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...masterpieces of risk-taking and exuberance, eluding easy categorization. That's fitting for a man who remains the only performer to win Grammy Awards in three different styles: pop, R&B and jazz. "He works the cracks between all of those genres," says San Francisco Chronicle pop-music critic Joel Selvin. But most critics agree that Jarreau's roots, ultimately, lie in jazz. "What makes him unique is the jazz current - with its inherent sense of swing and improvisational magic - that courses through everything he does, whether it's pop, R&B or whatever," says Los Angeles Times critic...
...Jarreau is guilty of a degree of aloofness himself. He enjoys either silence or classical-music stations. He grumbles about the "flavor-of-the-month mentality" among music fans. And he shows his age - endearingly - by refusing to own an iPod. His strange argument, contradicted every time he draws up a set list comprising songs from different phases of his career, is that you must listen to songs in the context of the album they appear on. "Just to take bits and pieces of this and that I think is not as enriching an experience," he says. Jarreau is also...
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DIED As scenes of impending doom flash onscreen, his gravelly voice cuts through the explosive effects and thundering music with the familiar words "In a world where ..." Known as "Thunder Throat," "The Trailer King" or, more generally, "that movie voice-over guy," self-dubbed voice actor Don LaFontaine narrated more than 5,000 movie trailers and other promotions in his nearly 50-year career. Originally an audio engineer and editor, LaFontaine got his start behind the mike because of a scheduling mix-up. Soon he was recording voice-overs full time--as many as 60 a week--and narrating teasers...
Likewise, SellaBand.com connects music lovers with unsigned artists looking to record albums. It's a way to bypass the labels; groupies can now fill that role. Musicians have profiles with bios and songs, and as soon as they sell 5,000 shares, at $10 a pop, it's time to head to the recording studio. In two years, more than 30,000 people have ponied up more than $2.5 million, and 25 musicians have cut or are cutting albums. So far, the average return on each $10 investment is about $2.50 from CD sales and ads. The money gets split...