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...In one song, she’s Betty Carter. In another, Sarah Vaughan. Old New York. But this singer is not old at all. She is decisively Of This Moment....
...I found, and I find that I like to listen to the melody over and over and over and over and over again....
...Emmylou and June being Harris and Carter-Cash, Gram and Johnny being Parsons and Cash....
...Vaughan Williams is often associated with flag-waving jingoism; English folk melody powerfully influenced his work....
...The flowing melody of “Spirit U Will” follows, delivered by trumpet and sax and built on a riff....
...Louie is at first captivated — transfixed by the properties of the piano and the way melody can be captured in musical notation on a page....
...Great jazz bassists like Ron Carter and the late Oscar Pettiford have dabbled; specialist Hank Roberts leaves listeners wanting more....
...intimacies of family life with gentle rhythms, a lyrical theme, and the opulent sound of Regina Carter guesting on violin....
...I can’t make up the melodies any more.” He sighs. “But, I am still alive, and I feel good about that. And, thank God, I still have my ‘eye’.”...
...The city’s Nomad backpacker hostel had presumably not been booked out by the Carter-Knowleses....
...“Ron Carter” is a brooding standout of strums vibrating in space; “Think About It” a concise burst of gritty power-chord rock....
...A couple of songs later “Queen Of Carter’s Bar” (the song co-written with Nashville producer Peter Groenwald) relocates the traditional tale of Tam Lin to a dive-bar — and narrates it from the point of view...
...Subscribe to FT Life on YouTube for the latest FT Weekend videos Letter in response to this article: Prague is in central Europe / From Dr Richard Carter, London SW15, UK...
...“Americans of all kinds could finally hear one another in all their myriad languages, rhythms and melodies,” Redford intones....
...Details Mike Carter was a guest of Journeys by Design and Kenya Airways....
...“It was just a beautiful, romantic melody.”...
...Carter was imperious and supple in support....
...The pugnacious dealmaker has invested in establishments from Graydon Carter’s Monkey Bar in Midtown Manhattan to Harlem’s fashionable Red Rooster....
..., long melodies that float over a barren landscape and simple passages for solo drums like shamanistic ritual....
...That sensibility whispers throughout this exhibition like a fragile but insistent melody....
...Carter’s band glided through silky originals and well-shrouded classics – “Seven Steps to Heaven” stretched by two extra bars; a modal melody gaining a flamenco shade; “My Funny Valentine” reverberating...
...Younger singers included Blackwall, a tough, gutsy Sam Carter, Blair Dunlop, Ben Nicholls (romping basso profundo through “Matty Groves”) and Thea Gilmore....
...“Flowers of May”, newly written, sounds like a melody centuries old. Elsewhere, influences run from fiddle stomp to Angela Carter....
...of melody....
...To hear Mary Chun lead six musicians through a gripping traversal of Elliott Carter’s “Triple Duo” was to hear an act of advocacy for a work that, for all its rigorous craft, is not easy to love....
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