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Free Music Friday! Relaxing R&B from dub legend Lee "Scratch" Perry
Reggae/dub legend Lee "Scratch" Perry is back with a new album that finds him exploring the overlapping worlds of lounge-dub and deep trance styles. At least that's what a press release about his new album "Master Mind," says. To my ears, today's free...
Tags: Reggae (genre), Music, Soul (genre), Entertainment
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Free Music Friday! Swirling neo-soul from Cody ChesnuTT
About a decade ago, Cody ChesnuTT surprised and thrilled music lovers with "The Headphone Masterpiece," an ambitious, low-fi album that reminded listeners of the psychedelic soul classics of the 1970s. Some considered it an over-hyped oddity. Others were...
Tags: Tina Turner, Buddy Guy, Music, Michel Gondry, Soul (genre)
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PASSINGS: Robert Dickey
Robert Dickey Member of soul duo James and Bobby Purify Robert Dickey, 72, a guitarist and singer in the soul duo James and Bobby Purify, which recorded the 1960s hit song "I'm Your Puppet," died Dec. 29 in his hometown of Tallahassee, Fla. No cause was...Tags: Music, Soul (genre), Music, Tallahassee (Leon, Florida), Los Angeles Times
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Legendary blues singer Ray Charles dead at 73
Baltimore Sun Pop Music CriticRay Charles may have been one of the most influential singer-musicians ever to grace American pop music. He may have laid the foundation for soul - an earthy blend of the secular and the spiritual, and one of the country's greatest cultural achievements....Tags: Heavy Engineering, Arts and Culture, Awards and Prizes, Country and Western (genre), Billy Joel
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Pop music and jazz figures
Pop music and jazz figures Bob Popescu, 77; co-owner of Catalina Bar & Grill, turned the Los Angeles club into one of the top jazz venues in the country (Jan. 5) Ken Nelson, 84; longtime Capitol Records talent scout had an ear for country music (Jan. 6)...Tags: Television, Dave Alvin, Arts and Culture, Frank Sinatra, Television Industry
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Like a Spirit in the Night
Or at least that is how the story goes when a still struggling rock and roll band met The Big Man, and the change was made uptown. It was a stormy night along the Jersey Shore – the wind was howling, the lightening was flashing – and then,...Tags: The E Street Band (music group), Crime, Law and Justice, Soul (genre), Bruce Springsteen, Prosecution
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Solomon Burke dead at 70; 'the king of rock and soul'
Turn It UpSolomon Burke, the robust, regal preacher-turned-singer who defined soul music in the ‘60s and continued to perform and minister for decades afterward, died Sunday in Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport. Burke died on a plane after arriving on a flight from... -
Pop music spring preview: Notable concerts and albums in the coming weeks
Pop & HissShows include Lykke Li and Lady Gaga; the Kills and Paul Simon are among the acts planning album releases Critic's Pick: The Stagecoach Country Music Festival The annual Stagecoach Country Music Festival in Indio, which turns 5 this year, is...... -
The soul of Ike & Tina Turner
![The pop world has focused for so long on the remarkably sensual energy and excitement of Ike & Tina Turner's old live show that it is often easy to forget the duo also made some dynamic records. But even if you have wanted to go back and check up on the pair's records from the 1960s and 1970s, it was difficult to know just which "best of" collection to buy because the Turners recorded for so many labels.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2007-12/34508183-31170406.jpg "The pop world has focused for so long on the remarkably sensual energy and excitement of Ike & Tina Turner's old live show that it is often easy to forget the duo also made some dynamic records. But even if you have wanted to go back and check up on the pair's records from the 1960s and 1970s, it was difficult to know just which "best of\" collection to buy because the Turners recorded for so many labels.")
Special to The TimesThe pop world has focused for so long on the remarkably sensual energy and excitement of Ike & Tina Turner's old live show that it is often easy to forget the duo also made some dynamic records. But even if you have wanted to go back and check up on the...Tags: Tina Turner, Janis Joplin, Recording Studios, Prince (music artist), DVDs and Movies
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Gangsta rap performer Notorious B.I.G. slain
Los Angeles Times Staff WritersRap music star Notorious B.I.G. was shot to death along Museum Row in Los Angeles' Mid-Wilshire district early Sunday as he left a music industry party, a brazen attack that marked the second drive-by murder of a gangsta rap celebrity in the last six...Tags: New Jersey, Faith Evans, Awards and Prizes, Radio Industry, Murder
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Winehouse proves to be too big for her tent
Special to The TimesAt Coachella, it's not the size of the tent you're performing in, but the size of the crowd trying to fit into it. And on Friday evening, the huge crowd that gathered to hear British soul singer Amy Winehouse sing her messed-up-in-love songs completely...Tags: North Africa, Johnny Cash, Nashville, Soul (genre), Tennessee
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Eddie Bo dies at 78; blues singer, pianist and songwriter
Associated PressEddie Bo, a New Orleans blues singer-pianist who worked with musicians such as Irma Thomas and Art Neville, died Wednesday of a heart attack, according to his booking agent, Karen Hamilton. He was 78. Eddie Bo, whose real name was Edwin Joseph Bocage,...Tags: Hurricane Damage, Disasters, Little Richard, Hurricane Katrina (2005), Gladys Knight
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