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...He played the drums and imagined himself one day becoming a big band arranger, “a chap who takes someone else’s melody and turns it to his purpose”....
...Scofield opened the evening with an overture of stinging lead lines and precisely bent notes, while skitters of drums darted into the repetitive thud of indie rock....
...Modi’s escalation of his inflammatory rhetoric comes as the BJP is looking to drum up support among Hindus — who make up about 80 per cent of the population — to win a supermajority and cement its dominance...
...Bass and drums both solo with effect, but it is the mesh of snare-drum rolls, delayed beats and counterpoint double bass which are most intriguing....
...However, John Wright’s interview piece with Lydon (“‘I terrified a nation....
...Vicente Archer on double bass and Bill Stewart on drums provide inspiration and support, and the guitarist’s commanding form makes each bend, whine and gentle strum count....
...Casimir played bass pans — “that’s six large oil drums in a small flat, which wasn’t ideal!”...
...Unusually, their backing band consisted of three middle-class white rock musicians, Ronnie Robot (bass), Neil Cloud (drums) and Trevor Rabin (guitar)....
...The evening finished with Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “My Favorite Things”, a jazz standard famously covered by John Coltrane, and now the standout track on Purest Form, Francies’s most recent release....
...Over pulsating drums, vigorous handclaps and harmoniums, the voices come in waves, each higher than the last....
...Other recent publications include Cathi Unsworth’s Season of the Witch and John Robb’s The Art of Darkness....
...The song is based on a demo recording made by John Lennon in 1979. It was one of several given to Lennon’s former bandmates by his widow Yoko Ono in the mid-1990s....
...Nwokorie’s mandate is to drum up demand for boots, company insiders say....
...But he is wrong to bang the drum for the Tony Blair Institute ideas which are, at best, half-baked (Opinion, July 24)....
...The repertoire is broad — Bruce Springsteen to John Coltrane — and vocalist Gabrielle Cavassa matches Redman’s controlled passion and exemplary technique....
...John Coltrane’s transition from Miles Davis sideman to expressionist iconoclast is well documented....
...“I Feel Love” has no band and no conventional instruments except a kick drum....
...So he’s beating that drum; whether he’d actually like to withdraw totally from Nato, I suspect probably not....
...One delicious scoop to start: Unilever is working with advisers to drum up interest from private equity groups for its ice cream division after the consumer goods group announced plans to hive off the business...
...Elton John pounds out the piano honky-tonk on “Get Close” and “Live by the Sword”....
...Skittery beats from the leader’s drums added tension and, some minutes in, the strings played the melody of “Seventh String”....
...Each song alludes to a place in the US, and the repertoire ranges from warhorse songbook covers to Bruce Springsteen and John Coltrane....
...“But no, you know, one minister from one of those countries said, ‘John, you can’t ask us to commit economic suicide’.”...
...The commitments came as Zelenskyy attended the summit of Nato leaders in Lithuania on Wednesday to drum up more support for his army as it battles Russia’s invasion....
...It was a workmanlike performance — with the proviso that the workman was Elton John, so the quality of the work was considerable....
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