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...But jazz never stands still, and fiery solos infused with the new funky rhythms of R&B were not only popular at the time but helped the music evolve....
...Not long after he joined Seiko Instruments, it became clear that Kawauchiya was destined for the company’s R&D centre in Matsudo, on the outskirts of Tokyo....
...With Stephen away for some well-earned R&R, today’s Inside Politics is coming to you from 200 miles north in Manchester....
...The plaintiff was Cassie, the R&B singer, who alleged that Combs had raped her, beaten her and blown up a romantic rival’s car. Combs denied the allegations....
...The army’s top brass was lying to Putin about how badly the war effort was going, Chechnya’s strongman said....
...Getting down to brass tacks, how much does a kwarteng cost?...
...He leaves the stage to chants of “R-M-T!” Remember before God the Durham minersWho have given their lives in the pits of this country,And those who work in thedarkness and danger today. Amen....
...He moved to London, though, just as many jazz gigs were switching to R&B. “The Marquee Club, then in Oxford Street, [used to have] jazz seven nights a week.”...
...The programme is handing out roughly 18 per cent more than the average R$189 ($33) given monthly to recipients of the Lula-era Bolsa Família scheme....
...(A lively 2011 tribute to 1950s R&B group The “5” Royales was billed as a Cropper solo album, but he prefers to think of it as a collaborative project.)...
...Altra Living, founded last year, has had on sale such “repurposed and upcycled” items as a Carrara marble platter, once part of the counter in an expensive London restaurant bar, and a restored polished brass...
...It’s difficult to know whether GSK’s lagging R&D productivity is bad luck or poor planning, but Elliott is not leaving anything to chance....
...Griffin cut his teeth playing big band R&B, Davis stood out among Count Basie’s brass and both could make their presence felt in the space of a bar....
...Shimmers of violins merged with sheens of brass, melodies were embellished with a twist and there were enough tricky bits to keep songs on the boil....
...And the fanfare brass that introduces “Without You”, featuring R&B singer YVA soon hints at a Soca strut. But there’s more to the album than high-energy riffs and relentless beats....
...He points to a champagne bucket on the floor next to him — sculpted in brass and plaster in the shape of a chess piece....
...Two songs feature the R&B-inflected vocalist Cherise Adams-Burnett. First, “The Dream Keeper” bookmarks Joe Armon-Jones’s ebullient keyboards with rococo vocals and lush brass harmonies....
...“Retainer” added a rhapsodic grand piano interlude, bassist Kaya Thomas-Dyke sang folk-inflected R&B on “Falling” and Mist rapped convincingly on “Closer” from an earlier CD....
...Sometimes, Sparks’ throws the stylistic net a little too far with spoken-word tracks that don’t bear repeating and late-night R&B that needs a trim....
...An altogether more violent test places the watch, face-out, on a pedestal in the path of a 5kg brass hammer on a pendulum....
...His latest collaborative project, billed as the supergroup R+R=NOW, loosens the reins without letting things rip....
...This performance referenced Fats Waller’s “Ain’t Misbehavin’”, stretched over louche R&B....
...While Monday saw the top brass of Japan’s Nissan back away from their longstanding support of Ghosn, the team behind France’s Renault showed loyalty to their leader on Tuesday....
...By the time the band stopped playing, “Into Action” had been cued by a rumble of drums, “Poles” by dense clusters of free-form piano and the insistent R&B-inflected “Nope” by funky Fender Rhodes....
...More than 40 years later, brass stabs still land in unexpected places and pushed rimshots still lift the pulse....
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