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Monday Jun 22 | Cedartown Standard Plus

Is this change really necessary?

In honor of the TV signal that brought me such childhood viewing pleasures as Howdy Doody, I Love Lucy, The Nat King Cole Show and The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports, I have decided to let my portabl... Is this change really necessary? In honor of the TV signal that brought me such childhood viewing pleasures as Howdy Doody, I Love Lucy, The Nat King ...

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Children TV, Business News, Federal Communications Commission

Wed Jun 17, 2009

The Ashland Daily Tidings

Digital TV may promise more than it delivers

In honor of the TV signal that brought me such childhood viewing pleasures as "Howdy Doody," "I Love Lucy," "The Nat King Cole Show" and "The Gillette Cavalcade of Sports," I have decided to let my portable analog set die in peace.

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Related Topix: Comedy, Entertainment, Television, Children TV, Verizon Communications, Telecom, IT Services, Business News, Federal Communications Commission, Opinion

Tue Jun 16, 2009

Chicago Sun-Times

'Crooners' sounds silky-smooth

As we are told in "A Tribute to the Black Crooners," the new show at the Black Ensemble Theater, the crooning style emerged from the bel canto tradition of Italian opera, though it was a long line of jazz performers, both black and white , who shaped the sound as we think of it today.

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Related Topix: Theater, Arts, Jazz, Louis Armstrong, Black Entertainment, Frank Sinatra, Bing Crosby, Entertainment

Sat Jun 13, 2009

All About Jazz

CD/DOWNLOAD/ALBUM: Johnny Mathis: Don Costa Sessions

I've never been a Johnny Mathis fan. Other than admiring Steven Spielberg's use of Chances Are in Close Encounters of the Third Kind and a December weakness for Sleigh Ride , Mathis has always been akin to drinking honey out of the jar.

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Related Topix: Easy-Listening, Johnny Mathis, Jazz

Thu Jun 11, 2009

Toledo Blade

Museum celebrates culture

Noon to 12:45 p.m.: Kaye Cook Praise Dancers. Noon to 5 p.m.: Lathrop House program, family activity stations, Follow the Drinking Gourd film, Quality of Life and Health Organization displays, Ohio 5th Infantry Regiment U.S. Colored Troops, Photography Exhibit in the Community Gallery, Gallery Explorations of works by African and African American ...

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Related Topix: Photography, Arts, African-American, Quincy Jones, Black Entertainment, Jazz, Toledo, OH

Mon Jun 08, 2009

The Daily Herald

Rotary sets Concert in the Park Series bands

Published: Monday, June 8, 2009 Ita s time again for the Delphos Rotary Club Concert in the Park series.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Tony Bennett, Indiana

Tue Jun 02, 2009

Pocono Record

Pascale and trio at Deer Head

Joanne Pascale will perform at the Deer Head Inn in Delaware Water Gap on May 30.

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Related Topix: Delaware Water Gap, PA, Frank Sinatra, Jazz, Cole Porter

Sun May 31, 2009

Signal Tribune

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The Carpenter Performing Arts Center has announced its 15th anniversary season, filled with comedy, dance, intimate talks and music.

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Related Topix: Ambient, Brian Eno, Eno, Roxy Music, Pop/Rock, Country, Iris Dement, Beausoleil, Ethnic, Jazz

Fri May 29, 2009

Press-Telegram

Carpenter Center sets eclectic lineup for 2009-2010

Art-music innovator Brian Eno, former member of the '70s glam rock band Roxy Music, will share his dynamic imagination with the Cal State Long Beach campus in September.

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Related Topix: Roxy Music, Pop/Rock, Cal State Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, Arts, Ballet, Jazz, Days of our Lives, Soap Opera, Entertainment, Drama, Television

Thu May 28, 2009

The Baltimore Sun

Natalie Cole gets kidney, loses older sister

Natalie Cole is known for many things: She's the daughter of Nat "King" Cole and a Grammy Award winner; and in the last several years, the R&B artist has been recognized for adding gospel music to her repertoire.

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Related Topix: Natalie Cole, Jazz, Entertainment

Mon May 25, 2009

WALK 97.5

Pink Cadillac - Natalie Cole

The daughter of jazz and pop legend Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole has forged a successful career in two phases, doing R&B/urban contemporary and then jazz-based pop.

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Sat May 23, 2009

Newkerala.com

Natalie Cole gets life-saving kidney as sister lies dying

New York/Los Angeles, May 23 : For US singer Natalie Cole, life and death came as two sides of a coin this week.

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Related Topix: Natalie Cole, Jazz

Fri May 22, 2009

Penticton Herald

Carol Cole, sister of Natalie Cole, dead at 64; appeared on a Nat King Cole Showa

In this Feb. 8, 2009 file photo, Natalie Cole is shown backstage at the 51st Annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles.

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Related Topix: Natalie Cole, Jazz

Wed May 20, 2009

New York Times

Quiet Storm of the '80s, Still Softly Raging

When Freddie Jackson introduced a slow-jam rendition of "When I Fall in Love" on Tuesday evening at Feinstein's at Loews Regency, he dutifully ticked off a list of R&B balladeers in the love-god tradition that carried him to pop stardom in the mid-1980s. The roster, which included Marvin Gaye, Luther Vandross, Teddy Pendergrass, Donny Hathaway, ...

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Related Topix: Freddie Jackson, R-N-B, Soul, Marvin Gaye, Donny Hathaway, Peabo Bryson, Black Entertainment, Jazz, Arts, Music, Entertainment

Wed May 13, 2009

The Hartford Courant

The Irrepressible Joy Of Monty Alexander

Monty Alexander , the headliner for the Artists Collective's Jackie McLean International Arts Festival M onty Alexander , a globe-trotting pianist and celebrated musical ambassador for the nation of Jamaica, is the headliner for the Artists Collective's second annual Jackie McLean International Arts Festival, which runs Friday and Saturday.

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Related Topix: Monty Alexander, Jazz, World News, Central America, Jamaica, Hartford, CT, Louis Armstrong, Black Entertainment, Music, Entertainment

New York Times

Life's Ups and Downs Add Something to a Song

Etta James is still mad that she didn't get to perform her signature song, her 1961 hit "At Last," at the Neighborhood Inaugural Ball for President Obama 's first dance.

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Related Topix: Cadillac Records, Blues, Etta James, Glenn Miller, Jazz, Music, Arts, Entertainment

Mon May 11, 2009

All About Jazz

'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris

Jackie Paris 'Tis Autumn: The Search for Jackie Paris Reinvent the Wheel-Outsider Pictures 2009 Before Jackie Paris won the Downbeat new star male vocalist award in 1953, he'd already made his mark with a Nat "King" Cole-style trio on 52nd Street and toured with Charlie Parker and Lionel Hampton 's big band.

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Related Topix: Drama Movies, Mystery Movies, Citizen Kane, Jazz, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Parker, Charles Mingus

Sat May 09, 2009

Oldies108.com

You'll Never Find An... - Lou Ra...

From gospel and early R&B to soul and jazz to blues and straight-up pop, Lou Rawls was a consummate master of African-American vocal music whose versatility helped him adapt to the changing musical times over and over again while always remaining unmistakably himself.

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Related Topix: Lou Rawls, Jazz, Black Entertainment, Soul, Sam Cooke

Mon May 04, 2009

Straight No Chaser

The "Complete Bennett/Evans" Shows Another Side of a Master Collaboration

I'm not the world's biggest Tony Bennett fan. I always felt that compared with the stylings of Frank Sinatra, Nat "King " Cole or Johnny Hartman, Tony was something of a pop singer cast in a jazz singer's role.

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Related Topix: Jazz, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Hartman

Sat May 02, 2009

LiveDaily

Matt Giraud has no regrets after 'Idol' exit

" contestant Matt Giraud said that, thanks to compliments from judges Kara DioGuardi and Simon Cowell, he went out in style on Wednesday .

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Related Topix: Simon Cowell, Jazz

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