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...There are many figures from Marley’s life represented here — including long-standing bass player Aston Barrett, who died earlier this month, and who is played by his son Aston Barrett Jr....
...Bassist Charles, aka producer Ben Marc and a longtime associate of Dizzee Rascal, combined rhythmic muscle with free-jazz flow, and locked tightly into Davis’s brittle fractured grooves....
...The unenviable task of following Ben Kingsley’s mesmerising, terrifying turn as Don falls to Emun Elliott....
...Earl of Mountararat — with newcomers Catherine Wyn-Rogers, a warm-voiced Queen of the Fairies, and G&S specialist John Savournin as the Lord Chancellor....
...Ben Thatcher is the drummer: his parts are full of action and detail without becoming overbearing. Meanwhile, Kerr sings and plays a bass guitar tricked out to sound like lead guitar: that’s the twist....
...Other former Downing Street advisers including Ben Gascoigne and Dan Rosenfield are also on the list....
...Among its gruelling, sometimes lethal array of exercises were 36-hour expeditions across the moors and up to the top of Ben Nevis....
...NON-FICTION JANUARY Judgement at Tokyo: World War II on Trial and the Making of Modern Asia by Gary J Bass (Picador/Knopf) A magisterial history of the trial of Japan’s wartime leaders — the largely overlooked...
...happy hour (5-7pm), with six oysters and a pint of Guinness for £15 Website; Directions Darby’s is a homage to chef-proprietor Robin Gill’s late father, the trumpet-playing, jazz musician/bandleader Earl...
...She was in Postal Service, a band with Ben Gibbard of Death Cab for Cutie. In 2006 she decided to try to go solo, and she’s come out with five solo albums since. Now she’s 47 and she’s still doing it....
...A quartet came next, led by multi-instrumentalist Ben LaMar Gay, based on his album Open Arms to Open Us....
...They went to extol the sound of double bass, piano and drums wafting from open double doors: “Thank you Arctic Monkeys.”...
...This was big, grown-up stuff: full orchestra, six percussionists, drum kit and electric bass, ranks of brass....
...There are also underlying synthesiser textures from Earl Howard, a longtime Davis collaborator, plus spoken words from many of the (masked) Philharmonic musicians....
...After that introduction, it plunges into “Analog Bedoui”, dominated by a squelchy bass synthesiser pattern with more wailing artificial reeds, muezzin-style vocals and the hint of street chatter at the edges...
...Hedge fund manager Kyle Bass stopped investing in China 12 years ago. After studying the country’s banking system and the strategy of policy officials....
...Casting, Sarah Booth at Ben Grimes Casting. Hair, Yumi Nakada Dingle at Management Artists. Make-up, Bari Khalique, using SS22 La Pausa de Chanel and Chanel Hydra Beauty....
...As on their first collaboration, 2016’s The Declaration of Musical Independence, Ben Street anchors the band on bass and the drummer decorates the pulse with pings, rattles and taps, adding texture with...
...Ben Glassberg conducts the Glyndebourne Tour Orchestra with a dash of period style and some up-tempo speeds....
...Alongside Ben Thatcher on drums is Mike Kerr, who sings and plays bass....
...Baroness Meta Ramsay orders a cup of Earl Grey tea and urges me to try a scone....
...The breathy opening melody of “Oh, Louise”, and the way it then crashes into the song proper as Ben Varian’s drums and Ben Schwab’s bass lock into a rocking rhythm is a trick Carole King might have pulled...
...Festival director Ben Evans describes Crawford as “a design polymath” who has influenced a generation of designers through her work....
...While you take in Brooks’s Palladian façade by Henry Holland, think of how the sandwich was reputedly invented here by the eponymous earl not wanting to interrupt a particularly intense gambling session...
...Part of the fun is lost when “Mother” is no longer a bass in drag, merely one of a male quartet....
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