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...At points during our meeting, it’s hard to tell whether I’m interviewing Jessie Ware or she’s interviewing me....
...But jazz never stands still, and fiery solos infused with the new funky rhythms of R&B were not only popular at the time but helped the music evolve....
...The second volume of reinterpreted recordings from Blue Note’s back catalogue confirms both the depth and breadth of contemporary UK jazz, soul and R&B....
...American music, too, represented by the premiere of Jeff Midkiff’s mandolin concerto From the Blue Ridge, orchestral work by Wynton Marsalis, a new commission from Iman Habibi, soprano Julia Bullock singing Jessie...
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...Theo Croker’s assured virtuosity and innate sense of swing reflect early-years tutoring from grandfather Doc Cheatham and mentoring by soul-jazz legend Donald Byrd....
...He also released a single with an R&B outfit called Ronnie and the Delinquents, formed with his friend Ronnie Barron....
...“Midnight” cast her as a Mariah Carey offcut, alternately cooing sweetly and vociferating heartily over a generic R&B stomp....
...Those new malls have attracted the likes of Zara, H&M, Uniqlo and Adidas to open hundreds of physical stores in China in recent years — and Jessie Qian, KPMG’s consumer head in China, says these outlets...
...He also upcycled the floats from old toilet cisterns as maracas and was one of the first R & B stars to make prominent use of female musicians in his band....
...Now the Croydon singer, formerly drummer with Jessie Ware’s backing band, is pitching to become something similarly unusual, a successful British R&B-soul singer....
...It made sense in that respect at least for Jessie Ware to introduce Tough Love, her follow-up to the Mercury-nominated Devotion, in a church....
...Barnett’s music is pitched between US R&B and UK trip-hop, a brooding confection of slow-motion beats and shimmering electronic textures....
...FKA Twigs sings: the reference is to her past as a dancer in pop videos such as Jessie J’s “Price Tag”....
...Will Mills, vice-president of music and content at Shazam is a former A&R scout for dance music labels....
...FKA Twigs, July 29, Stereo, Glasgow, then touring Formerly a dancer who appeared in the video for Jessie J’s “Price Tag”, Tahliah Barnett has followed a rather different course in her own music career....
...But Jessie struggled to change register. The 1990s R&B pastiche “Daydreamin’” wanted the honeyed style of Mariah Carey, not the wind-tunnel treatment it received....
...Past Critics’ Choice winners include Adele, Jessie J and Emeli Sandé. The latest, 21-year-old singer Sam Smith, doesn’t look likely to buck the trend....
...Mary J Blige delivers a self-consciously classy vocal performance, reining in the R&B theatrics so completely that even Jessie J’s appearance, on a duet of “Do You Hear What I Hear?”...
...Reality bites Sarah Stennett, a music manager and lawyer who looks after singers Rita Ora and Ellie Goulding, and helped to launch the career of Brit-school graduate Jessie J, cautions that attending is...
...Ware’s debut album Devotion has been rightly acclaimed for its classy, stylish, downbeat R&B. A top five hit in the UK, it was nominated for the Mercury prize for the year’s best album....
...Jessie Ware Devotion (PMR)...
...leader Keith Killgo, bassist Joe Hall and guitarist Orville Saunders – and there are now two stand-alone vocalists, both itching to deliver the decorated inflections and laid-back vibes of contemporary R&...
...“Price Tag” is a fabulously bouncy opener, “Nobody’s Perfect” proves she has the pipes for dramatic R&B balladry....
...Like Jessie J, the Londoner – real name Kathleen Brien – is a graduate of the Brit School, the UK’s ultra-productive talent factory; but whereas Jessie J reworks American R&B/pop, Katy B is immersed in London...
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