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'American Idol' Season Nine's Top 10 Best Performances

5295 days ago
MTV.com News — Look back at the highlights from Crystal Bowersox, Katelyn Epperly, Lee DeWyze, Alex Lambert and more.By Jim Cantiello Crystal Bowersox performs "Me and Bobby McGee" on "American Idol" Photo: Ray Mickshaw / FOX The ninth season of "American... more info
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Hank Jones obituary

5302 days ago
Guardian Music — Prolific jazz pianist and composer, he was a sensitive accompanist to Ella FitzgeraldThe great jazz drummer Elvin Jones, asked by JazzUK magazine in 2001 how it felt to be still playing full-on jazz in his 70s, simply pointed to the example of his ol... more info
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50 great moments in jazz: The rise of saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins

5309 days ago
Guardian Music — Though he had recorded with the Modern Jazz Quartet, Miles Davis and Thelonious Monk, it was from early 1956 that Sonny Rollins really took off …When the magic of jazz first touched me in the late 1960s, many pathfinding early creators of the music... more info
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Why I celebrate Lena Horne | David Thomson

5309 days ago
Guardian Music — She didn't have much of a career at the movies, but that's because she was too good for themI refuse to write an obituary on Lena Horne – I refuse to accept that she is not here still. And, to the extent that I never met her, what have I been depri... more info
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Lena Horne obituary

5310 days ago
Guardian Music — Velvet-voiced singer, actor and activist who broke new ground for black performersA handful of decades ago the roles for black performers in Hollywood movies were deliberately kept peripheral to the plots, so that their appearances could easily be ed... more info
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Lena Horne - a lady not for turning

5310 days ago
Guardian Music — Throughout a career that brought international acclaim, the showbiz legend never softened her firm stance against racismIf she could have swallowed her pride, Lena Horne could have had an easy life. Born into a middle-class African-American family in... more info
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American Idol 9 Top 4 – Songs of the Cinema

5314 days ago
Mjsbigblog — Next week, the Top 4 sing the Songs of the Cinema.  After the jump, check out the 34-song list the kids will use to pick their songs. And man, the list is full of re-treads!  Yikes.  Not liking this list so much… At any rate, we might as well l... more info
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CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Barrett Deems - Deemus (Delmark)

5316 days ago
All About Jazz — Fame is an ephemeral condition, especially for sidemen in jazz. Drummer Barrett Deems spent a decade stretch with Louis Armstrong. He also served as the engine room for bands under the leadership of Joe Venuti, Jack Teagarden and Benny Goodman. Today... more info
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Josie Miller

5321 days ago
Guardian Music — The parents of my friend Josie Miller, who has died aged 94, first met in Stratford, Essex, in the 1890s. Three black circus workers, tired of sleeping under canvas in midwinter, knocked at Rosie Millist's door in search of rooms. Rosie had never met... more info
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BOOK/MAGAZINE: Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong

5321 days ago
All About Jazz — By Daniel Kassell... more info
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