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... that Eddie Bayers replaced his mentor, the late Larrie Londin, as the drummer for The Notorious Cherry Bombs?
... that Brett Beavers was the bandleader and bass player for both Martina McBride and Lee Ann Womack?
... that Chuck McCoy was inducted into the Canadian Music Industry Hall of Fame and received a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2009?
... that the song "For a Friend" from The Communards' album Red was written in memory of Mark Aston, a friend of the band members, who died from AIDS?
... that Eric Bachmann from Crooked Fingers provided backing vocals on the song "Simple Hello" from the Damien Jurado album On My Way to Absence?
... that The Flys have played on the same bill as the Buzzcocks, The Psychedelic Furs, the Pretenders, and Black Slate?
... that Stone Jam was Slave's second album to be certified Gold and was named by Jam-Master Jay of Run–D.M.C. as one of his favorite albums?
... that The Great White Wonder was named the best album of 1991 that 'You Didn't Hear' by Spin?
... that the album Tarik O'Regan: Threshold of Night by the choral group Conspirare was nominated for two Grammy Awards?

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... that Dave Douglas got the name for his album Strange Liberation from a phrase used by Martin Luther King, Jr. in reference to America's involvement in the Vietnam War?
... that the song "Mr. Malcontent" on the Lloyd Cole and the Commotions album Mainstream is based on the character played by Daniel Day-Lewis in My Beautiful Laundrette?
... that Dani Siciliano wanted her cover of Nirvana's "Come as You Are", from her album Likes..., to have the feel of a jazz standard?
... that the track "Palermo" from the Chicago Underground Trio's album Slon contains recorded sounds from a Sicilian fish market?
... that Joey DeFrancesco's tribute to Michael Jackson, Never Can Say Goodbye: The Music of Michael Jackson, was nominated for a Grammy Award?
... that Stanley Clarke's album The Stanley Clarke Band won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary Jazz Album?
... that the Grammy-nominated album Now Is the Time features the Blood, Sweat & Tears horn section on two of its tracks?
... that John McLaughlin's Grammy nominated album To the One was inspired by John Coltrane's album A Love Supreme?
... that Lenny Kravitz was a guest musician on Backatown, the major label debut by his former apprentice Trombone Shorty?

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... that James Moody (pictured) received his first Grammy Award for Moody 4B after he died?
... that "Zawinul's Mambo" from the Grammy winning Chucho's Steps was dedicated to Joe Zawinul who heard a recording of it before he died?
... that Keith Richards made a guest appearance on Phantom, Rocker & Slick's debut album?
... that after more than 40 years as a recording artist, 31 studio albums and one award as an art director, Neil Young won his first Grammy Award as a musician for "Angry World"?
... that "Hammerhead" by Jeff Beck won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Rock Instrumental Performance?
... that Urbanus, the Grammy nominated album by Stefon Harris, was recorded in the days leading up to Barack Obama's inauguration?
... that jazz guitarist Julian Lage recorded his Grammy-nominated debut album Sounding Point when he was only 20 years old?
... that Philippe Saisse's Grammy-nominated album At World's Edge was dedicated to his father Maurice?
... that Steve Vai plays the sitar on "Moroccan Roll", a track from Mike Stern's Grammy-nominated album Big Neighborhood?
... that most of 75 was recorded on Joe Zawinul's 75th birthday and about two months before he died?

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... that Philippe Saisse's Grammy-nominated album At World's Edge was dedicated to his father Maurice?
... that Steve Vai plays the sitar on "Moroccan Roll", a track from Mike Stern's Grammy-nominated album Big Neighborhood

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