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...This was not a band of brothers or a fond reunion with friends who hadn’t played together in a while and were not on the best of terms....
...Twinned with the Honnet Brothers’ retro-flavoured oomph, he had the crowd rocking from the start. That first number, written by the Honnet Brothers, gave order to a structured jam....
...Forty years after the Valentine Brothers released the acerbic “Money’s Too Tight (to Mention)”, lead vocalist Billy Valentine relaunches both his solo career and a legendary long-dormant record label with...
...Later, local MC Brother Portrait and Paris-raised producer Neue Grafik deliver contemporary menace, hints of trip-hop and biting wordplay on “Black”....
...It finds the trumpeter Byrd leading a group of technically advanced students — who went on to record as The Blackbyrds — and seasoned pros such as the Mizell Brothers....
...No doubt as to why South Africa’s The Brother Moves On was the headline act....
...Here, the summery flavours of Bobbi Humphrey’s “You Make Me Feel So Good”, produced by the Mizell Brothers and released in 1975, gain edge and bite....
...The production clearly recalls the Mizell Brothers, but as “Tojo” progresses, heavy bass guitar and sharp-suited Afrobeat riffs signal other factors at play....
..., gigs were sparse and his brother Donald was recovering from a nervous breakdown....
...Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard passed through its ranks in the band’s early ’60s prime, as did the Marsalis brothers two decades on; and the drummer was still honing new talent when he died in 1990....
...Six years later Bartz released the Mizell Brothers-produced album Music Is My Sanctuary. It was labelled disco jazz at the time and jazz buffs were somewhat sniffy....
...When Miles Davis signed with Warner Brothers in 1985, after three productive decades with Columbia, he was looking for more than a new record label....
...Varady usually tours with his father and brother on drums and bass....
...debut, leading his Good Vibes sax and rhythm quintet through a set of artfully constructed, real-life-inspired originals — “KingMaker” references Ross’s mother and elsewhere his father, niece and twin brother...
...Jean Toussaint’s following set was based on the CD Brother Raymond, launched at Ronnie Scott’s last year....
...He takes the narrative of Oscar Brown’s “Brother Where Are You?”...
...Festival confronted fans with a choice of more than 30 gigs, ranging from prog rock veterans Soft Machine to the newly formed Jam Experiment, from Egyptian jazz to the alt-country virtuosity of the Punch Brothers...
...“Doc” hovered near a ballad and featured lovely muted trumpet; “Brother Raymond”, the album’s resilient, swinging title track, was dedicated to Toussaint’s brother, who died in 2015....
...His father liked jazz and James Brown, his mother gospel and Aretha Franklin, his older brothers hardcore funk and Parliament. “There was something different every day,” says Dave....
...The repertoire, drawn from two recent ECM recordings, was played by the long-term acquaintances who featured on both CDs — “brothers and friends” was how Cohen put it two numbers in....
...But there was no string tradition per se in the city, and it was not until he was 17 that he picked up his older brother’s guitar....
...Like much of her all-original set, the piece was from her album Solo Gemini, though for the rest of the performance, she was joined by Michael Mondesir on bass guitar and his brother Mark on drums....
...“I didn’t do a damn thing”, he said, namechecking “my brother Michael Caine” in the audience. True, except for creating the extraordinary range of music that was played in tribute tonight....
...He was often hired alongside saxophonist Mike Brecker and his trumpeter brother Randy Brecker: “Even if it was a chewing-gum jingle, we made it fun.”...
...Yet according to his 1978 autobiography, Brother Ray, neither woman nor state were on his mind when he recorded the song....
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