A statue of Billie Holiday has returned to the former black entertainment district in Baltimore where the lady once sang the blues. The statue, depicting a singing Holiday...
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With cocktail glasses clinking in the background, jazz singer Billie Holiday stood near a piano amid partygoers inside an apartment overlooking New York City's Hudson River....
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Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can't get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV's "Pimp My Ride"?
Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician...
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An overflow crowd of 400 watched the man in dark glasses and a purple suit approach the grand piano wedged between the desks and podium of the Georgia House of...
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Harlem's Apollo Theater is in the
spotlight as it celebrates its 70th anniversary.
The NBC special celebrating the venue airs June 19, and a
reissued book offers an...
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A trio of the world's top pop
stars are on a mission in Cannes -- teaching the younger
generation to fall in love with the songs of Cole Porter.
Sheryl Crow , Alanis...
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A city magistrate won't decide before Monday whether pop diva Diana Ross has fulfilled a jail sentence for a DUI conviction or must return to Tucson to do so.
Lawyers for...
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Eight years after the release of
her critically acclaimed Atlantic debut, "Dreamland," jazz
singer/songwriter Madeleine Peyroux has teamed with Rounder
Records for her...
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Cupid is taking aim at music
lovers.
For the past three years, music sales during the week of
Valentine's Day have been second only to the boffo weeks
leading up to...
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Everything old is new again.
For nine weeks, beginning in the Billboard for the week of
Oct. 4, remixes of Elvis Presley 's "Rubberneckin"' and the
Rolling Stones'...
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James Carter, an ex-convict whose
1959 field recording was a key track on the award-winning "O
Brother, Where Art Thou?" soundtrack, died Nov. 26 in Chicago
of complications...
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Classic collections of nine revered female jazz vocalists of the past will be re-released next month as part of Verve's new Divas Collection. A tenth album, The Ultimate...
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Jazz record label legend Norman Granz died Thursday (November 22) in Switzerland. He was 83.
Granz founded the Verve label, and he was known for nurturing and recording...
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One of the great things about the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame is that it provides a venue for legendary performers to honor their peers. Such was the case last night (March...
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