Hints and tips:
...Thursday’s gig, titled “Harlem-Kingston Unplugged”, was augmented by trombonist Dennis Rollins and Leon Duncan doubling on guitar and electric bass, but the performance began with just the trio playing four...
...Given that on his recent album Drunk many songs hover around two minutes or less, this wasn’t so daunting, but live Bruner took flight from the tracks for tight improvisations with keyboard player Dennis...
...Dennis Kelleher of Better Markets, which advocates tougher regulation, says: “Goldman has always been the big swashbuckling trader that wants to take huge risks and huge leverage for the big score.”...
...Movie actor Dennis Hopper claimed that Davis thought up the title when Hopper kept replying “So what?” when the pair were talking....
...His silky tenor and falsetto are African-inflected, even when French and Spanish are in the mix, and the set-piece lines of Afro-Cuban bass gained hints of hi-life or funk....
...The core aesthetic bounces meaty modern jazz to crunchy riffing funk without dropping a beat....
...Compositions start as a stuttery riff, morph into swing and break into urgent funk....
...Dennis Rollins currently divides his time between touring as featured trombonist with funk saxophone legend Maceo Parker and fronting his aptly named Velocity Trio....
...UK trombonist Dennis Rollins’s raucous freebooting and vocalist Martha High’s funky reworking of “Think” were both crowd-raisers, and an encore of “Pass the Peas” was just about deserved....
...Dennis Potter’s Son of Man (1969) on British television was a slice of rough, vernacular-scripted neo-realism....
...The pianist Herbie Hancock’sdefining mix of acoustic jazz and amplified funk is a must-see, and relaunches jazz at The Roundhouse (November 11)....
...Odd stuff, although the songs are peerless - a jumble of funk, hip-hop, psychedelia and much else - so deftly varied that the listener trails behind awestruck....
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