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ReviewAlbums
Keyon Harrold: Foreverland — jazz freedom and high gloss production
...Like most of today’s trumpeters of note, the influence of Miles Davis is strong — it was Harrold’s trumpet that graced Don Cheadle’s biopic Miles Ahead....
January 5, 2024
Vedanta Resources PLC
Indian conglomerate Vedanta to break up as debt crunch looms
...Including dollar and rupee-denominated bonds, plus a financing facility from Howard Marks’ Oaktree Capital Management, Vedanta has to pay back close to $6.2bn in the next 18 months, said Lakshmanan R, senior...
September 29, 2023
FT Live
Due Diligence Live
Where leaders in investment and finance meet
Tuesday, 8 OctoberLondon, UK
The Weekend Essay
Who was the real Amy Winehouse?
...When Frank came out, she was briefly labelled the “British Badu” due to the influence of one of her favourite artists, the innovative US soul and R&B singer Erykah Badu....
September 9, 2023
ReviewMusic
Lakecia Benjamin at the Jazz Café, review — stripped down and intense
...Then “Amazing Grace”, played instrumentally and channelling 1950s gospel R&B in the style of Ray Charles: Benjamin’s phrases curled round the chords and slurred, sighed and moaned; Curtis supported with...
March 29, 2023
News in-depthCentrais Eletricas Brasileiras SA
Eletrobras plays down risk of renationalisation under new Brazilian government
...Eletrobras swung into a slight net loss for the third quarter, compared with a profit of R$965mn a year before....
December 28, 2022
Brazilian politics
Brazil to turn on spending taps in run-up to presidential vote
...Most of the additional expenditure will fund a temporary increase to an existing cash transfer scheme for the poorest families, who will receive about R$600 ($110) per month on average, up from R$400....
July 14, 2022
FT Live
Business of Entertainment Summit
Capitalizing on Disruption
Thursday, 19 SeptemberLos Angeles, CA
Due Diligence
What’s KKR without the K and the R? Premium content
...AIP has no staff outside of New York, but four of its executives — Dino Cusumano, Danny Davis, Zac Carson and Max Holmes — turned up in northern France last week to tell 100 workers at Gupta’s Dunkirk aluminium...
October 12, 2021
InterviewHow to Lead
How a love of science led to health breakthroughs
...It brought in third party investors and was sold in 2009 to bring in more funding and critical mass to support the costs of R&D....
September 5, 2021
ReviewMusic
An all-star line-up of female composers at National Sawdust in Brooklyn
...that series, and perhaps to compensate, all manner of extra ingredients were ladled on: a pre-performance stand-up supper, a post-performance of music made by sounding everyday objects, narrator Helga Davis...
December 21, 2021
InterviewMusic
John McLaughlin: ‘The purists are disappearing like the dodo’
...His style emerged from a distinctively British fertile crescent in the 1960s where the worlds of jazz, R&B, blues and light entertainment overlapped....
July 10, 2021
#techFT
Climate crisis brings venture capital money back to clean tech
...That year, An Inconvenient Truth, Davis Guggenheim’s film about Al Gore’s campaign to educate the world about climate change, was released, charting a promising future for biofuels, electrification, and...
October 22, 2021
Coronavirus
Brazil vaccine scandal poses fresh political threat to Bolsonaro
...Bolsonaro’s administration has denied any wrongdoing with the R$1.6bn ($320m) agreement in February to acquire the jabs....
June 30, 2021
Due Diligence
Private equity (and the press) dine on supermarket deals Premium content
...DD is expecting CD&R, which is working with Goldman Sachs, to return with an improved offer....
July 23, 2021
Due Diligence
McKinsey’s most pressing client: itself Premium content
...In most distressed situations over the past decade (think Toys R Us or Chesapeake Energy) it’s the core business that is suffering from permanent decline. AMC’s situation was different....
February 5, 2021
ObituaryJan Morris
Jan Morris, travel writer hailed as the Flaubert of the Jet Age, 1926-2020
...In these pages in September, the Canadian anthropologist Wade Davis argued travel writers and explorers should ignore their own sentiments and strive to look “beyond the shadow of self”....
November 21, 2020
FT Live
Brazil Summit
Building a resilient and sustainable economy
Wednesday, 15 MayNew York, NY, USA
The Big Read
‘Here is Cyrus Vance’s moment’: Donald Trump’s new legal nemesis
...“I’m positive whatever decision he makes, there will be people that will publicly disagree with him,” says Daniel R Alonso, a lawyer at Buckley in New York, who once served as Mr Vance’s top deputy....
January 27, 2021
Tech start-ups
Government launches £1.25bn plan to help struggling UK start-ups
...But Mr Coppel said the £750m in extra grants and loans for R&D through Innovate UK was “super important”....
April 20, 2020
ReviewAlbums
Johnny Griffin and Eddie ‘Lockjaw’ Davis: Ow! Live at the Penthouse — solos with purpose and poise
...Griffin cut his teeth playing big band R&B, Davis stood out among Count Basie’s brass and both could make their presence felt in the space of a bar....
December 27, 2019
ReviewAlbums
Terri Lyne Carrington and Social Science: Waiting Game — shifting-sand textures
...The drummer’s latest release uses spoken word narratives, sassy vocal R&B and rap to make her social justice concerns explicit....
November 8, 2019
UK economy
FT economists’ survey: people to feel worse-off as inflation and tax rises bite in 2022
...Melissa Davis: This is unlikely....
January 3, 2022
The Aesthete
Daniel Humm on feeling invigorated by Russian banya treatments, Pierre Jeanneret furniture and Kyoto’s kaiseki cuisine
...Nishikawa, r.goope.jp/gion-nishikawa. Ryoan-ji, ryoanji.jp/smph/eng. Tawaraya Ryokan, +8175-211 5566. Tofukuji, tofukuji.jp....
January 30, 2020
ReviewAlbums
Jamila Woods: Legacy! Legacy! — an exploration of black American identity
...Betty Davis was briefly married to Miles Davis, who is the subject of the song “Miles”, a slinky piece of psychedelic soul about black excellence....
May 10, 2019
FT AlphavilleJemima Kelly
Is the “science” behind the lockdown any good?
...That was the, er, chilling headline in the Telegraph on May 9 from known computer whizzes David Davis (former Brexit Bulldog secretary) and Matt Ridley (the chairman of Northern Rock until it collapsed,...
May 28, 2020
Brazilian economy
Brazil’s Congress confident pension reform will pass
...Daví Alcolumbre, the president of the Senate, is even more bullish....
June 1, 2019
InterviewMusic
Don Was on running Blue Note without a business background
...“They reminded me of the Miles Davis quintet in the mid-1960s, when everybody was quick to respond and had total control of their instrument.”...
August 12, 2019

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