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What else one can say that has not been said or written before about one of the most legendary artists of the music business of the last half a century that is the American guitarist and songwriter Steve Cropper? The man behind most of the fortunes of the legendary Stax Records, the 82-years-old, also known as "The Colonel" by fans and fellow musician friends, has worked, throughout his glorious career, with the biggest names in the music business, from Otis Redding to The Blues Brothers, Booker T & the MG's, Rod Stewart, Eddie Floyd, Peter Frampton, Art Garfunkel, Richie Havens, B.B. King, Wilson Pickett and the list goes on and on.
After writing and co-writing for five decades classics of Blues, Soul and R&B and having toured the world for numerous years, Cropper may have slowed down his live activity a little, mainly due to little health issues but this has never stopped the American guitarist from writing and playing in studio for himself and for other artists too.
Read more: It's All About The Groove - In Conversation With Steve Cropper
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The contemporary Jazz movement has been and still is highly active, thanks also to some new vital lymph brought by new inspired and driven young newcomers, especially in the last decade. More and more emerging artists from all around the world, year after year, are keeping the genre alive with such application, drive and inner talent, prone to move the genre towards the next century by putting their own personal stamp but still, without forgetting those significant sonic roots brought by many of the Jazz giants in the last century, being them either players or singers.
One of the rising stars in the contemporary Jazz World is, unquestionably, the 20-years-old American singer Anaïs Reno, an artist that has embraced Jazz in its entirety through studying it deeply throughout the genre's growth and consequent metamorphosis, revealing a vocal depth of great class and maturity already at a very young age.
Read more: The Joy In Jazz - In Conversation With American Jazz Singer Anaïs Reno
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"..there's 12 notes, most people either go up or go down; in my case, sideways!"
Some records that stay in history are born out of many things. Naturally, there is the artist's fundamental input, first and foremost; then, almost due to, perhaps, astral alignments, more talented elements get added to the aforementioned alignments, at the right place and at the right time.
The late great David Bowie has always been, throughout his career, extremely good and wise on cherry-picking the right musicians for each of his records, just like it happened in 1973 for one of Bowie’s most loved and celebrated masterpieces, the jewel that is Aladdin Sane.
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