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01/31/2012 11:00 PM
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Don Cornelius, ‘Soul Train’ Creator, Is Dead
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 Mr. Cornelius was the smooth-voiced television host who brought black music and culture into America’s living rooms when he created the dance show “Soul Train.”
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12/06/2011 11:00 PM
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Rock Hall Welcomes Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Beastie Boys
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Guns N' Roses, Red Hot Chili Peppers and the Beastie Boys - three groups who helped to shape pop music in the late 1980s and early '90s - will be inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in April.
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11/26/2011 11:00 PM
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The Last Sultan - The Life and Times of Ahmet Ertegun - By Robert Greenfield - Book Review
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 A biography of Ahmet Ertegun, who built Atlantic Records on black music.
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09/13/2011 11:00 PM
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Kris Bowers Wins Thelonious Monk International Jazz Piano Prize
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 While emulating the late Thelonious Monk is not a requirement of the international piano competition that bears his name, his trademark dissonance was on display.
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08/19/2011 11:00 PM
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Summer Doldrums Evident in Nocturnalist’s In-Box
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 Equating riots in Britain with one caused by a stylist is not good public relations, even in the dog days of summer.
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08/12/2011 11:00 PM
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At the Algonquin, Herding Cats on the Runway
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 A therapist’s ministrations were required for the temperamental animals complicating a fashion show that was presided over by the singer Mya.
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08/10/2011 11:00 PM
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Thelonious Monk Institute to Honor Aretha Franklin
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A gala concert is planned at the Kennedy Center for Sept. 12.
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07/28/2011 11:00 PM
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Aretha Franklin at Jones Beach - Review
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 At a Jones Beach show, Aretha Franklin’s voice was fearlessly and rightfully exposed, and she and her backup singers shared lavish, extended harmony codas.
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07/09/2011 11:00 PM
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Long Live Aretha, the Queen of Soul
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 The Queen of Soul’s career has included 18 Grammys, more than 75 million records sold, being the first woman inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and a Presidential Medal of Freedom.
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06/02/2011 11:00 PM
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‘Rejoice and Shout,’ African-American Gospel Music - Review
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 “Rejoice and Shout,” a historical survey of African-American gospel music, illustrates how it evolved out of the fusion of plantation work songs and Christian hymns.
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05/14/2011 11:00 PM
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Cornell Dupree, Studio Guitarist, Is Dead at 68
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 Mr. Dupree played on about 2,500 session dates, by his estimate, for the likes of Aretha Franklin, Paul Simon and Ringo Starr.
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05/02/2011 11:00 PM
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New CDs From Beastie Boys, Aretha Franklin and Cass McCombs
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 Retro and proud of it, Beastie Boys give their hip-hop time machine another ride into the 1980s on “Hot Sauce Committee Part Two,” their eighth studio album.
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04/25/2011 11:00 PM
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Another Royal Pairing: Queen of Soul and King of Retailers
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Ms. Franklin's coming album will be sold only at Wal-Mart for its first month of release.
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04/02/2011 11:00 PM
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Aretha Franklin’s Columbia Years, Gretchen Parlato
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 A lavish reissue of early Aretha Franklin and new CD’s by Gretchen Parlato, Holy Ghost!, the Peter Evans Quintet and Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya.
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02/20/2011 11:00 PM
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Aretha Franklin to Return
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It seems that the Grammy Awards’ “get well” tribute to the singer Aretha Franklin last week may have worked.
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