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Louis Armstrong　

Louis Armstrong was the first important soloist to emerge in jazz, and he became the most influential musician in the music’s history. As a trumpet virtuoso, his playing, beginning with the 1920 ..more

Louis Armstrong / Duke Ellington　

Luiz Bonfa　

Although overshadowed by the towering figure of Antonio Carlos Jobim and to a lesser extent by Joao Gilberto, Luiz Bonfa was right there at the birth of bossa nova as well. In fact, at least ..more

Luciana Souza　

Luciana Souza’s first solo album was An Answer to Your Silence (NYC Records, 1999). The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop and Other Songs (Sunnyside Records, 2000) was fifth place in {~The New ..more

Ludovico Einaudi　

Pianist and composer Ludovico Einaudi was born in Turin, November 23, 1955. His mother, also a pianist, would play for him as a young child, planting the seeds for what would become a fruitful, ill ..more

LUNA SEA　

Renaissance　

The history of Renaissance is essentially the history of two separate groups, rather similar to the two phases of the Moody Blues or the Drifters. The original group was founded in 1969 by ex ..more

Lumineers　

The Lumineers, a folk-rock trio out of Denver, Colorado, deliver an acoustic-based Americana sound that touches a lot of stylistic bases, from folk to gospel to heartland rock and the narrative end ..more

Lou Ragland　

Luke Bryan　

Singer and songwriter Luke Bryan comes by his country influences naturally： he grew up in Leesburg, Georgia, a small town 100 miles from the Alabama border where his father grew peanuts and sold ..more

Luther Vandross　

Luther Vandross was one of the most successful R＆B artists of the 1980s and ’90s. Not only did he score a series of multi-million-selling albums containing chart-topping hit singles and perform ..more

ROOSTERS　

Root 5　

Lou Donaldson　

Lou Donaldson has long been an excellent bop altoist influenced by Charlie Parker, but with a more blues-based style of his own. His distinctive tone has been heard in a variety of small-group s ..more

Rumer　

Heavily influenced by Burt Bacharach and blessed with effortless velvet-smooth vocals, Anglo-Pakistani singer/songwriter Rumer harks back to the early-’70s easy listening sounds of Karen Carpe ..more

Lou Reed　

The career of Lou Reed defies capsule summarization. Like David Bowie (whom Reed directly inspired in many ways), he has made over his image many times, mutating from theatrical glam rocke ..more