I know this wasn't necessarily what my friend "I am":http://mog.com/I_am/blog_post/85597 had in mind, with his brilliant suggestion for Jazzturdays, but this is a song that *haunts* me. Even before I understood the words of the song, it was one I'd hear from time to time. Remember vividly the feeling in my gut the first time I _heard_ the song though. I must have been around 12 or so, before...
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Billie Holiday (1915 - 1959) was one of the greatest song stylists in jazz although her style of singing was enforced by the ravages of drug and alcohol addiction that ultimately cost her her life.When she was a preschooler, her father left the family and never showed any interest in her or her mother again until after Holiday became famous which she then returned the favor. Her mother was not ...
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rant of the moment: i heard on the news last night that the mega-turtlesque Internet connectivity due to the Taiwan tsunami will not be fixed until the last week of February (which i am taking to mean as mid-March or so). i promised to be level-headed about it but ...aaarrrggghhhhhh. 70% of my job relies upon the Internet. boooooo.i am on page 144 of Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides, which so far ap
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Amazing song about racism and the photos she saw of black men hanging off trees in the SouthMusic can help people express a range of feelings and topics. Many early African-American songs, such as "The Drinking Gourd," were used to pass secret messages during the period of slavery. As Reconstruction passed into the Jim Crow Era, predominately African-American music such as jazz and blues evolve...
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