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...Eminem a better rapper than the Roots? Is Sheryl Crow's "Sweet Child O' Mine" the best female rock vocal, or just Ms. Crow butchering one of my favorite songs? Oh well. Condolences are in order: to missed nominees (too many to name), to undeserving losers (Macy Gray, Diana Krall, Masters at Work) and to deserving winners (Tony Bennett, Chris Rock) for having to share the podium. Want an award that means something? Ladies and gentlemen, I present Time magazine's Show of the Century, "The Simpsons...
...says talent-committee member Chuck Haddix. "It's interesting to hear their stories and how their music has evolved." Or watch them in concert on three stages. The performers for this year's three-day festival are still being booked, but past acts included music greats Al Green, Diana Krall, Poncho Sanchez, George Benson and Pat Metheny--and promoters promise the roster will be a pull-out-the-stops blockbuster this year in honor of the festival's 10th anniversary and the city's 150th...
...coming up on the new millennium. It's time to tamper with things," says Christian McBride, a 27-year-old bass player who has recorded with everyone from Betty Carter to Diana Krall. A Family Affair (Verve), his third album as a leader, was released last summer. It includes some smart electric tunes (though listeners who actually lived through the 1970s may not be eager to reacquaint themselves with the sound of Moog synthesizers) but reaches its peak with an acoustic, rhythmically virtuosic version of the Sly Stone title song that somehow manages to swing while also suggesting the original...
...saxophonist Joshua Redman. The lack of a drummer to knit things together in the usual way, along with Keezer's provocative, concerto-like arrangements (his accompaniment can be even more interesting than his solos), suggests a kind of jazz version of Baroque counterpoint. Three cuts feature a breathy Diana Krall on vocals; two others nibble on the airier edges of fusion with an expanded cast of electronic and acoustic musicians. Miraculously, it mostly all coheres--one more paradox...
...albums. But buoyed by the buzz from her live shows, her newest album, Only for You--a set of her Cole interpretations--has leaped into the Top 10 on the jazz charts. Next month she performs at New York City's Algonquin Hotel, the Carnegie Hall of jazz lounges. Krall is on her way to proving, as Benny Carter said in affirming the Carnegie Hall audience's praise that night, that no one will forget that "she can play...