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...The absence of extended instrumental solos might cause bebop purists to decry this as pop music, but Laufey belongs to the same tradition that allows space for Astrud Gilberto, Melody Gardot and Keely Smith...
...College taught her to train her voice, and jazz was the perfect fit: “With jazz, I felt like I didn’t necessarily have to conform to this box.”...
...Thirty years ago, Suede stalked the dingy venues of Camden like a “snarling, growling rock beast”, in the smitten words of Melody Maker....
...(Sophia Smith) Listen in: Is the metaverse the future of work? This week on the Working It podcast we ventured into the metaverse....
...It combines the textures and tempos of ‘80s punk rock with the melodies of pop. It was big in the early 2000s, and now it’s back....
...Kasmin Gallery is showing one of Tsabar’s felt pieces from 2019 (“Work on Felt (Variation 21) Dark Blue”, priced at $34,000), which consists of a huge swatch of industrial felt that has been transformed...
...A keyboard melody rings out, its emphatic punctuation matched by Barker’s proud exclamations....
...A customary way for women to make their presence felt in rock music, to adapt the title of Haim’s album Women in Music Pt III, has been to make as loud a racket as possible....
...Jimmy Webb always felt like he was waking up from the American dream.”...
...His 2007 album Version, which featured “Valerie”, turned indie songs by the likes The Smiths into retro-soul and hip-hop....
...In recent weeks, however, it has felt as if all the smartest, best-written and most richly nuanced characters on television are older women....
...Buddy Holly felt the same. Although “race music” wasn’t considered appropriate listening for Southern Baptist boys, he fell for R & B as a teen and covered Bo Diddley’s song “Bo Diddley” in 1956....
...By the time the band reached “Cumbia Soledad”, with the whole audience swaying, Burns felt confident enough to issue some mocking peacock screeches of his own....
...The pianist’s habit of looking directly out at his audience — now dreamy, now breaking out in a beatific smile — felt forced....
...Diabaté eventually showed up mere hours before the first of those concerts, and though he was there for the tour, Finch felt a closer connection with Keita....
...The finale, “Go Your Own Way”, felt like the first unfettered singalong. Yet even this was driven by a dark rhythmic energy that pushed the melody uneasily ahead....
...Conor Cruise O’Brien’s The Great Melody (1992) remains the best and most detailed account but Norman captures the key points....
...At times, the relationship between street protesters and the bien pensant classes has felt downright hostile....
...“But I felt he had so many lyrics that lent themselves well to music that this was up for grabs.” He makes the process sound alarmingly simple....
...They didn’t share the “skill set” and approach that Smith and Conroy had felt would make profitable poker traders – the work ethic, the preparation, the understanding of the market and the discipline....
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