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			<title><![CDATA[Review: A fascinating education in 'The Jazz Standards']]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2012-07-22 00:00:00</pubDate>
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The Jazz Standards
A Guide to the Repertoire

Ted Gioia
Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95
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I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Year-end Top 10 list: August Brown]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-12-23 21:36:06</pubDate>
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The Jazz Standards
A Guide to the Repertoire

Ted Gioia
Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95
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I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Friday's Highlights: 'Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys' on Sundance]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-11-17 21:35:45</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[--------------------


The Jazz Standards
A Guide to the Repertoire

Ted Gioia
Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95
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I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[The Arts on TV: Sister Wendy; Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-09-08 16:33:13</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[--------------------


The Jazz Standards
A Guide to the Repertoire

Ted Gioia
Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95
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I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Ken Burns, Steve Martin and the cosmos coming to PBS' fall lineup]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2011-05-09 16:36:18</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[--------------------


The Jazz Standards
A Guide to the Repertoire

Ted Gioia
Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95
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I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Rihanna's 'Russian Roulette' is loaded -- but what does it say?]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2009-11-04 16:34:06</pubDate>
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The Jazz Standards
A Guide to the Repertoire

Ted Gioia
Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95
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I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Live: Maxwell and Jill Scott at Staples Center]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2010-06-06 16:36:06</pubDate>
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The Jazz Standards
A Guide to the Repertoire

Ted Gioia
Oxford University Press: 528 pp., $39.95
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I like jazz but I don't know much about it. Or perhaps I should say that I know what I like. Duke Ellington,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Obama's gospel mistake]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-oe-ehrenstein31oct31,0,4446149.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2007-10-31 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Politics have provided gay Americans like myself with no end of schadenfreude in recent years, what with the antics of Mark Foley, Larry Craig and other I'm-not-gay Republicans. But last weekend, a competing Democratic farce debuted: Barack Obama's...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[High-minded lowdown]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/et-fiedler,0,3301635.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2008-05-04 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In the long and often embarrassing history of intellectuals' attempts to grapple with pop culture, there are, at least, a few high points. One of them is the work of the late Leslie Fiedler, the garrulous and provocative critic of literature who could...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Mae Mercer dies at 76; blues singer also had a Hollywood career]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2008-11-13 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Mae Mercer, a deep-voiced blues singer who spent much of the 1960s performing at a blues bar in Paris and touring Europe before launching an acting career back home in films and television, has died. She was 76.

Mercer was found dead Oct. 29 at her...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[PASSINGS]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/la-me-passings24-2008nov24,0,355150.story?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2008-11-24 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Ibrahim Nasir
Maldives' 1st president

Ibrahim Nasir, 82, who led the Maldives' independence movement from the British and became the archipelago's first president, died Saturday at a Singapore hospital, Ahmed Shaeed, the foreign minister of the Maldives,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[A Southern classic]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2003-06-15 00:00:00</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[They've just unleashed the dawgs on the streets of this college town &#8212; 36 fanciful fiberglass bulldogs that will be permanent works of public art in and around the historic downtown and on the campus of the University of Georgia, home of the Georgia...]]></description>
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