September 2012
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“What I’m gonna ask myself is why I wrote this song so high…’Cause I didn’t...”
– Alicia Keys
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Alicia Keys speaks.
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'...All of us, consumers, execs, DJs, lovers and... →
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'First...is a...documentary, "Remembering... →
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lenallure: …I was struck by the modernity that jazz anticipated and directed, and by its unreasonable optimism. Whatever the truth or consequences of individual entanglements and the racial landscape, the music insisted that the past might haunt us, but it would not entrap us. It demanded a future…  from her “foreword” of the novel “Jazz” by Toni Morrison 
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'Far from being in decline, perhaps pop music is... →
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“I don’t know what I am. I don’t care whether people call me jazz or pop. I just...”
– Ella Fitzgerald
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“She’ll out rehearse you, out dress you, and outperform you so you best stay out...”
– Marvin Gaye, [from the biography] Divided Soul: The Life of Marvin Gaye (via fkyahdianaross) #sheiseverywoman
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jonathanbogart asked: Do you mind if I ask how far back in history you're going with your subject? Do early jazz and blues singers like Mamie Smith and Ethel Waters count as pop?
Sep 14th