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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”....
...For their third album they are joined by pianist Thomas Bartlett as a producer, who adds minimal piano — a chord here to sharpen a guitar phrase or a single note that somehow accentuates a silence....
...There is much tightly knit writing here, using fixed chant melodies, and from time to time hair-raising dissonances break through, as in the glorious “Amen” of Jesu salvator saeculi....
...The sweet unfolding folk melody of “When the Heart is a Moon” segues from that lunar image into angels bearing messages from the dead....
...But under excellent, concise conducting from Thomas Wilkins, the star of the show was young bassist Xavier Foley....
...As snippets of melody wound this way and that, pianist Micah Thomas emphasised changes in mood and bassist Matt Brewer twinned double bass thrust with Sumbry’s bass drum beats that were so powerful they...
...The search for harmony or the perfect melody, solo, chord or rhythm is more important than celebrity....
...The wistful melody of “Silent Maze” comes next, delivered by tenor sax, built on rippling piano arpeggios and shrouded in doubt — the song was inspired by the snakes and ladders of the music industry, according...
...Take “Love Kittens” from his new album: it starts with a jolly trombone melody picked up by squeaking woodwinds; a triangle jingles like a frantic dial-up modem; something rumbles, strings worry away, the...
...Miles played Thomas Cromwell in the stage adaptations of the novels, and co-adapted the third part, The Mirror and the Light; author and actor enjoyed a collaboration of nearly a decade....
...“Well, we do have a Cranky Charlie and a Noisy Nellie,” Spiglanin admits....
...His pleasantly woozy melody underpinned “Summer Girl”, and Haim drifted into an encore before they disappeared as breezily as they arrived....
...Written in the current vernacular, the music has little melody, some rhythm and much orchestral brilliance, glittering textures with a surface sheen of percussion that can be exhilarating....
...The saxophonist renders the melody in wispy tones, Frisell’s harmonies curl like wreaths of smoke and answering phrases shimmer gently into space....
...However, on the bright side, the piped music was by the excellent electronic duo Röyksopp, whose record Melody AM is a wonderful record to relax or to work to....
...The overhaul of the Solvency II insurance rules is one of the more concrete post-Brexit opportunities, writes Helen Thomas....
...There is a heavy irony in the fact that the first package holiday is generally thought to have been laid on by Thomas Cook in 1841 to take people to a teetotal rally in Loughborough....
...He also read voraciously: books such as Thomas Pakenham’s The Scramble for Africa, on Europe’s colonisation of the continent, came in handy....
...He was the cantor, or choirmaster, at the church of St Thomas, and even his physical body has a place in the city’s cycle of destruction and reconstruction....
...“Lady Be Good” came next, played unusually at a slinky medium pace, its melody stretched over the pulse and a Latin bridge for extra sensual effect....
...In 1974, the philosopher Thomas Nagel published an influential paper entitled “What is it like to be a bat?”...
...Recorded music did not exist before 1877, when Thomas Edison invented his wax cylinder phonograph. Until then, the only music available to us was performed music....
...Harsh beats, computerised vocals and sugary melodies combine in a fathomless tone of aggression, sentimentality and irony....
...Bassist Thomas Morgan and drummer Rudy Royston have been touring with the guitarist for two years, and the trio’s sensitive interplay and attention to detail are now unrivalled in jazz....
...The Living Mountain Awoiska van der Molen, Fw:Books, RRP€30 The title of the latest work by van der Molen, and the accompanying musical score by Thomas Larcher in response to her images, comes from Nan...
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