There are still many great surviving talents: Stevie Winwood. Another great talent is Stevie Wonder.
AHMET ERTEGUNI’ve been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging.
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I’ve been in the studio when you go through a track and you run down a track and you know even before the singer starts singing, you know the track is swinging.
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People like Clyde McPhatter who came out of the black churches – like Sam Cooke and Aretha Franklin – were all church singers who became great pop singers because gospel singing is very close to the blues.
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The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his lifes work.
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There’s been so much bad blood between the Kurds and the Turks.
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My father believed very strongly in Ataturk. Ataturk was a very powerful man and a man of great vision.
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I became a jazz fan quite early and never went off the path thereafter.
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My first wife was a theater person.
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Everyone felt like they knew Ray Charles and in a way they did, because he was embodied by his music.
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If I’d have continued it might have killed me. My doctor said I should stick to wine.
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The all-time greatest Atlantic group – The Drifters
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I first heard Laura Branigan sing live in my brother Nesuhi’s apartment, where we had gone because he had a very good piano. I immediately realized that she had a great pop voice, in the classical sense.
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Ataturk saw where history was going. He really did in Turkey what we are all hoping somebody will do in [Islamic] countries where fundamentalists thrive, that they get somebody today that has the vision that Ataturk had in 1915.
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Another one is Eric Clapton. Another one is Phil Collins. Eminem, Kanye West I like all those people.
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You know you have a multimillion-seller hit – and what you’re working on suddenly has magic.
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Laura had an instinctive feel for music and melody, and her delivery was sensational.
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