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  Blues in the Night review: Sharon D Clarke sings the blues in haunting tribute to power of music

  If the London stage has its own seven wonders, then one of them is surely Sharon D Clarke. After picking up an Olivier for her sensational turn in Caroline, Or Change, the star with the roof-lifting voice brings the house down again as she sings the blues at the Kiln Theatre.Set in an shabby Chicago hotel in the Thirties, Sheldon Epps’s musical revue uses jazz and blues numbers by the likes of Bessie Smith to convey the dreams and disappointments of a group of three women, all haunted by the sam

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  The Guardian

  Aretha Franklin obituary

  On a crisp, sparkling day in January 2009, Aretha Franklin stood on the steps of the Capitol in Washington, an ample figure swathed in a spectacular ensemble of coat and hat in two shades of grey, singing My Country, ’Tis of Thee to her new president. All around her, and down the full length of the National Mall, the vast audience included African Americans with tears in their eyes, celebrating the inauguration of Barack Obama. Franklin, who has died aged 76, sounded exalted that day.

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  The Telegraph

  The 100 greatest jazz recordings

  The 100 greatest jazz recordings

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  The Guardian

  What links grape harvest, mist, frost, snowy, rainy, windy (and six others)? The Weekend quiz

  Photograph: Mike Hutchings/Reuters The questions

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  An utterly intoxicating evening with Billie Holiday - Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Wyndham’s Theatre, review 

  An utterly intoxicating evening with Billie Holiday - Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar & Grill, Wyndham’s Theatre, review 

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