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...first black artist with his own network TV show, Cole was a jazz pianist whose voice was too lyrical and intimate to be shut up. He put that silky, highly palatized tenor to splendid use in this collection, which was everybody's second Christmas album. (You couldn't play Bing all the time.) Like Crosby, Cole mixed the religious and the secular songs, his vocals lending a silky cohesion to the enterprise. Best remembered is "The Christmas Song," by Robert Allen and Mel Torme, which Nat first recorded in 1946 and made his own. He had us at "chestnuts...
...influential music mogul who in 1947 founded Atlantic Records, the label that launched seminal acts that included Ruth Brown, Ray Charles, Otis Redding (who called him Omelet), Aretha Franklin, Bette Midler and Cream; in New York City. The Turkish-born son of a diplomat, he fell in love with jazz in his youth, and as a teenager amassed a collection of 15,000 records. A hands-on producer, occasional songwriter, tireless talent scout and mentor to many of his artists, Ertegun--who started with a $10,000 loan from his dentist--popularized soul and later signed bands from the Rolling...
DIED. Georgia Gibbs, 87, sultry 1950s singer of torch songs, jazz and R&B who was affectionately known as Her Nibs Miss Gibbs, a reference to her diminutive stature; in New York City. Gibbs toured with Sid Caesar and Danny Kaye, made dozens of TV and radio appearances and recorded some of the era's biggest hits, including Tweedle Dee, recorded earlier by LaVern Baker, and the tango-inspired No. 1 hit Kiss of Fire...
TOSSING THE DULL BALLADS THAT made him beloved, Gill dives into bluegrass, jazz and Southern rock on this four-disc set of originals, showing off guitar chops that seem to have come from nowhere. Meanwhile, his singing, stripped of its usual Nashville production dross, delivers numerous heart-piercing moments...
...also a founder, along with Jesse L. Jackson, of Operation People United to Serve Humanity, which today aims to fulfill similar goals as King’s former group. According to a press release, Jones himself was mentored by several well-known public figures. At age 15, Jones met jazz piano legend Ray Charles in Seattle, and the two soon became close. In a promotional video for the Harvard Mentoring Project made shortly before Charles’ death, the musician recalled his time with Jones. “You could tell that he wanted to learn, he wanted to know...