Hints and tips:
...So that was written by wonderful pianist, and Duke Ellington’s right hand, Billy Strayhorn when he was 19 years old....
...The grooming staple I’m never without is highly scented Floris soap. When I’m working, I’m often washing my hands, and I like to smell the perfume immediately....
...I particularly like the third — written on Ellington’s deathbed in tribute to Martin Luther King....
...Drew McOnie’s fun-size 60-minute production, which premiered at London‘s Southbank Centre last weekend, gets by with four musicians, six performers and a 30 sq m dancefloor....
...“I’m just a composer,” she told DownBeat magazine in 1984. “I use jazz musicians because they’re smarter, and they can save your ass in a bad situation . . . I need all the help I can get.”...
...“I’m going to Chicago — sorry,” sang Gabrielle Cavassa, making the change of emphasis clear....
...The tune of Shorter’s “Reincarnation Blues” came next, delivered in snippets and made even more oblique, and the percussive angularities of Duke Ellington’s “REM Blues” were captured and developed anew....
...Thelonius Monk and Duke Ellington are both referenced twice, the standard “(I’m) Confessin’ (That I Love You)” is unpacked, and four previously recorded originals are made over to complete the set....
...“I’m clearly concerned about whether there is any value in NSO,” a person close to one of the investment groups said, though adding that they had not ruled out the possibility of recovering some funds....
...I’m a bit of a record collector, mostly 78s and a few 45s. The podcast I’m listening to is The Greatest Generation, which is a Star Trek podcast....
...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....
...“Sometimes I’m Happy” is the opener, and the pianist’s singular approach immediately surfaces with an introductory scatter of briefly sustained notes....
...“He was one of my heroes,” he says of Ellington, the great African-American bandmaster. The American ambassador had told him Ellington was coming and that they should collaborate. “‘Come on,’ I said....
...Anyway, I’m declaring my dinner party a success: the conversation has flowed, as has the alcohol (only two Zombies per patron allowed but followed quickly by a 1937 Napa Cabernet, which is deliciously young...
...He has spent a lifetime exploring and melding influences as disparate as Duke Ellington and Kurt Weill, Hollywood and Rossini, all with a fearless disregard for convention and boundaries....
...Last year she won the Pulitzer Prize for Music for her opera p r i s m, which also won the Music Critics Association of North America’s award for best new opera....
...Cooley has appointed Kevin Cooper as a partner in its M&A practice, based in New York. Cooper joins from Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz....
...“I’m pretty Erdem obsessed,” admits Cecil Gurney, who today helms De Gournay alongside her father, cousin and sister Rachel....
...I’m a different person when I’m painting. I go into a totally different mindset. I have everything around me. I use a lot of second-hand house paint. I often work with liquid too, water and vodka....
...“I have some new dancers, and I’m trying to explain how I want them to perform. I don’t believe in the fourth wall.”...
...When I’m in Germany, where [the new music scene] is quite hardcore, people tell me I use ‘metatonality’. I don’t; I use tonality.”...
...Duke Ellington first performed his “Queen’s Suite” in 1958, in honour of the young Queen Elizabeth II. He had learned that her father was a jazz fan....
...A vivid reading of Cuban composer Ernesto Lecuona’s “Gitanerías” was the finale; the encore, Duke Ellington’s “Caravan”, began as an abstraction of tapped rhythm and melodic cues before rumbling to a peak...
...Written by the British songwriting duo Jimmy Campbell and Reg Connelly in collaboration with American Tin Pan Alley songwriter Harry M....
...Clayton’s set progressed through oblique and quote-laden readings of Billy Strayhorn’s “U.M.M.G....
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