Hints and tips:
...“I’m really very grateful,” says Casimir....
...But then there was a sea-bass tiradito, and I’d have forgiven them anything....
...I’m not a big gym-goer but I walk a lot, ride my bike, ski a little, play tennis occasionally. Playing music is fairly physical. Just hauling a double bass around is exercise....
...Fire is based on the memoirs of journalist Charles M Blow, recounting his upbringing in rural Louisiana....
...I’m no audio engineer, but I’m aware that Dolby Atmos is a thing — initially in cinemas, then in home audio from 2019....
...“I’m a music person, not a hi-fi person,” he says with a smile. The Goldberg doesn’t boast subwoofers and extended bass; for living-room listening that would be overkill, according to Franassovici....
...“I wanted to bring together voice with harp, double bass and clarinet,” she explains, “the idea being that there was no existing repertoire for this combination of instruments, so that we would have to commission...
...“I’m like, ‘Do I want to be in the spotlight? Do I want to keep doing this?’”...
...Tom Herbert on bass guitar and double bass provided an undertow of warmth and the underused vocalist Eska was a highlight....
...They opened with the dubby “Ego Killah” from their Mercury-winning album Where I’m Meant to Be....
...Her “Je dis que rien ne m’épouvante” was mesmerising, each line somehow more moving than the last, and earned the longest ovation of the performance....
...Roan sang, “Oh mama, I’m just having fun/On the stage in my heels/It’s where I belong,” and I can’t disagree. ★★★★☆ US tour from February, iamchappellroan.com...
...Sea-bass crudo with fennel and Navelina orange, of modest proportions, was elegantly composed and a pleasure to share....
...I want to share where I’m coming from in the most enjoyable way.”...
...Lilah Raptopoulos And your father is a vocalist and a bass player. I heard you say that you felt that jazz was like a real home for your voice. What do you mean when you say that?...
...(I’m putting this out as a PSA for chefs everywhere. Don’t make “staff meals”. Let them eat the same as the customers....
...She was joined by a pair of musicians on bass, guitar and keyboards for the second part of the set....
...It’s an underwater metropolis of trevally, red bass, sweetlip, reef shark, bonefish, maori wrasse, rabbitfish and turtles....
...The medley ended with Hancock and drummer Petinaud swapping phrases as bass seethed underneath....
...First of all, I’m thinking of it mostly in terms of menswear. Readers who know something about women’s clothes will see things differently....
...“Pitch is probably the last musical parameter I’m concerned with,” he says. “I’m more concerned with time and timbre.”...
...Being a bass player in a punk band is my one unfulfilled wish....
...“I’m such a passionate person of freedom,” she said, “I can skip the order!”...
...At another, he re-creates the bass line from Junior Walker’s soul classic “Shotgun”....
...“I’m just going to play the bass while we get it together,” he said, crunching out a bone-shaking riff....
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