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Cassandra Wilson

Cassandra Wilson (born 4th December 1955) is a U.S. jazz vocalist and two-time Grammy Award winner from Jackson, Mississippi. Two of her albums, Blue Skies (1988) and New Moon Daughter (1996), have topped the US jazz charts, and the latter also won her a Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Performance in 1997. More recently, Wilson's latest album Loverly (2008) also won the Grammy for Best Jazz Vocal Album at the 51st Grammy Awards in 2009.

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Female jazz vocalists

jazz female vocalists

vocals

grammy: best jazz vocal album 2009

female blues vocalist

The Greatest of All Time

grammy: best jazz vocal performance 1997

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Severn

-Tom Popperwell.
-Radiohead meets Breakcore in a perfect way.
-Five stars.
-http://www.myspace.com/80084910 -There's also a heavy rock band from Norwich with the same band name, but I actually don't care about them.

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Contemporary

breakcore

the dancefloor is a scary place

experimental

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Cadillac Kings

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Dan Clews

Dan Clews does the Kent county proud with a classic but contemporary roots infused folk sound that strolls through elements of Americana, country and even Swedish indie. A fast rising star enjoying great radio support and shared stages with some of the biggest names in music, Dan’s upcoming album is hotly anticipated

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Piano Circus

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pianocircus formed in 1989 to play Steve Reich's Six Pianos, and has since created a repertoire of over eighty works; the majority are written specially for the ensemble and include pieces by Kevin Volans, Graham Fitkin, Brian Eno, Louis Andriessen, Erkki-Sven Tuur, Terry Riley, Nikki Yeoh and Heiner Goebbels. pianocircus has released seven CDs with Decca and now has three CDs available on its own label. members

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contemporary classical

Classical

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Lee Tobin

Dublin, Ireland. Jazz, Rock and Classical influences. More info on leetobin.com

Ben Owen

http://benowen.org ben owen is based in brooklyn NY

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Djinn

There are at least four artists with this name:
1) Djinn is an Italian depressive-industrial-ambient act formed in 1999 by Alex Vintras. His music combines the atmospheric layers and reverberations prominent in dark ambient music, and combines it with the experimentation and rhythmic qualities of second-wave industrial music. His work is known to commonly use samples from multiple sources, be it field recordings of Gregorian chants, audio clips from famous films, or even snippets of classical compositions.

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Thomas Brinkmann

Thomas Brinkmann (born 1959) is a highly regarded German producer of experimental minimal techno music. Although experimenting with records since the early eighties, he gained wide reputation with his re-workings of material by fellow artists Mike Ink and Richie Hawtin released in the second half of the 90s. These productions were made by playing physically modified vinyl records on highly customized turntables with an additional tone arm.

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knarziges klickgefrickel

from fh library 120617

future-past-now

drjazzmrfunkmusic

germanja

nu-bluz funky grooves in the e-lounge

abstract machine world

fusion festival 2008

primavera sound 2008

artig

artists reviewed in groove magazine

darker than the deepest sea

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Albert Ketèlbey

Albert William Ketèlbey (9 August 1875 – 26 November 1959) was an English composer, conductor and pianist. Biography Ketèlbey was born in Alma Street in the Lozells area of Birmingham, England, the son of George Ketelbey (written with no accent), and Sarah Aston. At the age of eleven he wrote a piano sonata that won praise from Edward Elgar. Ketèlbey attended the Trinity College of Music in London...

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