Quincy Jones, the trailblazing Grammy Award-winning producer and composer, was feted for his music and humanity at a 75th birthday party which brought Herbie Hancock,...
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Quincy Jones, the trailblazing Grammy Award-winning producer and composer, was feted for his music and humanity at a 75th birthday party which brought Herbie Hancock,...
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NEW YORK (AP) — Max Roach got his first musical break at age 16, filling in when Duke Ellington's drummer fell ill in 1940. Those three nights spawned a career that...
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Max Roach made a career out of rewriting the rule books.
The pioneering jazz percussionist, known as much for the political convictionsas for his sleight of hand with the...
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Nickelodeon is testing
the waters of original online content with the July 22 launch
of its first broadband series.
Dubbed "Nick Cannon's Star Camp," the online series...
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Stevie Wonder, Aretha Franklin and Carlos Santana are among the headliners announced Thursday for a concert to raise money to build a memorial to the Rev. Martin Luther King...
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Veteran producer Quincy Jones has snubbed the chance to work with Michael Jackson again.
The legend, who produced Jacko's 1982 album Thriller, still the best-selling LP of...
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Hey, Jude, take your dad's songs and make you richer.
Julian Lennon, John Lennon's eldest son, has decided to sell an economic stake in the compositions cowritten...
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Island Def Jam is reviving the
legendary Mercury Records imprint in the United States, eight
years after it was mothballed in the wake of a corporate
merger.
The label...
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There aren't many
composers whose music is immediately identifiable after just a
couple of whistled notes.
Such is the influence of Ennio Morricone that all it takes
is a...
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Ray Charles and Count Basie never
recorded together, but a new CD pairs the two music luminaries
posthumously.
The CD, "Ray Sings, Basie Swings," featuring Charles'
vocals...
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Ray Charles and Count Basie never
recorded together, but a new CD pairs the two music luminaries
posthumously.
The CD, "Ray Sings, Basie Swings," featuring Charles'
vocals...
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Famed American impresario Quincy Jones
has offered to write a theme tune for the 2008 Beijing Olympics
having been seduced by China on his first visit.
The 73-year-old...
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Andrae Crouch is celebrating his
40th anniversary in gospel music by releasing his first new
studio album in eight years.
"Mighty Wind," due May 30 on Verity, showcases a...
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Former teen idol Leif Garrett has
been sentenced to 90 days in jail and three years probation on
charges stemming from drug possession.
Garrett, 44, was sentenced late on...
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Quincy Jones visited former South African President Nelson Mandela, but a meeting between Mandela and Naomi Campbell wasn't publicized.
Campbell was charged with assault...
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It is hard to imagine rap music
without LL Cool J.
After more than 20 years, he remains at the top of his
game, having churned out hit after hit and increasing...
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A movie deal. Check. A new jewelry line. Check. Another bunch of
music awards. Check.
Not a bad week's work for Mariah Carey,
who capped a busy seven days--and an...
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Thousands of Brazilians took a break from samba to rock with U2 frontman Bono during Carnival celebrations in the northeastern city of Salvador.
Bono performed an...
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Eight days after Hurricane Katrina hit, Michael Jackson announced he would release an all-star charity single within two weeks.
Nearly six months later, after questions...
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David L. Abell, whose
Beverly Boulevard piano store served for 40 years as a resource
for motion picture, pop, rock and jazz performers, died
February 11 of lung disease at...
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At only 34, bluegrass fiddler
Alison Krauss is the Queen of the Grammys.
No other woman has won more Victrola statuettes than she
has, and in coming years she could be...
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The Teflon R. Kelly is cruising on the Soul Train.
The R&B star, embroiled in an ongoing kiddie porn case, leads the nomination list for the 20th Annual Soul Train Music...
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R&B singer R. Kelly, the soulful
crooner who let his libido loose in a passionate album, led
contenders for the 20th annual Soul Train Music Awards, which
honor the leading...
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Mariah Carey was the feel-good story at this weekend's Vibe Music
Awards. That the show went off without any stabbings, hospitalizations
or arrests made all involved feel...
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Shirley Horn, the great jazz vocalist and pianist and one of the
last links to the Miles Davis era, has died at age 71, her label
announced Friday.
The Grammy-winning...
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Shirley Horn, the jazz pianist and vocalist who got her start opening for Miles Davis and became revered as a master interpreter of American standards, has died at the age...
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Grammy winner Luther Vandross, whose deep, lush voice on such hits as "Here and Now" and "Any Love" sold more than 25 million albums while providing the romantic backdrop...
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Designed to raise consciousness about African poverty, the Live 8 concerts will feature some of black music's biggest stars — especially those representing...
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Eddie Barclay, a flamboyant French music producer whose stable of singers included Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour and who worked for years with Quincy Jones, has died. He...
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Herb Alpert and Jerry Moss, whose A&M Records label recorded superstars such as Sting, the Carpenters and Quincy Jones, have donated company papers and mementos to the UCLA...
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Like many college students, a group from Boston headed south for spring break this week.
But instead of Daytona or Miami, their destination was Nashville, where the...
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She was dressed all in white and played a white grand piano, but Alicia Keys' Grammy performance was far from vanilla.
Unlike many canned awards show performances, Keys...
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Ray Charles, posthumously nominated for seven Grammys — including album of the year for "Genius Loves Company" — will be honored in a tribute at next month's...
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"We Are the World," the pioneering
all-star charity anthem that generated millions of dollars for
African famine relief 20 years ago, is returning to the world
stage -- this...
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The future is temporarily on hold for Jermaine Dupri.
The
star rapper-producer had been planning to record the charity single "We
Are the Future," a 20th-anniversary...
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Music producers Quincy Jones and Jermaine Dupri announced Tuesday that the tsunami disaster in Southeast Asia has prompted them to postpone the recording of "We are the...
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Veteran pop star Sir Cliff Richard ,
flamboyant singer Boy George and other British musicians plan
to release a song to raise money for victims of the devastating
Asian...
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Leave it to sunny Chely Wright to
turn an ugly situation into a popular -- and meaningful --
song. Now, that song has helped her land a new label deal.
About a...
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Bob Marley's 60th birthday will be
celebrated with a month-long program of events in Ethiopia in
February 2005.
The program, titled "Africa Unite," will be spearheaded...
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Trumpeter Clark Terry, a jazz pioneer whose resume includes stints with the Duke Ellington and Count Basie orchestras, has donated his personal archive to William Paterson...
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The 2004 Billboard Music Awards wrapped hours ago, and
Usher is still saying, "Yeah!"
The chart-busting singer walked
away with a leading 11 awards at the music biz's...
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Chicago rapper Kanye West, who
survived a near-fatal car crash to score one of the biggest
hits of the year with his debut album, led an eclectic field of
commercially...
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Police and probation officials have been reviewing video of the melee at the Vibe Awards show to determine if rap producer Marion "Suge" Knight played a role in the...
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Since establishing himself as a solo
artist, Sting's tour's have become grand affairs featuring
large bands. That will change in April, when he launches the
Broken Music...
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Less than six months after his death, Ray Charles may be more popular than ever with a movie about his life and a posthumously released album.
Now he is being recognized...
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Payback's a bitch.
California authorities are
seeking G-Unit rapper Young Buck in connection with the stabbing of a
26-year-old man during a brawl that went down at...
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One man was stabbed and
rapper Dr. Dre was punched in the nose during a melee at the
second annual Vibe Awards for hip-hop stars at a hangar at
Santa Monica Airport on...
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Talk about a bad Vibe.
Just as Dr. Dre was
getting ready to accept a lifetime achievement award from Snoop Dogg and
Quincy Jones at the taping of Monday night's Vibe...
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Usher is feeling the vibe.
The R&B singer leads the second annual Vibe Awards with five nominations. Right on his dancing heels is Alicia Keys, with four...
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Sonic Youth, David Johansen, Andrew
W.K., Sean Lennon and Suicide's Alan Vega have joined the
lineup for an Oct. 8 New York show to benefit Cedars Sinai
Cancer Research...
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An eclectic lineup of musicians honored Ray Charles in a tribute concert, praising the late singer's rich life and his ability to transcend race and musical genres.
"Make...
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Stevie Wonder, Usher and Norah Jones
are among the artists who will celebrate Ray Charles at an
October tribute concert that will be taped for later broadcast
on...
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He achieved crossover success long
before the music business coined that phrase.
He did it so effortlessly that fans didn't think twice
about the culture from which he was...
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Jazz singer Norah Jones ' current
album "Feels Like Home" will be re-released Sept. 21 as a
double-disc package featuring three previously unreleased songs
and a DVD.
The...
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It was billed as a "worship and celebration," but the
memorial service for Ray Charles was something more. Like, a pretty fine
show.
Willie Nelson , Glen Campbell ,...
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Ray Charles is being remembered as a musical innovator who blended genres of music to create a new style. Charles died on Thursday of acute liver disease at age 73.
Ray...
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Some singers have a signature song in a signature style. Ray Charles had a signature songbook that spanned genre and generations.
Charles, whose collection of hits...
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Ray Charles was one of American
music's great innovators, blending the gospel of the black
church with the sensuality of the blues to create an
emotionally raw genre called...
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Grammy-award winning singer Norah Jones was among the many other artists who performed Sunday (May 16) in Rome as part of producer Quincy Jones's latest endeavor, a...
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Nearly two decades after music greats gathered to record the hit song "We are the World" to benefit Africa's hungry, the next generation of celebrities came together Sunday...
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A star-studded cast assembled by "We Are
the World" producer Quincy Jones rocked Rome's ancient chariot
track on Sunday in a concert to raise money for children...
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Gospel artist Andrae Crouch will
receive a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame June 4 in Los
Angeles.
The 61-year-old music patriarch is only the third gospel
artist to...
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Nearly 20 years ago, legendary producer and media mogul Quincy Jones gathered about 45 top musicians, including Michael Jackson and Bruce Springsteen , for the charity...
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Former Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page and conductor Elgar Howarth will award the 2004 Polar Music Prize to bluesman B.B. King and composer Gyoergy Ligeti, organizers...
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Nearly 20 years after recording the
ground-breaking charity album "We Are the World," producer
Quincy Jones is at it again -- assembling an all-star ensemble
concert to...
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Quincy Jones is finalizing plans for his all-star We Are The Future concert, May 16, at the Circus Maximus in Rome. And he says the event, which will raise money to aid...
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Clint Eastwood 's passion
for music began when he was very young, playing trumpet and
piano. "I played when I was a kid, but I drifted away from all
of it when I got into...
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Returning to the television network
which broadcast her infamous Super Bowl wardrobe malfunction,
pop star Janet Jackson insisted on Monday the flicker of breast
"was an...
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As a child, Denzel Washington would go to the Apollo Theater to check out his favorite performers.
"I actually sat out in the audience a few times with my mother,"...
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OutKast's "Speakerboxxx/The Love Below" won two awards, including R&B/soul or rap album of the year, to lead the winners at Saturday's 18th annual Soul Train Music...
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If someone compiled a list of the
most commercially successful and prolific producers in
R&B/hip-hop, Timbaland's name would likely be near the top of
the list.
In less...
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Cupid is taking aim at music
lovers.
For the past three years, music sales during the week of
Valentine's Day have been second only to the boffo weeks
leading up to...
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"This is an organization that should
not have to exist," said Wendy Oxenhorn, executive director of
the Jazz Foundation of America, in her opening remarks Oct. 16
at the...
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After 11 years of planning, backers of a National Music Center and Museum pledged Thursday to open the facility in the nation's capital five years from now.
"We will be...
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Quincy Jones was one of the numerous entertainers that came out to honor U2 singer Bono for his philanthropic efforts Thursday night (February 14) in Hollywood. The Love...
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For Quincy Jones, being the master of ceremonies at Friday's (January 4) Grammy-nomination ceremony at New York's famed Apollo Theatre represented a return to his roots....
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A complete retrospective on the life and music of 26-time Grammy winner Quincy Jones is set for release October 16. The main feature will be the four-CD set titled Q: The...
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Quincy Jones & Sammy Nestico, Dave Koz, Rachelle Ferrell, George Duke, and the late Grover Washington, Jr. will compete for the title of outstanding jazz artist when the...
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Quincy Jones will receive another in his long line of honors, when the Academy Of Music in Philadelphia hands out its prestigious Marian Anderson Award to him in October.
A...
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Composer-musician Quincy Jones has convened in Davos, Switzerland, with world leaders for the World Economic Forum Conference to gather support for his Listen Up...
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Quincy Jones is putting the finishing touches on his autobiography for Doubleday. The new book, to be titled Q, alternates autobiographical chapters by the celebrated...
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The fact that Def Jam Records founder Russell Simmons is more than just a rap icon will be driven home when he's roasted by the queen of homemaking, Martha Stewart.
A...
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Music legend Quincy Jones has compiled 25 of his treasured self-produced ballads to be released Feb. 9, less than a week before Valentine's Day. From Q, With Love includes...
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The Grammy Awards are coming back to Los Angeles after a two-year stint in New York. The 41st Annual Grammy Awards will be held at the Shrine Auditorium on February 24,...
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Hip-hop and R&B acts have lost another important outlet, as the Sinbad-hosted Vibe has been cancelled.
Less than three months after The Keenan Ivory Wayans Show was...
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How'd you like to be Quincy
Jones's insurance adjuster?
Jones, fresh off last year's shooting death of rapper Biggie Smalls outside a party hosted by his magazine,...
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