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Watch Natalie Cole Sing “Unforgettable” With Her Father 25 Years After His Death
When Natalie Cole released “Unforgettable” in 1991, many listeners initially struggled to understand how the recording had been made so well. The performance presented Natalie Cole singing a duet with her father, Nat King Cole, despite the fact that he had died twenty-five years earlier.…
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The Day Miles Davis Tried to Hire Ron Carter…
When Miles Davis asked Ron Carter to join his band in 1963, Carter did not react…
Nina Simone Albums: From Jazz Standards to Protest, Blues, and Exile
The first Nina Simone album already contained more than one musical life.Released in 1959 as Little…
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How Nina Simone Turned “I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel to Be Free” Into a Civil Rights Anthem
Few songs became more closely associated with Nina Simone’s political and artistic identity than “I Wish I Knew How It Would…
Watch Dizzy Gillespie Perform on Sesame Street
By the 1970s and 1980s, Sesame Street had become one of the most unusual places on American television to encounter jazz…
The Night George Coleman Borrowed John Coltrane’s Saxophone
Few positions in jazz carried more attention in the early 1960s than the tenor saxophone chair in Miles Davis’s band. When…
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