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Jazz pianist GERALD WIGGINS has died in hospital after a long battle with illness. The 86 year old, who performed alongside Louis Armstrong, Benny Carter and Roy Eldridge, among others, and became Marilyn Monroe’s vocal coach died on Sunday (13Jul08). Monroe once gave him a photo autographed with, "For Gerry. I can’t make a sound without you. [...]
DevraDoWrite reports that Gerald Wiggins died this morning in Los Angeles at the age of eighty-six. Encouraged when he was a youngster by Art Tatum, for decades Wiggins was revered by listeners and musicians--particularly by other pianists. Anyone familiar with...
Just to review... This all started, innocently enough, with: "... a DORIS DAY song should always be followed by a DEAN MARTIN song which should always be followed by a ROSEMARY CLOONEY song. LOUIS PRIMA... PATTI PAGE... BOBBY DARIN... CONNIE FRANCIS... NAT KING COLE... DINAH WASHINGTON... and so on...." And this is where it ends. I managed to get just about everybody in (sorry, Louis Prima; "Jump,...
View of Wan Chai from across Victoria Harbour on a clear day As the Dinah Washington song (which I got to know of via Chungking Express as Brigitte 's song...) goes, " What a difference a day makes ". Except, in this case, it's more a matter of what a difference a half day makes! Because over the past 12 hours or even less, Typhoon Fengshen has been relegated to tropical storm status, it's stopped...
For some connoisseurs of jazz singing, Nancy Wilson, who headlines Friday's annual Cars & Stars benefit at Music Hall, was always the one who got away.
On Verve Remixed 4, music's most respected and emulated remix series once again breaks new ground. Now in stores, and more soulful in both repertoire and musical direction ...
We were big fans of the previous Verve Remixed offerings, and today, Verve Remixed, Vol. 4 hit stores, along with its companion, Verve Unmixed, Vol. 4 . Here's the tracklist, featuring, as expected, some of the usual jazz heavyweights, reimagined in unexpected ways: 1. “Cry Me A River” (Truth & Soul Remix) - Dinah Washington 2. “Gimmie Some” (Mike Mangini Remix) - Nina Simone 3. “There Was A Time”...
On Verve Remixed 4, music's most respected and emulated Remix series once again breaks new ground. More soulful in both repertoire and musical direction, the new album enlists a cutting-edge arsenal of production contributors to re-imagine a luminous array of R&B, soul, latin and jazz standards and rare gems. This compelling rollout features funk, Afrobeat and transcultural tastemakers as well – the...
Erykah Badu performing at Radio City Music Hall in New York. Her eccentric universe encompasses idealism and bawdiness, R&B and hip-hop, funk and jazz. (Erin Baiano for The New York Times)"She can sing in flinty syncopated interjections, in sassy turns...
Badu performed at Radio City Music Hall last weekend in New York as part of her Vortex Tour, showing off her eccentric pop cosmos, which encompasses silliness and hard-nosed realism, idealism and bawdiness, choreography and whim, R&B and hip-hop, funk and jazz.
