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...Though he felt it was a mistake at the time, Alan W. Livingston, 91, brought the fledgling Beatles to the U.S. while president of Capitol Records. Some of his other nonmistakes include creating the Bozo the Clown character and co-writing the song "I Taut I Taw a Puddy Tat," a musical dialogue between Tweety Bird and Sylvester...
...recently heard the remix of "Jai Ho" featuring the Pussycat Dolls and was surprised that you consented to have that done to such a beautiful song. What motivated it? Mayank Keshaviah, LOS ANGELES...
...didn't want [the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack] to die as a film soundtrack. I wanted to extend it to a younger audience, too. We made sure that we told [the Pussycat Dolls] that this was a song about destiny, about love and all that stuff. [It's] about victory, so don't make it obscene. Make it lovable. And I think they did a very good job ... It took almost eight different tries to get it right...
...What I listened to yesterday were the ghazal [a Sufi song form] of Mehdi Hassan and then I listened to Tchaikovsky, and then I listened to an Irish artist - I don't know who it was. So it's like three weird things. I was traveling from Bangalore to Chennai...
...spirit of jazz is to sing it the way you feel, react to the way the players are playing," says Tan, about the ensemble's approach to recording. This spontaneity comes across in the listening. From the easy swing of first song "Sweet Lorraine" to the skittering ebullience of "Spain," the album's closer, Raw Jazz sparkles with the brio of live performance. Standout tracks include a jive-worthy version of "Honeysuckle Rose" and "That Old Black Magic," in which Candelaria's bass grounds Tan's larger-than-life channeling of the already larger-than-life Sammy Davis Jr. Exuberant...