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...Solos roar to a peak, textures congeal and explode and the album ends with a thunder of drums. ★★★★★ ‘R+R=Now (Live)’ is released by Blue Note...
...Bassist, producer and composer Derrick Hodge’s Grammy-winning aesthetic combines artfully crafted studio grooves with bursts of hi-energy jazz....
...The so-called Sandy Lane set — Lewis, fellow currency trader Derrick Smith and the horseracing magnates John Magnier and JP McManus — have formed a concert party that will use a combined 55 per cent holding...
...Presented by Vann R Newkirk II, it tells an epic story of environmental catastrophe, government ineptitude, misinformation and institutional racism....
...The drummer’s latest release uses spoken word narratives, sassy vocal R&B and rap to make her social justice concerns explicit....
...Glasper’s edgy merging of jazz, hip-hop and R’n’B became a core component of the revamped label’s aesthetic, and Glasper and his bassist Derrick Hodge also acted as producers and talent scouts....
...DC is playing a risky game here, because those 4 companies are 11% of the S&P 500 and a good chunk of the R&D that will allow the US to keep its global technological edge.”...
...Friday’s early evening slot offered a headlining choice between Marcus Miller’s powerhouse funk, the Americana of Charles Lloyd’s Marvels featuring Bill Frisell, and R+R=Now, a contemporary fusion supergroup...
...Sonic swirls, echoes and mists combine with the razor-sharp beats of Derrick Hodge on bass and newcomer Justin Tyson on drums....
...The chief, Derrick Hulin, almost lost among yellow feathers, stands at one end. Behind him three men beat a drum....
...Robert Glasper Experiment have released two albums packed with big names from hip-hop and R&B....
...Not that there was any shortage of unreconstructed R&B, as exemplified by Lalah Hathaway’s early evening set....
...Mark Colenburg delivered chattering rhythms and oddly spaced beats; bassist Derrick Hodge played vibrating eulogies before thundering into full-force riffs....
...Elsewhere, the Brazilian real dropped 6.2 per cent to R$2.2810 against the dollar over the week. The Turkish lira lost 4.8 per cent to TL1.6200 and the South Korean won fell 5.3 per cent to Won1,392.50....
...In Brazil, the real soared 5.9 per cent to R$2.1757 after the central bank auctioned dollar swap contracts for a sixth consecutive session....
...The struggling US carmaker currently spends about $7bn a year each on R&D and capital expenditure, some of the highest sums budgeted by any of Detroit’s Big Three....
...A number of high-yielding emerging market currencies wavered, with the Brazilian real off 1.1 per cent to R$2.200 to the dollar, the South African rand down 2.9 per cent to a three-year-low of R7.570 to...
...Simon Derrick, head of currency at Bank of New York, pointed out that there has been a 78 per cent correlation between the euro/dollar rate and the differential between the one-year eurozone and US interest...
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