Jazz

So You Think You Can Dance Round 4 Eliminations

Tonya Plank | Posted 07.07.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Benji Schwimmer, So You Think You Can Dance, Reality TV, Nigel Lythgoe, Ballet, Hip Hop, Breaking Entertainment News, Dance on TV, Jazz, Contemporary Dance, Mia Michaels, Jazz Funk, Modern Dance, Dance, Popping, Entertainment News
Tonya Plank

I thought this was Courtney and Gev's best week so far. I'm kind of glad they were in the bottom three, because otherwise we would not have been able to see that wicked Hip Hop routine!

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The Rights of Marriage, California Style

Tom Gregory | Posted 06.27.2008 | Living

Read More: Civil War, Betty Berzon, Little House on the Prairie, Books, Jazz, Max Roach, Engagement, Malcolm Boyd, Chris Freeman, Prejudice, California Marriage Ruling, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage, West Hollywood, Mark Thompson, Slavery, James Berg, Gay Marriage, Love, Bravery, Living News
Tom Gregory

Love, West Hollywood highlights the human side of an inequality that is finally unraveling. We'll see what happens in California in the next six months -- the whole world is watching us.

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Herb Alpert Made My Wife Cry

Tony Sachs | Posted 05.14.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: '60s Pop Music, Music Business, Popular Standards, Sergio Mendes, Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, Herb Alpert, New York City, This Guy's in Love With You, Beatles, Tijuana Brass, Record Industry, Jazz, Corrine Bailey Rae, Brazilian Music., Lani Hall, Tommy LiPuma, Rolling Stones, Burt Bacharach, Joe's Pub, Bill Moyers, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

My wife was a puddle of tears at Herb Alpert's show with his wife, singer Lani Hall, at Joe's Pub in New York last week. If you know Herb Alpert's music, you know it's not the type of thing that starts people spontaneously weeping.

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Alternate Grammys: The Best CDs of 2007

Michael Giltz | Posted 02.08.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Uk, Country, Sweden, World Music, Jazz, Mali, Folk, Rock N Roll, British, Grammys, Pop, Entertainment News
Michael Giltz

Record stores may be closing left and right but anyone who says there's no excitement in music just isn't listening.

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Satchmo For A Sawbuck: The Gully Low Jazz Band and Its Almost Secret Residency at Birdland

Sal Nunziato | Posted 02.07.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Anat Cohen, New Orleans, Jazz, David Ostwald, Birdland., Wycliffe Gordon, Louis Armstrong, Entertainment News
Sal Nunziato

You cannot beat the price or the enormity of the talent at Birdland on Wednesdays. Everytime I sit at the bar I think to myself, "Where is everybody?"

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Tribute To Oscar Peterson

Bob Rae | Posted 01.14.2008 | Entertainment

Read More: Oscar Peterson Dead, Oscar Peterson Dies, Racism, Oscar Peterson, Music, Jazz, Canada, Entertainment News
Bob Rae

Oscar knew prejudice and despised it. He refused to play to segregated audiences, he fought for human rights, he loved Canada at its best and spoke out when he saw us falling below the standards he believed in.

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Jazz Legend Oscar Peterson Dies

AP | ROB GILLIES | Posted 12.24.2007 | Entertainment

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Oscar Peterson, whose early talent and speedy fingers made him one of the world's best known jazz pianists, died at age 82. His death was confirmed b...

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I Love The (Musicians In Their) 90s

Tony Sachs | Posted 11.01.2007 | Entertainment

Read More: Pop Music, Time Travel, Britney Spears, Vintage, Jazz, Retro, Tony Martin, Irving Fields, Guitar, Frank Sinatra, New York, Tila Tequila., Piano, Les Paul, Music, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

I wanted to hear some of the biggest musical stars of 1948. In person. This weekend. Sure enough, a couple of phone calls later, I'd lined it up.

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