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...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...
...African rhythm was a hint, as was 1970s funk, and themes were tight and angular....
...For the rest of August, my wonderful colleagues Claire Jones and Chris Cook will keep Free Lunch going — I will be back in the saddle in September....
...Fintech has been in a funk this year and the mood of start-ups must have darkened further on Monday’s news that Apple was getting into the buy-now-pay-later business....
...Barely six months into his new job, CNN chief executive Chris Licht strode into a sunlit conference room to make his pitch to rescue America’s first 24-hour news channel from a serious mid-life funk....
...“High inflation and growing economic uncertainty provided an uncomfortable backdrop for escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine,” said Chris Cummings, chief executive of the IA....
...What might seem a less dramatic milieu than the wagon trains and gun-toting prospectors of his debut in fact delivers an oppressively baroque atmosphere of intrigue and moral funk....
...Economics Editor Chris Giles alongside our head of editorial statistics and data visualisation guru Alan Smith explain....
...Carlo Funk, head of environment, social and governance investment strategy for Europe at State Street Global Advisors, said that ETF providers were legally obliged to follow an index as closely as possible...
...But the entire album is the work of just one man, American saxophonist Chris Potter, who usually thrives on group dynamics and looks to drummers as his spur....
...Zany Chris Hill was “a very quirky white man with a really big nose” and big hands, too, judging by one comment: “He literally had the crowd in the palm of his hand”....
...At Hoochie Coochie, a funk, soul and jazz bar in the centre of Newcastle upon Tyne, proprietor Warren Thomson was unable to tell customers ringing up to cancel bookings whether they could in fact still legally...
...Economics editor Chris Giles bemoaned the use of “build back better” in the UK and the US as a fundamentally flawed slogan....
...So lifting St James’s Place out of a sectoral-wide funk might be tricky....
...It’s full of unexpected treasures, from galvanised, riveted planters to antique feeder troughs, 1950s flower containers and vintage vinyl specialising in jazz, soul, funk, disco and hip-hop....
...Additional reporting by Chris Giles...
...Another tax Trump will hate Chris Bryant at Bloomberg View thinks Mr Trump with “hit the roof” when he realises the EU wants to impose a carbon border tax on third country imports....
...So there is a good chance that other countries might resist this “very aggressive” approach by executive vice-president Frans Timmermans, says Jacob Funk Kirkegaard, a fellow at the Peterson Institute for...
...The upbeat opening broke into abstraction, then a crackle of accented snare cued gritty funk....
...Her new album is called Chris , the neutral name by which she is now known. Pansexuality is one of its themes, a non-gender-specific form of sexual attraction....
...“Girlfriend” is smoothly seductive pop-funk. “Doesn’t Matter” balances a crisp beat and low-frequency bassline to tell of a dark night of the soul....
...Meanwhile his bandmates Chris Wolstenholme on bass and Dominic Howard on drums lay down tense rhythms in the background, impassive as trench coat-wearing heavies in a sci-fi dystopia....
...voiceover themed on “strong women”, and trumpeter Christian Scott aTunde Adjuah whipping up the crowd with bittersweet spirals and a full-bodied tone. ★★★★☆ Glasper’s breakthrough albums featured drummer Chris...
...I’m more of a groover,” says Chris Dave, but he has no reason to be bashful....
...Both main political parties are in a funk. The ruling Conservatives are riven by faction, an enfeebled prime minister leads a cabinet at war with itself....
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