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They got rhythm: the interwar British dance bands who pointed towards pop

Music stars of the 1920s and 1930s, including Spike Hughes and Reginald Foresythe, transformed American jazz to suit British tastes, explains Bob Stanley in an extract from his book charting the birth of pop

The Guardian - UK

Pulitzer Prize winner Anthony Davis revives ‘X,’ his prescient 1986 opera about Malcolm X: ‘A tragic hero’

SAN DIEGO — Serendipity and irony. Foresight and hindsight. A handwritten musical score giving way to a software program. A pandemic giving way to a rebirth.

Tribune News Service

Charles Mingus at 100: The legacy of the late jazz giant also looms large in rock, hip-hop, film and beyond

“I’m trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it’s difficult is because I’m changing all the time.” — Charles Mingus

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The effects on France from the Ukrainian invasion

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about the specific effects on France due to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. There’s an Eiffel Tower mini-history lesson, The Sound Kitchen mailbag, "Music from Erwan", and of course, the new quiz question. Just click on the “Audio”…

Radio France Internationale

Introducing Duke Ellington (Fortune; August 1933)

...who grosses $250,000 a year with Mood Indigo and the Cotton Club Stomp.

Fortune

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