Eric Clapton and Paul McCartney were among the stars who learned their skills using musician's Play in a Day books Bert Weedon, the English guitarist credited with inspir...
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A hologram of the late rapper duets with Snoop Dogg on stage – prompting the question: which other pop stars would like to see similarly resurrected?It's not the fi...
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Super-producers Trevor Horn and Steve Lipson on the subtle art of coaxing an outstanding performance from a singerWhen technology companies say artists should view record...
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(Babel)Her voice may be soft and light, but there is nothing limp or vague about Emilia Martensson's singing. In her gentle way, she is among the most incisive of today's...
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The 85% of Australian suburban non-smoking philistines whose taxes helped assist in the 1999 $4.9m purchase of his A Bigger Grand Canyon for the National Gallery in Canbe...
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The company that brought us Cliff and the Beatles, the Sex Pistols and Susan Boyle is disappearing. We should salute its contribution to our cultureIn the 1930s, after a ...
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Distinguished and subtle New Orleans arranger and musicianWhen the tape stopped rolling as the string section finished playing Wardell Quezergue's orchestration of Mona L...
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(Splash Point)Ian Shaw's last album only featured his voice and his piano, but this one puts him in the Abbey Road Studios with a punchy group that includes fiery London ...
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Eloquent jazz vocalist who drew on the raw passion of the bluesThe reputation of Joe Lee Wilson, the jazz vocalist, who has died aged 75, never matched those of such male...
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Union Chapel, LondonBoris Johnson and Sebastian Coe aren't known to be great cheerleaders for jazz, so their public support for London's current BluesFest is confirmation...
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1937: Number 10 in our series of the 50 key events in the history of jazz musicIn 1937, Nat King Cole and his trio started a residency at the Sewanee Inn, an LA nightclub...
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(Emarcy)The powerful and challenging California-born sax virtuoso David Murray was heralded in the 1970s as an heir to the searing free-jazz icon Albert Ayler, then devel...
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Casey Abrams began his New York media tour Live with Regis and Kelly this morning, where he sang his sweet version of Nat King Cole’s “Nature Boy”.Dude...
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Nat King Cole's groundbreaking television show, launched in 1957, folded after only a year because no national advertiser would risk a Southern boycott by sponsoring the ...
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