Who do you think is a 'gay music icon' (besides Lady Gaga)?

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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly9QWRVb_TM&fmt=18"]Let Yourself Go:The Lives of Fred Hersch[/ame]


^ Trailer of the 2008 film (auch verfügbar in Deutsch als Die Leben des Fred Hersch)
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9T7koY7kHHA&fmt=18"]Peri's Scope Fred Hersch and Gary Burton[/ame]


^ From the 1990 album Evanessence: A Tribute to Bill Evans…

(Incidentally, famous vibes player Gary Burton is gay, too)
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Toots Thielemans and Fred Hersch…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CKzpWuIYosY&fmt=18"]Ne me quitte pas (Jacques Brel)[/ame]


^ Live at Lulu White's Mahogany Hall, New Orleans 1985…
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From the Suite Bergamasque by Claude Debussy…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEMWZM3k_q0&fmt=18"]Clair de lune Fred Hersch[/ame]


^ From the 1989 album The French Collection – Fred Hersch (piano) with Steve Laspina (bass), and Joey Baron (drums)
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One more from the 1989 album The French Connection…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZL9fbbrxc30&fmt=18"]Pavane pour une infante defunte (Ravel)[/ame]


^ Fred Hersch (piano) with Kevin Eubanks (acoustic guitar), Steve LaSpina (bass), and Joey Baron (drums)
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBfomCIvzz0&fmt=18"]Etude, op 8, no 2 (Alexander Scriabin)[/ame]


^ From the 1992 album Red Square Blue: Jazz Impressions of Russian Composers – Fred Hersch (piano) with Steve LaSpina (bass), and Jeff Hirshfield (drums)
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czCivvnX0ME&fmt=18"]Heartsong Fred Hersch[/ame]


^ Live at Maybeck Recital Hall, Berkeley CA, October 24, 1993
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[ShihTzuTylenol]

Michael Stipe ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ from r.E.M.
[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-R2hvKDFLHE&feature=related[/ame]

 

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Hang in there, ShihTzu – according to Michael Stipe, REM will be back together for the ‘inevitable reunion tour’…


Joey Arias – 'Gay Music Icon'


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQW9Ufb0VuA&fmt=18"]Joey Arias and Klaus Nomi @ Fiorucci 1979[/ame]


^ Click the link in the top of the video window frame to watch the vid on YouTube


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wQrqgSK8-XU&fmt=18"]‘Dancer Stage Left’ with Klaus Nomi, RAI 1982[/ame]


‘What Power art thou, who from below/Hast made me rise, unwillingly and slow/From beds of everlasting snow?/See'st thou not how stiff, how stiff and wondrous old?/Far unfit to bear the bitter cold?…/I can scarcely move or draw my breath/I can scarcely move or draw my breath…/Let me, let me, let me freeze again/Let me, let me freeze again to death…/Let me, let me, let me/Freeze again/To Death’ ~ John Dryden – librettist of ‘What Power Art Thou (The Cold Song),’ from the 1691 opera King Arthur by Henry Purcell


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GH_h4lCt4Q8&fmt=18"]Whole Lotta Love Joey Arias[/ame]


^ Live with the Squeezebox band, from 2009


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5VK4ymLduo&fmt=18"]Arias with a Twist Finale[/ame]


^ Joey Arias and Basil Twist, from December 2009


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vV6c6waNA6c&fmt=18"]Living for You Joey Arias[/ame]


^ From Strange Fruit, his amazing, one-man show as Billie Holiday, live at the Triple Door, Seattle 2009
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By popular demand (thanks, Mom!), some more songs by Fred Hersch – first up are two from the 1997 album Songs We Know by Fred Hersch and Bill Frisell…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiXOsCjsPHQ&fmt=18"]Someday My Prince Will Come[/ame]


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=07VbLtQLfbw&fmt=18"]My One and Only Love[/ame]
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Two from the 1997 album Thelonious: Fred Hersch Plays Monk…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJY63lw0Wwc&fmt=18"]Let's Cool One Fred Hersch[/ame]


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFFkeBVSHeM&fmt=18"]Light Blue/Pannonica Fred Hersch[/ame]
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Medley of two songs, Black Is the Color of My True Love's Hair and The Love Theme from ‘Spartacus’…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwZ0B4DfdUQ&fmt=18"]Black Is the…/Love Theme Fred Hersch[/ame]


^ From the album Fred Hersch at Jordan Hall: Let Yourself Go – recorded live at The New England Conservatory of Music, Boston, October 13, 1998
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Two from the 1999 album Fred Hersch in Amsterdam: Live at the Bimhuis…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-9kSenW28k&fmt=18"]O grande amor (by Antonio Carlos Jobim)[/ame]


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKpWla2rc90&fmt=18"]At the Close of the Day Fred Hersch[/ame]
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Finally, for today, three from the 2001 album Songs Without Words…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uclVmHgak1k&fmt=18"]Tango Fred Hersch[/ame]


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BS4jNJj-yo&fmt=18"]Don't Fence Me In Fred Hersch[/ame]


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dianRYQMK8U&fmt=18"]Con Alma (by Dizzy Gillespie) Fred Hersch[/ame]
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Fred Hersch, live at the Chivas Jazz Festival, São Paulo 2002…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFU1C51NrzA&fmt=18"]Mood Indigo (Duke Ellington) Fred Hersch[/ame]


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuOZBgsIgeY&fmt=18"]So in Love (Cole Porter) Fred Hersch[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bjw369iAdkY&fmt=18"]Work (Thelonious Monk) Fred Hersch[/ame]


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7PWwB1ztoak&fmt=18"]I Mean You (Thelonious Monk) Fred Hersch[/ame]


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYhx3Y_6ZTM&fmt=18"]Whisper Not (Benny Golson) Fred Hersch[/ame]
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Two original compositions – the first, a new variation on the opening theme (‘Aria’) of The Goldberg Variations by Johann Sebastian Bach…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZrq428zln8&fmt=18"]Aria (Bach) Fred Hersch[/ame]


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNwwSqQrIJw&fmt=18"]Endless Stars Fred Hersch[/ame]
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More from the Chivas Jazz Festival in São Paulo 2002 – singer Luciana Souza with Fred Hersch (piano), Alberto Contentino (bass), and Márcio Bahia (drums)…


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pafo2CuYkZA&fmt=18"]Viver de amor Luciana Souza & Trio[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZqHxzWMGR4&fmt=18"]Pra que discutir com madame Luciana Souza[/ame]
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[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mn_cPlzGE5o&fmt=18"]Suas Mãos Luciana Souza & Trio[/ame]
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