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...hearted, they're also good listening--and almost always on the cutting edge. Stolen Moments: Red Hot + Cool (1994) deftly combines the talents of jazz acts (Ron Carter, Joshua Redman) and hip-hoppers (the Roots, Spearhead). Red Hot + Rio (1996) features such performers as Maxwell, Sting and Cape Verdean singer Cesaria Evora exploring the music of Brazil; a terrific companion CD, Nova Bossa: Red Hot on Verve, showcases the work of Brazilian acts from the '50s, '60s and '70s (Antonio Carlos Jobim, Caetano Veloso...
...only fitting that one of his most ardent adversaries has found himself a choirgirl. Unfortunately, she's not his wife. Rumors have been flying that former Speaker of the House NEWT GINGRICH, 56, was involved with CALLISTA BISEK, 33, a staff member on the House Agriculture Committee and singer in a church choir, well before he filed for divorce from his second wife Marianne. (His first wife was his geometry teacher.) Now Marianne's lawyers have been granted the right to take a videotaped deposition from Bisek as part of the divorce proceedings. "Marianne is prepared to thoroughly investigate...
...executive Ron Fair says the label will "not shackle" Aguilera and envisions TV and even Broadway for her too. "She's our Streisand," says Fair. This week she'll perform with solo piano at Lilith Fair, a reflection of the label's confidence in her as a true singer and not just a studio act. From now on, Aguilera is more likely to be signing autographs than asking for them. And if Fred Durst happens by, he'll just have to go to the end of the line...
There's a long, strong history in R. and B. of female singers taking lovers to task. Pop music, of course, is full of songs about romance gone wrong, but when R.-and-B. divas dress men down, they're often a bit more real. Blues great Bessie Smith, in Hard Time Blues, sang about leaving a man with "dirty ways"; today Erykah Badu castigates her cell phone-hogging lover on her song Tyrone; TLC ridicules deadbeat men on No Scrubs, and the vocal group Destiny's Child cries out for men who can pay their girlfriends' Bills, Bills, Bills...
...Blige is also hard on herself. On Deep Inside, which cleverly incorporates part of Elton John's Bennie and the Jets, she takes a look at her own emotional baggage. On Not Lookin', Blige derides "player sh__" but is confident enough to bring in male singer (and ex-boyfriend) K-Ci Hailey for a sort of vocal debate. Mary is somewhat inconsistent in song quality, but Blige's soul-singed vocals save the weaker material. There are also several high points: on Don't Waste Your Time, Aretha Franklin and Blige stage a soulful summit meeting on trifling...