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Jarreau Tackling Holiday Favorites On Next Album - Al Jarreau will have more than just love songs to offer to his fans this year. The multi-faceted singer, who recently released a "Love Songs" collection timed for Valentine's Day, tells Billboard.com he has two more projects planned for this year -- a holiday album and a best-of compilation. Jarreau is in...

Cool jazz - Cool jazz is a jazz style that emerged in the late 1940s in New York City. ...

George Benson - Give Me the Night -

George Benson’s 1980 album Give Me the Night completed a journey that began on 1976's Breezin', taking him from his jazz roots and established him as the world's leading jazz-pop crossover artist. A talented and prestigious guitarist and accomplished vocalist, Give Me the Night was, for many people, their first...

Heroes - Even talented and accomplished stars have idols. That's the theme of David Benoit's newest release on the Peak Records label, Heroes; and in addition to paying tribute to those artists, he also continues a pattern of stretching himself musically. Benoit has a string of best-selling albums that have consistently hit...

Music Review: George Duke - Dukey Treats -

George Duke earned his chops playing with such artists as Cannonball Adderly, Billy Cobham, George Clinton, Jean-Luc Ponty, Miles Davis, and even Frank Zappa. Duke has moved from jazz to funk and back again several times since the early 1980s. The just released Dukey Treats find him primarily in funk...

Beautiful Mess - Stop the average person on the street and ask them about Swing Out Sister, and if you're lucky, you'll get a quick trill of "Breakout", their 1986 debut breakthrough single which reached number 4 in the UK and number 6 in the US charts. Which is a shame because they...

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