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The Quiet Storm
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The Quiet storm was a radio format performed in a smooth, romantic, jazz-influenced style. It was named after the title song on Smokey Robinson's 1975 album, "A Quiet Storm."
The Quiet Storm was melodically soulful music that provided an intimate, laid-back mood for late-night listening. The music selections were initially old, slow romantic songs from black artists of the 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s - a form of easy listening. Remember KBLX?
Ben Fong-Torres of Rolling Stone Magazine called quiet storm a "blend of pop, jazz fusion, and R&B ballads—all elegant and easy-flowing, like a flute of Veuve Clicquot champagne.”
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Scat Singing
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Scat singing is vocal improvisation with wordless vocables or nonsense syllables. In scat singing, the singer improvises melodies and rhythms using the voice solely as an instrument rather than a speaking medium.
Improvisational singing of nonsense syllables occurs in many cultures, such as yodeling, lilting and even "speaking in tongues." Although associated with the Swiss Alps, ethnomusicologists believe that the origins of yodeling can be traced back tens of thousands of years to ancient African nomadic hunter-gatherer societies.
Trumpeter & vocalist Louis Armstrong is generally regarded as the inventor of scat singing in jazz. According to legend, while he was recording “Heebie Jeebies” in 1926, his sheet music fell off the stand during the middle of a take. He couldn’t remember the lyrics, so he sang an improvised solo with nonsensical syllables instead of the proper words.
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Dancin' On A Pin
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How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?
It has come to mean wasting time debating topics of no practical value, or on questions whose answers hold no intellectual consequence, while more urgent concerns accumulate.
“People generally see what they look for, and hear what they listen for.”
― Harper Lee, To Kill A Mockingbird
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Trump's Legal Web
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Donald Trump’s legal web has grown more tangled than ever. The former president is facing 91 criminal charges across four jurisdictions — Georgia, Florida, New York, and the District of Columbia. He has two trial dates set for 2024 so far. And all this is unfolding as he runs for the presidency again.
Any Trump sentence could be scuttled if he wins the presidency. If Trump is back in power, he would likely use executive power to end the federal prosecutions against him and perhaps even pardon himself.
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Artificial Intelligence
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A global technology revolution is now underway. Artificial Intelligence could shape everything about our lives – from where we get our energy, to how we do our jobs, to how we fight our wars.
We need to have a serious conversation about machine policy and ethics. For now, we will allow AI to steadily improve and run amok in society.
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The Swingles
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Ward Lamar Swingle was an American vocalist and jazz musician who founded The Swingle Singers, in France in 1962.
While he was working as a studio session singer, he and seven French colleagues, wanting something novel to put their voices to, tried vocalizing Bach -much like a jazz singer would, using scat syllables. An early hit for The Swingles was Bach's "Air on the G String", recorded with the Modern Jazz Quartet.
The Swingle Singers produced covers ranging from pop songs to classical music to contemporary music. Their arrangements are often infused with jazz harmonies and stylings. They performed at the White House, Carnegie Hall, Alice Tully and Town Halls and the Village Gate in New York and at La Scala in Milan.
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la la la la
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TikTok's newest trend sees users defining themselves as either a Lalala person or an Okokok person. Okokok people are more introverted, laid-back and logical while Lalala people are more extroverted, aloof and charming. Okoko' people are smart, overthink everything and follow the rules. Lalala people are carefree, childish and often break the rules.
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FEEL THE MUSIC
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People who are more empathic toward others are also more likely to have more feeling for the emotions communicated in music.
Music has been called a ‘universal language’ – the language of emotion. When listening to music, much like when we listen to a friend who is in despair, angry or elated, some of us seem to pick up on emotions more readily than others. Perhaps these differences are more than just a product of musical taste.
Is the tendency to contemplate and vicariously experience the emotional content of music related to how attuned someone is to other people’s emotions in general. On the surface, music seems to confer no clear evolutionary advantage to those who participate in it.
“The human capacity for music must be ranked amongst the most mysterious with which he is endowed.”
– Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man (1871)
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OH YEAH!
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OH YEAH! is used to indicate agreement, often sarcastically.
OH YEAH! is used to disprove, sometimes sarcastically.
OH YEAH! is used when suddenly remembering something.
OH YEAH! is used to exclaim excitement and joy.
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GROOVIN 2023
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Imagine a world where we have no troubles or worries. We feel happy and breezy, like the carefree days of summer before school starts. The troubles out there are still awaiting us but, for now, we rest.
“Six days you shall labor, but on the seventh day you shall rest; even during the plowing season and harvest - you must rest.”
- Exodus 34:21
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Steve Shapiro Oakland, California
Steve Shapiro has composed music for hundreds of radio and TV commercials, documentary films, infomercials and other TV programs. He was the music director at Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, which produced hundreds of award-winning educational films and recordings. He has a BA in Music from Brown University and an MA in Music from the Manhattan School of Music. ... more
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