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...trade up to West Coast jazz fusion - a connoisseur's form that mingled jazz, pop, R&B and funk, setting store above all on sheen and virtuosity. Although derided by jazz traditionalists, the genre had an exotic sophistication to middle-class Asian ears - and Jarreau was its house vocalist, his marvel of a voice swooping out of the speakers in Hong Kong penthouses and Tokyo wine bars...
...going home from school. I saw a black and white couple sitting there and started thinking about it. I finished it sitting outside my guidance counselor's office. We moved to New York three or four months later and I started banging on doors. I was friends with [guitarist-vocalist] Gary Davis and his wife, and they took me down to the Gaslight Café and tried to convince the owner, Clarence Hood, to let me open for Gary. When he refused, Mrs. Davis told him that Gary wasn't feeling well and they had to cancel...
Pearl Jam came together as a serendipitous offshoot of a Sub Pop band called Green River. Rock legend, passed along by the resentful, has it that bassist Jeff Ament and guitarist Stone Gossard split from that band because the lead vocalist wanted to stay true to the experimental spirit of alternative rock, while Ament and Gossard wanted to become big-time rock stars. The band they formed, Mother Love Bone, combined a heavy-metal sound with bouncy tunes. Just as the group seemed ready to break through in 1990, its lead singer died of a heroin overdose...
...Thirty-three years after its birth, however, Journey is getting a second lease on life - and from a most unexpected quarter. In December, the band signed on new lead vocalist Arnel Pineda, a Filipino singer whom they found leading a Manila cover band. Six months later, the group kicked off a tour of Europe and the U.S. and released Revelation, an album featuring new songs and rerecorded classics that, two weeks after its debut, was the fifth highest-selling album in the States...
...with relatives. Not wanting to burden his father, Pineda struck out on his own, collecting newspapers and bottles, and living on the street for nearly two years. When he was 15, a friend encouraged him to start singing again, beginning Pineda's 25-year career as a cover-band vocalist in the Philippines and Hong Kong...