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...Many don't, and are thus handicapped by pop's 30-year tyranny of singer-songwriters. Since the Beatles and Bob Dylan, this is the rule: if you don't write, you're no artist. "Vocal interpreter" used to be an honorable job description--good enough for Crosby, Sinatra, Ella, Billie Holiday, Nat Cole, who wrote little of their own material. Now the epithet is often a slur. It suggests a lounge singer crooning Can You Feel the Love Tonight...
...Jones developed his own keyboard style, taking some of Tatum's breakneck invention and adding a measure of cool, a distinctive touch of romantic reserve to offset the fire of what came, in time, to be called bebop. Jones was also a sideman for Lester Young, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday; he went to school with the best...
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...Ella Fitzgerald
...membership had its privileges. For as little as $55 a year, consumers could twinkle in fellowship with such glitterati as Mikhail Baryshnikov, Ella Fitzgerald and Meryl Streep. All one had to do was wave one's little piece of green, gold or platinum plastic, and waiters and clerks would fawn prettily. Such potent snob appeal once seemed irresistible -- until American Express "cardmembers" began weighing the costs of privilege against the benefits of more plebeian credit cards. While the AmEx elite shelled out annual fees, Discover clients were issued free cards. Amex users had to pay their bills in full each...