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A Love Song, a Restaurant, and a Cookbook

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By Steve Hochman Verified
| SPIN Magazine
Remember a time when you first heard a song that changed your life? Nikki Hill really remembers when she first heard singer-songwriter Claire Wadsworth’s “Vows.” Every detail. “It was at our wedding,” Hill says, laughing alongside Wadsworth as the two Zoom from the kitchen of their home in the Southern California high-desert town of Landers. That was March 18, 2015, at their ceremony near a waterfall outside of Solvang, just north of Santa Barbara. “Her sister was our officiant,” Hill says.
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Our Annual Grandparents' Guide to Today's Pop Artists Original

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By Steve Hochman Verified
| Kiplinger Verified
Follow us Add us as a preferred source on Google Subscribe to our newsletter (Image credit: PHOTO BY ALIYAH OTCHERE) There is more great music being made today than ever before. Yes, we said it. Whatever you may consider the “golden age” — the '60s, the '70s, the '80s, the Jazz Age, the Baroque period, you name it — there is simply a greater quantity of top-flight creativity coming from every continent, every culture, every style, every genre today. Sorting through it? Well, that's the problem.
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THE INNOVATOR - SPIN Original

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By Steve Hochman Verified
| SPIN Magazine
Trumpeter Amir ElSaffar, born and raised outside Chicago by his Iraqi immigrant father and American mother, had a great epiphany about 20 years ago at jazz piano pioneer Cecil Taylor’s house. “It was 5.00 AM and the sun was coming up,” ElSaffar recounts. There was a grand piano in the living room, long-neglected, that Taylor said he could try. “Apparently he didn’t let many people touch his piano. I’m not a very good piano player.
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