Ms. M – WORLD DANCE TOUR – 2007/2008

With firm roots in Gospel, Jazz, Blues, Soul & Rock, Ms. M has shared the stage with legends from B.B. King to Basement Jaxx – Ms. M brings her extraordinary talent to the dance floor in clubs and discos throughout the world. A non-stop powerhouse SHOW of well-known tracks and... [+] Read More

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Near-classical guitar playing that takes to the sky and malingers majestically, paired with intimate, haunting & unique vocals.
Vertigo Butterfly began in Seattle in 2000 as an acoustic duo before playing & traveling across the US - from the lush northwest to gorgeous, staid New England & then the dizzying southwest, eventually returning... [+] Read More

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As with her hero Billie Holiday, Abbey Lincoln always means the lyrics she sings. A dramatic performer whose interpretations are full of truth and insight, Lincoln actually began her career as a fairly lightweight supper-club singer. She went through several name changes (including Anna Marie, Gaby Lee and Gaby Woolridge) before settling on... [+] Read More

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Britain's greatest pop diva, Dusty Springfield was also the finest white soul singer of her era, a performer of remarkable emotional resonance whose body of work spans the decades and their attendant musical transformations with a consistency and purity unmatched by any of her contemporaries; though a camp icon of glamorous excess in her... [+] Read More

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In a profession star-crossed by early deaths -- especially the bebop division -- Max Roach is a shining survivor, one of the last living giants from the birth of bebop. He and Kenny Clarke instigated a revolution in jazz drumming that persists to this day; instead of the swing approach of spelling out the pulse with the bass drum, Roach shifted... [+] Read More

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Throughout a professional career lasting 50 years, Miles Davis played the trumpet in a lyrical, introspective, and melodic style, often employing a stemless Harmon mute to make his sound more personal and intimate. But if his approach to his instrument was constant, his approach to jazz was dazzlingly protean. To examine his career is to examine... [+] Read More

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Although rooted in jazz, singer, poet, and activist Oscar Brown, Jr. defied musical categorization throughout his long and eclectic career -- a forerunner of the political consciousness that would become predominant in soul, funk, and hip-hop in the decades to follow, his efforts to exact social change spread across the arts and even into... [+] Read More

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