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Want to hear the preeminent bebop trombonist J.J. Johnson on Spotify? Make sure to include periods after the letter J, or the streaming platform will tell you he doesn't exist.
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No song composed by a just one person has reached the top of the Billboard chart in almost 3 years.https://www.billboard.com/articles/business/chart-beat/9473248/hit-songs-written-by-one-songwriter-fleetwood-mac-dreams-stevie-nicks/ The rea
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(1/8) Today, I’m writing an obituary of a friend. You don’t know him—he isn’t well-known (but with some luck he might have been). What I’m writing isn’t for a periodical
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My Mexican uncle Ted—for whom I was named—came from a poor family & never went to college. He was a sailor and died in a plane crash in his 20s.
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Today is centenary of Charlie Parker’s birth, and I want to share some photos I took in Kansas City—here is the KC residence where the future jazz star lived as
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RCA was a major record label, but also committed to investing in consumer entertainment technology. In this 1935 article, the company boasted about its promising R&D work in television. Today
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