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...An iridescent spree” — stand on bass-driven funk conjured by producer Don Was....
...Since then, the duo have honed their knack for catchy, clubby melodies that fuse disco, funk, soul and hip hop, building a major international following in the process....
...The “I Try” singer and her backing band turn “Christmas Time Is Here” from A Charlie Brown Christmas into a mellow cocktail-hour shimmer and take a cool jazz-funk turn through James Brown’s “Santa Claus...
...Natixis’s Alicia Garcia Herrero and Jianwei Xu said state-led investment will be the key to a recovery (just like the last few times China found itself in an economic funk)....
...Normally, these are woven into the warm fabric of acoustic jazz, but here they vibrated with grainy funk sonics and lean hip-hop beats....
...Music is a major passion, and his latest collection “Dark Haze” imagined a musician’s stage wardrobe inspired by the appeal of the guitar, and “black rock, punk and funk”....
...but here careening over underground funk....
...The film It’s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown is based on which cartoon strip? The Easter story is told in all four gospels of the New Testament — what are those gospels called?...
...funk....
...A cover of Charlie Haden’s abstract sketch “Playing” shows off the band’s collective strengths while Ornette Coleman’s ““Comme Il Faut” finds the quartet at its most spiritual....
...“Spiritron” finds the sextet’s other vocalist Charlie Levanac heading for “destination unknown” amid splashy cosmic synths and propulsive beats....
...New composition “Slippage Street” rides out on the urgent rhythms of urban funk; “Little Petheridge” on the shifting colours of a classical cadence. ★★★★☆...
...Bombino reduced Touareg guitar music to full-on blues-funk....
...Elsewhere he adopts a quiet croon, soft-shoeing his way through bossa nova on “Theme for a Taiwanese Woman in Lime Green” and quavering like a folk-rock Bryan Ferry in “Good Time Charlie”....
...He played with Charlie Parker in the 1940s as part of the bebop movement; he launched “cool” jazz in 1948 alongside arranger Gil Evans, and had spent the mid-1950s playing hard bop, churning out jazz standards...
...She returned on her own for a confident “Little Fly”, only adding the band for a raw and raucous “I Want It Now” from Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. esperanzaspalding.com...
...But the spirits of Charlie Parker and John Coltrane were never far away, while the long-drawn, emotionally draining finale played out to a soundtrack of diamond-hard funk....
...Davis has a distinctive voice; sudden bursts of harmonic inspiration bear Charlie Parker’s stamp, but the blues accents, vibrato and fragments of tune are of his own making....
...In “Scream (Funk My Life Up)” Nutini sang about driving a woman whose name he didn’t know wild with passion; in “Coming Up Easy” he professed love to his inamorata while confessing he had to leave her; and...
...Halfway through Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, the questing yuppie played by Charlie Sheen is shown around a prospective home by a realtor....
...Max Gordon died in 1989 and you only have to reel off the names of the artists he hired to play here — Thelonious Monk, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Billie Holiday, Sonny Rollins, Bill Evans, Miles Davis...
...But his preferred support is the disciplined hardcore urban funk that a succession of top-drawer Americans played when they sat in at Charlie Wright’s late-night jams – drummer Chris Dave and musicians from...
...Taylor brought a hint of funk to the lesser-known “Waiting for Charlie (To Come Home)”....
...Charlie Winston asks in his new album....
...And then later funk came along and had a big influence. Now, said Potter, “there’s a lot more communication, in a way, a lot more possibilities....
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