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Friday Fourplay 1: Chatting With Bob James & Chuck Loeb, Plus Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite's Fan Video and Kady Z's Exclusive

Mike Ragogna | Posted 12.25.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Harvey Mason, Larry Carlton, Chuck Loeb, David Sanborn, Anthony Jackson, Stan Getz, Bob James, Miles Davis, Hubert Laws, Keiko Matsui, Fourplay, Bill Evans, Mitchell Foreman, Nathan East, Freddie Hubbard, Earl Klugh, Lizzie Loeb, Sarah Vaughan, Lee Ritenour, Video, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

No matter who you're voting for, you've got to try to keep your sense of humor. Check out this fan video of the Harper/Musselwhite track "I Don't Believe A Word You Say." Word.

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At Age 97, The Last Of The Great Cocktail Pianists Looks Back On His Life & Career

Tony Sachs | Posted 12.16.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Kay Kyser, The Irving Fields Trio, Campos El Pianista, Michael Bruno, The Crest Room, Guy Lombardo, Nat King Cole, Henry Senick, New York, Roman Midnight Music, Ava Gardner, Dean Martin, Freddy Martin, Louis Armstrong, Carmen Miranda, Irving Fields, Jack Costanzo, Frank Sinatra, Bagels & Bongos, Miami Beach Rhumba, Cocktail Pianists, RCA Victor, Sarah Vaughan, Xavier Cugat, Great American Songbook, Entertainment News
Tony Sachs

At age 97, more than eight decades into his remarkable career, Irving Fields is the last of the original generation of cocktail pianists who tickled the ivories in Manhattan's swankiest nightspots in the 1930s and '40s.

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America America: Conversations With BeBe Winans and Al Jarreau, Plus "Ask Renman"

Mike Ragogna | Posted 09.04.2012 | Entertainment
Read More: Michael Jackson, Mavis Staples, Jay Graydon, Count Basie, The Wonder Stuff, Bruce Willis, Lee Holdridge, BeBe Winans, Sting, Bill Haley and the Comets, Hothouse Flowers, The The, Vince Mendoza, Stevie Wonder, Ella Fitzgerald, Cece Winans, Roger Murrah, The Manchurian Candidate, Keith Stegall, Stabbing Westward, Motown, Quincy Jones, Denzel Washington, The Staple Singers, Cybill Shepherd, The Color Purple, Billy Eckstine, Incubus, Lionel Richie, Patti Page, Primal Scream, USA for Africa, Chuck Berry, Oprah Winfrey, Al Jarreau, Dave Koz, The Winans, Brenda Lee, Herbie Hancock, Meryl Streep, Duke Ellington, Steve Rennie, Todd Gershwin, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Little Richard, Nellie Lutcher, Sarah Vaughan, Smokey Robinson, Dramarama, Renman, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

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Broadway's Terri White Brings Her Cabaret to L.A.

Xaque Gruber | Posted 08.15.2012 | Los Angeles
Read More: Terri White, Cabaret, Liza Minnelli, Key West, Jazz Standards, Broadway, Sarah Vaughan, Follies, Blues, Showtunes, West Hollywood, La Arts, Terri White Los Angeles, La Around Town, Los Angeles News
Xaque Gruber

The Great White Way has captivated audiences from Feinstein's in New York to the San Carlos in Key West, and now it's L.A.'s turn.

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Dog Ears Music: Born In March Playlist

The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Glenn Miller (With Ray Eberle), Jon Bon Jovi, Desi Arnaz, Gloria Swanson, Rodger Hodgson (Supertramp), George Benson, Danielle Evin, Michael Brecker (the Brecker Brothers), Harry Belafonte, Son House, Chico Marx, Thad Jones (With Mel Lewis), Music, Stephen Sondheim, Paul Whiteman, Flora Purim, mp3s, Frankie Lane (With Jo Stafford), King Pleasure, Shirley Jones (With Jack Cassidy), Willis Alan Ramsey, Phil Ramone, Sarah Vaughan, Leonard Nimoy, Dog Ears, Wes Montgomery, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Entertainment News
The Everlasting Phil Ramone and Danielle Evin

This week, we feature songs recorded by Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner, Supertramp, Harry Belafonte, Wes Montgomery, and Bon Jovi.

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Jazzy Mandarin & The Gate's Wide Open: Conversations With Dianne Reeves and Kurt Elling

Mike Ragogna | Posted 05.25.2011 | Entertainment
Read More: Don Was, George Duke, Jon Hendricks, Harry Belafonte, John Patitucci, Laurence Hobgood, Stevie Wonder, Ella Fitzgerald, Kurt Elling, Tony Bennet, Blue Note, Rosemary Clooney, Motown, Carmen McRae, Good Night and Good Luck, Betty Carter, Michelle Obama, Bruce Lundvall, BIlly Holiday, Erykah Badu, Mark Murphy, George Clooney, Alexander McQueen, The 5th Dimension, Barack Obama, Dianne Reeves, Billy Childs, Chet Baker, Nina Simone, Terreon Gully, Sarah Vaughan, King Crimson, Entertainment News
Mike Ragogna

What happens when your elegant entertainer goes off script and speaks mandarin directly to a Chinese delegation in the White House?

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Evidence Dance Company's Silver Ball at the Plaza

Michael Henry Adams | Posted 05.25.2011 | New York
Read More: Mrs Donald Trump, Landmarks, Michelle Patterson, Karen Martin, Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Reggie-Van-Lee, Lynn Whitfield, Cheryl Riley, Courtney Sloane, Gordon Chambers, Myrna Colley-Lee, Deepa Pakianathan, Muse Records, Malaika Adero, Sharon Luckman, Shirley Marcus Allen, Sharon Baum, The Plaza Hotel, Teresa Savory, The New York Times, Damon Caldwell, Mike Muse, The Silver Ball, Marilyn Booken, Dennis Brownlee, Marion Burnside, New York, Dawn Davis, Paul Shapiro, B. Michael, Evidence Dance Company, Jenifer Holiday, Hatti Dixon, Reggie and Gillian Canal, Domna Stanton, Loida Nicolas Lewis, Gail Munroe-Perry, Ronald K. Brown, Judith Jamison, Ella Fitzgerald, Marian Anderson, Sarah Vaughan, Gladys Knight.nat King Cole, Zelda Wynn Valdez, Dorothy Dandridge, Jessye Norman, New York News
Michael Henry Adams

Unfortunate alterations, made by the former Mrs. Donald Trump, remain intact at the Hotel Plaza. Even so, for a party there's no more special place so redolent of elegance and festivity.

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