '50s. She cultivated songwriters and helped jump-start the careers of such fellow wounded icons as Yves Montand and Charles Aznavour.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Judy Garland</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Judy Garland survived childhood stardom and continued in film, cabaret and TV. Her singing style was often over the top, but she could be a subtle vocalist as well, and often had a dancer's sense of swing that Ethel Merman could only dream about.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Blossom Dearie</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 4 Oct 2009 09:42:39 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>John Kander and Fred Ebb</title>
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<category>Musicals</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 26 Sep 2009 10:10:42 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Kander and Ebb are one of the few modern Broadway tunesmith teams whose work can rank with the past masters of the golden age. They incorporated jazz and dark, biting wit into their groundbreaking work for Bob Fosse on <I>Cabaret</i> and <i>Chicago</i>. For Martin Scorsese, they penned "New York, New York," which has become the official theme song
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<title>Holly Cole</title>
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<category>Vocal Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:52:06 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Holly Cole's take on moody standards and noir-ish torch songs have been embraced by alternative rockers, but her sound goes all the way back to such dark '50s canaries as Julie London and June Christy. Cole's slow, dreamy piano vamps and Cool vocal stylings create a dark whirlpool of emotion around standards like "Losing My Mind" and "Don't Smoke in Bed" -- think of a modernistic Shirley Horn who grew up on R&B instead of jazz. Cole concentrates on standards, but her album <i>Temptation</i> is an excellent peek into Tom Waits' considerable catalogue and proves to Generation X that good songs gain new life when interpreted by intelligent artists. If you have a date coming over, put on Diana Krall; but if the evening doesn't turn out well, it is Holly Cole who will ease the soul.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Lena Horne</title>
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<category>Pop Standards</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:28:25 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Lena Horne has always been a wonderful popular singer who knows how to swing or get the blues. A raging beauty in a racist country, she was known for singing standards in a defiant, borderline angry tone. You can often hear a vinegar sting in Horne's delivery, but that element of her tone has been overstated by critics -- she can sound like a wounded lamb as well as a snarling lioness. Horne began at the Cotton Club, singing with numerous top Swing bands. While much of her time was wasted on a contract with MGM, she spent decades recording and touring the world with her husband and musical director, Lennie Hayton. Horne made a series of outstanding records on RCA during the 1950s and early '60s, on which she was often backed by the charts of such Cool Jazz modernists as Marty Paich and Shorty Rogers. Horne's recent recordings with Blue Note are well worth hearing and stand up to her best material.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Charles Aznavour</title>
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<category>French Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 24 Oct 2009 12:07:24 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[By the age of nine, Charles Aznavour knew he wanted to be a singer. Born to
performer parents who fled the Turkish massacre of Armenians in the 1920s,
Aznavour (born Chahnour Varenagh Aznaourian) dropped out of school before
age 10 and was performing in beer halls in Paris and around the countryside
as he matured. Part of a traveling duo, Aznavour began to compose songs
while his partner went out whoring. When Edith Piaf heard his work, she
paved his way: she mentored the singer, convinced him to go solo, and
brought him on her international tours. Over 600 compositions later,
Aznavour is respected as the man who brought class issues and gritty street
tales into the chanson tradition. (Chanson was a major style of French music
before rock 'n' roll.) A superb stylist and inimitable (if maudlin)
lyricist, Aznavour also acted in films by François Truffaut and Jean
Cocteau. Despite - or perhaps because of - his short stature, unusual voice
and rough-and-tumble upbringing, Aznavour is one of the symbols of French
chanson.
- Sarah Bardeen]]></description>
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<title>The Dresden Dolls</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:31:55 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Active in the Boston indie rock scene since 2001, Dresden Dolls is made up of singer/pianist Amanda Palmer and drummer Brian Viglione. Together they play a form of post-punk that is heavily influenced by Kurt Weill, and Cabaret music in general. Largely written by Palmer, the music moves in fits and starts, punctuated by Viglione's free jazz-flirting drum style. The lyrics are sharp, occasionally landing in the Tori Amos school of provocation. Vocally, Palmer is also somewhat indebted to Amos, exhibiting a similar elastic quality and playfulness with her phrasing. This is highly artistic music given muscle by Palmer's pop sense (there are hooks) and Viglione's jackhammer drumming. The duo has released two studio albums, <i>Dresden Dolls</i> and <i>Yes, Virginia</i>, as well as a compilation of unreleased and b-side tracks, <i>No, Virginia</i>.
- Mike McGuirk]]></description>
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<title>Eartha Kitt</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:28:31 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Orson Welles spoke of her erotic powers, and as Catwoman she vamped Batman on the classic TV show. Eartha Kitt is the consummate cabaret performer who falls somewhere between Lena Horne and Marlene Dietrich.
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<title>Liza Minnelli</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 10:09:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[With her father's (the great director, Vincente Minnelli) facial features and her mother's (Judy Garland) brassy vocal delivery, Liza Minnelli has spent most of her career seeming like a performer lost in time. A major talent, she burst onto television, Broadway and film while still a teen in the late '60s. The links to her mother's famous Âtake no prisonersÂ vocal approach are more genetic than studied. Being a little sensitive to her connections, Minnelli at first avoided singing but couldn't hide her talent for long. She is no longer the Tony and Oscar winning <I>Cabaret</I> superstar she was in the 1970s, but she is still a vital stage performer, and her collaboration with the Pet Shop Boys was a hit across Europe. With today's renewed interest in classic pop singing, she released her best album, <I>Gently</I>, a collection of standards featuring such jazz names as Herbie Hancock and Pete Jolly) in 1996. Sadly, she suffers from the same problems as her mother and she has become tabloid fodder of late, aging decades over a period of a few months.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Sylvester</title>
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<category>Disco</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 11:03:37 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[San Francisco's own Sylvester brought his flamboyant personality to the Disco arena in the late '70s. He was rooted in Gospel, and, after fronting the all-transvestite Cockettes, he helped pioneer the popularity of synthesized dance music. His ecstatic choirboy cries were a cause for celebration in the gay community. A Disco Queen in every sense of the word, he proved to be a queer icon without resorting to caricature a la the Village People.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>Marianne Faithfull</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 6 Oct 2009 09:54:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Forever burned into the collective conscious as the frightened, beautiful girl singing "As Tears Go By," Marianne Faithfull dealt with enough backlash to border on the criminal. More of a pop icon by association rather than because of her music, she played the golden-haired Josephine to Mick Jagger's Napoleon throughout the 1960s. Faring much better in her homeland with her starry-eyed chanteuse act, she was finally given credit as an artist upon penning the narcotic dirge "Sister Morphine" in 1971. After supposedly being on the receiving end of the fake "Mars Bar" scandal in the late '60s, she found herself basically blacklisted and reeled off into a drug-induced whirlpool. It wasn't until the release of <I>Broken English</I> in 1979 that she reemerged as an artist. Timed perfectly with the onset of Punk and New Wave, her once-wispy voice turned into a cracked, raspy moan that seems more honest and real than anything she'd done before. She has since taken on writing, singing cabaret numbers and justly living the life of an artist.
- Jon Pruett]]></description>
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<title>James Last</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 6 Dec 2008 14:07:07 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Michael Feinstein</title>
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<category>Pop Standards</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 12:38:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Michael Feinstein is a singing pianist who helps keep standards and Cabaret material alive in the age of rock and rap. He is also one of the few vocalists who has ignored the positive development of jazz-based popular singing but that's actually part of his charm and this classy square can actually swing when he wants to. Feinstein just keeps getting better and better and his real love for his material always comes through.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Scott Walker</title>
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<category>Baroque Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 27 Sep 2009 09:56:13 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The ultimate cult artist, it is hard to think of another American who had such an impact on rock music as a whole while being almost completely unknown to his countrymen as Scott Walker. Walker (born Scott Engel, the name his songs are often credited to) grew up in Texas, New York City and Southern California but found fame in mid-1960s England as part of the Walker Brothers at the same time that U.S. audiences were going crazy for British groups. The non-related Walker Brothers were a vocal trio who married soaring vocal harmonies, Phil Spector production techniques, Spaghetti Western soundtrack arrangements and a decidedly dark lyrical worldview into one uniquely melodramatic package. Scott Walker's voice (probably the most beautiful male non-soul voice of the rock era) and increasingly free-thinking beatnik attitude was at the center of the band's appeal. Although the Walker Brothers became huge in Europe and boasted a fan club bigger than even The Beatles, Walker's eccentricity cast a pall over the band's public persona, in part because he recoiled at having his hair pulled out by crazed fans and in part because his French girlfriend introduced him to the world-weary, socially-charged, yet romantic songs of Jacques Brel. Scott had already begun writing ambitious, twisted, highly literate numbers with the Walker Brothers but he upped the bleakness quotient even further when he launched an initially successful solo career (variety TV show included) in 1967. Alternating covers of standards and translations of Brel tunes with his distinctly arty and pained original numbers, Scott Walker albums of this period marry classic pop craftsmanship and string-laden arrangements with lyrics about doomed love affairs, dreams dashed and lives left unfulfilled (imagine a successful collaboration between Jack Jones, Neil Diamond, Bob Dylan, and Jean-Paul Sartre). As the public moved on to swarthy, dirt-encrusted 1970s guitar rock, the ever-elusive Scott Walker slowly withdrew from public view, quietly battling depression and alcoholism out of the limelight. Reuniting with the Walker Brothers later in the decade, Scott's voice had already lost some of its former majesty but this mirrored his newfound interest in the synth-pop avant-garde, which he helped revolutionize to major critical success and minor public attention. Walker disappeared again but artists as diverse as David Bowie, Julian Cope, Bryan Ferry, Ultravox and Marc Almond championed his unique body of work, citing him as a primary influence on their careers (Cope and Almond even put out retrospectives of their favorite Walker tracks to introduce him to new audiences). This helped keep the shy recluse's reputation alive until he resurfaced in 1995 with <I>Tilt</I>, a challenging, deeply unsettling theme album on mortality that completely strips off the dark romanticism that once filtered light through in his work. Walker went on to compose a film soundtrack, write and arrange scary songs for German cabaret artist Ute Lemper, produce Pulp's excellent album <I>We Love Life</I> (2001) and spent a year as the director of a prestigious British arts festival. Instead of living up to the stereotype of the tortured artist, recent interviews have Scott Walker coming across as plainspoken, unpretentious and honest. He is currently recording for the 4AD label, which includes a large roster of artists who were influenced by his work.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Marilyn Monroe</title>
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<category>Film Soundtracks</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 21 Nov 2009 13:43:18 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Marilyn Monroe's massive star appeal crosses over from screen to song. She wasn't a great singer, but her sexy voice and enticing charisma make you feel like she's singing for only you at a very intimate party. Monroe makes most "mood music" sound like Vatican sanctioned hymns.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Audra McDonald</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 10:43:14 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Jacques Brel</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:48 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Arielle Dombasle</title>
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<category>French Pop</category>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2008 09:59:27 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Bernadette Peters</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2009 09:07:22 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Alberta Hunter</title>
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<category>Classic Female Blues</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:00:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Alberta Hunger was a vocalist of Early Blues who got her start singing in Chicago night clubs in 1912. Her singing was often done Cabaret style, be she could also inflect in tones similar to a brass horn. She penned "Down Hearted Blues" in 1921, which became the first hit ever for Bessie Smith. After making various records in the 1920s (with Louis Armstrong standing in on some of the sessions) she seldom recorded again, diverting her energy toward being a nurse. Yet once she turned 82 (in 1977) Hunter began singing jazz in New York's Cookery until 1984. In addition, she wrote the score for Alan Rudolph's 1978 film <i>Remember My Name</i>.
- Eric Shea]]></description>
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<title>The Ditty Bops</title>
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<category>Indie/Alternative</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:31:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The harmonizing Ditty Bops may reside in a contemporary metropolitan city (Los Angeles) but their music pays tribute to a dusty bygone era of ragtime, swing and vaudeville cabaret. Founding singers Amanda Barrett and Abby Dewald both grew up in California -- Amanda in Topanga where she learned to play the fretted dulcimer and Abby up north in Shasta County, where she lived in a house where only classical music was played. They met as adults in NYC while both were attending a late-night showing of the Rocky Horror Picture Show in 1998. Four years later (and now sweethearts) they moved back to California, began writing and playing songs together and, in 2004, released their first self-titled album. It showcased the enchanting old-timey sound that they first stumbled upon while members of a band that wore period costumes and performed 1920s cover songs. In 2006, their second effort <I>Moon Over The Freeway</I> was released. This launched the Ditty Bops' 2006 Bicycle Tour, a cross-country trip from Los Angeles to New York City not only in support of their latest CD, but also to promote cycling and clean air. They performed along the way and also encouraged fans to join them on parts of their trek.
- Michele K-Tel]]></description>
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<title>Marlene Dietrich</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:28:30 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Film legend Marlene Dietrich was also an extremely successful Cabaret artist for almost four decades. Rather than simply sing, she actually spoke sexily. Her decadent persona and songs continue to be a major influence on Marianne Faithfull, Madonna and countless performance artists and drag queens.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Peter Allen</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
<pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2009 20:34:11 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Maurice Chevalier</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:27:46 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Maurice Chevalier knew he wasn't the greatest singer in the world, but he had such charisma and eye-twinkling charm that he became France's biggest vocalist of the 1920s and '30s. He was also a major Hollywood star and most Americans know him for his roles in <i>Love in the Afternoon</i> and <i>Gigi</i>. On both screen and in song, Chevalier's whimsical yet wise persona delighted fans worldwide for close to forty years. Who else but Maurice Chevalier could have sung "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" with such simultaneous irony and knowing innocence?
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Morgana King</title>
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<category>Pop Standards</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 27 Nov 2009 10:25:10 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[King has been singing in a laid back and sultry style for forty years now. She coos in a rarified dimension that is somewhere between Peggy Lee's streamlined swing and Helen Merrill's eccentric Cool.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Sylvia Syms</title>
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<category>Vocal Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 11:39:48 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Sylvia Syms' career got a huge boost when Frank Sinatra labeled her the world's greatest saloon singer. Syms certainly knew how to swing, and always managed to put a song over on a personal level in the same way Billie Holiday and Sinatra could. She consistently made self-deprecating references to her physical appearance, yet always sang with extraordinary truth and conviction. Syms released many albums, but never caught on with the general public; however, like a more jazz-oriented Mabel Mercer, she ruled the New York cabaret circuit.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Jane Olivor</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 09:49:03 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Patti LuPone</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:43:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Eden Atwood</title>
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<category>Vocal Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 19 Mar 2009 11:08:56 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Eden Atwood is an exquisite jazz vocalist who adds a touch of vibrato to the cool toned Peggy Lee/Shirley Horn approach. Though she's of the rock and rap generation, Atwood sings top standards, searches for neglected chestnuts and pens original lyrics that stand up to the past masters. The fact that Atwood records for Concord Records, a jazz label that mainstream acoustic jazz and vocal fans know they can trust, says something about the level of her abilities.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Bobby Short</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 09:34:16 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[One of the greatest interpreters of Cabaret songs and a fine jazz vocalist as well. Short's performances are filled with vibrant personality and a uniquely rich style of singing that's as warm as it is entertaining.
- Jessy Terry]]></description>
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<title>Barbara Cook</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 26 Nov 2009 11:28:26 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Cook followed up a successful career on Broadway by becoming a classy Cabaret chanteuse. She is a slightly brassier Bernadette Peters, but still doesn't rip the top off theatres like Ethel Merman.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Josephine Baker</title>
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<category>Pop Standards</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 19 Sep 2009 12:58:25 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Jospehine Baker was the walking embodiment of the liberated jazz age. Intelligence mixed with sensuality in her singing, dancing and acting, but due to racial prejudice, this Black American was a superstar in France but unwelcome in her homeland. A stylistic chameleon, Baker was the predecessor of such contemporary artists as David Bowie and Madonna.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Elaine Paige</title>
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<category>Vocal-Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 22 Nov 2009 10:09:12 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Janis Siegel</title>
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<category>Vocal Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:39:06 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Janis Siegel of Manhattan Transfer has spent more time on her promising solo career during the last couple of years. Siegel is an exceptional vocalist with an elastic range who, like Ella Fitzgerald, can sing a standard straight or reconfigure it on the spot. Siegel also shares Fitzgerald's sense of natural ease -- she may be working hard yet she makes it all seem like breezy fun. But her entire recorded output shows the same weakness for variety as the Manhattan Transfer. Siegel has recorded pop, Funk, and Soul when her real strength is classic jazz and blues. Thankfully, her last couple of albums have concentrated on her real strengths, and <i>The Tender Trap</i> (1999) is a must-have for fans of jazz and vocal music. Siegel has swallowed the Swing, Cool, and Bop idioms whole without forgetting about the emotional center of a song. If she keeps going in this direction, she'll outshine her group in no time.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Carmen Miranda</title>
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<category>Brazilian Pop</category>
<pubDate>Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:28:36 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Beckie Menzie</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:40 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Pearl Bailey</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 12:51:13 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Dave Frishberg</title>
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<category>Vocal Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2009 13:00:51 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Dave Frishberg may not be a household name, but his witty, sophisticated songs have been making the world a brighter place for forty years. One of his first recorded tunes, the kittenish "Peel Me a Grape," became an instant standard and remains his best known work; but Frishberg has written acres of great songs over the years. "I'm Hip" vivisects the hepcat jazz crowd, and "My Attorney Bernie" paints a perfect portrait of modern life. Although jazz artists such as the splendid Blossom Dearie have long embraced his songs, Generation X knows Frishberg's work through the <i>Schoolhouse Rock</i> cartoons of the '70s. Like a champagne-and-caviar version of Mose Allison, Frishberg is also a fine, swinging pianist who sings his own classy songs with a "musician's" voice.
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<title>Ute Lemper</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 12 May 2009 11:19:59 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Betty Buckley</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 1 Apr 2009 22:17:18 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Mabel Mercer</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 15 May 2009 11:39:07 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Carol Channing</title>
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<category>Musicals</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 6 Nov 2009 12:47:31 -0800</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Carol Channing was a major star on Broadway but her outsized personality didn't crossover to film. After either finding the fountain of youth or selling her soul to the devil she toured with <i>Hello, Dolly!</i> in the same roll she played three decades earlier.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Karen Akers</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 12:04:23 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Karen Akers is one of the finest Cabaret artists working. She has a cool, sexy tone (that gets a touch too theatrical on occasion) and works with tasteful jazz groups. Her big break came courtesy of Woody Allen in <i>Purple Rose of Cairo</i>. She's a good destination for swingers who want to breathe in the rarified Cabaret air.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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<title>Marlene Ver Planck</title>
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<category>Vocal Jazz</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:23:49 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Lauri Jones</title>
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<category>Cabaret</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 30 May 2008 10:37:09 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Steven Pasquale</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 31 Jul 2009 11:40:58 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Georges Ulmer</title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:43:03 -0700</pubDate>
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<title>Quinn Lemley</title>
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<category>Cocktail/Lounge</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:25:15 -0700</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[There's a doll in your arms, a wad in your wallet and all the swells at The Mocambo love ya'. Quinn Lemley is playing on the bandstand, led by a dish with a sweet set of, uh, tonsils. Life is sweet, Bunky.
- Nick Dedina]]></description>
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