AP - Jul 17, 2009
A statue of Billie Holiday has returned to the former black entertainment district in Baltimore where the lady once sang the blues. The statue, depicting a singing Holiday in a flowing, floor-length...
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With cocktail glasses clinking in the background, jazz singer Billie Holiday stood near a piano amid partygoers inside an apartment overlooking New York City s Hudson River. She began singing Good Morning...
More »AP - Dec 15, 2004
Like that smiling skydiver on the deodorant ads? Can t get enough of his sunny joshing on MTV s Pimp My Ride ? Prepare to meet the cunning, sometimes caustic musician Xzibit was before becoming an actor...
More »AP - Jun 11, 2004
An overflow crowd of 400 watched the man in dark glasses and a purple suit approach the grand piano wedged between the desks and podium of the Georgia House of Representatives. Brother Ray Charles...
More »Reuters - Jun 6, 2004
Harlem s Apollo Theater is in the spotlight as it celebrates its 70th anniversary. The NBC special celebrating the venue airs June 19, and a reissued book offers an in-depth look at the New York theater...
More »Reuters - May 21, 2004
A trio of the world s top pop stars are on a mission in Cannes -- teaching the younger generation to fall in love with the songs of Cole Porter. Sheryl Crow , Alanis Morissette and Natalie Cole have...
More »AP - Apr 2, 2004
A city magistrate won t decide before Monday whether pop diva Diana Ross has fulfilled a jail sentence for a DUI conviction or must return to Tucson to do so. Lawyers for Ross and a prosecutor told...
More »Reuters - Feb 26, 2004
Eight years after the release of her critically acclaimed Atlantic debut, Dreamland, jazz singer/songwriter Madeleine Peyroux has teamed with Rounder Records for her second release. Drawing comparisons...
More »Reuters - Feb 6, 2004
Cupid is taking aim at music lovers. For the past three years, music sales during the week of Valentine s Day have been second only to the boffo weeks leading up to Christmas. Last year, 13.9 million...
More »Reuters - Dec 6, 2003
Everything old is new again. For nine weeks, beginning in the Billboard for the week of Oct. 4, remixes of Elvis Presley s Rubberneckin and the Rolling Stones Sympathy for the Devil claimed the top...
More »Reuters - Dec 3, 2003
James Carter, an ex-convict whose 1959 field recording was a key track on the award-winning O Brother, Where Art Thou? soundtrack, died Nov. 26 in Chicago of complications related to a stroke. He was...
More »USRN - Apr 15, 2003
(4/14/03, 10 a.m. ET) -- Classic collections of nine revered female jazz vocalists of the past will be re-released next month as part of Verve s new Divas Collection. A tenth album, The Ultimate Divas...
More »USRN - Nov 28, 2001
(11/28/01, 7 a.m. ET) -- Jazz record label legend Norman Granz died Thursday (November 22) in Switzerland. He was 83. Granz founded the Verve label, and he was known for nurturing and recording jazz...
More »USRN - Mar 7, 2000
(3/7/00, 1 p.m. ET) - One of the great things about the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame is that it provides a venue for legendary performers to honor their peers. Such was the case last night (March 6) in...
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