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Re:Why Americans Don’t Like Jazz (2003) by WalterBright on Monday July 22, 2019 @12:41AM (#20495377)
> there have not been any groundbreaking new jazz artists in the last 30 years

Amy Winehouse

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Re:Why Americans Don’t Like Jazz (2003) by high_5 on Monday July 22, 2019 @01:27AM (#20495517)
Amy Winehouse had a beautiful voice and really smart backup producers and musicians that refreshed and rehashed old styles of music as new. Beautiful and enjoyable, but not groundbreaking.
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Re:Why Americans Don’t Like Jazz (2003) by WalterBright on Monday July 22, 2019 @03:12AM (#20495887)
As I really enjoy her take on jazz, a genre I'm not really a big fan of, it's groundbreaking as far as I'm concerned :-)

I wouldn't agree she had a beautiful voice, either (Julie Andrews has an incredible voice). It was the way she used it that was new and great. She wrote her own music, I don't think she was a tool of the music producers. I haven't heard anything like her take before or since.

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