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...time when female singers regularly bare their bellies, their breasts and their souls, jazz-pop singer Norah Jones barely shows more of her body than her shoulders, gives few interviews--and yet outsells almost anybody else. Her first CD, Come Away with Me, sold 8 million copies and won eight Grammys. Her second, Feels Like Home, moved 1 million copies in its first week of release...
...Nirvana or Pearl Jam; she hasn't captured the passions or preoccupations of her generation; she is not a new flavor that launches 32 more. Instead, her success has called attention to the jazz-pop divas who came before her--Cassandra Wilson, Diana Krall and Madeleine Peyroux. Most pop phenomena are lightning bolts, flashing quickly and dramatically across the zeitgeist. Jones is a light rain, touching everything and seeping permanently into the soil. In an age when knob-twiddling producers rule and lip-synching pop tarts stalk the stage, she has reintroduced the world to the human voice. Jones...
...with other artists, especially musicians not known for fitting into the narrow hip-hop roles of DJ and MC. On Blazing Arrow, songs featured people such as slam poet and activist Saul Williams, Rage Against the Machine’s Zach De La Rocha and the legendary poet and jazz singer Gil Scott-Heron (most famous for his fiery work, “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised?...
...Star Swing Festival. Dynamite jazz and swing from some of the better musicians alive: Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Earl Hines and Dizzy Gillespie. Taped last October at Philharmonic Hall. CH.4. 10 p.m. Color...
...Star Swing Festival. Dynamite jazz and swing from some of the better musicians alive: Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Earl Hines and Dizzy Gillespie. Taped last October at Philharmonic Hall. CH.4. 10 p.m. Color...