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...It all began in the spring of 1959, when bassist and composer Charles Mingus entered Columbia Records’ 30th Street studio in New York and recorded a tribute to the great tenor saxophonist Lester Young, who...
...At one of them, Birdland in midtown Manhattan, she saw many of that era’s greats: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Stan Getz, Dizzy Gillespie, Charles Mingus and Lester Young....
...A feeling shared by Lester Sloan, a black American veteran photojournalist, who revisited Saint-Paul in 2022 after first photographing Baldwin’s house in 1990....
...King Charles III, then Prince of Wales, grins in a carefree way not seen much in the five decades since....
...Charles Duncan, an analyst at Cantor Fitzgerald, says institutional investors are interested, but so far only “very casually”....
...Just over 60 years ago English National Opera gave the first English-language production of Janacek’s The Cunning Little Vixen under the advocacy of former music director Charles Mackerras, who made the...
...There’s also Helen McCrory in Medea, Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear in Nicholas Hytner’s excellent Othello, the beautiful Amadeus with Lucian Msamati and Helen Mirren in Phèdre....
...One Bartlett work that certainly divided opinion was King Charles III....
...Edward Parks’s lightish baritone served handsomely for two lyrical songs by Charles Ives and brought out the drama of the composer’s “General William Booth”....
...The big-name businesses won’t be allowed, adds Lester, who is hunting for companies that are “on-brand with Hackney Wick”. One wonders what Edwin makes of that....
...Charles Sacilotto, from France, bought a wooden house on an island in the Stockholm archipelago in 2002....
...Sanborn was close to trumpeter Lester Bowie and saxophonist Hamiet Bluiett, both of whom went on to successful avant-garde jazz careers....
...“This should allow foreign investors to have more direct control over the assets of these companies,” said Lester Ross, a lawyer at the firm Wilmerhale in Beijing....
...The chancellor’s move would “send shockwaves through the London market”, said Jamie Lester of Haus Properties, adding: “A lot of lawyers will be working late into tonight.”...
...Jamie Lester, managing director of Haus Properties, says the market in Chiswick has revived since October after a slow summer....
...Danny Thompson recalled how Jansch “was an enormous Charlie Mingus fan”, and played “Goodbye Pork Pie Hat”, Mingus’s lament for Lester Young, now in lament for Jansch, the double bass solo resonant as a...
...TS Eliot’s fountain pen is now used for fellows of the Royal Society of Literature to sign their names in the roll book after Charles Dickens’ quill showed signs of wear and tear. 25. Gun violence....
...At the helm is Adrian Lester, giving a superb performance as the pioneering black American actor, Ira Aldridge. The play opens in 1867 at the end of Aldridge’s life....
...His name was Ira Aldridge and he was asked to take the part of Othello when Charles Kean – who was to play the part wearing black face paint – fell ill. Aldridge’s story is remarkable....
...My teenage heroes were elsewhere: the dithyrambic, mischievous Laurence Sterne; the mad mystic Herman Melville with his cetacean hulk of a book that was about everything; and above all, Charles Dickens,...
...Lester May, London NW1, UK (Lieutenant-Commander RN – retired)...
...“We have noted a large increase in French, Spanish, Italian and Greek buyers looking to take their money out of those countries as the eurozone uncertainty continues,” says Jamie Lester of Haus Properties...
...However, the spirit of youth has been worn down and neither Merivel nor his monarch, the once riotous Charles II, are as merry as once they were....
...He enters the boardroom with non-executive director Matthew Lester, numbers man at Royal Mail....
...Before the mid-1970s, rock journalism was dominated by American magazines (Rolling Stone, Creem) and writers such as Lester Bangs, whom Kent worshipfully visits in Detroit as a tyro hack....
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