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Within a business that reinvents itself at every turn, Alex Chilton thrived for four decades using a three-fold career — his early recordings using the Box Tops, the albums he did with Big Star within the middle-’70s and following the group re-formed with a fresh lineup in 1993, as well …

One of the better jazz performers of her era, Dee Dee Bridgewater had to go to France to get herself. She performed in Michigan through the ’60s and toured the Soviet Union in 1969 using the University or college of Illinois Big Music group. She sang using the Thad Jones/Mel …