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...Joshua Redman Group featuring Gabrielle Cavassa and Guests The American saxophonist’s latest project, Where Are We, probes at the emotional fissures scarring the US....
...Smart reads SBF in the spotlight As the former crypto billionaire prepares to take the stand, the FT’s Joshua Oliver breaks down the trial so far and where it could go next....
...Funk said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine had compounded tricky market conditions, as inflation stayed higher than central banks had anticipated....
...“A lot of the retail space will be momentum traders who keep buying more of the winners,” Funk said....
...Fintech has been in a funk this year and the mood of start-ups must have darkened further on Monday’s news that Apple was getting into the buy-now-pay-later business....
...The same year she released another zine, We Are One Of The Same, a study in identity combining photography by Joshua Woods and poetry by Jess Cole....
...A DJ played funk music outside a wedding hall on Snyder Avenue that had been converted to a polling place....
...When the Hong Kong demonstrations broke out in June, Joshua Wong — the most high-profile democracy activist in the territory — was in jail....
...Following a stint in a failed indie guitar band, London duo Joshua Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland shifted the dial successfully on their first album as Jungle in 2014....
...When Ornette Coleman unleashed, in 1976, the amplified harmolodic funk of the band Prime Time, a quartet of Coleman collaborators, led by Joshua Redman’s saxophonist father Dewey, convened under the banner...
...As the spirited solos on “Mr Right” soar over precise, closed-form structures and the repeated melody of “Big Tent, Little Tent” plays out over loose-limbed funk, the balance here is just right. ★★★★☆...
...The finale, “Tail Chase”, a twisty and very fast blend of funk and swing, ended a long second house performance that was so absorbing it seemed too short....
...The twisty, tempo-changing “Joshua C” unfolds purposefully, “Sunbath” sashays over a pulse of funk, and the closer, “To Kill a Brick” is an up-tempo rampage on the blues....
...New songs were scattered throughout, the likes of “Moving On and Getting Over” adding a warm funk-and-soul swing to his more usual blond-wood palette of soft and folk rock....
...They are now billed as The Bad Plus Joshua Redman, and the addition of saxophonist Redman has been a masterstroke....
...Headliners include David Sanborn and John Scofield in a double bill, Joshua Redman and trio The Necks....
...But the anonymity has lifted with the arrival of Jungle, the pair revealing themselves to be Joshua Lloyd-Watson and Tom McFarland whose guilty secret is that they used to be in failed indie band Born Blonde...
...“We’ve been waiting 10 years to say Shepherd’s Bush,” said Jungle’s Joshua Lloyd-Watson. A curious act of omertà, you might think....
...Now they’ve reinvented themselves as a smooth disco-funk outfit, – a very successful reinvention it is too, with their debut album up for next week’s Mercury Prize....
...They took in modern blues, an early funk classic, Eddie Harris’s “Cold Duck Time” and added a slow and sensuous ballad, “Easy Living”....
...In common with that year’s megaseller, U2’s The Joshua Tree, it starts with singles but then gets more interesting....
...Guitarist Chris Montague and Kit Downes on keyboards are an uncannily tight fit; drummer Joshua Blackmore underpins the brooding soundscapes with rattling cycles of awkward beats....
...What might lift Europe out of its spring funk? A gust of economic growth would make everything look better. A credible and coordinated Greece plan would also help....
...With mood and groove established, he launched his guitar-trio support into an angular theme laced with the rhythmic space of 1970s funk....
...They too are a close-knit unit, with drummer Ian Thomas driving the pianist leader on an original repertoire, which veers from tricky funk to the almost straight-ahead....
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