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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Six Bing Crosby Special Releases Set for May 18 Debut

5139 days ago

All About Jazz — Collectors' Choice and the Bing Crosby Archive to Reissue Three Classic (Deluxe Format) Albums, a Previously Unreleased Album, a New Compilation, and a 2-CD Set of Crosby Rarities Who was the greatest pop singer of all time? Well, opinions certainl... more info

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INTERVIEW/PROFILE: Jazz Musician of the Day: Bing Crosby

5139 days ago

All About Jazz — All About Jazz is celebrating Bing Crosby's birthday today! JAZZ MUSICIAN OF THE DAY Bing CrosbyBing Crosby was the fourth of seven children of Tacoma, Washington, brewery bookkeeper Harry Lowe Crosby and Kate Harrigan Crosby... more Website | Pho... more info

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Jake Hanna obituary

5140 days ago

Guardian Music — Jazz drummer with a zest for performanceNot many jazz drummers are able to perform equally well in big bands, small groups and with vocalists. Jake Hanna, who has died aged 78, could do all these things, whether working with Woody Herman's powerful o... more info

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Fall of Saigon Ended Tumultuous Chapter in US History

5142 days ago

AOL Music — (April 30) -- The signal went out at dawn, April 29, 1975 -- Bing Crosby's 'White Christmas' on Armed Forces Radio. Across Saigon, the music set Americans moving toward the U.S. Embassy and a parking lot at Tan Son Nhut air base, where they crammed t... more info

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Thao and Mirah and The Most of All North American Tour

5148 days ago

Pitchfork - Tours — 04-23 Anchorage, AK - Snow Goose Theater04-24 Palmer, AK - Vagabond Blues05-15 San Francisco, CA - Great Meadow06-08 Tucson, AZ - Club Congress *06-09 Albuquerque, NM - Launchpad *06-11 Austin, TX - Mohawk *06-12 Houston, TX - Orange Show Center for... more info

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Mirah and Thao to Tour Together

5149 days ago

Pitchfork — Photo by Sarah Cass Earlier this year, indie singer-songwriters Mirah and Thao Nguyen teamed up for a collaborative set at the Noise Pop festival in San Francisco. It went so well, that the pair are taking the show on the road this summer, callin... more info

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INTERVIEW/PROFILE: The Mysteries of Jack Teagarden

5158 days ago

All About Jazz — Although he would have been astonished if you had told him he was in any way mysterious, Jack Teagarden is difficult to unravel. For one thing, Jack (or Big Tea or Mr. T.) was regarded as perhaps the finest trombonist of his time by musicians in and ... more info

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Tony Bennett Presents: The Great American Songbook | Radio review

5166 days ago

Guardian Music — Tony Bennett defines the particular magic of America's greatest singers, writes Elisabeth MahoneyTony Bennett Presents: The Great American Songbook (Radio 2) is actually presented by Michael Parkinson. It's a curious and somewhat static format, with ... more info

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MUSIC INDUSTRY: Aren't You Triply Glad You're You?

5175 days ago

All About Jazz — Skipping along through 65 years of the history of a superior popular song gives us an idea of its evolution as a subject for jazz improvisation. Indeed, our examples provide an idea how jazz improvisation itself has evolved. The song is Johnny Burke'... more info

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Smoothing Out the Rustic

5202 days ago

Allmusic Blog — Eddy Arnold’s approach to country and his rich, expressive baritone voice always seemed closer to pop singers like Bing Crosby and Perry Como than it did to more rustic country stars like Hank Snow and Ernest Tubb, and he worked with pop songwriter... more info

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