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The funky beat of musical New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — The cab careened past Washington Square and onto Frenchmen Street. It was close to 10 p.m., and the neighborhood was filled with locals adorned with tattoos, piercings and lots of ragged black accessories. "The cab drivers call this...
Tags: Hurricanes, Jazz (genre), Entertainment, Music Industry, Bars and Clubs
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PASSINGS: Jon Lord, Bob Babbitt, Donald J. Sobol
Jon Lord
Deep Purple keyboard player
Jon Lord, 71, a British keyboardist for Deep Purple and Whitesnake, died in London on Monday of a pulmonary embolism after a battle with pancreatic cancer, said a statement on his official website.
Lord co-wrote...Tags: Barry Manilow, Entertainment, Music Industry, Stevie Wonder, Frank Sinatra
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PASSINGS: Richard B. Scudder, Barton Biggs
Richard B. Scudder Co-founder of MediaNews Group Richard B. Scudder, 99, co-founder and former chairman of MediaNews Group Inc., the nation's second-largest newspaper company, who also helped invent a process allowing newsprint to be recycled, died...
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Bob Welch dies at 66; Fleetwood Mac guitarist and singer
Guitarist and singer Bob Welch, whose work in the early 1970s for Fleetwood Mac set the stage for the band's multi-platinum success later in the decade, died on Thursday at his home in Nashville. He was 66.
According to a spokesman for the Nashville...Tags: Christine McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Fleetwood Mac (music group), Entertainment, Bare (music group)
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Donald 'Duck' Dunn dies at 70; soul music bassist
Donald "Duck" Dunn, the bassist who helped create the gritty Memphis soul sound at Stax Records in the 1960s as part of the legendary group Booker T. and the MGs and contributed to such classics as "In the Midnight Hour," "Hold On, I'm Coming" and...
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David 'Honeyboy' Edwards dies at 96; Chicago bluesman
David "Honeyboy" Edwards, the son of a sharecropper, the grandson of a slave and — for an extraordinary 80-plus years — the voice of the Delta blues, died Monday at his home in Chicago, said his longtime manager, Michael Frank. He was 96 and...Tags: Arts and Culture, Social Issues, Robert Johnson, Joe Williams, Health
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After the winds: In the dark with Jane Austen
Opinion L.A.High winds: Patt Morrison writes that because of high winds, she has been without light and heat and hot tap water for 36 hours -– and it feels like 36 years.... -
Cable industry's Jim Dolan wears many hats
Company TownMedia executive Jim Dolan wears two hats depending on whether he's running Cablevision or Madison Square Garden.... -
Arts on TV: Mormon Tabernacle Choir; Doctor Who; Sonny Rollins
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Singer Etta James hospitalized but 'still fighting,' son says
L.A. NOWEtta James, the legendary rhythm and blues singer suffering from end-stage leukemia and dementia, is under sedation while being treated at a Riverside hospital, her son said Saturday.... -
Etta James spending Christmas in hospital
L.A. NOWThe family of Etta James said they hope to share Christmas with the hospitalized singing legend if she is feeling well enough. James, suffering from end-stage leukemia and dementia, is under sedation while being treated at a Riverside hospital.... -
Common gets the blues on 'The Dreamer/The Believer'
Pop & HissEarly on in Common's "The Dreamer/The Believer," the Chicago-bred rapper goes after those he believes are "too soft" on "Sweet," targeting those whom he sees as putting too much of an emphasis on singing rather than rapping. Yet two tracks later, Common...
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