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...The evening began with Tom Cawley’s watery electric piano conjuring a sense of mystery while a hiss of James Maddren’s cymbals implied the beginnings of a pulse....
...The deep context behind several of the impediments to growth is a strange hybrid of psychological and political factors — a sort of psycho-political funk....
...Trumpeter Ife Ogunjobi and tenor saxophonist James Mollison were in the foreground playing clarion-call riffs....
...Naféei steers clear of “crazy solos on any instrument” and explosive vocals from the likes of James Brown or Janis Joplin....
...Bassist James Genus’s grungy minimalist funk shook bones, but his solos throughout the evening were fleet-fingered, lyrical and high-toned....
...James Baron was working as a waiter in his hometown of Petersfield, Hampshire, while studying for his A-levels....
...Discontent about this divergence lies at the heart of James Holden’s work....
...Rio Tinto has appointed James O’Rourke, chief executive of The Mosaic Company, as a non-executive director....
...American bassist Christian McBride is a jazz polymath whose current projects range from big-band modern jazz to high-energy contemporary funk and the left-field piano-free quartet New Jawn....
...Folias de Baco Uivo Renegado 2021 (£18.50, wearefesta.co.uk) is a skin-contact wine in the palhete tradition – it marries vibrant mulberry and a touch of funk with a bitter orange finish....
...Another is fiscal stimulus in combination with structural reforms, as advocated by my colleague Robin Harding, as a way to break out of the funk....
...The “I Try” singer and her backing band turn “Christmas Time Is Here” from A Charlie Brown Christmas into a mellow cocktail-hour shimmer and take a cool jazz-funk turn through James Brown’s “Santa Claus...
...Jazz, funk, hip hop and soul collide at this popular south London festival....
...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....
...Like the rest of the album, it has been produced by longtime collaborator James Ford....
...“It took us 40 years to get here,” said Black pointedly, before running through a set of sharp singles: “Missing Words”, a bouncing ska version of the James Bond theme (which also served as a tribute to...
...American bassist and bandleader Christian McBride, now 49, zigzags between glossy acoustic modern jazz and powerhouse underground funk....
...Fadoul, a Moroccan avatar of James Brown, belting his way through “Ahl Jedba” with rock drums and a reed instrument buzzing in the background like a tiny mosquito....
...Scratchy guitar parts unfold against a repetitive post-punk/funk groove. Sudden bursts of energy surge up like flushed cheeks, a sign of underlying purpose....
...The second song is Etta James’ ‘A Sunday Kind of Love’, foundational R&B. So I’ll pull it up....
...He’s a boy-like robot who has been trapped in a basement for over two centuries while a war between humans and AIs — known as Funks, short for functional consciousnesses — has been raging....
...The old gang is back together again for the belated debut album from James “Jimmy Jam” Harris III and Terry Lewis....
...Mails’s rise in the music industry followed an atypical trajectory that began with ballet dancing, a home full of funk, jazz and hip hop, and a rapping debut at a house party....
...Music is a major passion, and his latest collection “Dark Haze” imagined a musician’s stage wardrobe inspired by the appeal of the guitar, and “black rock, punk and funk”....
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