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Jazz Musician of the Day: Babs Gonzales

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All About Jazz is celebrating Babs Gonzales' birthday today!

Jazz singers used the scat technique, that means using the voice to create notes that are not words so the voice works like a musical instrument - and they also used slang in their music. Vocalists such as Slim Gaillard, and Babs Gonzalez were larger than life characters who used strange, funny new words in rhythmically complex phrases. Born Lee Brown, 27 Oct. 1919, in Newark NJ;

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SONGS TO REMEMBER: "This Must Be the Place" by Talking Heads

SONGS TO REMEMBER: "This Must Be the Place" by Talking Heads, from the movie Stop Making Sense directed by Jonathan Demme, 1984.


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The Black Keys + Arctic Monkeys are coming to Grand Rapids

The Black Keys + Arctic Monkeys are coming to Grand Rapids | WNMC Music | Scoop.it
Tickets and information for The Black Keys’s upcoming concert with Arctic Monkeys at Van Andel Arena in Grand Rapids on 18 March 2012.

 

If you can get to this show: #1, I hate you; #2, you better enjoy it, you lucky turd; because #3, this is AM's first arena tour and they've been doing great, not to mention TBK are ridiculously good these days. Pff! Don't talk to me.


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