Stars honor Prince at Carnegie Hall tribute

D’angelo, Bilal, The Roots, Talib Kweli and more ripped the stage celebrating his Purple Majesty. Tears welled up in the eyes of pixieish jazz singer Kat Edmonson by the end of “The Beautiful Ones,” which she rendered with a pianist whose plaintive playing was already to cry for. The Purple Rain ballad was easily the night’s most arresting moment. And yet: the bluesy, soulful Alice Smith ap...

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