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Midnight Album Spotlight: Billie Holiday - The Legacy Box 1933-1958

“Don’t threaten me with love, baby. Let’s just go walking in the rain.” — Billie Holiday Manhattan 1944. A smoky jazz band simmers. The lights come up on a regal, almost-too-calm woman in white. She seems as if she’s sat on that stool forever. The music swells past the intro she leans in [...]

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Book Notes - Janis Ian ("Society's Child: My Autobiography")

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that is in some way relevant to their recently published books. Before I read Janis Ian's Society's Child: My Autobiography, I have to admit not being familiar...

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Everything must go

Comes a day when you realise you don't play your records anymore, they've been sitting in a cardboard box in a cupboard gathering dust, along with the speakers, the amp, the busted turntable... They've been superceded by CDs, by MP3s, probably next by a microchip you can slot directly into your brain or something.So, it's time for the great record clearout. Here, listed for your delight, are the entire...

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Nicole Atkins & the Sea

Don't hate up and coming rock darling Nicole Atkins because she's beautiful in a way that would make your boyfriend leave you to stalk her after one live performance. Or ‘cause her rich and throaty voice is sonic boom powerful, or because she possesses the self-assured swagger and sweet persona...

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The Genius of Miles Davis: Explained!

Music icon Miles Davis has long been revered as a jazz pioneer — but what exactly did he pioneer? To some purists, jazz music can be broken into two distinct eras: Before Miles and After Miles. A student and bandmate of Bebop legends Dizzy Gillespie and Charlie Parker, Miles’ musical education took place [...]

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CD/DOWNLOAD RELEASE: Michael Wolff Plans Aug/Sept NY Trio Dates

Michael Wolff plans NY trio dates for August and September. New CD in the works --more details will be announced soon... August 8, 2008 The Rubin Museum Michael Wolff Trio 150 W 17th St., New York, NY Tickets: $18 in advance, $20 day of. Box Office phone: 212.620.5000 x344. September 19 and 20, 2008 Knickerbocker Michael Wolff Trio 33 University Place, New York, NY...

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Filmmaker's limited vision seen from 2 angles in "Leni"

When detained and interrogated after World War II, Leni Riefenstahl did not claim she was "just following orders" in making films that were...

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Bassist Buddy Catlett, a Seattle native, brings jazz home

Legendary bassist Buddy Catlett keeps jazz alive in Seattle.

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Classic Archived Photos of Bob Dylan, Aretha Franklin Celebrated at Gallery Opening

Last night in New York, the Morrison Hotel Gallery opened its doors to showcase the first morsel of Sony BMG’s legendary archives. The newly released photographs, mostly taken by unsung music photographer Don Hunstein, reveal intimate details from Columbia Records’ 30th Street Studio recordings. Tony Bennett, in front of his own fulsome smile, noted, “These [...]

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Billie Holiday - Body & Soul

in post Face off with Facebook - getting the message across from Ceci N'est Pas un Blog .

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TEV GIVEAWAY: OUT STEALING HORSES

Per Petterson's magisterial Out Stealing Horses garnered no shortage of praise last year, culminating with its winning the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. John Banville, writing in the New York Review of Books called it "A subtle, richly wrought, and...

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Beyond The Blame Game

In politics the game always goes to the politician who can stick the blame on the other guy. Sometimes, like New York Senator Charles Schumer, you can even nudge a bank into receivership.

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The Black Jew Dialogues @ Fringe

On April 20, 1939, Billie Holiday recorded the song Strange Fruit . Written by a Jewish schoolteacher, Abel Meeropol, it became an instant hit and to this day serves as a poignant protest song against injustice. It is also an example—along with images of Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel walking arm in arm with Martin Luther King Jr. in Selma—of one of the more celebrated characteristics of the peculiar...

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It’s only been 49 years. We should still be in mourning.

Billie Holiday died on this date in 1959. She was 44. Considered by many to be the greatest jazz vocalist of all time, Billie Holiday lived a tempestuous and difficult life. Her singing expressed an incredible depth of emotion that spoke of hard times and injustice as well as triumph. Though her career was relatively [...]

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