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15 Apr 2008
Soundcheck Smackdown: Mariah Carey – Bimbo or Brilliant? The pop star just surpassed Elvis Presley for most singles on the top of the charts and is releasing today her new album “E=MC²”. Pop music critic Jody Rosen and freelance writer Evelyn McDonnell square off to debate Mariah’s singing style and her power in pop music. Tell us what you think : Mariah Carey: Bimbo or Brilliant?
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28 Mar 2008
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to a popular hangout in the village called cafe society who are Billie holiday often performed. "...
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But all reports Billie holiday's initial reaction to strange fruit was one of great ambivalence. "...
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But it was the extraordinary Billie holiday performance of the song. That made it an apology and cafe society the hall of Newark. "...
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18 Jan 2008
Indispensable greatness in music, novels, and cake. Kurt talks with jazz legend Herbie Hancock and novelist Ian McEwan. Hancock is up for album of the year at the Grammy’s, and the cinematic adaptation of McEwan’s novel Atonement just won the Golden Globe for Best Picture. We discover the strange tormented stateside life of Viennese composer Gustav Mahler. And a baker praises the one appliance she could never do without: the KitchenAid mixer.
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6 Dec 2007
In her new book I Got Thunder scholar LaShonda Katrice Barnett examines the careers of the world's prominent black women singers and songwriters, from Dianne Reeves to Nina Simone to Tokunbo Akinro of the European band Tok Tok Tok. As we find out, there's more than just the media stereotype of soul singers and "Divas." Also joining us is Brenda Russell , a singer-songwriter and co-writer of music and lyrics for “The Color Purple” on Broadway, among other productions.
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have often been cast as soul singer Steve does. Commanding performers like Billie holiday set the standard for those come from this singer Nina Simone shock com to Beyonce Knowles. Today on the show conversation about "...
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spring of 2006. And we have 12 hour session to devote to Billie holiday. And unfortunately we never had an opportunity to discuss holiday as a musician to discuss holiday as a songwriter because the class "...
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Okay and of course you know Billie holiday. -- is a kind of iconic figures -- and and her stories reasonably well known very tragic and full of you know "...
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1 Nov 2007
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young to felonious -- but was it different when you were backing. Billie holiday towards the end of her career or -- on. "...
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had to be more sensitive you know to which -- especially would Billie holiday. In fact Billy was sick during their period when I think -- woodlands club engagement which was in Boston. Is it like 59 something ping oops. The and 58 I think now. So you have to you have to leave more space. When when law had to do little more delicate wood would Billie Holiday -- now and woods found we had a culminates in most things like Emerson before. So it's almost like playing with solid Papa. Playing would Billie holiday was more or less light less the alone and -- there were good friends. And then also did a bit with the "...
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29 Oct 2007
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He was named checked by Jack kerouac and nicknamed the -- by Billie holiday. Lester young epitomize the tests this is our commitment filling in for Jon -- Lester young revolutionize tenor saxophone playing solos that "...
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but even when he was with -- he was also recording with Billie holiday and the people. And he never he had great different -- was not on the bleachers and lead as he does not. "...
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and this is one of the most times things against it's as Billie holiday. And so he forms this this relationship with with her over over are numbered years -- as you point out in the "...
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26 Oct 2007
Singer Peggy Lee sold 20 million records by the 1960s and unlike most of her peers, was also an accomplished songwriter. But she also never overcame a deeply troubled childhood. Peter Richmond , author of "Fever: The Life and Music of Miss Peggy Lee," joins us to talk about her life and musical legacy.
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8 Aug 2007
Jazz fashion is ever-changing and somehow always in style. Today, a look at the state of jazz style with Grammy-award-winning trumpeter Roy Hargrove, jazz singer Nnenna Freelon and photographer John Abbott, who has taken pictures of many jazz stars, from Miles Davis to Cassandra Wilson. Slideshow: Jazz Fashion
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Will when we think of Billie holiday we can't. Even you know bring her into our consciousness without thinking about how stunning achievement. She was just really really beautiful "...
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Let's hear a little bit then of Billie holiday we imagine she was very beautifully dressed when she sang. Come rain or come shine that is now. "...
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7 Jun 2007
Four decades after her death, Edith Piaf remains one of the most renowned singers of all time. She was born into poverty, rose to become the toast of Paris, and then struggled with alcohol and drugs until she died at age 47. We talk with Olivier Dahan , the writer and director of "La Vie En Rose," a new film based on Piaf's life.
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and talented singers of all time. Think of the mix Judy Garland Billie holiday and Janis Joplin. Then had a dramatic story. A girl growing up on the streets and in the brothels of France in "...
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who said that you off was. As important to French music as Billie holiday was American jets team revolutionized French music somehow. Yep but -- the same way. "...
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