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...Around us, business meetings were in full swing with groups of (mainly) men in crisp white shirts and V-necks talking quietly over pots of coffee....
...This self-titled album starts with the declamatory brass of “Martini Sweet” supported by a bustle of back beats and testy double bass, and continues with the spiritual “Koko-v-Dank” unfolding over a two-chord...
...“Something Changed” signalled a shift in trajectory, dedicated to the memory of Steve Mackey, the former Pulp bass guitarist who died this year....
...In London, too, February is going to be a gala month, with the cream of the crop being the V&A’s hosting of the magnificent display of the works of Donatello — possibly the first ever in the British capital...
...Here, flurries of bass gain sparse support and dramatic thumps add drama to long-held bowed bass tones....
...But for the most part, the suite’s strong emotions are launched by sonic fragments from Cohen’s simpatico band: a hiss of cymbals and a roll of mallets on “Part IV”, on “Part V” a sequence of passing chords...
...“Nature V Nurture” found Lockheart ruminating on harmony’s edge, first on soprano and then on tenor sax....
...Comfort and freedom of movement was a major motivation for Guy Berryman, best known as the bass player with the band Coldplay, when he launched his workwear-inspired menswear label Applied Art Forms last...
...Bass Kevin Burdette, not always sounding comfortable, dips into Camelot for “If Ever I Would Leave You” and Morris Robinson grandly invokes “The Impossible Dream” from Man of La Mancha....
...The Israeli company, which has more than 20m registered users, will combine with Fintech Acquisition Corp V, the special purpose acquisition company set up by banking tycoon Betsy Cohen, in one of the largest...
...I was quite involved with the V&A show [2014 Floyd exhibition Their Mortal Remains] and that was part of the driver for this. I really enjoyed working on it, but something was missing....
...“What you’re seeing is an expectation of a V-shaped recovery and that may prove to be too optimistic,” said one equity analyst....
...And the best gift I’ve received recently was my Höfner Club Bass guitar. It’s the brand played by my idol Tina Weymouth of Talking Heads and the Tom Tom Club....
...Last year, Taillevent’s owners hired chef David Bizet from the Four Seasons’ George V to reinvent and modernise the menu....
...If there’s one thing duller than a drum solo, it’s a bass solo. But still Rob Trujillo was granted one....
...Marielle V Jakobsons Star Core (Thrill Jockey) Marielle V Jakobsons is one half of Date Palms, a Californian duo who specialise in slow-motion psychedelia, atmospherically so on their 2013 album The Dusted...
...His new V-A-C art centre in Moscow is set to open in 2018 or 2019, housed in a defunct electrical power station....
...Even without the separate sub, I could feel the Play:5’s bass rumble. Its combination of three mid-woofers and three tweeters handled piano solos just as well as pounding hip-hop....
...But he struggled to regain his musical touch in the 1990s, chasing trends such as drum-and-bass and techno....
...And just in case you don’t, the R Kelly acolyte spells out his intentions much more explicitly elsewhere on Trigga, the remorselessly amorous follow-up to his US chart-topper Chapter V....
...Urban Strings, a scratch band assembled for the show from a handful of the most oddball of Europe’s baroque instrumental elite, as willing to dance a reel in tartan socks as to improvise around a ground bass...
...The “v” was added so people searching for them on the internet wouldn’t find themselves confronted by Wikipedia’s entry for “Church (Building)” or Norfolk’s ecclesiastical architecture....
...Curtis’s eloquent past works, such as The Power of Nightmares, put forward intellectually demanding and provocative conspiracy theories; Massive Attack’s tired, druggy bass lines are the very soundtrack...
...Gerald Clayton and Christian McBride push envelopes on piano and bass; guests include veteran trumpeter Clark Terry. Highly recommended....
...“V (Island Song)” began with a piano making dissonant patterns alongside Barnett’s unmelodic sing-speak....
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