CONCORD RECORDS SET TO RELEASE DELUXE CD/DVD TITLED RAY CHARLES FOREVER ON SEPTEMBER 24, 2013
LOS ANGELES, CA – Ray Charles will be commemorated on September 23, 2013, his 83rd birthday, with a United States Postal Service Music Icons Forever® Stamp.
Los Angeles, CA, September 16, 2013 –(PR.com)– Visionary Cinema presents the new short film “Trane and Miles.”
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The Long Awaited Grammy Nominated Film
The Greatest Ears in Town: The Arif Mardin Story
Arriving on DVD and Digital Platforms on November 5, 2013 from Shelter Island
“Amazing is an Understatement. He was Brilliant”
–Aretha Franklin
NEW YORK – September 17, 2013—Hailed as one of the music industry’s greatest producers, arrangers and composers, Arif Mardin created musical magic that won him countless awards as well as great friendships with illustrious talents such as Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler, Chaka Khan, Phil Collins and the Bee Gees, among many others.
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PHILADELPHIA, Sept. 14, 2013 /PRNewswire/ — Bobby Martin, legendary producer, arranger, and composer, best known for his contributions to R&B music and the Sound of Philadelphia as well as arranging the theme song to “Soul Train” has passed away, but his legacy continues through the efforts of his wife, Bessie Martin, and Martin’s grandson and Personal Manager, Miguel Martin.
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From Adderley to Zappa…and All the Space Between:
An Appreciation of George Duke
by A. Scott Galloway
Some losses leave unfathomable fissures in the foundation of family, community and industry. The transition of George Duke at age 67 from Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL) is such a loss. The proof lies in the first 48 hours of homage that swept across social media – emanating as much from the hearts of folks who knew him as among the warmest, funniest and most generous of men to walk the earth as from musicologists who strained to mainline the panoramic palette of his musical breadth and depth. The passing of George Duke demands that one ponder long and hard of the experience, wisdom, perspective and personality that has ascended. Yet voluminous traces have been left behind for generations to study and enjoy long into the future. It is “the future” that the electric keyboard and synthesizer wizard always had his third eye locked on…heart anchored in ancient reveries of Afro-acoustic ivories…and The Spirit ever in it.
GRAMMY® Award-winning keyboardist/composer/arranger/producer George Duke has died in Los Angeles at age 67. He was battling and being treated for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL).
With almost a half a century career, Duke was one of the world’s most prolific jazz legends.
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St. Louis, Missouri (5 August 2013): Young musicians fantasize about one day being a hall of famer yet contemporary jazz artists were left only to dream. Until now. SiriusXM’s Watercolors, the leading satellite radio channel devoted to the genre, is forming the SiriusXM Watercolors Jazz Hall of Fame to honor the legacies of its pioneering artists.
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Whats Happening Music Lovers, whats good with you?
The Top 100 R&B Slow Jams continues with a new entry this time around. Tonight, we remember R&B Crooner HOWARD HEWETT.
The former lead singer from soulful, hit dance group Shalamar broke out all the candles and wine bottles with a successful romantic recording, hit single, “I’m For Real” – released back in 1986 from his solo debut album, I Commit To Love,…
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WASHINGTON, June 27, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The 33rd annual broadcast of A CAPITOL FOURTH on PBS will feature over thirty cast members, including Tony Award® nominee Brandon Victor Dixon, Saycon Sengbloh and 2013 Tony Award® nominee Valisia LeKae, from Broadway’s new smash hit MOTOWN THE MUSICAL.
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