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Why MLK Believed Jazz Was the Perfect Soundtrack for Civil Rights | Daily JSTOR

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Jazz, King declared, was the ability to take the “hardest realities of life and put them into music, only to come out with some new hope or sense of triumph.”

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Jessye Norman, Regal American Soprano, Is Dead at 74 | The New York Times

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A multiple Grammy Award winner, she was a towering figure on the operatic, concert and recital stages.

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How a Newspaper Article Saved Thousands of Black Gospel Records From Obscurity |Atlas Obscura

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A professor in Texas collects and digitizes rare recordings from across the country.

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For centuries, black music, forged in bondage, has been the sound of complete artistic freedom. No wonder everybody is always stealing it. | The New York Times Magazine

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Wesley Morris, The New York Times Magazine PHOTO ILLUSTRATION BY MICHAEL PAUL BRITTO. Featured Image got a friend who’s an incurable Pandora guy, and one Saturday while we were making dinner, he found a station called Yacht Rock. “A tongue-in-cheek name for the breezy sounds of late ’70s/early ’80s soft rock” is Pandora’s definition, accompanied…

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Herbie Hancock Is Still Breaking Rules | The New York Times

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The 79-year-old pianist and composer talks about admiring Kendrick Lamar, making a new album, and calling jazz an international — not just an American — music.

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Kem and Maze deliver fond and fitting farewell concert for Tom Joyner | The St. Louis American

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Kenya Vaughn Of The St. Louis American, The St. Louis American radio pioneer and syndicated morning show personality Tom Joyner sent shockwaves across the airwaves two years ago when he announced that he would be stepping down from his long-running syndicated morning show. “I’m putting in my two-year notice,” Joyner said on the show. “With…

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Stevie Wonder’s Close Friend Reveals He Is Suffering ‘Health Challenges’ | Essence

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The legendary singer is rumored to be struggling with his health, though his reps admit he is “doing better.”

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Hear Wade in the Water: An Unprecedented 26-Hour-Long Exploration of the African American Sacred Music Tradition | Open Culture

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Open Culture, Open Culture may well be a truism to say that American music is African American music, but that doesn’t make it any less true. And when we reduce truths down to truisms they lose the granular detail that makes them interesting and relevant. Everyone knows, for example, that there would be no rock…

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Lead Belly | Folkways Recordings

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Folkways Recordings, Folkways Recordings Belly is “the hard name of a harder man,” said Woody Guthrie of his friend and fellow American music icon who was born Huddie Ledbetter (c. 1888–1949). From the swamplands of Louisiana, the prisons of Texas, and the streets of New York City, Lead Belly and his music became cornerstones of…

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Tina Turner Says She Gets’ Emotional’ Talking About Abusive Ex-Husband Ike Turner: He ‘Was Very Good To Me’ Initially | Essence

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In a recent interview with Gayle King, the iconic singer opened up about her marriage to Turner and losing her son to suicide.