Word: duetting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...September, Motown will bring out a promising Gaye tribute CD on which other performers, from Madonna to Lisa Stansfield, offer renditions of his greatest songs, many drawn from that album. One track features Bono (of the Irish rock group U2), singing Save the Children as a haunting, elegiac duet with Gaye, whose vocals have been culled from an old recording...
This rather macabre technique has become familiar to listeners ever since Natalie Cole's Grammy-winning album Unforgettable, in which she sang a duet with her dead father, Nat King Cole. The technology, a record company executive speculates, may one day allow individual notes sung by dead musicians to be reassembled into entirely new songs. Tasteful? True to the artist's vision? It is difficult...
...overloaded with information to think. On I'm the Ocean, Young, in his nasally tenor, sings "Need distraction/ Need romance and candlelight/ Need random violence/ Need Entertainment Tonight." Several songs appear to allude to the suicide of rock star Kurt Cobain. On Peace & Love, for example, Young performs a duet with Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder that deals with mourning and the morning after. "I saw the dream/ I saw the wake," Vedder sings, and later adds, "I had it all once/ I gave it back...
...mature and mysterious, dark and sweet. Grover Washington Jr., with charismatic sax runs, turns the understated melody of Every Day a Little Death (from A Little Night Music) into something direct and forceful. And Bryson and vocalist Nancy Wilson transform Loving You (from Passion) into a soul-bearing vocal duet that haunts and enchants. Show tunes have rarely sounded so rich, so smart and so good...
...warm Sunday, whileperforming for a large crowd in front of Origins,Athena was approached by a saxophonist who wastraveling through Boston with his band. Athenainvited the mysterious stranger to jam with her;he immediately agreed and soon returned with foursaxophones and a flute. They ended up performing aimprovised duet. "it was magic," says Athena. Theysustained the "beauty" for over three hours,merging their souls in wild, passionate,uninhibited...music. "It was like musical love atfirst sight. It was beautiful." Although thesaxophonist lives three hours away, he joinsAthena's band whenever...