Featuring the remarkable voice of Marilyn McCoo.
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Universal Hall Pass, Asteroids Galaxy Tour, and Metric, featuring Melissa Kaplan, Mette Lindberg, and Emily Haines, respectively.
And: Keren Ann!
Memorable moments from Melanie Safka, Don McLean, Argent, Todd Rundgren, Clint Holmes, The Stylistics, The Main Ingredient, The Hollies, a youthful Michael Jackson, Looking Glass, Gallery, and Climax, featuring Sonny Geraci. So there.
The 1st video is a live performance; the 2nd is the studio version. The last is live, and introduced by Engelbert Humperdinck.
Featuring Levi Stubbs on lead vocal, this combo took the world by storm with a number of hits in the sixties, most memorably with the immortal “Reach Out, I’ll Be There”.
The great Yusef Lateef was an important composer and tenor sax player that also contributed greatly in terms of bringing multi-instrumentalism {including “exotic” choices like the oboe and shehnai…} to jazz. He was also a major figure as far as incorporating “Eastern” sounds to Western music. Fundamentally, though, his massive, brawny, idiosyncratic tenor work alone catapults Yusef into the uppermost echelons.
Edgy, evocative Medieval interpretations, from the album The Shape of Medieval Music to Come, a play on an iconic Ornette Coleman album.
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Talk Talk.
The great mastermind Mark Hollis and colleagues. The band were renowned for their intricate, hypnotic soundscapes. Starting life as synth-poppers, the group evolved quickly and began delving into uncharted, experimental new worlds. The group disbanded in 1991, after recording their final album, Laughing Stock. Hollis retired from the music industry in 1998.
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Getatchew Mekurya.
The “Nightmare Carnival” stylings of saxophone maestro Gétatchèw Mèkurya.
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Burundi.
Mesmerizing music from the Republic of Burundi; truly timeless.
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Islamic Vocalists of Note.
Memorable music from the World of Islam series.
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