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...When Beauford Delaney got there in 1953, he was known for realistic, Harlem Renaissance-style portraits of WEB Du Bois, Duke Ellington and, most essentially, James Baldwin....
...Later, the celebratory “That’s New England” combined an original score with excerpts from Charles Ives and James Sinclair’s “Three Places in New England”....
...James Robinson — the vocalist with his face obscured — delivered the lines with a high, soulful tenor, casually dropped in a falsetto, and made the song his own....
...Frisell’s repertoire is wide — here Duke Ellington and Thelonious Monk mingled with a James Bond theme, while his own songs referenced country music and a swath of blues....
...scores; LS Lowry’s paintings to James Baldwin’s literature....
...Duke Ellington’s “In My Solitude” comes next, made over as a virtuosic sequence of glissandi, ripples and full-bodied chords by Reuben James....
...Compiled with passion, care and a nerdy attention to detail by the Cambridge-based sound artist and languages teacher James Errington, the series is a magnificent audio collage, a museum piped straight into...
...A swathe of jazz history also informs James Brandon Lewis and drummer Chad Taylor’s closely argued new-generation sax and percussion duet....
...bans on short selling (FT) Regulator clears Flutter’s £10bn tie-up with Stars Group (FT) Due Diligence is written by Arash Massoudi, Kaye Wiggins and Robert Smith in London, Javier Espinoza in Brussels, James...
...That album was dominated by covers of Ellington, Satchmo and Fats Waller, but threw “In the Midnight Hour” and “Tennessee Waltz” in the mix....
...And then James Brown’s sampled voice cued the finale with “It’s Got to Be Funky”....
...Ives’s jaunty song segued into a swinging cover of Ellington’s “Take the ‘A’ Train” that came out of the blue....
...“A Personal Statement”, from a different session, features operatic vocals, sparse contemporary music percussion and Bob James displaying his avant-garde roots on piano....
...Ellington’s “C Jam Blues”, a Mingus favourite, lasts 27 minutes without losing its grip....
...“It’s about a duty to play James Reese Europe’s music in a way that feels right for us as a band....
...(Michael Ellington and Costas Milas of Liverpool university, on the LSE politics blog) Hard numbers British shoppers helped the UK economy to rebound in the three months to the end of May after a poor...
...Likewise, Dorrance says that when she noticed “a tenderness” in dancer Calvin Royal III and “a ferocity” in James Whiteside, she thought, “How can I not explore that on stage?”....
...Perhaps it’s for this reason that other singers such as Nina Simone and Etta James steered clear of Redding’s amendments to the song in their respective recordings around the turn of the millennium....
...At this gig, “James” and “Minuano” were classics that drew ripples of recognition....
...The era produced some extraordinary film music: imagine Anatomy of a Murder without the bristling swing of Duke Ellington....
...Mulatu Astatke was a fixture of Swinging Addis in the 1970s, and played with Duke Ellington....
...Forrest conceived his three-verse blues during a stint with the Duke Ellington Orchestra....
...This concert, though, turned to the Duke Ellington repertoire – the British saxophonist said he’d been under Ellington’s spell since seeing the bandleader as a child....
...carnegiehall.org Photograph: James Alexander...
...Slideshow photographs: Jonathan Atkin/Cunard; Ian Thomson; James Fassinger/Corbis; Topical Press Agency/Getty Images...
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