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...The talks, which started at 2pm, continued over dinner of short rib of Dexter beef slow-braised in Guinness, followed by lemon tart, and finished at 10pm on the dot, as planned....
...In the New Yorker, Dexter Filkins had a long profile of the prince. Saudi Arabia is doing its best to make his prediction of higher oil prices come true....
...Before he’s anything else, before he’s paranoid, or high, or dangerous, or belligerent, or vulnerable, or sad, the Miles Davis of Miles Ahead, writer-director-star Don Cheadle’s freewheeling new biopic,...
...Clarke was just 18 when he joined Horace Silver’s band; stints with Joe Henderson, Dexter Gordon and Stan Getz followed: “They treated me real nice”....
...The Battle of Bretton Woods : John Maynard Keynes, Harry Dexter White, and the Making of a New World Order, by Benn Steil, Princeton, RRP£19.95, 472 pages An object lesson in how to make economic history...
...It shows Dexter Gordon smoking between numbers at the Royal Roost, wearing a porkpie hat, his smoke and his tenor saxophone creating perfect diagonals across the frame....
...Dexter Avenue, the once-bustling main road, is mostly abandoned and shuttered....
...The Oxford musicians, who took their name from a Talking Heads song, set guitar rock and metronomic beats to minimal vocals, citing Queen, Miles Davis and R.E.M. as musical influences....
...A Miles Davis album is routinely described as the most influential jazz work of all time – “A Kind of …” Which colour? 4. What is C.K....
...To be sure, the majority of eyes and ears will be on Sir Colin Davis, conducting the London Symphony Orchestra, and Christine Brewer and John Mac Master in leading roles in Beethoven’s Fidelio....
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