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...He has fallen off the jazz radar of late, but remains busy behind the scenes in high-profile hip-hop and R&B — credits range from Nas and Mos Def to Mary J Blige and Kendrick Lamar....
...The conclusion by Goldman’s David Mericle and Ronnie Walker is that unless all these risks are come to pass, they are not large enough individually to trigger a recession....
...At Ronnie Scott’s, across two virtually uninterrupted sets, they exhibited the compressed energy of a band on the road....
...Opening the West Holts stage on Friday were the Star Feminine Band from Benin. “We are the same,” the all-female troupe chorused, dressed in identikit African patterns....
...At this intimate first-house set, she held the audience in her spell with a well-worked and original blend of subtle R&B and soulful modal jazz. Songs from her highly praised Impulse!...
...Vocalist Loria gave a shy R&B rendition of “Forever Mine”, from Sparks’s current release....
...When Frank came out, she was briefly labelled the “British Badu” due to the influence of one of her favourite artists, the innovative US soul and R&B singer Erykah Badu....
...Trumpeter Marquis Hill’s 2011 recording debut New Gospel delivered acoustic modern-jazz virtuosity and a clutch of themes that were loosely informed by the rhythms and riffs of hip-hop, house and R&B....
...The backing band gave their 1990s R&B hits an old-fashioned soul revue feel, while super-slick dancers did backflips....
...Alphawave has even teased the idea of setting up a new R&D centre in Cambridge, in the so-called “Silicon Fen” that ARM also calls home....
...But narcotics blew his blend of big band jazz, showboating R&B and late-night modernism off course....
...Conductor/arranger Barker began the evening with a noirish concerto of his own and introduced the second half with a medley of modern jazz classics celebrating 60 years of Ronnie Scott’s club....
...He also released a single with an R&B outfit called Ronnie and the Delinquents, formed with his friend Ronnie Barron....
...There were imperious dance moves, defiantly in the mould of disgraced brother Michael, while the sharp contours of her 1980s R&B hits gleamed amid the setlist’s over-rushed tempo....
...Now 52, Garrett’s angular phrases, rhythmic twists and razor-sharp articulation fuse the legacies of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane with the power of R&B....
...Then the insistent rhythms of “Four Play” were followed by the R&B of Earl King’s “Trick Bag”. Audience participation came mid-set with a tongue twister....
...Like many Americans who play Ronnie Scott’s, Ben Williams followed up an easy-tempo opener with comments on the rush from airport to stage....
...Potter growled out R&B sax, the band played the blues and Hussain’s vocals added Indian flavours to the timbres of rock and roll....
...The next song, “Loving Someone”, was butter-smooth pop-R&B, an abrupt transition expressive of the jarring sense of disorientation that overhung the festival....
...Lewis, who played London’s Ronnie Scott’s club in February, still performs “Wade in the Water” when he tours....
...Yet David Sanborn’s soulful mix of blues holler and angular modernism has defined the sound of sax in pop and R&B for more than two decades....
...In Patrick Marmion’s play, radical psychiatrist R.D. Laing faces a dual crisis....
...For the most part, Glasper was spinning contemporary pop, R&B and in-style originals into the intense and intensely personal piano-trio jazz of his current CD Covered....
...Pianist Vernell Brown delivered pulsating lines and strong two-handed rhythm, acoustic bassist Corcoran Holt punched out riffs with a round, woody tone and drummer McClenty Hunter was a fury of scattered...
...In 2009, he joined Henry Holt and Company as president and publisher....
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