Every word is all jazz. It’s like cockney, or prison language. There were the jazz guys, and the hip-hop guys took it from them. Lester Young was calling Count Basie 'homeboy' 90 years ago. | | | | Happy Prez's Day: Lester Young at Fulton Studios, New York, June 9, 1953.
(PoPsie Randolph/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images) | | | | |  | “Every word is all jazz. It’s like cockney, or prison language. There were the jazz guys, and the hip-hop guys took it from them. Lester Young was calling Count Basie 'homeboy' 90 years ago.”
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| | rantnrave:// Happy Presidents' Day. Wait, is that a thing people say? YG & NIPSEY HUSSLE on DONALD TRUMP. FIONA APPLE on Trump. YOUNG JEEZY & NAS on BARACK OBAMA. JANELLE MONÁE on GEORGE W. BUSH. PINK on George W. Bush. EMIMEM on George W. Bush. TUPAC & THE OUTLAWZ on BILL CLINTON. PRINCE on RONALD REAGAN. BONZO GOES TO WASHINGTON on Reagan. The RAMONES on Reagan. KILLER MIKE on Reagan (and Obama). BLUE MOUNTAIN on JIMMY CARTER. JAMES BROWN on GERALD FORD. STEVIE WONDER on RICHARD NIXON (who, in the greatest act of pop music criticism ever, resigned two days after this single was released). LOU REED on JOHN F. KENNEDY. J.B. LENOIR on DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER. CHICAGO on HARRY TRUMAN. VIC CHESNUTT on WOODROW WILSON (sort of). CHARLIE POOLE & THE NORTH CAROLINA RAMBLERS on THEODORE ROOSEVELT and WILLIAM MCKINLEY. RAMBLIN' JACK ELLIOTT & DERROLL ADAMS on JAMES GARFIELD. CHRISTINE LAVIN on FRANKLIN PIERCE. THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS on JAMES K. POLK. MICHAEL FRIEDMAN on ANDREW JACKSON. LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA on GEORGE WASHINGTON... There was a lot of carping online about the price of tickets for the RAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE reunion tour and, to be fair, if your name is Rage Against the Machine and your prices are anywhere north of the FUGAZI line, you're kind of asking for it, and the prices were way way north of there. But the most expensive ones, the ones that cost several hundred bucks or more, were doing the double duty of trying to keep scalpers at bay while also raising money for charities along the tour route. And Rage's TOM MORELLO says the band raised more than $3 million for those charities in the first 48 hours. Touché... Longtime CHICAGO TRIBUNE music critic GREG KOT says farewell... CHAKA KHAN belongs in the ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME and didn't deserve her early exit from THE MASKED SINGER last week, but the less said about her national anthem at Sunday's NBA all-star game, the better. (It kinda sorta rang a bell, though.) But JENNIFER HUDSON covering DONNY HATHAWAY in memory of KOBE BRYANT, wow. So many truths, so many tears... RIP JACOB THIELE, SCOTT SESSIONS and CHRIS HOPSON. | | | - Matty Karas, curator |
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 | Rolling Stone |
| WMG is about to go public. If I was investing, I’d watch this number closely. | | |
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 | South Side Weekly |
| A day and night celebrating Frankie Knuckles reminds us that house music was built in Black queer sanctuaries. | | |
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 | Los Angeles Times |
| Some experts fear that a fire last week at a lacquer manufacturing plant in Banning, Calif., could lead to a worldwide shortage in vinyl LPs. | | |
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 | Music Industry Blog |
| Finishing 2019 on $6.4 billion, Universal Music is to go to IPO hot on the heels of Warner Music's announcement to do the same. This of course also follows the Tencent-led agreement to acquire 10% of UMG for $3 billion with an option to acquire another 10%. | | |
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 | Variety |
| "We hired [Deborah Dugan] to be President/CEO with the highest hopes, and as sometimes happens in an organization issues arose," board chairman Harvey Mason Jr. wrote to Recording Academy officials, while broadly denying many of the suspended CEO's allegations of improprieties. | | |
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 | Billboard |
| After releasing his Billboard 200 chart-topper 'Hoodie SZN' in 2018, A Boogie returns with his new album 'Artist 2.0.' | | |
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 | Apple Music |
| To mark the release of his first album since 2015’s Purpose, Justin Bieber opens up to Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about how his faith and his relationship with his new wife Hailey Baldwin saved his life and inspired him to make music again. | | |
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| Rolling Stone |
| Remembering the drummer, who died this week at 87, after decades on the road with his best friend. | | |
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 | Bertolt Meyer |
| The SynLimb thus allows me to plug my prosthesis directly into my snythesizer so that I can control its parameters with the signals from my body that normally control the hand. For me, this feels like controlling the synth with my thoughts. | | |
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 | The New York Times |
| Tom Austin released a hit. Now what? We asked him -- and Rebecca Black. | | |
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 | Music Business Worldwide |
| On balance, YouTube looks likely to have just become the global music industry's second biggest digital partner. | | |
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| Billboard |
| Authorities have canceled 20,000 concerts in China and Hong Kong, which will cost the region $286 million. | | |
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 | VICE |
| Last October, D Smoke won Netflix's 'Rhythm + Flow.' His debut album, 'Black Habits,' is a collection of his most personal moments. | | |
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 | The Ringer |
| In honor of Valentine’s Day, The Ringer presents a list of the most iconic tearjerkers and empowerment anthems in music history. | | |
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 | OneZero |
| Under the hashtags #Ghetto and #CripWalkChallenge, white teens appropriate Black culture. | | |
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 | Afropunk |
| Nelson George did it first. Whenever you think of all the fly s*** a music writer has gone on to do in the wide world of media -- magazines, book publishing, television, film, whatever -- George is the first name that should come to mind. | | |
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 | The Guardian |
| Back in 2013, the pop star was disillusioned and ready to quit. How did her hit foodie podcast Table Manners put her back in the groove? | | |
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 | The Next Web |
| India, a country where people have traditionally relied on radio and television to listen to music, now has over 200 million listeners using music streaming services. Blaise Fernandes, CEO, Indian Music Industry (IMI), a body that represents record labels in the country, told TNW in that there are 200 million unique subscribers of these apps. | | |
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| The New York Times |
| All assumptions about classical music are in question when the performance is at your apartment. | | |
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| The Guardian |
| Stella Wedell astounded to spot tape in exhibition of art made out of plastic marine pollution. | | |
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